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Record 01 Feb 2023 Equipment

How to Get Started in Gold Mining

Prospecting for gold is an activity that has captured the imagination of man for thousands of years. There’s something about gold that grabs at…

Record 02 Jan 2020 History

In British Columbia it is necessary to hold a Free Miner’s Certificate (or FMC for short) to buy and sell mining claims. Most miners,…

Record 03 Apr 2017 Science

There’s something about gold. It possesses us, sometimes entire nations to accumulate more and more of it. Humans have had a strong affinity for…

Record 04 Apr 2016 Trip Reports

Last week my neighbour phoned me and asked if I wanted to go on a road trip to check out an adit by Harrison…

Record 05 Mar 2016 Drones

Mining under Earth’s oceans is just starting to happen. We have gotten pretty good at mining deposits that are accessible by land but 71% of…

Record 06 Jan 2016 Science

Is the world running out of gold? That seems to be a common theme in investment circles in recent years. This eye catching article on…

Record 07 Dec 2015 Trip Reports

In the summer of 2010 I was hired to work with a team to find hard rock gold in the Klondike. We explored a group…

Record 08 Nov 2015 History

Prior to the gold rushes in BC this part of the country remained almost entirely unexplored. The Clovis people and their descendants the North…