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Originally posted by chuck west
Once you get started in prospecting,you can't go without a good backpack setup somewhat like this . My pack is larger than this one so I carry 2 pans and a 1/2 inch classifying screen . Your pack needs lots of pockets for extra goodies like insect repellant,firstaid kit etc. Throw it on your back ,grab you 5 gal. bucket and shovel and head out.



http://www.legendsprospectingsuppli...p;productId=174

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Hoping for an early spring thaw and some flooding to move some new material down the creeks with some yellar in it ,lol.

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If you are watching Klondike on the Discovery Channel here is some history .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soapy_Smith

http://blogs.denverpost.com/library...an-legend/2547/

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If you are watching Klondike on the Discovery Channel here is some history .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soapy_Smith

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I haven't kept up much with Gold Rush on tv for over a year . I tivoed an episode of it to watch and Todd Hofman and his crew is in South America now mining . I'm firmly convinced he could screwup a good old fashion taffy pullin party with bringing in a bag of feathers . I really don't think he could find a gold pocket watch in a pawn shop. lol . But the man must have the real gift of gab , he gets 25 grand an episode for making the show and I make zero for watching it ,lol,lol.

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Pic of the dead horse trail,when the horses got so weak they couldn't go the miners left them to die rather than wasteing a bullet on them .

http://library.alaska.gov/hist/goldrush/28.gif

And when you left your horse or oxen behind ,you had to do this .

http://library.alaska.gov/hist/goldrush/81.gif

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Yotes & wolves would eat good.

The Spell of the Yukon
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I wanted the gold, and I sought it,
I scrabbled and mucked like a slave.
Was it famine or scurvy — I fought it;
I hurled my youth into a grave.
I wanted the gold, and I got it —
Came out with a fortune last fall, —
Yet somehow life’s not what I thought it,
And somehow the gold isn't all.
No! There’s the land. (Have you seen it?)
It’s the cussedest land that I know,
From the big, dizzy mountains that screen it
To the deep, deathlike valleys below.
Some say God was tired when He made it;
Some say it’s a fine land to shun;
Maybe; but there’s some as would trade it
For no land on earth — and I'm one.
You come to get rich (****ed good reason);
You feel like an exile at first;
You hate it like hell for a season,
And then you are worse than the worst.
It grips you like some kinds of sinning;
It twists you from foe to a friend;
It seems it’s been since the beginning;
It seems it will be to the end.
I've stood in some mighty-mouthed hollow
That’s plumb-full of hush to the brim;
I've watched the big, husky sun wallow
In crimson and gold, and grow dim,
Till the moon set the pearly peaks gleaming,
And the stars tumbled out, neck and crop;
And I've thought that I surely was dreaming,
With the peace o' the world piled on top.
The summer — no sweeter was ever;
The sunshiny woods all athrill;
The grayling aleap in the river,
The bighorn asleep on the hill.
The strong life that never knows harness;
The wilds where the caribou call;
The freshness, the freedom, the farness —
O God! how I'm stuck on it all.
The winter! the brightness that blinds you,
The white land locked tight as a drum,
The cold fear that follows and finds you,
The silence that bludgeons you dumb.
The snows that are older than history,
The woods where the weird shadows slant;
The stillness, the moonlight, the mystery,
I've bade 'em good-by — but I can't.
There’s a land where the mountains are nameless,
And the rivers all run God knows where;
There are lives that are erring and aimless,
And deaths that just hang by a hair;
There are hardships that nobody reckons;
There are valleys unpeopled and still;
There’s a land — oh, it beckons and beckons,
And I want to go back — and I will.
They're making my money diminish;
I'm sick of the taste of champagne.
Thank God! when I'm skinned to a finish
I'll pike to the Yukon again.
I'll fight — and you bet it’s no sham-fight;
It’s hell! — but I've been there before;
And it’s better than this by a damsite —
So me for the Yukon once more.
There’s gold, and it’s haunting and haunting;
It’s luring me on as of old;
Yet it isn't the gold that I'm wanting
So much as just finding the gold.
It’s the great, big, broad land 'way up yonder,
It’s the forests where silence has lease;
It’s the beauty that thrills me with wonder,
It’s the stillness that fills me with peace.

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Here is alot of good old reading , about different tools and methods of drilling,mining and prospecting .Check out some of the Chinese inventions . Just click on the document sheet .


http://www.nzdl.org/gsdlmod?e=d-000...6.23.8&gc=1

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See if this works ,lol, Just scroll down to the videos on make some of your own equipment and prospecting for it ,And they sure did find a bunch .




http://www.nuggetshooter.ipbhost.co...showtopic=26262

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When you really get into prospecting you will have to do some boring research of places that you are wanting to try out. This is just an example of an old map .




http://bb.bbboy.net/alaskagoldforum...amp;thread=1836

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All I got to say about all this snow piled up around here is that ,When it melts and hits the creeks its going roll the rocks ,sand and the gold down the creeks . And will just lay there and wait on old Mr. Chuck to find it ,,,lol. Oh yeah like thats going happen real easy !!!

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Spring is coming , gotta get all my gear together and checked out ,lol

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Heres some videos to watch ,Doc is pretty thorough on explaining things in these vids. He can talk you through it faster than I can type . Enjoy .


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpIjOnrBx50

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Old sun ball is shining brighter out there today,, Spring is getting closer and I feel my fever building up .

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I tried finding some the other day. Thought I done found a diamond. Water is still pretty chilly. Be another month or so.

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Michael Ghorley

Dawg , can you take a pic of that "stone" you found and post it , Heck you might have gotten lucky and found you one .

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Gold is setting at 1336.00 an ounce right now , Spring can't get here fast enough for me . I got 2 five gallon buckets of last years concentrates to get after ,as soon as it warm enough to get outside and not have ice in your pan . Whoa ,I almost forgot about a 2 gallon bucket I sat out there last fall .

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No I can't take a pic. I think it was just glass and throwed it back in. I wanna make a sluice box or may just buy a cheap one.

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Michael Ghorley

http://www.blackcatmining.com/minin.../sluice-box.cfm

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Here is the guy that I deal with mainly , he has everything under the sun for prospecting .


http://www.goldfeverprospecting.com/sl4pikislvib.html

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Thanks. That last un looks pretty good. Im still in hunting mode right now though. That will wear off little as it gets hotter. Then Im gonna drain these creeks around here outta gold

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Michael Ghorley

Dawg that little sluice will do the trick ,I've seen it used , but it really needs the flare attachment .

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Another item you need to get when you want to get serious about getting gold ,is a classifying screen or 2 or 3 ,,lol


http://www.goldfeverprospecting.com/clscandsi.html

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Went internet prospecting today Ga Dawg ,found you this info ,,,bit expensive for me .



http://www.weekendgoldminers.com/Ou.../our_forums.htm

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