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Have YOU ever looked for Gold?
A century ago and more, people sought out raw gold from the wilds and some made a good living at it. When the Gold Rush hit the West coast back in the mid to late 1800's, people flocked in to that beautiful Gold Country from everywhere, by the thousands! All were seeking their fortune. Many, many, never found enough gold to keep them in food and lodging, which almost cost an arm & a friggin' leg, what with the crazy high prices of everything, in the backwoods in those days and all...
Also, don't forget that Gold was going for something like $20.00 an ounce, so even a nice little poke of dust and little nuggets, would only buy say a loaf of bread, a quart of milk and a can of bully-beef and maybe a plug of tobacco...:-(
It seems that once the main rush was over, things settled down and nobody was looking for gold anymore. Not seriously at least, for the next forty or fifty years. Who in here can remember any time at school, EVER hearing ANYTHING about say, being a Gold Prospector, when we graduate? Like nobody would take you seriously if you told them you'd like to look for gold nuggets. Gold prospecting had gone "out of fashion", so to speak.
Move ahead another twenty or thirty years, and the NEW prices of Gold have gone up and up so much, that Gold Prospecting is once more considered a VERY real and a very workable trade/science.
In the last few months, the price of Gold has broken all previous records and shows almost NO signs of quitting the big rise.
Now, if you tell people that you know how to locate, separate and harvest, your own FREE wild Gold from the icy streams and beautiful valleys out in the bush, they listen to you.
Here's a site I put together a while back, to get folks interested in looking for FREE Gold. There is a ton of material out there to help anybody who wants to get into finding Gold! Use this page as a jump off point to your exploration of this fantastic hobby/sport/art/science of Looking for gold! With a little work and a dash of luck, you too, could be showing us a poke of your own, of the most beautiful metal in the world! :-)
I believe that Gold will easily hit the $1000 per ounce high very soon, as in way before the end of '08. If and when that happens, please let me forewarn you here that our whole economy will be effected VERY dramatically! We could go very quickly into a depression, recession and regression kinda like the one in the dirty thirties, after the Roaring 20's, where only the Real rich make out o.k. Most regular people will be hit the hardest. Most of the (no collar workers)poor folk in our beautiful land will die off...
So, that's about it for now, find yourself some raw gold and then sell it quick as soon as it hits that scary figure I quoted above! Invest the money you make on that deal, in staples and food supplies and water, medications and other things you will need to get through the rough times ahead...
Good Luck to you my fair reader if you care to join me in the magical, mystical, and even spiritual quest, for the ever elusive, rare and Oh So beautiful, wild Gold!
Alright then, on with my little Gold hunting website...
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Prospecting Adventures with LarryB...
Welcome to this little Gold prospecting page from the lonely little one mule town of Ottawa up here in the Great White North of Canada. After researching this incredibly interesting subject for the last decade or so, I have gathered quite a lot of information concerning, understanding, finding and recovering this much sought after yet elusive metal. I've decided to post this little website to see if I can contribute a bit of that cool gold data in order to somehow help other would be or beginning prospectors out there in the world. Hope you enjoy your visit. Don't be shy about sending a note to me about anything gold related, or suggestions or critiques even. I won't of course be able to help everyone find gold in their old 'hood or just down the street, but then again if you know how to read between the lines, then you just may find a paystreak or a few little grains at least in here where I left 'em for the observant adventurer!
Let's cut to the chase....
Ok. Ok! Where do you look for the stuff???? Well, again about a million places but you need a sample or two that you can use right? Well Alrighty then....
