The Alaska Gold Forums

Out with the old, and in with the new; Gold prospectors are always looking for "NEW" ways to capture more fine GOLD. It places us in a precarious position where we may be exploited by new marketing gimmicks having no real value. Marketing of new products has no limit. Placer gold miners and prospect...

Hyperbole; From the above discussion, everyone agrees that the Jarvine Riffle wiz-bang gadget is an improvement over the OLD traditional recovery methods! Yay! :) Nobody on this forum has shown evidence of having made the quantum leap into buying this mat nor has anyone shown any comparative study t...

Three day week-end;

Gold has topped out at USD $2233.00 at today's close (16:59).

No trading on Good Friday, March 29th.

Stick around! There's more!

- Geowizard

Gold marches upward!

For those interested in Gold prices...

Gold was at USD $2222.80 in recent trading.

- Geowizard

Pieces of the puzzle; When asking a question of this group and the group experience, the question may be viewed by many (millions) of viewers that are not members and therefore cannot reply. Considering the breadth of experience of the limited number of members of the group and the possibility one o...

A prospector's intuition; This doesn't support the narrative but the evidence from past and present GOLD prospecting seems to support the narrative that soils are used to point uphill/upslope to find lode deposits and not downhill/downslope to find placer deposits. Being a good prospector is like be...

The age of Discovery; It's easy for GOLD prospectors to become "myopic". It's a case where we develop a view of the world around us based on a narrow view formed from our limited "experience". For example, in my early years, when GOLD prospecting and spending hours digging and scraping dirt, searchi...

To Slatco's question; I have never used or done soil sampling to find or locate a placer GOLD deposit and yes, It is an interesting question! Why not? The answer to "Why not?" is related to several factors that affect the relevance of soil sampling in general and the probability of discovery of a "p...

I found him on researchgate.com; Robin Grayson profile: Robin is a polymath with interests spanning: ECOLOGY: EIA & ESIA; herpetology (especially Triturus), freshwater invertebrates (cladocerans; Hydra, beetles etc.); pond ecology & pondscapes; urban ecology; urban forests, air quality; groundwater;...

Introducing Shawn Ryan; Shawn Ryan used a tulip planter to discover GOLD in the Yukon! :o Watch this: The second gold rush - a prospector's perspective: Shawn Ryan at TEDxWhitehorse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bIIskBJVvg I have posted many times before about Shawn Ryan and his early years. Usin...