Prospecting & Detecting
A Return to Silver City, Idaho
July 2014 by Alan J. Chenworth
...we were able to pull out close to another 3+ ounces of small, angular Silver City gold. This also included several more small nuggets, pieces of wire gold and some quartz-gold pieces—not bad for 4 days with a small sluice.
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The one undeniable truth in prospecting is that the more time you spend in the field, the more gold you will find. Here are a few keys I use to help build my confidence.
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...we finally got back to this exploration effort. The old works there were up above the old camp, which was very significant in size.
...we finally got back to this exploration effort. The old works there were up above the old camp, which was very significant in size.
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