Gold Prospecting

It is a gold nugget that was found on the bedrock. It is a chunk of gold, maybe bb sized or larger. Larger than dust or sand. More like a pebble or rock sized.

A gold nugget is a clump of gold that is small and very precious. To find one in the 1850s gold rush would be a huge achievement.

People came from all over the world to seek their fortune in the goldfields of Kalgoorlie, including miners from Europe, America, China, and other parts of Australia. This influx of people contributed to the diverse and multicultural nature of the mining community in Kalgoorlie during the gold rush.

He found silver ... The ComstockLode is a lode of silver ore located under the eastern slope of Mount Davidson, a peak in the Virginia Range in Nevada (then western Utah Territory). It was the first major discovery of silver ore in the United States.

After failing to find gold, many forty niners turned to farming, ranching, or starting businesses to make a living. Some stayed in California while others moved to different regions in search of other opportunities.

A prospector was and continues to be someone who explores for minerals or other valuable resources. This may be for profit or as a hobby. A prospector differs from a miner in that a prospector seeks out new deposits whereas a miner extracts minerals from existing deposits. Prospectors, past and present, rely upon an understanding of geological formations and mineral compositions to predict the location of possible deposits. Modern prospectors also use electronics such as metal detectors, satellite imagery, and other scientific instruments to determine the chemical composition of an area. Prospectors then employ a variety of sampling methods to determine the profitability of a deposit. If profitable, they may file a claim and begin extracting the minerals as miners.

Mostly the old guys began by hearing a story of a place that had gold and they headed for that place with only a pan and a pair of tweezers and a mason jar or a small bottle. if they were lucky ( and that's' a big IF ) they would pan for gold and find a little bit and would stake a small claim and hang out there for awhile and find enough to make a little bit of money. they would usually hide the gold they had found in a place far enough from them that "if they got jumped" by someone, they could come back and get their findings. (if they were alive)......so they had the pan and the tweezers and the bottle and maybe a shovel.......So those were the main tools.....a prospector might have 20 or 30 places they would go to during a season to search for gold, this was due to seasonal flooding,.....The seasonal floods were important you see because a river or stream would possibly go dry and a porspector would have to go downstream to find flowing water,.....this meant he had to go to a lower point in a valley or on a river system which meant he was more vulnerable to either Indians or other people....which was not exactly the thing a prospector wanted to do.....so a good season meant that a good snow happened and melt waters would provide him a good water flow for decent erosion of riverbeds or streams and that he could prospect upstream and away from other folks and be out of sight and stay safe and have a decent reward for his labors....."IF" he was smart and lucky to boot. And a good prospector "never brought all his labor to town", there was some proper eitiquette for prospecting, the first rule being, "Never ever let anyone know what you've found"...not even the assay officer because that officer never kept his mouth shut, he worked for the government right?....yeah right!.....he worked for the highest bidder is who he worked for, you bring your gold to town?....you ride out and someone rides out right behind you and you can never go back to your claims again without company....you have to be smart and you have to be careful....so you wait til retirement day to cash in.....so Prospecting is it's own demon and you have to "very carefully",tangle with it.

Nathan

Both Gold and Silver have been found in Arkansas from the Ouachita mountains. Gold here is usually found in Manganese stained quartz veins. There are public lands located in the Ouachita mountains in the Ouachita National forest that are open to prospecting. You may want to check with rangers before proceeding.

The men on the Australian gold fields wore loose-fitting, comfortable clothes. They had long trousers held up with a belt, rope or braces. They tended to wear longer sleeved shirts if they were out in the sun, or sometimes they would strip off their shirts when the heat became unbearable - as it often did.

The miners' clothing depended on their ethnic group. Standard clothing for many of European ethnicity was just loose-fitting trousers and shirt, with strong boots. The Chinese wore the clothing of their culture. Many times, miners' clothing may have become quite threadbare: they could not afford new clothing because tailors and/or other suppliers of clothing would chage over-inflated prices, knowing that the rules of supply and demand would dictate how much they could charge. Miners did not want to leave the prospect of "striking it rich" to take a coach all the way to Sydney or melbourne, so suppliers of goods on the goldfields had a monopoly.

