Truth be told, most of the well-known nugget producing areas in the US have been hunted hard over the past several decades. There’s still gold to be found on public land, but you have to outsmart and outhunt the hundreds of detectorists that have come before you. The best thing about private land is that […]
One of the most underutilized methods of metal detecting for gold is what we call “gridding.” The process is simple, but lots of prospectors don’t do it. And many who do end up doing it poorly, resulting in missed gold. This is certainly not a secret method, but most people just don’t do it properly. […]
Some of the areas that you come across when you are exploring new prospecting ground just look perfect. You just know there is gold lurking nearby. If you have been prospecting for any length of time you know what I am talking about. There are some areas that just look gold. There are rock piles […]
Not too long ago, there weren’t very many choices when a prospector needed a sensitive gold detector. Most of the detector companies only had one or two models to choose from. Things have really improved in the last few years, with some recent additions to the market. These detectors are marked improvements over some of […]
Many of the old mining districts were placer mined with large bucket line dredges. They were large floating machinery that churned up the valley floors and mined massive amounts of gravel. Dredges were notoriously inefficient, relying on the processing volume, rather than efficiency. As a result, there is still a lot of gold left behind […]