An amateur prospector in Australia has found a 177oz gold nugget. This is a tremendous find! This amateur did what all good prospectors do, go to where gold has been found before and use new methods to detect the gold. This nugget, in an area that has been mined for over a 100 years, was…
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Gold Rush California
California is once again seeing a new Gold Rush as is see from this article written by Ron Zurko from the examiner.com. Gold prospecting in California has once again become very popular. “Gold Rush Alaska” is not only starting to make the mining teams see some profit, but amateur miners form all over are coming…
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…
5 Big Mistakes People Make Trying to Find Gold
There are many errors people make in attempting for find and prospect for gold. I know, I went through this myself. But slowly I learned the methodology that has helped me to prospect and actually find payable gold. 1) Looking in the wrong places – I don’t care how good you are, if you are…
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…