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4 Replies and 6166 Views New Gold Bug by Fisher Question  6166  4 Started by  yanick45@yahoo.com I spend each spring/summer in the Black Hills of South Dakota panning and sluicing for gold.  I'm getting older (I'll be 72 this year) and the buckets of classified material that I run through the sluice are getting too heavy for me so I'd like to take up metal detecting for coins, and metal detecting for GOLD.  Last year as I was walking down a trail to my camper I picked up a square nail from the side of it.  Laying under the nail was an 1876 seated liberty dime!  It made m...
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by  tom glennJump to last post
16 Jan 2017 01:12 PM
3 Replies and 3445 Views Cracking the big ones, and just blowing crap up!  3445  3 Started by  debatom@msn.com
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by  tom glennJump to last post
13 Jan 2017 11:44 AM
13 Replies and 7172 Views DO ANY OF YOUR BETTER HALFS PROSPECT?  7172  13 Started by  debatom@msn.com
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by  James HendersonJump to last post
10 Jan 2017 11:38 PM
10 Replies and 9447 Views New rookie question  9447  10 Started by  raklineplumbing New to the gpaa and to the search for gold, spent 5 days at thermal city gold mine camping and searching, found gold in the river on my own and also rented there high banker for 2 runs, also dabbled the panning trough with success, so now I'm hooked. Joined the gpaa shortly after, my biggest question is I'm from se Pennsylvania and not sure of the laws in PA regarding high banker and digging regulations here, i know NC law is dig in river two foot from water edge not sure about here. Hopefull...
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by  ronald klineJump to last post
10 Jan 2017 02:46 PM
2 Replies and 5069 Views ARE YOU SUPERSTIOUS?  5069  2 Started by  debatom@msn.com Today I am making my award winning chili but tomorrow is a different thing. It will be my famous jumbalya and it will be loaded with black eye peas for good luck. Besides that I carry a little black rock in my pocket from the black diamond mine in NV. even though it is not a diamond. I don't believe in the broken mirror  because that one would have gotten me a long time ago because my son owns the largest metal recycling yard in NE ca. and we have crushed 20,000 cars with most having t...
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by  ARTHUR WAUGHJump to last post
10 Jan 2017 12:13 PM
2 Replies and 4572 Views Test panning spots  4572  2 Started by  plumberkris@gmail.com So when test panning spots with a few pans here and there. What would make you what to start working a spot A speck or two per pan 6 specks or so What's a good test pan to start working a spot to bedrock or hard pan.
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by  Kristophor TimmonsJump to last post
09 Jan 2017 07:15 PM
2 Replies and 5143 Views New member in southern California.  5143  2 Started by  Kbwinniford@gmail.com I am a new member in Ridgecrest, California. Are there any other members here If so, what chapters are you members with    Also I am eager to be out prospecting so if anyone near me is willing to teach or put in the work I am willing to learn and work. 
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by  john hubbardJump to last post
09 Jan 2017 04:31 PM
1 Replies and 4470 Views Craigslist  4470  1 Started by  freddie.beckjr@yahoo.com Posted the below message on my local Craigslist to see what happens.  'Looking for anyone in the upstate area willing to let a retired veteran do some prospecting on their property that has a creek, stream, or river running thru it. I am a member of the GPAA and LDMA and am looking for property to be able to do some gold and mineral prospecting. I will clean up and take the garbage and trash I collect and get out of the water for you. Am willing to work a deal on splitting or showing what ...
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by  john hubbardJump to last post
09 Jan 2017 03:31 PM
1 Replies and 4853 Views idaio  4853  1 Started by  jstansberry@live.com i have bought 60 acres in idiho is there any body out there, i do carry big guns.. core d lane and ida falls..
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by  Travis NixJump to last post
06 Jan 2017 08:49 PM
18 Replies and 21944 Views New Member in Arizona  21944  18 Started by  lchavezmisc@fastmail.fm About 20 years ago, a coworker and I decided to play our hand at prospecting.  I had the jeep and he had fabrication skills.  I don't recall drywashers being an option back then, but he fabbed a sluice box setup that we would hall out to blm land and run material.  We had no idea what we where doing, but had a good time getting out.  Although we found some flakes, gold was dirt cheap back then and we quickly lost interest.  I was also alot younger, with two young daughte...
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by  JAMIE BURRELLJump to last post
06 Jan 2017 04:50 PM
2 Replies and 3343 Views THE QUEST FOR QUARTZ AND OTHER DANGEROUS ROCKS:  3343  2 Started by  debatom@msn.com   The last couple winters we have chased quartz from the rye patch clear up into north west NV. On the geology maps I located a spot at 7000 ft. where there was supposed to be an old alluvia  area and sure enough there it was, a sandy lake bottom with shore line marks and all. The area is not really big and here it is in the middle of volcanic rock outcrops to boot  and a dry wash running in and out of the basin so off my beautiful bride went and soon coming up with a lone p...
