Books on where to find gold

Ray is a friend of mine and a truly skilled gold hunter. He lives in Northern California and has a lifetime of gold detecting experience. His book is a compilation of information that he has shared over the years on various online prospecting forums. You can get his book from him directly on his website at trinityau. He also shares some of his adventures and there are a lot of good pictures to get you excited for the upcoming season!

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Most Popular Pages:. About Us. It details the many gold-bearing areas throughout the state. With its rugged terrain and ample public lands, there are countless areas that you can still find gold in Colorado. The Gold Prospector's Guide is a great great resource for all prospectors who want to learn about finding gold.

It covers various prospecting techniques and historical indicators that will help you find gold bearing areas. Gold Prospecting in the Southeastern U. A great resource for Southern miners!

If you are serious about finding gold in Oregon, then this is a must-have! Gold Prospecting in Southern California will lead you to gold bearing areas in the southern part of the state. A great resource for miners in Southern California! This is a great resource to get you started finding gold in Washington State! Millions of dollars' worth of gold has been mined in Arizona, and there is still plenty waiting to be found!

This is a great resource for anyone looking for gold in New Mexico! If you are serious about finding gold in Idaho, then you will want this eBook. A very good basic book for those interested in dredging. For those interested in the art of finding nuggets with a metal detector, this book is considered the detectorist's bible.

Jim was one of the first people involved in successfully using a metal detector to locate gold nuggets. Lots of great information for the intermediate to advanced prospector. Covers information on both placer gold nuggets as well as hard rock mining veins of gold bearing rock. Unfortunately its long out of print and hard to get hold of a copy. A great listing of the districts and locations where placer gold has been found in Arizona, together with the statistics on how much gold was found, the size of the nuggets and their sources.

I have a copy in my own library. Check Price or Purchase Arizona Gold Placers and Plac ering Bacon and Beans from a Gold Pan by George Hoeper This is a wonderful book telling the story of how a young man and his wife survived in the mother lode country during the great depression by prospecting for and mining gold on a small scale with just a pan and a sluice box. Not so much a "how to" book, but after you read this one, you will know his techniques and methods for finding gold.

A great read for for those evenings when you are out on prospecting trips. The book has my full stamp of approval and I have a copy in my own library - its one of my favorites. Many prospectors who search for gold nuggets ignore the potential of detecting hard rock deposits with a metal detector for gold. Jim fills in what you need to know on this topic. I have a copy myself and its a great reference. I cant think of anyone who knows more, or has more experience.

This book is a little bit more expensive, but has some really great information you just wont find elsewhere. The book has my full stamp of approval and I have a copy of all three in my own library - highly recommended. It contains lots of good basic information on a variety of prospecting methods - dredging, highbanking, sniping, metal detecting, etc.

In short the perfect introductory book. I've had a copy for many years, and to tell you how old my copy is - its Gold Mining in the 's this new version is of course, updated.

I grew up and this was another one of the first books I purchased when I became interested in prospecting. There are a number of districts in Southern California that produced placer gold and I used this book to prospect a number of them.

Good basic "where to find gold" information for those folks living in Southern California. Need some ideas on where to start your search prospecting for gold? This book will give you a great amount of information on where to search for gold in Arizona. It is a fairly complete listing of where placer gold has been found within the state. The book also includes a great listing of old information sources that Johnson used to compile this book. These old sources of information can be used to do further research.

Johnson Need some ideas on where to start your search prospecting for gold? This book will give you a great amount of information on where to search for gold in Nevada. Check Price or Purchase Placer Gold Deposits of Nevada Diving And Dredging For Gold by Dick Anderson The author tells of his experiences dredging, using modern scuba diving equipment and techniques that make it possible to recover gold inaccessible to the original, hearty, hardworking gold miners.

This book gives personal accounts of how to do it, where to look, and the equipment that brought the author the best results. Humorously told. While the book focuses on Oregon deposits, many of the lessons here apply to other locations as well. Dry Washing For Gold by James Klein In the desert areas where little or no water flows, recovering gold by wet methods is just not an option. Dry washing is the way to go in these situations.

In this book, Klein explains how successful dry washing is done and how the equipment works. Good basic introductory information. Morrison This book covers the very productive deposits of the mother lode country across the Sierra Nevada range. Millions of ounces of gold have been recovered from the Sierra Nevada - this book will help you recover your share of the golden riches.

A very fine "where to find gold" type of book, with much useful reference information for those living near or wanting to visit the Sierra Nevada. This book will give you a great amount of information on where to search for gold in New Mexico. Like the other books in this series, this book has my full stamp of approval.

This book will give you a great amount of information on where to search for gold in Utah. Toole Exposed quartz veins and gossans outcroppings of silver and gold are the main source of eroded minerals from most of the area's mineralized fault zones across Nevada. In pre-Tertiary time there was very little forceful water movement to concentrate gold placer. What water movement did occur scattered the gold placer across the topography, into pre-glaciered gully formations, ancient stream beds and ganged into basins.

Toole Gold Nugget-teering in Northern California covers the deposits of the Klamath Mountain region along with its many placer gravel areas in the rivers and creeks.