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We went to a historic placer mine area and scored yellow! Even though this place is not in the USGS you too can find gold in old forgotten spots! Transcript Coming Soon…

This week JC shares some new prospecting research tools…the findings of a short scouting trip to Colorado and current metal detecting news. Watch the video below… Here are links to all the resources mentioned in today’s show (all links open in new tabs): Cordell Kent of The Gold Shop in Ballarat Victoria Australia Start Prospecting Today…Choose Your Path… – e Gold Prospecting | Resources To Get You Prospecting Today URL http://www.egoldprospecting.com/ Accessed Sunday, June 16, 2013 8:18:35 AM OruxMaps URL http://www.oruxmaps.com/index_en.html Accessed Sunday, June 16, 2013 8:18:49 AM Australia National Library Search results for ‘gold prospecting’ – Trove URL http://trove.nla.gov.au/result?q=gold+prospecting&l-availability=y Accessed Sunday, June 16, 2013 8:19:02 AM OnMilwaukee.com Milwaukee Buzz: Local metal detectors dig up treasure, junk URL http://onmilwaukee.com/buzz/articles/metaldetecting.html?34021 Accessed Sunday, June 16, 2013 8:19:21 AM World’s Luckiest Man: Briton Discovers Hoard of Gold Using Ordinary Metal Detector – Gold Matters URL http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/476647/20130610/world-s-luckiest-man-gold-coins-metal.htm#.Ub3I_pxFmCf Accessed Sunday, June 16, 2013 8:19:26 AM B.C. mining museum features underground train ride, gold panning family fun URL http://www.theprovince.com/travel/mining+museum+features+underground+train+ride+gold+panning+family/8503273/story.html Accessed Sunday, June 16, 2013 8:19:43 AM Growing kids flock to growing Children’s Museum of Northern Nevada | NevadaAppeal.com URL http://www.nevadaappeal.com/news/local/6944621-113/museum-kids-nevada-gold Accessed Sunday, June 16, 2013 8:19:53 AM Casper Calendar for June 16, 2013 URL http://trib.com/lifestyles/announcements/community/calendars/casper-calendar-for-june/article_e678600b-fd48-5e49-8ba4-ae07703d9ca2.html Accessed Sunday, June 16, 2013 8:20:02 AM CO BLM | Royal Gorge Field Office | Minerals | Locatable | Cache Creek URL http://www.blm.gov/co/st/en/fo/rgfo/minerals/locatable_minerals/placer_mining/cache_creek.html Accessed Sunday, June 16, 2013 8:20:09 AM

A deep dig into one valuable prospecting tool, the Bureau of Land Management LR2000 report.  Come along as JC finds a local prospecting association’s claim, with just a name… Watch the full how-to gold mine with the LR2000 report video over at eGold Prospecting.com!

And the last, Early Unlisted Episode…Adding pneumonia to the mix, JC continues the adventures of a new 49er, with a no notice winter trip into Arizona looking for gold.  Follow all the adventures at www.eGoldProspecting.com!

Another Early Unlisted Episode…Originally created on 02/01/2013… This week I interview Cordell Kent with The Mining Exchange Gold Shop and long-time prospector in the Ballarat Area of Australia. Learn more tips, tricks, and history about gold prospecting and metal detecting over at www.eGoldProspecting.com! The full video companion version…

