By The Gold Prospector on December 18, 2010
Click here to watch episode previews on the Discovery Channel About the Show GOLD RUSH: ALASKA All new shows, Fridays at 10PM ET/PT GOLD RUSH: ALASKA, follows six men who risk everything in the face of an economic meltdown — their families, their dignity, and in some cases, their lives — to strike it rich [...]
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By The Gold Prospector on December 7, 2010
Today, I was sitting at my desk eating some Chinese food for lunch. After I finished, I opened up the fortune cookie to read what the paper said and found it rather interesting. I had to take a picture of it. Could this be a sign of things to come? (I used my other uneaten [...]
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By The Gold Prospector on November 20, 2010
I written this post to briefly explain the procedures for filing the paperwork for a new placer mining claim and the renewal of an existing placer mining claim. I include our experiences and what we learned. It is intended as reference material for me. I should note that I live in Arizona and this information [...]
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By The Gold Prospector on November 19, 2010
NOTICE: This article is deprecated – BLM discontinued Geo Communicator If you are researching areas in Geo Communicator for land that you may be able to claim mineral rights, then you will need to know the following fact before you begin. Below is a picture of a section of the PLSS grid in Geo Communicator. [...]
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By The Gold Prospector on October 25, 2010
Its been a while since our last blog update. We’ve been on many prospecting trips since then and focused our efforts up north in areas of the Prescott National Forest to stay cool. We have sampled many areas on unclaimed land and found several places where we have found gold in every pan. Most places [...]
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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
Click here for Gold Fever episodes Click here for Gold Fever Collector Box Sets 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 [...]
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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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