The Prospectors Journal For Placer and Hard Rock GOLD Prospecting

Excerpt From The ProspectorsJournal.com 

As we take our first step in publishing the “Prospectors Journal”. We will strive to be the premier resource for, prospecting for gold and gems, mining, and in depth information about the whole world of hard rock and placer mining. Will write about the best ways known to man on finding gold and gold nuggets, and gems on the World Wide Web!

Gold is where you find it. Gold is one of the rarest elements on Earth, and gold has been the exchange of trade and the driving force for much of the commerce throughout the world. For millennium, prospectors have gone on the search for the allusive metal left their comfort zones to seek this waiting in the ground hidden wealth.

Some of the first prospectors ventured out into California’s famous Mother Lode country; weathered the harsh and unforgiving wilderness of Alaska and the gold in the Klondike

They traversed the gold districts of America and traveled to far off and unknown lands throughout the globe.

Gold in the ground is still the ultimate find!

If you’re a gold prospector or a rare gem collector? Please spend a moment to check our new website at: www.prospectorsjournal.com There you will find wonderful and practical resources to help you educate yourself and hopefully speed up your search for finding gold.

Learn how to look for and find gold; educate yourself on where to find it and where others have already found it. How it can best be economically extracted from Mother Earth. And while you’re at it enjoy the beautiful American out doors.

Man has been finding gold for a very long time there is still more new gold to be found then has been since the beginning of time. Today’s gold prospectors are digging up huge amounts of gold through new hard rock and placer discoveries, and there are large nuggets still to be found.

These new discoveries are often in areas where men have found gold in the past; even today new gold is being discovered in unknown areas capable of starting a new modern gold rush.

I’ve been prospecting and mining gold for well over fifty years from Alaska to South America, and all in between.

My family and I now reside in Orange County California and we have found gold within twenty minutes of our house. If you live anywhere in the 13 Western States, you likely close to gold bearing ground. It’s just a matter of finding it. I suggest you do your home work before you set out to find any of that precious metal. Search on our web site, as well as many other helpful sites. Read all the books on the subject you can get your hands on and some times the older the better. Search old gold location maps.

Joining a gold prospecting club is a great way to meet other people with the same interest, and also to learn more about it and discover the best places to find this prized treasure. You'll find clubs across the nation, and more in those states where more gold tends to be found.

Then be prepared make sure you have all the equipment you will need and the most important is water. Then set out (not alone) and scout the likely known places you found in your research closest to home. You can branch out from there when you are ready. Good luck and send us lots of personal stories of your prospecting adventures with lots of photos videos.

California Gold Panning & Gold Prospecting

 

Santa Ana Mountains and Canyons.

Syndicated Investigative Reporter Michael Webster

Excerpt From The ProspectorsJournal.com

There is Gold in the Santa Ana Mountains based on legends, old timer stories and the fact there are mining claims for sale in the area to this day. Its believed that the Conquistadors first discovered Gold in the area. There is known Gold in hard rock and placer locations in the Sandiego Canyon, Silverado Canyon, Lucas Creek, Trubuco Canyon, San Matio River, San Juan Creek, Alicia Creek and other creeks and canyons throughout the Santa Ana Maintain Range. Many of the creeks are seasonal and can use dry mine method when there is no water. And it is always a good idea to use a Metal Detector during all seasons.

Orange County is one of the most populated counties in the United States, yet just minutes away if you want to go out looking for gold. The best mining occurred near the border of Orange County, San Diego County and Riverside Counties.

Of course, the gold was here long before the Conquistadors. It is even believed by many that the native Indians in the area mined for gold. Santa Ana Mountains is not as famous for its Gold strikes as those in the northern part of the state. At the current rate of Gold you could not only made a living by mining for gold in these mountains but you could get rich.

The area lies between two major interstates and near population centers. Much of the land is public lands clears the way for prospecting. Much of the Santa Ana Mountains are within the Cleveland National Forest.

Miners can still prospect and stake claims in much of these mountains, provided that they follow the proper protocols of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Cleveland National Forest. Check for regulations and find out if the land is not already staked. Be aware that the San Mateo Canyon Wilderness and Camp Pendleton are all off-limits to prospecting. The creeks and rivers certainly much of the better ground is already claimed, but there are still gold-bearing locations that have not been found. And many of the creeks and rivers are ripe for panning for Gold.

It was well known that the Spanish, Mexicans and local Indians were doing some mining in this region long before the Gold Rush to California started. These were small-scale mining operations, often just individual prospectors who were recovering Gold from the rivers and creeks.

As more evidence of early mining Spanish Arrastras have been fund (crude ore crushers generally powered by livestock), proving that these early miners were also crushing ores and extracting minerals from hard rock. While they were certainly mining Gold, there is also Silver, Lead, Tin and other minerals that were probably being mined.