by Shannon Poe | Jun 28, 2013 | All About Mining
Why High Banking? There is gold all over the United States, the only problem is getting it. The technology of mining has improved over the years. Traditional panning was replaced with sluicing, and now sluicing has been greatly improved with high bankers. High bankers...
by Shannon Poe | Jun 27, 2013 | All About Mining, Dredging
Gold Dredging In The United States When the gold dredge was first created to mine placer gold from rivers and streams it was a multi-story piece of heavy equipment that took several people to operate effectively. Gold dredges today are much smaller and more...
by Shannon Poe | Jun 27, 2013 | All About Mining
Gold – A Simple Metal Gold is a simple metal that’s anything but simple. Gold, held deep inside the earth over the centuries, has the ability to draw out the latent desire of mankind. Prospectors dig through dirt and stone to track down this elusive mistress....
by Shannon Poe | Jun 27, 2013 | All About Mining
Legality Of Gold Gold is one of the most valuable resources on earth, therefore any transaction of gold must be done with the most legal precision possible. Knowledge of how to establish a gold claim is essential for any up and coming prospector. If you do not...
by Shannon Poe | Jun 27, 2013 | All About Mining
Gold Deposits In The United States Gold is found in two basic forms in the US, placer gold and lode gold. Lode gold is embedded in hard rock ore and must be mined with shovels, pick axes, jackhammers, and the like from open pit mines or mine shafts. Placer gold is...
by Shannon Poe | Jun 25, 2013 | All About Mining
The Modern Gold Rush In the late 1840s and early 1850s you would be hard pressed to find anyone that didn’t have a friend or family member that had packed up and moved west to California in search of gold. And though California is still a golden hot-spot in the...
by Shannon Poe | Jun 25, 2013 | All About Mining
Gold Panning In The United States American history is full of prospectors who moved out west to strike it rich with nothing more than a nice river and a pan to sift through the sand. You can also find the legends of thousands of men and women who really did make a...
by Shannon Poe | Jun 24, 2013 | All About Mining, Dredging
The Challenge Of Prospecting Beginning prospectors often have the misguided idea that they can just walk out in the stream and find gold. But, if it was that easy to find gold then we would all be millionaires. Dredging for gold takes a specific set of skills and...
by Shannon Poe | Jun 24, 2013 | All About Mining
Finding Gold Finding gold in America is supposedly easy. The government provides you with a list of areas where you can mine, and you just go and get it. Well if life was that easy you wouldn’t be on the internet looking up “where to find gold.” The simple fact is...
