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.
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!
Monday, August 17th, 2009 at
12:01 am
California is obviously the heart of the American gold mining. The 1848 gold rush wasn’t the first or last gold rush, but it was the most important in American history. Literally thousands of gold mines with vastly different amounts of production have been established in the 161 years since then and modern prospector appreciate the importance of loacting those old mines.
The value is that old mines prove that at one time there was gold in place in a given spot and it is virtually certain that the old timers barely scratched the surface of what’s actually available.
So, this map of cailfornias-historic-gold-mines is pretty valuable. It doesn’t give turn by turn directions, but if you do any gold prospecting in California it is worth taking a look at.
I was really surprised at the number of gold mines in Los Angeles County. Also, this is a big file, so if you are really interested by sure to blow it up to 100%. You can get a decent idea of the general area of a gold mine from this map.
Strike It Rich!
Monday, August 10th, 2009 at
12:16 am
True North is, not surprisingly, a region of Alaska that has produced an enormous amount of gold since 1912.
It took me a time to figure out just where it was, because this docuemnt, which seems to have been prepared for the Alaska Department of Transportation is apparently missing a few pages. Most of it is not really related to small gold prospectors, but read it until you get to the part about just how thick the original vein of gold was.
That’s probably worth the trouble of downloading it for most of you guys: alaska-mining-true-north-area
Strike It Rich!
Monday, August 3rd, 2009 at
12:57 am
Montana is a gorgeous state and it has had some outstanding gold production over the years.
It is also a state with a lot of Federal land, so it is easy find places for gold prospecting.
I am sending you to a copy of a nice page by the state of Montana that is stored on my site, so I don’t have to worry about broken links if they move the page like those boys down in IT like to do. So, check out: montana-deq-pioneer-mining-district
Strike It Rich!
Monday, July 27th, 2009 at
12:46 am
Here a great document for the Georgia gold prospector. It is a history of the Federal Road in the state which was the main route the gold prospectors took in and out of the area during the Georgia gold rush of the 1830s.
There’s some good information for a gold prospector buried in this document, but you are going to have to dig a little more, but hey you’re a gold prospector!
However, it’s a well written and it might even give prospectors using gold detectors clues about when they might want to adjust their gear to dig for Civil War relics too.
Anyhow, I can’t post a treasure map every single week!
So, check out georgias-old-federal-road
Strike It Rich!
Charlie
