By The Gold Prospector on June 14, 2010
While we were in Stanton, AZ we went into the main office and saw a paper on the wall that stated “The Miners’ 10 Commandments”. Kinda funny. Now I have official guidance for my life as a gold miner. It appears I already broke the first commandment. Well, now that I read on, it seems [...]
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By The Gold Prospector on June 11, 2010
The GPAA club has a lot of DVD videos available for purchase on their web site. We ordered a bunch of DVDs. The video is cut into episodes and you get to see first hand what gold prospecting is like in many places around the USA. The quality is professional and the host Tom Massie [...]
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By The Gold Prospector on June 9, 2010
I was on the phone with the BLM to make sure I understood the entire process of filing the paperwork of a mining claim. I wrote this post as a nutshell explanation that I can refer to in the future. Knowing which combination of forms to mail is your responsibility. You should call the BLM [...]
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By The Gold Prospector on June 8, 2010
Whites is starting to compete in the marketplace of Pulse Induction instruments and they made a Superb detector. We bought this new from our local reseller and took it out on a trip to a secret location in the mountains of Arizona where we put it to the test. From what I read about pulse [...]
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By The Gold Prospector on June 1, 2010
The Tesoro LOBO SuperTRAQ metal detector works very well. Make sure your batteries are fully charged before you use it or else it is absolutely useless. They say the batteries can last 18 hours, but out in the field it was more like 10 hours. It cannot find smaller nuggets (under half gram) in highly [...]
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By The Gold Prospector on March 30, 2010
Today we headed out to a gulch where we sampled areas along the bedrock cracks, under huge round boulders and down along the inside turns of a stream. We were surprised to see water because of how many other areas nearby have dwindled this part of the year. This particular gulch has very tall and [...]
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By The Gold Prospector on March 23, 2010
Here we are again in the beautiful Arizona desert. We decided to go back where we went last time and do some more dredging and also try to dig into some along the side walls of a riverbed where there used to be an ancient riverbed over our heads. That was long ago and now [...]
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By The Gold Prospector on March 16, 2010
Its March and the weather is cool and breezy most of the time. The sun is out and the view of the Arizona desert is absolutely incredible. I can walk around for hours with a metal detector in these conditions. But instead of metal detecting, I am going to be dredging a riverbed for my [...]
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By The Gold Prospector on March 9, 2010
Today we walked up the Hassayampa River for a little while. We saw lots of people out and about 4x4ing and playing horseshoes and other games in the middle of the river where its dry. We had a different course of action and that was to find the yellow metal gold. We spent most of [...]
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By The Gold Prospector on March 2, 2010
Today we went out to a couple location where we could walk around and look at the geology of the ground and the tailing piles and boulders. We have been researching where to find gold and now we need to actually be out there looking for it. I bought a book and read it three [...]
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BLM Arizona News Release