Little tiny brooks, the one's that you uncover with a little 'ol fashioned research and those ittsy bittsy little natural gravel pits, sometimes near these little mountain streams, are two of my favorite areas to begin my search for this marvelous metal. These tiny little brooks and streams of clear and cold water, forming miniature watercourses, that start in the high country, then wind their way through GOLD country, are sure to have many little spots, called, natural catch basins, along their courses. I start a closer inspection on the outside bends and behind the largest boulders and any exposed bedrock first. This is where raw, wild and free, migrant gold, can hole up every spring thaw or at any other flood times. Cracks in the bedrock will catch gold if there is any in that area of your crick. Then too, the thick, lush, moss, that clings so desperately to ancient Pine tree roots and little crevices in the rocks along the streams route, is positively worth investigating. This dense moss can act as a very efficient, natural mini-riffle system that can and does, trap lots of very fine gold in its interior. I always make it a point to work at least one or two, of those five gallon white buckets all serious miners and outdoorsmen are familiar with, jammed with old moss and usually find enough flour gold to make my time worth it. Plus, mossing as it's called, is a lot easier prospecting method than shoveling gravel. The more methods of recovery and separation we have, the better we are going to separate and classify and recover. Keep an open mind always when you are in the field. You can NEVER know too much. There is ALWAYS plenty to learn out there. Stay on the ball and you'll make out O.K.....
Not sure quite how to explain it but there is something VERY special and way Kool about swirling a gold pan full of ancient stream gravels in the middle of nowhere, that really turns my crank. Nature all around me, a gold pan in my hands and the freedom to be there hunting for the most beautiful of all wild metals known to mankind. Raw, pure, wild gold, gleaming out from the fines in the bottom of my pan is most definitely a mega-rush to this ol' bush veteran. It never ceases to get my blood pumping faster than any other thing that I do these days.
What other things can you think of where the average person can have a lot of fun outdoors and then get paid in gold? Imagine bringing home the most beautiful heavy metal in the world for your efforts....For having a little fun outdoors, doing something you really like. Too Much!!
Of course there are the other times too when, well, there is very little or even no color in the bottom of that pan. For me, I simply answer,"so what"? That's no problem. I'm quite used to not catching a fish on every cast so not finding GOLD in every pan of gravel is no biggie either. This is another one of those things, like fishing, where a bit of patience IS necessary if you are lookin' to succeed at it. It's all worth it though. You can bet on it!
If you have never tried any of this, searching for gold stuff, by all means check it out this year. Start with some research at the library or on the net but get into some of the history of gold and where it was found. It's a whole new century. Do something really Cool and Exciting this year. Go Gold Hunting! But be careful. Prospecting just could turn out to be YOUR favorite hobby!!!
Take a few minutes to cruise some of these links I've set up for you. There is all kinds of stuff like equipment to get you goin' and not having to break the bank. In the depression times, gold panning was about the only thing a man could do to put food on the table when there just wasn't any work to be had. These days with the price of gold well over 800 bills per ounce, gold panning can and is again, proving to be a fairly good way to put food on the table, although there may be a few lean times. Hope you enjoy your visit here on this little Prospecting page of mine. Good luck in your search for life's GOLD my friends!
I Really LOVE Gold Prospecting!
Sign My Guestbook
View My Guestbook
Some Good Hyper-Links
My First Homepage
Prospecting
Gold, Gold and more Gold
Gold Stuff Amundo
THE Gold Hunters Magazine
Fire'N Gold
NuggetHunter2
A SUPER Fine Gold Site
Lots of Fine Maps & Links
Fishing
Gold Info City
All Terrain Bicycling
Adventure
Outdoors Unlimited
Survival Stuff
Simply Larry
My Yahoo Page!
A Cache Of Treasures...
Your own Alaskan Paydirt!
Harmony through Aikido
Gold is almost EVERYWHERE! You just have to get your little ol' self out there and find it, that's all...
E-mail me ANYTIME!LarryB
Well o.k. then, but just ONE more link and that's it. Bob Johnson's excellent web-pages cover SO MUCH gold related stuff, you will really wanna check him out for yourself to be sure.
GoldSheet Links
GOLD ROCKS!!
Thanks for dropping in. Come back and visit here again soon when you need a little diversion from life's complications. Maybe you could even bookmark this little page so you can get to it real fast the next time you need to escape a little. Thanks again for visiting. Hope you have a really, really GOLDEN Day!
This little Prospecting website was designed and is maintained for your pleasure by LarryB, the Wandering Outdoorsy Webmaster from Ottawa, Canada.
