Three people have been issued environmental citations for using sluice boxes for gold prospecting without a permit, according to the state s Agency of Natural Resources. A news release was sent out ...

The American Gold Rush was a wild, chaotic time that transformed the country almost overnight. In the mid-1800s, prospectors — known as “forty-niners,” since the peak of the Gold Rush occurred during ...

Many years ago I was watching a show on television about gold prospecting. One of the people on that show said that most people are walking around on gold and don’t even realize it. That got me to ...

Join us as we run 7.5 gallons of material through our sluice box and pan every bit of concentrate. From fine flour gold to small nuggets, see exactly how much gold we recovered! #GoldMiningLife ...

The running water in a river can cause deposits of gold to form: in the riverbed, on the neighboring inundation plains or the banks of the river. These are known as gold placer deposits, and they have ...

This picture shows the miners washing out gold by what is known as the sluice box method. Here we see the miners shovelling from both sides the soil containing the gold into the sluice boxes, where ...