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Offline MadJack

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where do you prospect???
« on: February 16, 2006, 12:58:57 PM »
I find plenty of color in Maine.
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« Reply #1 on: February 21, 2006, 11:54:34 AM »
I've prospected some pretty good places like the Mother Lode country of California, the southern deserts of California and Arizona along with Nevada.

I now live in southern New Mexico and do a little prospecting around an old gold mining town called White Oaks, seems Billy the Kidd use to hang out here too lol.

Years ago I was lucky enough to met the late Buzzard George Massie a few times in California along with his sons Tom and Perry, but it was a friend of his and his boys named "Cory" that showed me the ropes. I was very lucky, Cory was tought by the best in the game.

I'm very happy to see a prospecting section on Graybeards, God Bless.
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« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2006, 10:54:26 AM »
Eastern slope of the Santa Ritas :grin:
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« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2006, 11:40:54 AM »
Ahab, everybody from Tucson has dug holes there. You can find a better place then that I'm sure. :wink:
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« Reply #4 on: February 24, 2006, 07:28:19 AM »
onecoyote:

Yes, you are absolutely right. But, it's still an area where you can occasionally find small nuggets instead of dust. I did find a better place in New Mexico.
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« Reply #5 on: February 24, 2006, 07:29:27 AM »
onecoyote:

Yes, you are absolutely right. But, it's still an area where you can occasionally find small nuggets instead of dust. I did find a better place in New Mexico. :grin:
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« Reply #6 on: February 24, 2006, 09:39:59 AM »
Now I know that's a lie,  :-D there aint no gold in NM. That's why I'm moving to Nevada. :D  :wink:
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« Reply #7 on: February 27, 2006, 01:24:12 PM »
Mostly have worked the motherlode in Kali... but will be working a lode and placer in northern ID soon.
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« Reply #8 on: February 28, 2006, 02:03:59 PM »
Would it happen to be close to Elk City Idaho?
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« Reply #9 on: February 28, 2006, 09:31:39 PM »
In my wifes garden area in the front yard. We live right over the main shaft of the old Empire Star Mine in N. Cal. She gets her garden dug up and I manage to find some color.

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« Reply #10 on: March 01, 2006, 07:47:32 AM »
No, I'm going further north, near Sandpoint ID.
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« Reply #11 on: March 08, 2006, 01:56:24 PM »
Blue Mountains of Eastern Oregon.
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« Reply #12 on: July 25, 2006, 06:23:44 PM »
I am currently working out of Valdez Alaska. Although there were a lot of mines in the area they were mostly lode gold.  The quartz deposits were from 1,200 to 3,000 feet in elevation  (I am living at sea level).  So I have panned every stream north and reviewed every mining report that I could find heading north out of town.

Finally found some placed gold in some bedrock cracks and with the dredge.  Over an hour north and five miles back by ATV.   

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« Reply #13 on: August 03, 2006, 11:29:25 AM »
Several years ago I found a little color north of Glenwood, N.M.  I would sure like to go back, just haven't been able to work it into my schedule yet, but I am now offically retired, and plan to pull the trailer that way sometime next spring.  For those folks that live in the eastern part of the states, don't overlook Georgia.  I have seen some good nuggets that came from Ga., I just never had (took) the time to do any looking for myself, but plan to correct that Sept-Oct this year.
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« Reply #14 on: December 06, 2006, 11:31:10 AM »
Wherever there is gold of course!  Rich Hill,Gold Basin,Wickenburg all in Arizona and then for a change I cruise to Coolgardie just outside of Bastow,Ca.
Have yet to try my backyard in Southern Nevada.
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