Entire contents are Copyright By LarryBourgeois 1998-2008
Peace Out!
Also, don't forget that Gold was going for something like $20.00 an ounce, so even a nice little poke of dust and little nuggets, would only buy say a loaf of bread, a quart of milk and a can of bully-beef and maybe a plug of tobacco...:-(
It seems that once the main rush was over, things settled down and nobody was looking for gold anymore. Not seriously at least, for the next forty or fifty years. Who in here can remember any time at school, EVER hearing ANYTHING about say, being a Gold Prospector, when we graduate? Like nobody would take you seriously if you told them you'd like to look for gold nuggets. Gold prospecting had gone "out of fashion", so to speak.
Move ahead another twenty or thirty years, and the NEW prices of Gold have gone up and up so much, that Gold Prospecting is once more considered a VERY real and a very workable trade/science.
In the last few months, the price of Gold has broken all previous records and shows almost NO signs of quitting the big rise.
Now, if you tell people that you know how to locate, separate and harvest, your own FREE wild Gold from the icy streams and beautiful valleys out in the bush, they listen to you.
Here's a site I put together a while back, to get folks interested in looking for FREE Gold. There is a ton of material out there to help anybody who wants to get into finding Gold! Use this page as a jump off point to your exploration of this fantastic hobby/sport/art/science of Looking for gold! With a little work and a dash of luck, you too, could be showing us a poke of your own, of the most beautiful metal in the world! :-)
I believe that Gold will easily hit the $1000 per ounce high very soon, as in way before the end of '08. If and when that happens, please let me forewarn you here that our whole economy will be effected VERY dramatically! We could go very quickly into a depression, recession and regression kinda like the one in the dirty thirties, after the Roaring 20's, where only the Real rich make out o.k. Most regular people will be hit the hardest. Most of the (no collar workers)poor folk in our beautiful land will die off...
So, that's about it for now, find yourself some raw gold and then sell it quick as soon as it hits that scary figure I quoted above! Invest the money you make on that deal, in staples and food supplies and water, medications and other things you will need to get through the rough times ahead...
Good Luck to you my fair reader if you care to join me in the magical, mystical, and even spiritual quest, for the ever elusive, rare and Oh So beautiful, wild Gold!
Alright then, on with my little Gold hunting website...
---------------------------------------------
Prospecting Adventures with LarryB...
Welcome to this little Gold prospecting page from the lonely little one mule town of Ottawa up here in the Great White North of Canada. After researching this incredibly interesting subject for the last decade or so, I have gathered quite a lot of information concerning, understanding, finding and recovering this much sought after yet elusive metal. I've decided to post this little website to see if I can contribute a bit of that cool gold data in order to somehow help other would be or beginning prospectors out there in the world. Hope you enjoy your visit. Don't be shy about sending a note to me about anything gold related, or suggestions or critiques even. I won't of course be able to help everyone find gold in their old 'hood or just down the street, but then again if you know how to read between the lines, then you just may find a paystreak or a few little grains at least in here where I left 'em for the observant adventurer!
Let's cut to the chase....
Ok. Ok! Where do you look for the stuff???? Well, again about a million places but you need a sample or two that you can use right? Well Alrighty then....
Little tiny brooks, the one's that you uncover with a little 'ol fashioned research and those ittsy bittsy little natural gravel pits, sometimes near these little mountain streams, are two of my favorite areas to begin my search for this marvelous metal. These tiny little brooks and streams of clear and cold water, forming miniature watercourses, that start in the high country, then wind their way through GOLD country, are sure to have many little spots, called, natural catch basins, along their courses. I start a closer inspection on the outside bends and behind the largest boulders and any exposed bedrock first. This is where raw, wild and free, migrant gold, can hole up every spring thaw or at any other flood times. Cracks in the bedrock will catch gold if there is any in that area of your crick. Then too, the thick, lush, moss, that clings so desperately to ancient Pine tree roots and little crevices in the rocks along the streams route, is positively worth investigating. This dense moss can act as a very efficient, natural mini-riffle system that can and does, trap lots of very fine gold in its interior. I always make it a point to work at least one or two, of those five gallon white buckets all serious miners and outdoorsmen are familiar with, jammed with old moss and usually find enough flour gold to make my time worth it. Plus, mossing as it's called, is a lot easier prospecting method than shoveling gravel. The more methods of recovery and separation we have, the better we are going to separate and classify and recover. Keep an open mind always when you are in the field. You can NEVER know too much. There is ALWAYS plenty to learn out there. Stay on the ball and you'll make out O.K.....
