finding a meteorite. while gold prospecting.
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Wednesday, September 15, 2010
while gold prospecting
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
How to Talk like a Miner
It's hard not to be confused and kinda left out of the conversation the first time you talk to a "real" miner. They have a distinctive vocabulary that was developed by prospectors and hard rock miners over the years. At times it is almost like hearing a different language when a miner describes his work day. Translate the following conversation and you will be an expert!
The old mine isn't played out like everyone thought, yesterday we put up the bellows on the east adit, there was some bad air beyond the cave in 'bout half way down the tunnel. Johnny was the mucker shoveling into the conveyor in the stope but he was spooked 'cause he kept hearing...
Friday, September 10, 2010
Black Sand Concentrators
Black beach gold concentrators - the best in automated gold break equipment. Save time and affliction and balance added of your accomplished gold bound and finer with these accurate gold prospecting tools. Removing accomplished and abrade gold from abundant atramentous beach is consistently backbreaking but this accomplished gold accretion accessories will admonition accomplish this contrarily backbreaking assignment abundant easier. Many...
Sluice Box Clean Up Tips
Don't absence our added apple-pie up tips for atramentous bank and concentrates in our chargeless prospecting tips section. BY DAVE McCRACKEN WHEN TO CLEAN UP A SLUICE BOX Some miners like to apple-pie up their douse boxes afterwards every hour of operation. Some adopt to do apple-pie up at the end of the day. Others will go for canicule at a time afore charwoman up. This is a bulk of alternative and hardly has abundant to do with the absolute...
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Gold Magnet
Black Sand Magnets for cleaning up your gold panning concentrates. Don't forget to grab the second best tool too - a snuffer bottle!
Scroll down for various magnets for sale.
See our free prospecting tips and tricks for removing black sands from your gold below.
Gold magnets are an invaluable tool for the final stage of gold panning. Removing those pesky black sands or magnetite from your concentrates can be a real chore - make life much easier with one of our proven gold magnets. Works best dry - but will work wet as well.
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Wednesday, September 8, 2010
How to Make Extra Money by Gold Mining
In case you haven't heard, Battle Mountain, Nevada is one of the few cities angry off the recession - the abstruse is in the hills - there's gold in them thair hills! Following the instructions in this eHow to plan a fun leisure time for the ancestors and go gold mining!
Instructions
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Battle Mountain, Nevada has afresh laid a affirmation to it's own gold rush. People are accession by the bags to try their duke at gold mining by animadversion for gold. The aboriginal affair you charge is a pan. You can acquirement this online (see ability section) but any pan with angled abandon will assignment - do not use teflon admitting as the sand/gravel...
Friday, September 3, 2010
Gold Panning in Indiana
Many stories have been told about the lost gold and silver mines that are to be found in Indiana. Some individuals go to the extent of spending a great amount of effort and time into it. Others prefer gold panning. Gold panning in Indiana, as well as in many other states, has been found and searched for in the streams since the 1850’s and it is still possible to find gold flakes in some of the streams here. A good number of counties in Indiana...
Gold in the New Mexico Areas
The very interesting state of New Mexico was at once number seven of the largest gold producing areas of the west part of the states. This place has more than thirty placer gold districts as well as a lot of lode districts in it. The gold deposits that have been worked on in this area have been around since the early days of the Indians. As a matter a fact, the gold ornaments that the Indians wore and that were seen by an early explorer was what initiated the Spanish invasion of the region. There was a soldier that had fled and then went back to Mexico and who told stories of the gold and that they should get a large expedition together...
Where to Find Gold
The USA’ southern desert has one of the biggest reserves of gold that still remains to be revealed. In this site we are going to be providing information on detecting gold, dry washing as well as the different locations in the desert that bare gold in the south-western states. The different anecdotes that have been told about the desert are tales that fill one with a feeling of adventure and excitement. There are many stories that have been...
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Panning Instructions
Panning gold is basically simple, once you realize that you are doing the same thing that the river does when it causes gold to concentrate and deposit during flood storms.
The process basically consists of placing the material that you want to process into your pan and shaking it in a left to right motion underwater to cause the gold, which is heavy, to work its way down toward the bottom of your pan. At the same time,...
Australian Gold Nuggets
In Australia the geology that evolved was different than North America in that it produced big, exceptionally pure gold. In North America most of the gold mined is microscopic.
The quartz veins in Australia produced the highest concentration of large solid masses of gold on Earth. Millions of years of erosion dissolved the quartz veins and scattered the gold nuggets throughout the goldfields.
After 150 years of mining history there...
Gold Prospecting at Cache Creek
Gold Prospecting at Cache Creek...
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
How to use a Sluice to recover Gold
In the early gold rush days prospectors used sluice boxes to remove gold from vast amounts of gold ore and gold bearing gravel deposits. The sluice box consisted of a simple wooden trough lined with raised obstructions placed at a ninety-degree angle to the flow of the stream, these are known as riffels.
The water is shut off and the riffels removed, and the heavy materials containing the gold known as concentrates would be gathered. This "run" would sometimes be the gold from several tons of gold bearing gravel. Years ago sluice boxes were built of long wood planks because lumber was cheap and usually easy to get.
The gold bearing...
Greenhorn – Oregon Gold Locations
The Greenhorn Mountains are found in the middle of the Umatilla National Forest. The area extends both Grant and Baker Counties. Gold was first discovered in 1864 on Olive Creek, where gold was found in decomposed quartz. The elevation in this area is high and many miners faced snow and hard long winters. In it’s heyday around 1,500 miners lived in the area and worked the many streams and creeks for placer deposits. Once these deposits were...
Prospecting Tips and Tricks
Prospecting Tips and Tricks:Prospecting and locating Gold
Geologists appraisal alone 5% of Earth's Gold has been found! 1. Do your homework! Start by activity to the library and attending into the history of breadth you plan to go on your prospecting vacation. The mineral address areas of every accompaniment accept been able-bodied authentic over the aftermost 300 years or so. Gold has been begin in capricious amounts in every accompaniment...
Gold Bar
What is a gold bar?
A gold bar can appear in abounding forms, sizes and weights.
A gold bar is absolutely authentic as any gold artefact fabricated by a accustomed bar manufacturer, behindhand of shape. On the bar is recorded the name of the manufacturer, the exact weight and purity. A gold bar is awash with a exceptional aloft the bulk of the gold at the time of sale. The bulk of this exceptional is abased on the admeasurement of the gold bar....
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