Another Early Unlisted Episode… In the second episode of The Gold Prospecting Show we continue reading from “The Diary Of A Forty-Niner” and learn more about the life of a gold miner in the Gold Rush era. About the long tom sluice for placer gold mining tips…from 1890 “Getting Gold” book available in our prospectors Launchpad…Sign Up to Get Access NOW! A long tom is a trough some 12 feet in length by 20 inches in width at the upper end, widening to 30 inches at the lower end; it is about 9 inches deep and has a fall of 1 inch to a foot. An iron screen is placed at the lower end where large stones are caught, and below this screen is the riffle box, 12 feet long, 3 feet wide, and having the same inclination as the upper trough. It is fitted with several riffles in which mercury is sometimes placed. Much more work can be done with this appliance than with the cradle, which it superseded. Of course, the gold must be coarse and water plentiful. When, however, the claim is paying, and the diggings show signs of some permanency, a puddling machine is constructed. This is described in the chapter called “Rules of Thumb.” Hydraulicing and ground sluicing is a very cheap and effective method of treating large quantities of auriferous drift, and, given favourable circumstances, such as a plentiful supply of water with good fall and extensive loose auriferous deposits, a very few grains to the ton or load can be made to give payable returns. The water is conveyed in flumes, or pipes to a point near where it is required, thence in wrought iron pipes gradually reduced in size and ending in a great nozzle somewhat like that of a fireman’s hose. The “Monitor,” as it is sometimes called, is generally fixed on a movable stand, so arranged that the strong jet of water can be directed to any point by a simple adjustment. A “face” is formed in the drift, and the water played against the lower portion of the ledge, which is quickly undermined, and falls only to be washed away in the stream of water, which is conducted through sluices with riffles, and sometimes over considerable lengths of amalgamated copper plates. This class of mining has been most extensively carried out in California and New Zealand, and some districts […]

An Early Unlisted Episode…Originally created on 02/09/2013… Keep up with JC chasing his prospecting tail each week at http://www.eGoldProspecting.com!  He was just barely able to get this edition of The GPS, Gold Prospecting Show, done before heading out.  May You Always Find What You’re Looking For…and May This Show Help You Prospect Just A Little Bit Better Each Week!!

Another Early Unlisted Episode…Quick Tutorial On How To Find Gold In Virginia (Or Anywhere Else In The World) Full screencast video of this audio tutorial can be viewed at www.eGoldProspecting.com!

Originally created on 01/11/2013…Thought I’d take some time and begin recording a podcast for gold prospectors, whether metal detecting or gold panning. These first ones will be short readings from “The Diary of a Forty-Niner” detailing life in the gold fields of California during the gold rush. Learn what it was like in camp, what the diggings were like, and general information relevant to today’s gold prospector. Transcript Below… The diary of a forty-niner, edited by Canfield, Chauncey L., 1843-1909. Gold Prospecting Show #1 Transcript… THE HARDSHIPS OF A MINER’s LIFE–LETTERS FROM HOME–THE EXPRESS RIDER AND HIS WELCOME CALL–… {Begin page no. 3} MAY 19, 1850. –The pork I bought in town last night is the stinkenest salt junk ever brought around the Horn. It is a hardship that we can’t get better hog meat, as it’s more than half of our living. We fry it for breakfast and supper, boil it with our beans, and sop our bread in the grease. Lord knows we pay enough for it. When I first settled on the creek it was a dollar a pound and the storekeeper talks about it being cheap now at sixty cents. I believe that if it were not for the potatoes that are fairly plenty and the fact that the woods are full of game, we would all die of scurvy. There is plenty of beef, such as it is, brought up in droves from Southern California, but it’s a tough article and we have to boil it to get it tender enough to eat. There is a hunter who lives over on Round Mountain and makes a living killing deer and peddling the meat among the miners. He charges fifty cents a pound for venison steaks and he told me he made more money than the average miner. I paid seventy-five cents apiece in town yesterday for two apples and did not begrudge the money. I was told that they were grown in Oregon, which seemed strange, as I did not know that country had been settled long enough to raise fruit. Will sell no more dust to M–. He allowed {Begin page no. 4} only $17.00 an ounce and then blew out two dollars’ worth of fine gold; said it was not clean. Jerry Dix, who is only two claims above me on the creek, gets $18.50 for his at the store, but it always […]

Enjoy these episodes that I recorded before getting listed in iTunes and Stitcher…so here are The GPS “Gold Prospecting Show” The Early Ones. Join me for all your metal detecting and gold prospecting needs over at http://www.eGold Prospecting.com