Not sure quite how to explain it but there is something VERY special and way Kool about swirling a gold pan full of ancient stream gravels in the middle of nowhere, that really turns my crank. Nature all around me, a gold pan in my hands and the freedom to be there hunting for the most beautiful of all wild metals known to mankind. Raw, pure, wild gold, gleaming out from the fines in the bottom of my pan is most definitely a mega-rush to this ol' bush veteran. It never ceases to get my blood pumping faster than any other thing that I do these days.
What other things can you think of where the average person can have a lot of fun outdoors and then get paid in gold? Imagine bringing home the most beautiful heavy metal in the world for your efforts....For having a little fun outdoors, doing something you really like. Too Much!!
Of course there are the other times too when, well, there is very little or even no color in the bottom of that pan. For me, I simply answer,"so what"? That's no problem. I'm quite used to not catching a fish on every cast so not finding GOLD in every pan of gravel is no biggie either. This is another one of those things, like fishing, where a bit of patience IS necessary if you are lookin' to succeed at it. It's all worth it though. You can bet on it!
If you have never tried any of this, searching for gold stuff, by all means check it out this year. Start with some research at the library or on the net but get into some of the history of gold and where it was found. It's a whole new century. Do something really Cool and Exciting this year. Go Gold Hunting! But be careful. Prospecting just could turn out to be YOUR favorite hobby!!!
Take a few minutes to cruise some of these links I've set up for you. There is all kinds of stuff like equipment to get you goin' and not having to break the bank. In the depression times, gold panning was about the only thing a man could do to put food on the table when there just wasn't any work to be had. These days with the price of gold well over 800 bills per ounce, gold panning can and is again, proving to be a fairly good way to put food on the table, although there may be a few lean times. Hope you enjoy your visit here on this little Prospecting page of mine. Good luck in your search for life's GOLD my friends!
I Really LOVE Gold Prospecting!
Sign My Guestbook
View My Guestbook
Some Good Hyper-Links
My First Homepage
Prospecting
Gold, Gold and more Gold
Gold Stuff Amundo
THE Gold Hunters Magazine
Fire'N Gold
NuggetHunter2
A SUPER Fine Gold Site
Lots of Fine Maps & Links
Fishing
Gold Info City
All Terrain Bicycling
Adventure
Outdoors Unlimited
Survival Stuff
Simply Larry
My Yahoo Page!
A Cache Of Treasures...
Your own Alaskan Paydirt!
Harmony through Aikido
Gold is almost EVERYWHERE! You just have to get your little ol' self out there and find it, that's all...
E-mail me ANYTIME!LarryB
Well o.k. then, but just ONE more link and that's it. Bob Johnson's excellent web-pages cover SO MUCH gold related stuff, you will really wanna check him out for yourself to be sure.
GoldSheet Links
GOLD ROCKS!!
Thanks for dropping in. Come back and visit here again soon when you need a little diversion from life's complications. Maybe you could even bookmark this little page so you can get to it real fast the next time you need to escape a little. Thanks again for visiting. Hope you have a really, really GOLDEN Day!
This little Prospecting website was designed and is maintained for your pleasure by LarryB, the Wandering Outdoorsy Webmaster from Ottawa, Canada.
Entire contents are Copyright By LarryBourgeois 1998-2008
Peace Out!
Finding gold electronically...
Metal Detecting for Gold...
One rig those ol' miners didn't have way back in the early days of prospecting, was a good Metal Detector! O.K. so their pans weren't as cool or efficient as to-days units either but the Detector would have changed everything.In many cases you don't even have to dig or pan to know if the area you are in might be hot. :-) Some of these modern day electronic gold detectors are simply amazing in what little bits of gold they can turn up. That can sure save a guy a lot of time and extra sweat!
