gold

Hello everybody, my names is Peter and I will be on holiday in California on September. I love finding gold, but in my country, Slovakia, is only a small amount of gold, mostly dust. I was always dreaming about finding some serious amount of gold, not only dust. So my question is, is there...

Hi there, is anyone else out there from Texas into gem and metal prospecting? I am a beginner who has just gotten into this hobby and am loving it so far. If anybody knows of any good places to start the hunt for any kind of gem or metal, lets chat! I'm into treasure hunting as well.

Not sure if I should crush this up for gold or keep it as a desk piece. A lot of different colored quartz crystals and a lot of what I'm assuming is iron powder on the inside. Pics are of the rock split in a third, pretty decent size and weight. Found it under a trees roots along a dry creek...

Is this gold or fools gold? I found this rock in the desert covered in desert varnish. On removing varnish, it was gold coloured and i have attached pictures. Any ideas what it could be? I broke some fragments off by bashing the surface and they were black flakes that smelt of smoke. It...

I bought this watch off a guy for $30 and was looking to resell it. I it and sell antiques but this is my first watch I have ever had. Does anyone know the value of it. It does not run.

Hello i am new to the forum and i like to ask if you can help me with dowsing this 3 maps... Any help appreciate it :)

hi guys, it is pretty simple. i metal detect, river snipe, pan, sluice and lately decided to modify my JOBE folding sluice box and try gravity dredging. sluice modification: i doubled the size, added a self classifier, some rubber corrugated matting under it for the fine gold recovery, 6 extra...

Hello all, I'm new to this forum as well as to the lifestyle of being a treasure hunter of many sorts and now interested in doing some prospecting practice with my metal detector out in Liberty, WA. I'm joining NAMA this weekend and they have two claims out there that are newly purchased, so I...

So yeah, found what I believe to be a Nazi Party gold pin yesterday at the park. Gorgeous pin. But I flipped it over to discover it was engraved "SS" with the date of 12-31-33. I know 1933 was a big year for the Nazis. It's a little chilling to think this pin could be celebrating the killing of...

I hope this hasn't been asked yet, and if it has I apologize. I can't seem to find any info, which may be the answer to my question...., but here goes. Does anyone have any knowledge of the KGC operating/ hiding loot in Eastern Tennessee or Western North Carolina. I know they were in North...

My name is Kimberly. I'm from Southern California. I enjoy screening for beach treasures. I am also currently dry working on a patent claim. I found this site when looking for different plans and pictures of trommels for a possible future equipment build.

Who's up for gold prospecting in central iowa? I have great gear. This was found in 2 hours from a creek in grimes.

So, I finally broke down after watching all of the Gold Hog videos on Youtube. I Purchased the Gold Hog Stream Sluice.. and after only waiting 2 business days, I received it. I love it. I have yet to get it in the river, but what I can tell you is that thing is made to withstand almost any...

A friend and myself went out and dug some dirt in hopes of finding something heavy. We created a video of our little (9hr) adventure. If you would like to watch it and subscribe to our channel we would greatly appreciate it. It is a big long, but feel free to jump around. We had a great time...

Hi, Testing a Tesoro Silver Umax, with a gold ducat 1604, silver coin 1699 and iron (discrimination and masking effect) Greetz, Redsky67

I was digging for fun in my backyard and I picked up a few rocks and I saw gold on one of the them but I'm not sure if this is real a gold peice?

Is there any gold near clarksville, GA? Helen, GA? Not looking to do a pay and pan sorta thing. What are the rules and regulations in this area? any help is well appreciated. And if anyone would be willing to meet up and help me begin id be very thankful! Thank you!

if I wanted to find rings where would be the best beach in Oregon that I would have the most luck of finding at the least one ring? Thanks so much for the help

Hello, First time poster. Me and a friend were out scouting, sampling, sifting material. We are new to the game and happy with our early results. Was curious as to what this awesome forum thought? The colors on the right were after running 2, full 5 gallon buckets of 1/2" classified material...

