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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 Gold Prospecting Guides:

Gold Mining Books

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.

Best Places to Look for Gold

Monday, May 25th, 2009 at 5:46 pm

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Anyone wanting to become a full-time miner should probably head north to Alaska, because there are vast areas of Alaska where prospectors with modern gold mining equipment have never set foot. In fact, one of the biggest advantages that modern Alaskan prospectors have over their Klondike Rush ancestors is that bush planes, four wheelers, and snowmobile make it much easier to transport modern gold mining equipment and other supplies to remote back country locations. So, you can spend more time looking for gold and less time looking for food.

However, some of the best areas for modern prospectors may be in Virginia, Georgia, and the Carolinas on the East Coast and in Colorado, Arizona, and Nevada in the Rocky Mountain region, and Washington, Oregon, and Idaho in the Pacific Northwest, because all of these areas had significant historic production, but have not been mined as intensely as the California gold country. So, if 90% of the gold has yet to be mined in California, 95% or more has probably not been mined in these states.

Also, there are a handful of states like New Hampshire, Alabama, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Tennessee which have had very limited commercial production, but have never had a huge strike.

If I was betting that’s where I would bet that the best chance for a huge strike to occur, because there is gold in those states. That’s a fact, but it is probably not as accessible to primitive production as in other states. These are mostly states with small, well-worn mountain and any large viens are probably buried deeper in the more gentle terrain. Remember, in the West it was the erosion that made the gold there obvious. The Appalachains just aren’t steep enough to reveal their riches so easily.

Also, it is just not as much a part of the culture, so people may actually not recognize the signs of gold. Remember, it was the small contingent of Union soldiers from California that first discovered gold in Maryland, because the were nearly all miners.

So, if prospectors really begin to carefully work those areas with modern equipment, such as gold detectors, there is a chance to really hit something monutmental.