Going for Brown’s Bar on the Middle Fork of the American River
Closeup to an open cut view of the Bonanza King Mine
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Exploration of a high bench of an old piece of channel
Lots of times there are high bench gravels where a river channel was running before it cut its way deeper...
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Annie’s Engagement
It was April Fool’s Day, 1975, when I met the gal I was going to marry. I was 36 at...
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Liz and Merle
When we were working a mine many years ago we were driving a tunnel to reach an old buried river...
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Prospecting For Gold – June 28th, 2007
We’re always out there, looking, checking, researching and trying to locate a new prospect or deposit. It’s always a question...
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The Bride and Her Ghost
Not more than 300 feet from where Woody’s cabin is now, going down a slight hill and on a flat,...
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Our Gold Reserve
In last month’s blog we discussed the San Francisco Mint in 1854, the creation of gold coins and their values...
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San Francisco Mint 1854
In 1717 Sir Isaac Newton, Master of the British Mint, established a fixed price for gold. This price was for...
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Silver Coin and Gold – Jan 17th, 2009 – 2024
Finding a place to prospect is a difficult one. There are many potential issues involved, such as private property, mining...
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Gold Fever San Francisco 1848
Throughout the history of our country there have been many events to change our course, but none have been more...
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Pike Bell – Rewards
Mining is not for the faint-hearted. Mining is for special people with the courage to face what appears to be...
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Gold Buttons – Dec 21st, 2023
This is just before Christmas and the weather is keeping us from prospecting. That doesn't mean we get stopped though....
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Don Robinson – Assayer Bio – Aug 1st, 2022
While I was mining in 1980, driving a drift to reach a buried river channel, I attended Sierra Collage’s Program...
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Eating Crow – July 24th, 2022
For 40 years I’ve been chasing gold, ranging from gold panning, sluice boxes, dredging, then into underground mining and open...
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Trails to Gold – July 1st, 2022
One of the most difficult items in prospecting is to find a place to go! That’s going on the basis...
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Exploration Hike – June 14th, 2022 – Damascus
Hello Everyone, Deb, Laura and I made the search for Damascus on Saturday September 23rd. What a trip we had....
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Prospecting Trip – April 4th, 2022 – Hadsel Mill
Hello everyone, Just to keep you up-to-date Mike and I met at the Drivers Flat curve at 11:00AM on Tuesday....
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Prospecting in the Winter – Feb 11th, 2022
It was just past Christmas this year, and here in the foothills of the northern Sierras we had two back-to-back...
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