Gold mining

It's no secret that using a good quality sluice box. Here is the best portable sluice box and the best sluice box for recovering fine gold.

So, you want to search for gold ore. How do you identify good gold prospects? If your strategy involves crushing any and every rock you come across, you'll be crushing for the rest of your life and won't find a flake. Here are some simple field tests you can perform to help you narrow your search.

Fire up your metal detector — there's a fortune in lost gold waiting to be found in Wyoming!

They cost nothing... or next to nothing.

The Super Pit is the largest open-pit gold mine in Australia. A canyon-size hole populated by house-size trucks, it's large enough to be seen from orbit. Here's what it looks like up close.

The source of gold or other minerals found in a placer may be one or more of the following:

Photo about Mining trucks at the Super Pit gold mine, Western Australia. Image of australia, anthropogenic, mining - 23370077

Photographic negative, miners outside a New England gold mine, glass / gelatin emulsion, published by Kerry and Co, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1885-1900

It is believed that the Spaniards discovered gold in Wyoming as recently as 200 years ago. The first discovery that we have record of today was along the Sweetwater River, where placers were found sometime during 1842. This area would later become the Atlantic City-South Pass District. It is theorized that trappers had taken the …

Pictures of GOLD NUGGETS Largest GOLD NUGGETS ever found – experts say.NUGGET SENSATION! Discovery of a gold nugget so huge and heavy it took a crane and 10 workers to move (see photo). The n…