In recent years, gold prices have been skyrocketing. With the rise of popular TV shows such as Gold Rush, many new prospectors are hoping to get into the gold mining game. Can you kiss your day job goodbye and live off gold mining? The truth is, there isn’t a simple yes or no to this […]
Panning gold can politely be described as an incredibly tedious process. This is definitely true if you are using a pan for final cleanup of concentrates. If you’ve got buckets full of black sands that you need to get the gold out of, you need to find a way to speed up the slow and […]
Lots of people believe that the “old timers” found all the gold, but there are still some amazing discoveries being made. One of those discoveries was made in Montana as recently as 1989. A gold nugget weighing over 27 troy ounces was unearthed by placer miners from a known mining area south of Butte. […]
The Gold Cube is an excellent piece of gold prospecting equipment, designed to cater for the modern gold prospector’s needs. It was invented by Steve Wilcox and Mike Pung. Necessity was the driving force behind the invention of the Gold Cube, just as with most inventions. Separating gold from fine sand is a real struggle. […]
Streams and river basins are some of the most popular places to find gold because over thousands, if not millions of years these waterways have cut into and eroded areas were gold deposits exist and have carries it downstream from fine powder to sizeable nuggets. While many people to this day search for gold in […]
With most gold mining operations being small, one to two person jobs, finding the right equipment to match the particular needs of the location is vital to increasing the chances of getting what is needed. This means that the equipment needs to be easy to use and maintain while performing a job on location to […]
A drywasher is actually a fairly modern device despite the relative simplicity of how it works. While the origins of the drywasher are still somewhat shrouded, the early machines were not doubt operated by hand in rugged conditions when wet washing techniques were simply not applicable. Materials are fashioned into a simple framework that is […]
Classifying is a simple process that is often overlooked by gold prospectors. It is a relatively simple step, but it does take some extra work to do. Basically, you want to remove any larger waste material from the gravels that you intend to process for gold mining. So you may wonder what the reason would […]
There are a whole lot of options out there today when it comes to gold prospecting equipment. There are new designs and different tools that are coming out every year, designed to help miners find more and more gold. Getting the best equipment for the job will help you find as much gold as possible. […]
Highbanking has become a very popular way to prospect for gold in recent years. There are a couple different reasons for this. First, highbankers are an excellent tool since you can move quite a bit of material through them in a day of mining, and they work great at capturing gold. The other reason that […]