In this video, we are on a private gold claim just north of the city of Yuma Arizona. Besides using some of the world’s best gold detectors, the gold prospectors are also using drywashers, gold trommels and recirculating sluices.
Gold nuggets were found with the detectors, a good-sized picker was found sluicing and lots of fine gold was found drywashing. (more…)
New to gold metal detecting? If so, this tip might help you find those small gold nuggets.
This is about a little tool that I created to actually hear what a gold nugget would sound like out in the goldfield where your detecting. (more…)
Native Silver Discovery Globe Arizona
The 417 Project lies 10 km due north of the copper mining town of Globe, Arizona, and 112 km east of Phoenix, Arizona. The “417” consists of 100 unpatented lode claims covering an area where an extraordinary amount of alluvial native silver was found by metal detectorists over the last two years.
Bumble Bee/Cleator Arizona area with Gold Monster and finding small Gold Nuggets!
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Established in 1863, Bumble Bee served as a stagecoach stop and an outpost for the U.S. Cavalry, with a post office established in 1879. The creek, and by extension the town, were so named because early travelers in the area claimed that the indigenous people there were as “thick as bumblebees”. (more…)