It’s the end of February and cabin fever has you stir crazy, you can’t wait to get out and find some of that elusive gold, the 2012 gold season is almost upon us for some it is already here. Now is the time to make preparations for your prospecting or small-scale mining adventures. It’s time [...]
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Gold Prospecting: A Good Plan & Preparations
Posted: February 24, 2012 in Gold Prospecting, Mineral prospecting, Prospecting Equipment, UncategorizedTags: Gold, Placer mining, Prospecting
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Sluice Box Set Up (Keene A52)
Posted: February 11, 2012 in Prospecting Equipment, UncategorizedTags: adventure, fun, Gold Prospecting, Keene A52 sluice box, Placer mining, recreational prospecting, sluice box, sluice box set up
This is how I set up my sluice box, a Keene A 52. This will work for any sluice box.The recomended drop for the sluice box is 1 inch per foot, the Keene A52 is about 3 feet long so a 3 inch drop is good. Meaning that the feed end is 3 inches higher [...]
Gold Bugs First Bite
Posted: December 1, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: Byron Maine, Carl Shilling, Gold, Gold mining, Gold panning, Gold Prospecting, Swift River Maine
I was 5 years old when I was first bitten by the gold bug, although the gold fever was dormant for many years this is how it started for me. My grandmother Alice Canon was an avid rockhound and gold prospector, I had always taken an interest in her rock collection and her gold that she found. [...]
Check out Appalachian Prospectors new web site at www.appalachianprospectors.com it’s not quite finished yet but it will be a continual work of progress.
Hurricane Irene Brings Golden Opportunity
Posted: September 15, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: Dredging, Gold Prospecting, Maine
Hillbilly John and I had planned for a couple of weeks another dredging trip to Maine again, probably the last one of the season, then Hurricane Irene hit. After seeing the news and seeing the devastation that Irene had brought to the Northeastern part of the United States we thought we may have to cancel [...]
Swift River Byron Maine
Posted: August 5, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: Gold panning, Maine, Prospecting
Just got back from a ten-day prospecting adventure in Byron Maine. It was a really great time and for me ten days was not enough time. We had started our adventure on July 17, this time I had brought my wife Doris my son Charlie who is 8 years old the little girl who my wife [...]
If you are considering some new prospecting equipment consider this. Last year my wife bought me a Keene A52 sluicebox for my birthday I was very happy with its performance, I retrieved some nice gold with it. As you are running your material through you can see the gold being caught in the ribbed matting at [...]
A Trip To Loud Mine Georgia (GPAA Outing)
Posted: July 8, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: Georgia, Gold mining, Loud Mine, Mining, Prospecting
Hillbilly John and I are both GPAA (Gold Prospectors Association of America) members and in May 2010 we went to the Loud mine outing in Georgia and that was quite a drive from New York. When we got down there we met up with Hillbilly John’s uncle Stan, who had his camper already set up. [...]
A Prospecting Adventure In Vermont
Posted: June 24, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: Coolidge State Park, Green Mountains, Mining, Vermont
Hillbilly John and I live in New York and we were looking for a place near by to prospect. We had found a place up in Vermont that is a known site that has gold. It is Buffalo Brook at camp Plymouth. We had found out in our research that there was once an active [...]
