"Prospecting For Gold - Join The Gold Rush Of 2012"

"Prospecting For Gold - Join The Gold Rush Of 2012","

Even after you grab your gold panning equipment and head for the hills or stream, you have to remember one thing.


The yellow stuff is pretty widely dispersed in the US and Canada, and many people live within driving distance of the gold fields.
 Club dues can be quite cheap.
 National Forest lands and lands managed by the US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) are usually open to prospecting and in some cases filing mining claims.
 This can greatly shorten your learning curve and get you into the good stuff much quicker.
 If you have some weight you would like to lose, I can't think of a more fun way to do it.


But when you start to see those flakes and little chunks showing up in your gold pan or sluice box or rocker box, the thrill is worth all the hard work.


You will need some basic gold mining supplies.
 These usually have things like a basic durable plastic or steel pan, a instructional guide to gold hunting, a snuffer bottle for sucking up the pretty stuff in your pan, and a little vial to hold your flakes.
 The old timers only had steel pans.


My first pan was a Garrett Gravity Trap Pan, which has a perfect green color, and while I own several good pans, the Garrett is still my favorite.
 And that goes also for other basic gold prospecting equipment like sluices, rocker boxes, high bankers and so on.
 You may not get rich, but you will have a ball.
 Good for all ages.


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