gold

Today was our maiden outing with my new Garrett 250 and the first thing it found was what what we thought was a dirty half penny piece but when I got back and cleaned it up it turned out to be a 1604 James I unite coin. I have know idea if it's worth anything but am just excited to have found a...

im assuming that's gold bearing quartz, and it looks good, at least ya got out

i have recently came across with some what i assume is Cherokee Indian carvings, i am not going to tell the exact location but it is in north Georgia. The boulder sits a quarter ways up a small hill, and is next to a small creek. In this location it is really untouched basically in the middle...

I bought a gold mine in California. It was on ebay. Its about 21-22 acres. Somewhere around there. The name is the Cargo Mines. One mine shaft alone is 650 feet deep and there are probably 12 shafts that all go straight down. The seller claimed I was getting the land, mineral and water rights...

Howdy prospectors, I've been stricken with a bad case of gold fever, and it has only gotten worse over the years. I'm prospecting in all my free time. I work to prospect, and am working to own a mine. I love meeting and speaking with prospectors and miners. If you would like to collaborate on...

I have been a rockhound for most of my life after spending my early years in Florence Junction. (where rockhounding was the ONLY thing to do..) I've always been interested in the various stories related to the LDM and his lost gold. Recently I became interested in prospecting and have begun to...

Just wondering if anybody knows any good creeks to prospect around Dane, or surrounding counties. Its hard even to find a creek with sand and gravel in it, let alone any placer gold. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Also, I read that Baxsters Hollow State Natural Area, just west of Devil's...

This thread hopefully will become a favorite or a saved thread of yours. (It'll be mine for sure!) This thread is for everyone here who is a prospector, to share information about what they know about how gold behaves...And most importantly, where it is found so we can help one another to not...

I'm Baack! LOL Just return from a weeks vacation in Playa Del Carmen Mexico, and it was a nice one indeed. a few interesting things happened during my trip as you will be able to tell from my pictures :D All told I found 5 Rings, 3 Gold & 2 Junkers.... But, my best find was some woman I've...

Haven't gotten to hunt much lately since the weather is terrible. Took the ol' cmpro out to a park I've been to a couple of times. The war nickel was only down about 4 inches near a soccer field and the 14k gold pendant was just under the wood chips in a tot lot... it comes in as foil on the...

Hello all, I'm a new member to this site and fairly new to gold prospecting period. I am looking forward to the arrival of my Keene A52 (hopefully by the weekend) and was wondering if anyone can aim me to a good location in the central california motherlode area. I usually go to a spot around...

Not sure where to post this, but Treasure Legends seems to work. I was just reading the posts about Inca gold and remembered a story I heard recently. It was about gold stolen from the Incas from a Portuguese sailor who was then killed on the way home with it. The gold was given to Jesuit...

Hi, Newbie from Maui moved to Placerville a year ago been setting up home a property sense. Been panning and high-banking a few times have found a little gold. But hardest to find is how to get to streams all BLM that have not been claimed are darn near impossible to reach. So bad that I'm in...

Hi, Looking for some advice if possible. I found out from the local news that the Boulder County Sheriff is shutting down access to Boulder Creek for flood repair that includes dredging the bottom of the river. I have approximately 25 acres of claimed river in the exact area that the county...

Not a whole lot, but not bad. I dug with my buddy Tim (God Bearing Bear) at the East Fork river. My buddy Bob came along, it was his first success at the river. -Steve

FOUND: Someone's lost GOLD, San Gabriel River - East Fork Hi everyone, I was hiking at the San Gabriel River on Thursday April 3rd, and I found a container on the ground with gold in it. I would like to return it to the owner, and I am posting on this forum in hopes that somebody has...

My GBP is on the way, should arrive this coming Wednesday. Been reading a lot of info and just wanted some tips on prospecting from people whom have been using the GBP. I'm new to chat forums and have been having troubles searching for GBP info. I'm an experienced detector so don't really need...

My GBP is on the way, should arrive this coming Wednesday. Been reading a lot of info and just wanted some tips on prospecting from people whom have been using the GBP. I'm new to chat forums and have been having troubles searching for GBP info. I'm an experienced detector so don't really need...

Hello Tnet, I'm a Father of two ( 4.5 yr old son, and 2.5 yr old daughter) and husband to a beautiful wife. I work as a biologist throughout the Klamath National Forest and enjoy nothing more then adventuring through our mountains in search of discoveries of the heart and souls eye. I was raised...

