Miners Fight Back When BLM Says 'Your Claim Is Too Long'

April 2020 by Tom Kitchar

BLM stated we had 30 days to amend our claim so that it fit within one 40-acre square or we would forfeit the claim.

Swing and a Miss

July 2014
A very good baseball hitter might get a hit roughly one time out of every three at-bats, but for prospectors often the results are much sparser and it may take many trips before the prospector hits a home run.

Search Coils and Techniques

May 2014
This article is intended to try to help someone who is breaking into gold detecting and using a pulse induction (PI) detector.

Over the Divide: Retta Atkins & Darren VanHouten

August 2022

Grass Valley, Nevada City, Malakoff Diggings, Northern California

September 2022

The early miners sought their wealth in the creeks and rivers of the area but the true wealth was discovered by accident.

Montana Gold and Sapphires Revisited

November 2019

I had a chance to visit the operation in person and talk with Neal. I was very impressed and I think our readers could learn a lot about building up a commercial placer operation from scratch…

Prospecting Australia—Part I

October 2011
The call of gold is a strong one and it has pulled men from every corner of the planet. That said, I guess it’s now my turn to chase far away gold.

Detecting Clay Seams

November 2015
Because the old timers were so good at locating the better paying deposits—most of them along clay seams in this particular area—it makes good sense to try and locate these clay lines at old mining sites.

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