Hello, Im new to the panning scene. A few friends and myself are going to Michigan's upper peninsula this spring to do some panning. We also have a few sluice boxes. My question is about the rivers we plan to visit. If a stream is a protected trout stream can you not pan? We plan to try yellow...

Hello! My husband Marco and I have been amateur gold prospecting for a little over a year now. We thought it would be fun to take a camera with us on our adventures and vlog a bit on our time out on the river/creek. Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, we have a few vlogs on YouTube of the...

Gold in the hole! UPDATE: FIRST GOLD! So I was out hunting at three different locations today. In the first two locations, I found all the clad. I just hate finding quarters from 1965! One year away from the goods!(always drives me nuts). Moving on, I went off to a new spot out in the woods...

Low vs High Frequency Detectors fro Detecting Gold In another thread, the issue was raised as to whether a low VLF detector can detect gold as well as a high VLF detector? In an earlier thread on TreasureNet, someone had noted last year (?) that when they compared their low VLF detector to...

Hello everyone. For christmas my parents gave me a basic Garrett Gold Panning kit. I've been doing loads of research about gold panning in Maine. There is a small brook behind my house that's mainly made up of silt, sand, and clay. There are no rocks at all, and most of the stream is quite...

I bought this bracelet in a lot purchase at an estate sale. It is marked inside the back clasp 585 which i know stands for 14k and means european or german. It also has AMU which I think means it was tested and confirmed to be 14k or .585 percent gold. Not certain if that means it was tested to...

This artifact was found folded and bent, I slowly, slowly straightened it out, with some success. It is broken in half, so I sketched out what it may have oridinally looked like. LOTS of GOLD wash present, over copper. Very ornate and was found in an area that has yielded a Spanish Half...

Hi All.. I was out in the desert today with my trusty Gold Bug and came across these two finds.. One is highly magnetic and looks like slag from a crucible. Other looks like a possible lunar find, which was 2 feet deep. it doesn't attract a magnet, but has a strong tone. I say this because it...

Dutchman's Lost Mine I believe Jacob Waltz said he covered his mine with wood planks and rocks, rubble, etc. Does anybody know if wood planks were found when they began work at the Bulldog mine? This info would help determine whether the Bulldog mine is the same as the Dutchman's.

Im finding it hard to ask questions without revealing specific information about our project, i think mostly im curious if anyone else here has investigated any underwater gold cashes. your experience would be invaluable. Also, if there is anyone who reads this and is familiar with the early...

Reclamation of the land Its funny, I dont see enviros picking up trash in the forest, but time and time again in my life the miners are more active in reclamation of the land. Ive always been around miners who fill their pits and take out trash. Ive never seen my hippy friends running around...

I've hit the beach close to me here in Charleston about 3 times. First time was just for an hour because of the bugs tearing me up. My Second time out was a lot more productive. Found quite a bit of clad and one great find. It was a tone i hadn't heard on my cheap beginners detector yet so I...

I'm new to prospecting so need some advice. Hello everyone, my name is Will and I started gold/gem prospecting during the summer of last year so needless to say I'm an amateur. I live in the Piedmont of North Carolina - nestled between the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Carolina...

Hi, I'm Sam from Papua New Guinea. I look after a NGO, 'Natives Alluvial Gold Miners Association'. We still pan, dig, etc, for raw gold. Our country's laws allow for natives to get involved in Alluvial Mining.

I would love to hear your thoughts on how old these are, where they might have been made, their style They're all a little over 7" in length, weigh around 1.5 oz each and have very nice details the only markings I can find is a (13) stamped on the knife's blade thanks!!!

Heya everyone; Here is a little follow up of the copper bar that I found with my Nokta FORS Gold a while back. The video is a little older as I still thought it was native copper when I recorded it. I thought I had uploaded this video already but when I looked back through my video's I didn't...

Im lucky enough to be a miner and a refiner. Dealing with bullion products and metal recycling, I also see things from the selling and buying public perspective. A lot of talk this summer was about the shortage of silver blanks to make bullion product, but that seems to easing with only the...

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