We hope you enjoy our newest video release, “A new prospect”. Shot in the south mother lode of CA with our good friend and President of UPI, Don Siegel. For the video click
DFG tells AMRA member it can’t run a sluice box on its claim: Yesterday we were contacted by one of our members who went to prospect our two claims out of Quincy CA. He was cleaning out a crack in the bedrock near the creek when a DFG (Dept. of Fish and Game) officer approached […]
This is probably the best scientific finding we have found on the impacts of suction dredging. The claims environmentalists have that suction dredging stirs up mercury, that they use harmful chemicals, that they destroy salmon habitat and the litany of other false claims are completely dispelled in this article. When debating the non-harmful effects of […]
The Challenge Of Prospecting Beginning prospectors often have the misguided idea that they can just walk out in the stream and find gold. But, if it was that easy to find gold then we would all be millionaires. Dredging for gold takes a specific set of skills and know-how to produce a large yield. The […]
Turn A Profit By Using A Gold Dredge “There’s gold in dem’ there hills!” That one statement has led many men to fortune. But, quite often, the fortune was not in the hills, but in the creeks and rivers running down them. By grabbing a pan, and diving in many people have found riches, but […]
Gold Dredging In The United States When the gold dredge was first created to mine placer gold from rivers and streams it was a multi-story piece of heavy equipment that took several people to operate effectively. Gold dredges today are much smaller and more manageable – and some dredges can even be worn as a […]
Turn A Profit By Using A Gold Dredge “There’s gold in dem’ there hills!” That one statement has led many men to fortune. But, quite often, the fortune was not in the hills, but in the creeks and rivers running down them. By grabbing a pan, and diving in many people have found riches, but […]
The Challenge Of Prospecting Beginning prospectors often have the misguided idea that they can just walk out in the stream and find gold. But, if it was that easy to find gold then we would all be millionaires. Dredging for gold takes a specific set of skills and know-how to produce a large yield. The […]