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                My Gold Prospecting and Mining Pages
                   Gold fever is a terrible thing

One of my many hobbies is recreational gold prospecting and mining.
I've been gold panning, metal detecting and sluicing on my vacations
for many years. It's a lot of fun. It's great exercise. I get to do
it in really scenic locations, outside in the fresh air and sunshine.
I have even found some gold. This page links to accounts of my
various adventures in pursuit of the shiny yellow stuff. More will be
added in the future.

A tutorial on how to pan for gold A tutorial on how to pan for gold
out in the field. Its easy, its fun, and its GOLD! Grab your gold
pan, your boots, a shovel and lets hit the streams and hopefully
strike it rich.

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My 2nd home-built recirculating sluice or highbanker A new and
improved sluice or highbanker. I acquired a commercially made sluice,
and with some quick and easy modifications made it into a
recirculating sluice for working areas without a good natural water
flow.

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My home-built recirculating sluice or highbanker How I built a
recirculating sluice or highbanker. The evolution of the design from
initial idea and crude prototypes, to a finished unit that works
great in the field. It is built from inexpensive and easy to obtain
materials. Just about anyone could build one and start getting gold.

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Construction of a mini recirculating sluice for use in separating
gold from incinerated and crushed IC chip e-waste. It was a quick,
easy and cheap build that could be done in an hour or two, and it
works great.

In this video I use the above home-built mini sluice to separate the
gold from some crushed hard-rock gold ore. It works great!

Here is a video I made many years ago. The video is old, but the
information is as useful as ever. Everyone should know how to pan for
gold. It is a very useful skill.

My home-built gas-powered vacuum cleaner for gold prospecting or
mining How I converted a cheap, used wet/dry vacuum, and an old leaf
blower into a gas-powered vacuum cleaner for use in gold prospecting/
mining. This unit is very useful for vacuuming up gold-bearing dust
and dirt off of bedrock and out of crevasses.

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