No one person. Gold is rare and useful- the rarity makes it expensive. If there was gold sitting around everywhere, it would not be expensive.

It depends on various measures: 1. how much land you have to disrupt, 2. the size of the rocks and if you are crushing them... etc...

Aircraft gold reclamation comes from the CPU's within the computer systems. Other than that, I can only imagine that they are trying to look for lost jewelry etc...

All forms have value as silver metal, but coins may have additional value as a collector's item. Their worth, weight and purity is already known and does not need verification.

5-5-11>> Assuming the coin is circulated and has no mintmark, the 1899 Liberty Head Eagle is a common date. For an accurate assessment of value the coin needs to be seen and graded. Most coins show heavy wear. In general retail values for circulated coins are $880.00-$980.00. Values are a market average and only for coins in collectible condition, coins that are bent, corroded, scratched, used as jewelery or have been cleaned have far less value if any to a collector or dealer.

There are numerous places where beginners can pan for gold in California. However most are well known and a beginner might have problems finding enough gold to make it interesting. Do you happen to know a friend that has a gold claim that he would let you pan on ?

The main thing as a beginner you need is to get experience and practice using your gold pan and learning to "read the river" to realize where the best/most likely places would be to prospect for gold. Ask around to see if anyone knows a "spot" they poke around looking for gold at, maybe they can take you there.

Keep in mind there is no one "best place." Anywhere you find paying amounts of gold is a good enough place to keep looking for more. You never know, one day you may hit a pocket that someone else missed.

Hydraulic mining used a water cannon (called a monitor) to wash the hillside down and into a huge sluice box which separated the Gold from the dirt and gravel.

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A prospector is someone who explores for minerals or other valuable resources for profit or sometimes just as a hobby.

Prospecting involves physical labor looking for any trace of the sought after mineral.

Many miners use a gold pan and pan along streams and rivers that have a history of producing gold in the past.

Others use a dredge. A dredge sucks up the gravel at the bottom of a stream or river and runs the gravel over a sluice box to separate the gold from the gravel

Hard rock mining is another method but is very involved compared to other methods.

Highbanking isn't very common but you do see it occasionally. "highbanking" is a mining process where you pump the water up to where you are working instead of bringing the gold bearing gravel to the water. The object is to work a "bench" of gravel up on a hillside as efficiently as possible.

Another method of gold prospecting is to use a drywasher in the desert. This is a method where you look for gold without water in desert conditions.

Yet another method is to use a metal detector. this is very popular in Australia and has produced some large nuggets.

There are numerous other methods such as "heap leaching" but this covers most methods that quite a few miners use.

Getting rich from gold prospecting takes a mixture of hard work, skill, experience, money and luck. You must be willing to spend weeks, months , even years trying to put all of the pieces of the puzzle together that create the conditions for a big strike.

Striking it rich does happen but most people quit long before they reach the level of experience they need to get rich. You may get lucky, but riches usually go to the prepared.

they earn about $50000-$200000 per year

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Credit is given to Chief Kowee, Joseph Juneau and Richard Harris.

50$ Well it depends on where and when .. in areas OUT of the gold rush area a shovle would cost 2 to 4 dollars. In the gold rush area they could go up to $125 .. it all depends on supply and demand .. HIGH demand + LOW supply ... price goes up! that's economics 101 :)

Spain could have done it to obtain vast riches(silk,gold,velvet and spices) before another European country could.

The Spanish Crown wanted to increase its economic power and prestige in Europe.

After obtaining the wealth, it was now possible to build bigger, better ships for longer voyages. They owned more then half of north Americas land.

They were able to producing better and more accurate maps/charts of the world.

Since they were already tribes(Arawak, Caribs) in the new world, they enslaved them and began their colonization.

Black marketing is illegal trading, so it's everywhere.

A quick example: a barber must have a license. If someone without a barber license decides to give haircuts for money in his kitchen, he is a blackmarketer and anyone who gets a haircut from him is participating in blackmarketing. That's pretty low level, though.

Another example: in New York State the taxes on cigarettes are very high. Some people will drive to North Carolina where they are lower, buy a LOT of cigarettes there and take them back to New York to sell. This is tax evasion and the authorities will be on you like white on rice if you're found out.

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