Golden Legends Tales of Buried Treasure

6 step sluicing instructions. Goes into how to brace the sluice with rocks, how fast to feed gravel, looking for gold to verify your location, making sure the concentrate is flowing at the right speed, cleaning and getting the gold. This is an excellent set of instructions. http://minerswarehouse.com/gold-sluicing-instructions/

Here is one of the best prices for snake gaiters I have found.  http://www.forestry-suppliers.com/product_pages/View_Catalog_Page.asp?mi=82301&gclid=CMbJnNDEtLQCFYs7MgodOnwA0Q $39.99  I have on a couple occasions seen rattlers moving along the high bank of an arroyo; I think they wanted to come down into the sand but I was there and kept them from slithering down. These were times when I was prospecting and each time I was going back to my truck from my prospecting site to pan some samples - walking along the arroyo bottom and coming up the side. I had plenty of distance and the snake had no interest except to go on his way. As a boy, I loved to go out in the desert in Arizona and explore. On occasion I lost track of time and started home in the early evening just at or after sundown - my dad always told me to get out of the desert and be home before the sun set. Each time I encountered one I got surprised because I wasn't paying attention to my su...

The salient point of this point is that if you want words to describe how the machine works and photos along with a youtube video on the use, this might help. Here is an article I wrote: http://john000.hubpages.com/hub/Making-Placer-Gold-Mining-Easier-A-Piece-of-Desert-Equipment-the-Dry-Washer Here's the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=XsNzbbaTSos

This is a rather low-priced book of plans that include a conveyor belt, bellows dry washer, aluminum concentrator, wooden concentrator, a small rocker, a traditional rocker box, and a port a sluice. I thought I would refer you to this because I have seen one set of plans for the price of this book. Building one of these projects would probably pay for the book and more! http://www.blackcatmining.com/book-map/equipment-plans-1.cfm?SSAID=235296 It runs $14.95 (Dec. 18, 2012)

The following is a quote from www.blackhillsbadlands.com. This site has a very interesting home page. “Nuggets” are bigger than one-half inch. “Pea gold is the size of a pea. “Fish” are flat elongated flakes. “Flakes” are thin, flat wafers that vary from pinhead size and up. “Gold dust” is just that – pure gold sparkles; about the size of household dust. All of them are called “colors".  http://www.blackhillsbadlands.com/home/thingstodo/outdoorrecreation/summerfun/goldpanning

I have found an article produced by   Chris Ralph  Copyright 2003 All Rights Reserved. It talks about the geology of the formation of gold. It also points out why gold and quartz are so frequently together along with other elements. Nugget shooters (and panners) should find this interesting - it's written for the average person like me - you don't have to be a chemist or geologist to understand his language. http://www.nuggetshooter.com/articles/CRGeologyofcoarsegoldformation.html