Gold prospecting vacation sites
I added a new gold location in Colorado. Gold Strike Adventures, located near Denver, are open and ready to teach you how to prospect!
https://prospectingvacations.com/gold-strike-adventures/
Don’t forgot to come back and let us know how it went.
Good luck,
Dan
From www.wired.com
BY PETE BROOK
One surprising ripple effect of the Great Recession is the resurgence of independent gold prospecting. In California, evaporated savings, layoffs, and foreclosures sent some running to the hills. Sarina Finkelstein’s series The New Forty-Niners chronicles these modern prospectors with anachronistic images, some of which look like they could have been made 150 years ago.
Gold panning in the creeks of the Sierra Nevada mountains has been a mainstay since the Gold Rush of the mid-1800s, but for decades it tended to draw only hobbyists and small-scale speculators. Now, gamblers, romantics, and crusty entrepreneurs are joining the old-timers down by the river.
“Some people are prospecting for gold in order to survive,” says Finkelstein. “They had lost jobs, couldn’t find new ones, were freelance, or were struggling during retirement. Many have abandoned their permanent homes in order to live out of RVs and tents in the woods to prospect. Living a bare-bones or pared-down existence, some of them (without house payments, utility bills, etc.) are able to support themselves.”
Although the value of a dollar can wax and wane, gold is a solid investment. The price has roughly tripled since 2005, and at the moment it stands at about $1,300 per ounce. “At more than $1,000 per ounce, a small amount is still valuable,” says Finkelstein.
From www.PRWeb.com
GPAA: Gold Prospectors to Host Gold and Treasure Expo in Puyallup, Wash. May 10-11
Gold Prospectors Association of America: The GPAA will hold its Gold and Treasure Expo in Puyallup, Wash. — May 10-11, 2014 at the Puyallup Fair and Events Center, 110 9th Ave SW, Puyallup, WA 98371. Learn how to mine and pan for real gold from experienced gold prospectors at this special event, which is open to the public.
The Gold Prospectors Association of America is headed to Puyallup, Wash. May 10-11, 2014 to host a Gold and Treasure Expo at the Puyallup Fair and Events Center, 110 9th Ave SW, Puyallup, WA 98371.
Executive Director of Operations Dominic Ricci said the GPAA Gold and Treasure Expos were started decades ago by GPAA founder George Massie to introduce people to prospecting and show them how and where to find their own gold.
“We encourage everyone to bring their family and friends because there is no better place to learn how to find your own gold and experience panning for yourself. There is plenty of fun and activities for all ages,” Ricci said.
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So one of my buddies just bought one of these. We tried it out at his house with some gravel he brought back from N. Cal. It was catching some small gold…cause that’s all he had! LOL Anywho, we plan on taking this bad boy out to the field and see how it does. If it works well we might just be leaving the sluices at home.
By Christian Hill
The Register-Guard
PUBLISHED: 12:00 A.M., JAN. 26
Mark Peterson has hit paydirt with a gold panning kit.
His company, Gold Rush Nugget Bucket Inc., has sold more than 2,200 kits in 14 months and allowed the 46-year-old Eugene resident to realize a lifelong dream of taking a product from concept to market.
His kit quickly developed a following in prospecting circles, garnering nearly 9,700 “likes” on Facebook, posts from customers who have struck gold using the kit, and the attention of Jim Thurber, one of the stars of the reality show “Gold Rush.” Thurber, a Portland resident, made a trip to Eugene to check it out and praised it online: “So nice to use something that works and is so easy to use!!!”
While reality TV and social media have spread word of Peterson’s kit, he has also gotten a boost from the state of Oregon and from other states that have tightened regulation on motorized prospecting equipment. This resulted in prospectors looking for alternatives, such as the Nugget Bucket.
On Oct. 6, Mike Corbley and his mining partners Andy Herndon, Curtis Dorr and Sam Price, dug up two extraordinary pieces of gold from a patch of ground in the Swauk mining district near the town of Liberty that for 140 years, among the miners of the area, has been affectionately referred to as the potato patch.
While metal detecting a newly exposed area of bedrock under the ancient river channel that once flowed through the district, Andy, having already picked out a half ounce and a quarter ounce nugget, suddenly got an “odd” signal from his detector. “It’s a low high” he said, referring to the sound in his earphones.
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