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Started by debatom@msn.com
With the shortest day of the year behind us I can look out the window and see the Sierra Nevada mountains five miles to the west and the great basin northern washoe nv. and Skedaddle range 15 miles to the east which gives hope of a easy winter, go global warming. My wife said maybe it will only be 4 to 6 weeks before she is running up and down the mountains in the high dessert and best go to the gym and get in shape. Me, I don't do much running and have to rely on my trust...
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by jon stansberry  24 Dec 2016 06:18 PM |
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Got a Call from the GPAA the other day... 11982 24
Started by greenhalgh.roy@gmail.com
I got a message from Membership services the other day asking me why I have not sent in my renewal after being a member for over 4 years. I kind of wanted to share my thinking here because I don't think the explanation sunk into the young Lady enough so that the powers that be will have a clue. Blanket comment- the GPAAA is a great organization that is doing great things. Just not so much for the east Coast.
Now I'll grant that living in FLORIDA, just about the only state k...
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by jon stansberry 24 Dec 2016 05:28 PM |
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Lost MINES AND BURIED TREASURES: 4089 1
Started by debatom@msn.com
The last few winters and springs we have ben looking for lost mines or treasures in northern Nv. described in the book NEVADA LOST MINES AND BURIED TREASURES by Douglas Mc Donald. The main one we chased was the three pools of gold and the story of John Durkin finding float north of pyramid lake and assaying at $ 15000.00 a ton but never finding the lode after 400 ft. of tunnel and trenches but I believe I have. Though my assays are only $ 7800.00 a ton I think I have figured it out ...
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by jon stansberry 24 Dec 2016 05:14 PM |
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best time in my life 3359 0
Started by jstansberry@live.com
planed a month trip. stopped in nc. did not move fore 10 days. i did spend 500 dollars for camper and gold bags. came home with over 1/2 oz. wow i had a blast. go there next year. but i will try to make my next 6 stops.
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21 Dec 2016 07:25 PM |
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WINNEMUCCA,NV New Chapter 7480 1
Started by travnix82@yahoo.com
hello everyone,
Im sure most of you have seen my other post about starting a new chapter in northern Nevada ( north central area)
in Winnemucca, NV .
if you are a guest or a member on here from the area please feel free to join us. We are not 'official chapter' yet
because we need more members to fill our directors positions. we have monthly meetings on the last Tuesday of every month at the Humboldt county library from 7pm-8pm. or you can contact me Travis nix (775)304-39...
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by WALTER EASON 15 Dec 2016 08:11 AM |
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The big adventure begins 5875 11
Started by ddollar@comcast.net
Hey guys!
I should be camping tonight somewhere in the Gold Basin area. I'm in a big 5th wheel and am set up for serious boondocking--no services required. Has anyone camped a big rv out that way before Any advice for first timer :-)
Here are my gear options for use on this trip...
I have a drywasher...(but have discovered that I need a 'VAC-PACK' to be fully effective in this...need to make one of those...or buy one.)
I have a Gold Cube...
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by Wayne Crowder 14 Dec 2016 07:16 AM |
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Anyone got a spare/non-used GPAA mining Guide? 7048 9
Started by Duality1980@yahoo.com
Aside from losing things on a daily basis, I lost my 2014 mining guide (I am up to date on dues through Oct 2017) in a move from Inland Empire California to Orange County California. It's not uncommon with my condition, took a brain rattle overseas in Iraq and never been quite the same. I feel the need to share a bit as I was hoping someone might have a current mining guide lying around collecting dust and I'll even offer to buy it if you can let it go for less that the GPAA told me it would c...
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by ADAM ANDREWS 13 Dec 2016 09:33 AM |
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Here comes the NEW EPA! 6000 8
Started by worldavi@gate.net
Trumps selection to head up the EPA seems like a great choice which might work well for you dredgers. Scott Pruit is very combative with the EPA. 'Representing his state as attorney general since 2011, Pruitt has repeatedly sued the EPA to roll back environmental regulations and other health protections. He joined with other Republican attorneys general in opposing the Clean Power Plan, which seeks to limit planet-warming carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants. Pruitt has argued that curb...
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by LEO LORENZ 12 Dec 2016 04:54 PM |
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Boy am i glad she likes prospecting! 2603 0
Started by debatom@msn.com
Cold and windy today after a snow storm and then rained it all off so I decided to work on a project that I have been working on for a while which is a beer keg smelter. Had already bought the refractory and got a keg from my kids scrap yard and had it most the way ready to pour the cement. But again my shed is too cold so it was back to the kitchen so waited for her to leave Christmas shopping to set up the tubs and get the hoe and other goodies ready to complete the task. All went well...
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by tom glenn 08 Dec 2016 08:34 AM |
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Oh Oh... :-( 3389 1
Started by ddollar@comcast.net
Hey guys...
I feel like an idiot here.
Just retired to an RV. Am about 200 miles away from the Gold Basin on the first treasure trip of my 'golden age'...
