The Gold Prospecting Equipment Blog
Treasure Maps!
You can work harder or you can work smarter, but the best prospectors are usually the best researches. They consistently find more gold, because they know that the best mining equipment in the world is useless if you don't know the best places to find gold. You need a treasure map.
The surveys, reports, and other documents we post in the blog are literally treasure maps. Many tell you exactly where to find gold, often closer to home than you might think, and sometimes in areas that gold prospectors have barely touched in a century or more. So, like any real treasure map you have to figure out the clues for yourself.
If you don't have the time to do the research yourself, check out these
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Some people actually wonder why we would post this material if these are really treasure maps? Well, count your blessings buddy, because we might not post all of this stuff if we didn't have other responsibilities that keep us out of the field. Also, we can't travel to all of the places we have research on even if we wanted to.
So, we want you to find gold, because we want you to come back and buy more equipment. Be sure and check back, because we are constantly adding new material. If you have any questions or you are interested in research on a particular topic drop us a note.
Thursday, March 4th, 2010 at
6:07 am
John Smith and the other founders of Jamestown came to Virginia looking for gold. They didn’t find any gold. That was too bad for them, but very good for you.
There are lots of places around Virgina for amateur gold miners to prospect. The you may not find as much gold as you could find in other states, but there are a lot of great places to mine.
This article is from the Virginia Division Mineral Resources. It has an outstanding map. You can see that there are good places to try you luck within easy driving distance of all of Virginia’s major cities. You can literally pan for gold inside the Washington Beltway - without stooping to becoming a lobbyist. Check it out: GOLD In Virginia
Sunday, February 28th, 2010 at
5:51 am
Like most grizzly bears this time of year I am slowly beginning to come out of my long winter hibernation. I will be posting more gold treasure maps and other good information.
I think 2010 is going to be a good year for all of the part-time gold miners, because the price of gold has stayed high.
I’ll be posting something every week or two until I get tired or strike it rich.
If you have any specific things you want me to look into let me know.
Good Luck!
Sunday, September 6th, 2009 at
12:15 am
Here’s an interesting little post a gold strike in Arizona in 1988.
It only about two pages, but it is an interesting little piece and if you do any prospecting out there in the desert, which was never my cup of tea, it is worth looking at.
So take a look at: arizona-gold-strike-1988
Strike It Rich!
Monday, August 31st, 2009 at
12:01 am
OK, some of my readers seem to believe that the documents I post are to obtuse for the average weekend gold miner. I don’t tend to agree because the average weekend gold miner is probably an engineer, auto mechanic, or school teacher during the week, and none of this stuff is rocket science. Also, you know that the weekend gold miners are smart, because they aren’t wasting there time playing golf.
Well, the document that I am posting this week placer-mining-california-doc-division-of-mines-and-geology is one that should be useful to almost every weekend gold miner whether you live in California or not.
This document is a very detailed thirty-seven page report on placer mining and from reading it you could pretty well go out and start washing dirt. It has plans for sluice boxes and lot of other cool stuff.
Strike It Rich!
Monday, August 24th, 2009 at
12:46 am
Today I’m posting a 1997 bibliography from the US Bureau of Mines that lists all of the reports, maps, and surveys that the BM had on Alaska mining. I guess this is about the time that the Bureau of Mines was being shut down by Bill Clinton and most of the functions merged into the BLM.
I’m not sure if that was the last big government agency to be shutdown, but I can’t think of any other since then.
It’s not easy reading, but it’s a great research document.
So, take a look at the list-of-blm-docs-on-alaska-mining
Strike It Rich!
