“Fools Gold” isn’t worthless as the name would have you believe. In fact this couldn’t be further from the truth. In the American West the largest gold finds are accompanied by heavy deposits of Iron Pyrite or Fools Gold”. It is true that many early prospectors looked for fools gold as a predictor of where “real gold”…
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Old Gold Mines Find New Life
Where to Find Gold: Old Claims Old gold mines are springing back to life. New technology and soaring gold prices have made these mines profitable to reopen. Many mines were shut down when gold prices languished. Now even mines in South Carolina are reopening. Romarco Minerals Inc recently published studies of mineral resources at the…
Where can you find gold? Just about everywhere these days.
The price of gold remains at historically high levels and this has created a new rush for gold. There are many old sites that are being looked at for “potential as new prospectors join the old. At north of $1500, new techniques for finding gold are helping to create a bonanza, even for old mines…
How To Find Gold Using a Metal Detector
Metal detectors are frequently being used to find gold. However, not all metal detectors are the same. There are metal detectors that use higher frequencies than others and there are different technologies that are employed by the metal detectors. Which ones are the best for finding gold? We explore this and more in our video…
Where to Find Gold
There are many places on the web that offer pay for gold maps or other information on wherre to find gold. However, it is important to understand “Where to Find Gold” is about understanding where gold has been found in the past and then doing some dead reckoning on where you may find it in…
7 Secrets to Finding Gold
The biggest question out there is “where to find gold”? There are no magic bullets when it comes down to finding gold but with the recent spike in gold prices it doesn’t take finding much gold to make an outing worth it. There are people who have quit their jobs to become full time prospectors….
Basic Geology of Gold
Gold is commonly found in combination with other minerals in rocks. Iron pyrite is a very common associated mineral compound seen where gold deposits are found. Similarly, gold is also found in other minerals such as pyrrhotite, sphalerite, hematite and magnetite. It also occurs in the form of calverite which is a telluride. Other common…