Figured I better bust out my mining guide and get my poop in a group...
And I can't find it! I think I left it at a restaurant 650 miles back :-(
Great way to start, I know...
Need to get a new one and fast. Can someone tell me how to go about that
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by Brad Lamb 08 Dec 2016 06:54 AM |
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11 Replies and 8149 Views
First real greenhorn success! 8149 11
Started by ompomelet@gmail.com
Been playing around in the Wallowa river area. Places there are no claims. So far it wasn't very good. Out of about 3/4 of a bucket of dirt sifted to 1/4', I got a total of three tiny flecks of gold.
Today, I went up the bank and dug in a dryer area just below the high water line on an inside curve. Got one nice little flake and one fleck in a single test pan dug down only on the surface, down to about 2'.
Now I can set up a sluice and expect the results to be worthwhile...
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by LEO LORENZ 07 Dec 2016 08:52 PM |
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Questions about mining guide 7152 6
Started by Scott.crum1825@gmail.com
I've been looking through the mining guide and I found a contradiction. the page is PI-133 in the general information for Pennsylvania. The last paragraph of the page starts by saying 'State Forests and Game Lands are open to panning, and prospecting.' Then the very last line of the page in bold says. 'State game lands are closed to all forms of prospecting. There is no removal of anything, violators will be issued citations.' So I'm a bit confused.
-Scott
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by JOHN DORVAL 07 Dec 2016 04:29 PM |
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Fire Gold! 3655 2
Started by debatom@msn.com
We spent the summer prospecting a portion of our claims that most would just walk over the top of and not look back. It was heavily mined by the Chinese with long rows of stacked rocks and my wife has found a bucket full of square nails along with a hand pounded rusty gold pan, forged ax head among other things. But the most interesting thing we found was an array of small nuggets all in one small sample bucket containing gold, silver, platinum and copper in different shapes and form...
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by tom glenn 01 Dec 2016 01:14 PM |
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My Trip the the Arizona Gold Basin (Part 1) Bahde Claims 8879 11
Started by dixiedesertdigger@gmail.com
Well I am back. After months of research, study, planning and preparations... Frankly my first time at 'Electronic' Gold Prospecting was everything I had hoped for. I will begin by saying that with my goal of finding a gold nugget or two, I failed. No gold nuggets but I did collect some amazing rocks, I brought back 5 gallons of Gold Basin paydirt and in my collection of rocks I managed to find a handful of gold flake glazed rocks. I have alot to say and share about my trip, about Gold Basin...
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by Shane Edwards 01 Dec 2016 07:18 AM |
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My Trip the the Arizona Gold Basin (Part 2) Bahde Claims 5960 1
Started by dixiedesertdigger@gmail.com
So in this thread I thought I would begin to share some of the things I wanted to know about before visiting the Gold Basin Arizona, specifically the Bahde Claim 10, but never found any members here on the forums to share with me. I won't be able to share everything I now know on this one thread, hence the reason for doing it in parts, this being part 2... If you haven't read part 1, it's title is identical as this one with only the (part) being part 1 and not 2. First off, getting there ...
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by Brad Lamb 30 Nov 2016 11:12 AM |
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Undercover BLM and Forestry Department agents? 10866 25
Started by crashcrain@gmail.com
From what I was told from a trustful source is that the BLM and Forestry Dept. is sending out under cover against that act like fishermen or hunters, and then they come down and start asking questions. From what I was told one individual refused to answer the questions of this undercover officer and he has been given a fine close to $100K, and he was doing nothing illegal.
If you have somebody you don't recognize start asking you questions stop answering and ask them why they are you a...
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by tom glenn 30 Nov 2016 08:51 AM |
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Started by s.britch@lafilm.edu
Hey all. I also posted this in the business section since I wasn't sure where to post in the first place. So my nephew's cub scout pack is going to be going on an outing next spring. (We're in Alaska, so the mining season is overwith now.) And We're looking for some donations for our outing. Basically I'm taking them out to a claim that was last used in 1919 that I have been to several times. (Never mined, but hiked) I have done days of researching and finally found the owners of the claim...
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by Sam Britch 29 Nov 2016 08:08 AM |
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River Dredging on the San Miguel in return for some dry washing. 5424 1
Started by crashcrain@gmail.com
Just an idea, but would some groups this year like to come to a highly producing dredge claim on the San Miguel River in return for offering a trip for our group to have access to a good dry washing claim
When you come we work with our equipment together since we specialize in dredging and when we go out to your site we work with your dry washing equipment We split the gold at the end on both ends
Benjamin Crain,
President of Western Colorado Chapter ...
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by Travis Nix 25 Nov 2016 07:48 AM |
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Arkansas River in Colorado 4889 3
Started by diamondjd@netptc.net
Any fellow prospectors been to the GPAA claims near Buena Vista Colorado
Going there in September. Any info on the claims would be greatly appreciated.!!
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by Michael Plessinger 25 Nov 2016 04:31 AM |