by Shannon Poe | Jun 28, 2013 | All About Mining
Staking Claims For Gold & Other Valuable Minerals Properties that are owned by a state or the federal government are normally considered to be public property. However, you cannot extract valuable materials – including gold – from that property without staking a...
by Shannon Poe | Jun 28, 2013 | All About Mining
The New American Gold Rush We’ve all seen the iconic American image – dozens of old west prospectors squatting next to a creek with a shallow pan. This is actually a very accurate depiction of what mineral-rich rivers and streams in California looked like during the...
by Shannon Poe | Jun 28, 2013 | All About Mining
Pit & Shaft Gold Mines It’s very easy to sit on a riverbank with a shallow pan and find a few flakes of gold, but if you really want to make a profit with gold prospecting, you’ll probably need to do a little digging. Most people who’ve struck it rich in the gold...
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...