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by  tom glennJump to last post
05 Jan 2017 01:15 PM
10 Replies and 5976 Views Does anyone know about claim sharring?  5976  10 Started by  debatom@msn.com  Last thanksgiving I may have tried to recycle to many aluminum cans, you know doing your part for the planet and I got playing on ebay on this mining claim and waited till the last 10 seconds and placed a bid and won it by 10 cents. It was surprisingly cheap and with a pair of gators,  410 snake charmer it made a great xmas present for my beautiful bride. So in Feb. off we go to Yavapai co. in the bumblebee area and actually it is a nice claim, lode but has the best of both worlds bec...
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by  Christine GoldJump to last post
04 Jan 2017 11:52 AM
19 Replies and 10994 Views Here's one the claim jumper's didn't get away with!  10994  19 Started by  debatom@msn.com
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by  WALTER EASONJump to last post
04 Jan 2017 10:46 AM
11 Replies and 6737 Views NEW YEAR GOALS AND RESOLUTIONS  6737  11 Started by  travnix82@yahoo.com Hello friends, I wanted to take a minute and wish every one a happy and safe holidays coming up.. Hope everyone gets some new mining gear under the tree or is able to spend quality time with loved ones..  I also wanted to make a new year resolution or set a goal for my personal mining adventures.. I hope to find our first ounce of gold with my kids this coming season. We have joined the LDMA a bit late in the season and have yet to visit any of the camps, but we are...
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by  RICHARD VON STIETZJump to last post
03 Jan 2017 04:48 PM
9 Replies and 4325 Views New Canadian member  4325  9 Started by  tstuder365@gmail.com Hi just recently retired and getting into prospecting, looking to pan and sluice in nevada and california in the spring when its still winter here in Saskatchewan. Does anyone know if i would have any problems crossing the border from canada into the usa with my pan, sluice, metal detector, hand trommel etc, all recreational level equipment. I have heard us border services can be sticky about activities that could possibly be classified as work rather than recreational. Also If anyone ...
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by  DAVID WEBSTERJump to last post
03 Jan 2017 12:49 PM
3 Replies and 5518 Views SOMETHING DISTURBING IS HAPENING OUT THERE:  5518  3 Started by  debatom@msn.com   This time of year is when I hit the books and study history and geology and if there is any open ground in the place of interest I have in mind but this year seems to be different in that I am seeing vast acreage gobbled up by large mining company's and I don't mean pretend miners selling claims on ebay. These are large miners mostly from Canada and they are claiming section after section amounting to thousands of acres in great proven areas of the past and present and are even gobbling ...
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by  WALTER EASONJump to last post
03 Jan 2017 09:22 AM
3 Replies and 5152 Views Whites Surfmaster PI  5152  3 Started by  wvmtneer1953@yahoo.com Just wondering if anyone has tried using a White's Surfmaster in the desert.  I have a Gold Bug 2 for small nuggets and just got the Surfmaster for the beach.  I was thinking about taking the new unit to Arizona on my next trip.  Thanks
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by  John WoodJump to last post
02 Jan 2017 11:19 AM
2 Replies and 5315 Views Vids for Helping FIND places... Google Earth Net Tools  5315  2 Started by  greenhalgh.roy@gmail.com Hey Fellow Diggers!   I know I did a little bitch post about how the GPAA has not expanded the East Coast Holdings in the past 5 years I have been a member just a few weeks ago.  It stirred the pot and we got some good support (that I'm not the only one feeling like a redheaded stepchild) as well as some GREAT response from the Big Dogs on what is in the works.   Over all they were hoping WE would help make contact with owners, spreading the Good Word- asking if they would t...
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by  ADAM ANDREWSJump to last post
31 Dec 2016 11:00 AM
0 Replies and 4480 Views Store is Closing Jan 1 2017  4480  0 Started by  ralex2@cox.net   Just FYI     AMERICAN PROSPECTOR TREASURE SEEKER 28900 Old Town Front St 101 Temecula, CA 92590 To Order, Please Call: 951-676-2555   . Home   &nb...
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29 Dec 2016 02:31 PM
1 Replies and 4809 Views A cool desert dry panning video  4809  1 Started by  thechargerdude@aol.com   This is a cool 'Ask Jeff Williams' video about desert dry panning and how to follow the black sand up the creek...It's called How to dry pan, and it's a new method that looks like a great idea.                          https://www.youtube.com/watchv=CSuDt9dXyzU
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by  LEO LORENZJump to last post
29 Dec 2016 11:04 AM
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