Slip over here Detecting to get a little more info on detectors and detecting in general. It's a great hobby and people get really hooked on it. It opens the door to adventure ,another notch for this ol' fisherman... :-)
Have you ever held raw gold in your hand?
Holding even tiny raw Gold flakes and little nuggets in your hand is like holding a Native Brook Trout in your palm. Very, very, special stuff that!
LB
More gold...
Found gold...
Not all the Gold is found in the mines or in the streams or other wild places. That's right. Sometimes we can find gold right close by, if we look around hard enough and know what to look for.I discovered this very cool oldy looking gold key at a yard-sale and scooped it up real quick, for a pittance. It was mixed in with a bunch of junky knives, forks and spoons, along with an oldish bottle/can opener and a couple of thimbles. I would think it is a fairly rare item and I love it. Anyone recognize it? Anyone wanna make an offer on it? :-)
I'll dig up a few more pics of some of the Urban Gold I've found in the last few years, and put them in here, first chance I get...
lb
Gold Prospecting is Hep again...
Due to Inflation and stuff, Prospecting for Gold has become highly fashionable and fairly productive again, after a lay-off of about a hundred years...
More found Gold...
Gold for FREE...
So here we are, another shot of real Gold discovered while doing some heavy-duty "eye-balling", while touring through a ritzy hood, a while back...Also, here's a link to another Pentaxed pic of some fine free Gold just waitin' out there for Y'all. More proof of what can be found when you become a searcher, a seeker of this most wonderful of all metals...
When you keep your eyes and ears open, in life, you WILL discover a lot!
Blogging about Gold...
Cheers,
lb
My Flickr Photos
More pics by Bourgeois...
To-day, Lensmaster Larry, shares a few more outdoorsy photographs recorded with his trusty little Pentax in the year 2008 AD...
curated content from Flickr
Anyone else out there love Gold?
Don't be shy if you Love this marvelous metal. Leave a comment in here pls. :-)
Any comment will be a good comment to this new lens-master so do NOT be shy folks. Add your comment in here... :-0
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- joeyosemite joeyosemite Jan 2, 2009 @ 11:22 pm
- For the bargain hunter, the beauty of Yosemite can still be enjoyed with an inexpensive stay at Yosemite Pines RV Resort & Family Lodging. The resort is now offering Yosemite-area lodging starting at only $29.00 for two nights for a yurt that can accommodate up to five people. Yosemite cabins start at only $39 for two nights for a basic cabin that can accommodate four people. With the Yosemite National Park entrance fee of $20 per car for unlimited entries for seven days, a family can spend less than $100 for two days of Yosemite-area lodging and admission to the park. These special rates are available at http://www.yosemitepinesrv.com/yosemite-lodging-camping-specials.html during the fall and winter season. Some restrictions apply. Yosemite Pines (http://www.yosemitepinesrv.com) is an RV resort, campground, and lodge located near Yosemite National Park. Yosemite Pines offers Yosemite camping near Yosemite National Park with full hook-up RV and campsites ( http://www.yosemitepinesrv.co
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- WritingforYourWealth WritingforYourWealth Jan 2, 2009 @ 5:02 am
- I saw people selling California gold claims on eBay, heh. I think it'd be fun hunting for gold for a hobby but I'd want to own the land too. :)
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- joeyosemite joeyosemite Dec 21, 2008 @ 2:43 pm
- If you are into gold mine and gold panning check out Yosemite Pines RV Resort & Family Lodging in Groveland, California near Yosemite National Park at Yosemite cabin rentals
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- WritingforYourWealth WritingforYourWealth Oct 5, 2008 @ 11:34 pm
- You've sold me. I'm going to sign up for that Alaska cruise, so I can do the panning-for-gold shore excursion. :)
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- marzman54 marzman54 Aug 25, 2008 @ 12:46 am
- Great site...thanks for the info. I am just getting the hang of this. I love the format...and yes I love gold! MM
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