I recently found a bunch of quartz in a local stream. It has a lot of gold flakes on it, but I cannot determine if it is gold or pyrite. Attached is a picture of one of the rocks. I have scraped a lot of the gold off of the rocks and it is quite shiny. No nuggets.

Well California's gravel transfer loophole has been killed. Oregon is only allowing 850 dredge permits per year and I didn't get one. Where can I go (with decent gold) where I will not have a hard time getting a permit. Either I am going to have to go gorilla style this summer or I need some...

The image is of the gold I got from the South Forks of Salmon River, near the N. California town of Sawyers Bar. The exact spot is the New 49ers claim San-6 which is on the Salmon at the Whites Gulch tributary. I had just got my Bazooka Gold Trap prospector extended sluice box and was eager to...

Hi, me and my fam are new to gold prospecting. We just went on our first trip to Iowa hill yesterday and had tons of fun. we didn't get a lot of gold, but we did see colors on every pan. Any suggestions on good spots to go to? I'm really excited to be here. Hope to not just find gold, but...

Hello Like to know if it is gold in the Garrett county, MD? I read some where that the first gold rush in USA was in Potomac river. If that is true can you still find gold in the upper Potomac river. the other question is can you find it with metal detector or do you have to use a wash pan...

Hi, My name is Bas. I live in Salt Lake City, Utah. I'm new to this site and relatively new to gold prospecting. I bought a sluice box a few weeks ago but have only got to try it out once. My brother and I have done a lot of panning around Salt Lake City but we have found minimal gold haha. I...

Gold Nugget! Doesn't this little gold nugget look just like a person running! [/ATTACH]I found this little nugget on Indian Creek near the West Branch Campground. It was my first experience using a fossiker. This fossiker of mine is an amazing prospecting tool. weighs in at around a pound. It...

Gold climbed for a second session on Wednesday to its highest in 4-1/2 months, as global uncertainty over economic growth and tensions in Ukraine burnished the metal's safe-haven appeal. Weakness in equities and base metals, along with technical buying, propelled gold prices through resistance...

The health of the United States economy at some point is likely to take center stage away from the geopolitical crisis in Ukraine, said Deutsche Bank. According to the German Bank, gold hit a four-month high early this week on safe-haven buying on worries about Russia’s presence in Ukraine’s...

A Buddy and I went to the river friday 10 hours of Work .... and a bunch of dirt later... a few pickers and lots of flake . Building a new Highbanker / Dredge .. hope to get lots more nuggets next time.... going back out in a few weeks ....

On this forum, and others, I read endless stories of how mining is being shut down in the United States. Tales of mines projects being protested and lawsuits against mining seem to be popular. I work full time in the mining industry and my experiences just don't jibe with these stories. Every...

The Commerce Ministry of India on Tuesday raised the issue for relaxing the gold import duty with the finance ministry as stringent regulations have opened route for uncontrollable smuggling over the year. The commerce minister while addressing a group of media persons here yesterday said that...

Two weeks after the New England's deep freeze put me into hibernation it went north for 3 days. In its place came a blue sky, temperature hitting 49, melting snow, and 15mph winds…it was time to go detecting. I was off to a less popular beach with a detecting partner. We had been to the small...

From October 2013 through January 2014 I was in the Phillipines on unrelated business............. (Removed by mod)

Hey Guys! This has nothing to do with metal detecting this time. My husband was digging a trench last night and found a gold plated lizard (about 6 inches long) deep in the ground. I know it's gold plated because of the Puritest Solutions kit he gave me for Christmas and it came out positive...

Would anyone know what the gold and silver flakes my boyfriend and I found are? We were out mining when I noticed a few of them on top of the ground. I then noticed that there was a chunk barely showing above the surface of the ground. We started digging and found that there was a pocket of...

I own property with lots of small depression and mines I think from the 1930's. However I recently began removing dirt from the face of on and discovered a strange blue clay. I had hoped the water coming from the hill was signs of a natural spring I could take advantage of, however the water...

Does anybody know where the place is to buy gold or silver? I can't find any so I'm gonna try buying some lol.

had an unremarkable day at the local TS, was walking home and spotted a glimmer of GOLD on the sidewalk. stamped & tested 14k, and a respectable 5.9g at that. now i'm glad i had a crappy day at the TS, or I might not have had my head down at the right time. ha! the question is: what is it...

I first started gold panning about one year ago and moved up to a homemade sluice box but never could get any gravel from the deep pools in some local creeks. I looked up how to make a simple hand pump for gravel but it just wasn't fast enough so I decided to make a suction dredge. I'm wondering...