[HN Gopher] My Gold Prospecting and Mining Pages
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       My Gold Prospecting and Mining Pages
        
       Author : Tomte
       Score  : 26 points
       Date   : 2024-07-04 13:36 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | throwup238 wrote:
       | If you don't care about panning for gold there are also
       | recreational mining areas (definitely in California, probably all
       | over the country) where you can do whatever you want as long as
       | you do it for personal use without explosives or mechanized
       | mining equipment. They're a bit hard to find so I use a GPS app
       | with a bunch of layers like land ownership and park boundaries.
       | 
       | A couple of rock hounds and I found a promising area in Kern
       | County near Lake Isabella where we dug out a 10 foot deep
       | triangle out of the side of a mountain and found about 100 pounds
       | of beautiful mineral specimens of gold embedded in quartz, along
       | with a 2.5 ft long agate weighing almost a ton that we still
       | haven't figured out how to cut and polish.
       | 
       | Great place to go for intense rock hounding, hot springs, and
       | white water rafting on Kern river.
        
         | BigParm wrote:
         | It's weird that you discovered the richest grade gold mine in
         | the world then just went rafting like nothing happened.
         | 
         | Are you looking at pyrite or are you Jed Clampett? What's
         | happening here
        
       | rambambram wrote:
       | This guy's website is a treasure trove! Immediately bookmarked
       | it.
        
         | zafka wrote:
         | I did too. I do not think I will learn much technically, but it
         | does stimulate ideas. Mainly just fun!!
        
       | upon_drumhead wrote:
       | This is a wonderfully fun site, however, I am a bit weirded out
       | by the mail order bride ads sprinkled throughout.
        
         | zafka wrote:
         | I am betting that is one of his largest sources of income :) It
         | is pretty funny to see all those "Click to find out more" adds.
        
       | marshray wrote:
       | I've done this a few times here in Washington state. It's a
       | healthy fun way to get outside and explore geology.
       | 
       | Placer mining is one of humanity's oldest technologies. It
       | doesn't have to be environmentally destructive like 19th century
       | California.
       | 
       | I had success by joining a local prospecting society, which
       | provided guidance and access to dozens of actual claims.
        
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