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News Articles

 MSN Money Report 5-23-2011 Gold Fever How to Find Your Own.htm   (An Interview with JJ Long)  

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How To

 How to Build a Field Classifier   (by Chuck Cummins)
 How to Break In a Gold Pan   (by Rick LaCombe)
 How to Build a Hibanker/Sluice   (by Chuck Cummins)
 How to Modify Your Sluice   (by Chuck Cummins)

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Hints and Tips

 Land Ownership & 4 Parcels to Work (20 July 2011)   (by Greg Davis)
 Gold Prospecting in Colorado   (by Allen Mershon)
 Highbanking Tips   (by Steve Cychosz)
 Introduction to Gold Prospecting   (by Jim Zanbenini)
 Panning Tips   (by Steve Johnson)
 What To Do With Your Gold   (by Gary Livermore)

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Assaying

 Fire Assaying   (by Jim Steinberg)
 Torch Fire Assaying Technique   (by Charles Butler)
 Fire Assay Procedure   (by Jensen Technologies, LLC)

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Reference

 Black Sand Analysis   (By Carl Jensen)
 About Gold: The "Noble" Metal   (by Joseph Miller)
 Court Rules in BLM/USFS Case   (by Robert M. Oregon)
 Classify Your Material   (by Gary Hawley)
 Colorado Gold Highlights   (Compiled by Dick Oakes)
 Crazy, Lonely, and Toothless   (by Paul Nagy)
 Equipment List For Desert Nugget Detecting   (by Dick Crist)
 Gold-bearing Tellurides   (by Harvey S. Eastman)
 Gold Facts   (by Ken Oyler)
 Grains, Grams, Pennyweights?   (by Gary A. Turk)
 Hypothermia and the Gold Prospector   (compiled by Dick Oakes)
 Member Who Never Came Back   (submitted by Dean Adams)
 Prospect, Discover, File   (by Marilyn Sowa)
 Screen Mesh Sizes   (by Ken Oyler)
 Word to the Wise   (by Gary Hawley)

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Stories

 Abandoned Mines   (State of Colorado)
 Advanced Dredging Workshop I   (by Leonard Leeper)
 Advanced Dredging Workshop II   (by Leonard Leeper)
 Arizona Log   (by Tom Spector
 Arkansas River: The Flour-Gold-Only Myth Exploded   (by Leonard Leeper)

 Beginning Dredging Workshop   (by Leonard Leeper)
 Breckenridge Dredges   (by Steve DiSciullo)
 Breckenridge Experience: A Prospector's Perspective   (by Frank Fannon)
 A Brief History of Creede, Colorado   (by Jim Long)

 California Gold Adventure   (by Steve Cychosz)
 California or Bust   (by Leonard Leeper)
 Can You Still Find Gold in Alaska?   (by James Long)
 Choppo Fetterhoff: Old-time Hard Rock Miner   (by Charles Hawkins)
 Clear Creek Class 2009   (by Jim Long)
 Colorado Division of Minerals and Geology   (by Paul Nagy)
 Colorado School of Mines Students Bring Home the Gold   (by a CSM Student)
 Comparison of Gold Exploration Environments   (by Professor Samuel B. Romberger, PhD)
 Cleaning Your Gold   (by Allen Mershon)
 Cripple Creek District: Last of Colorado's Gold Booms   (Book Review by Gary Hawley)

 Denver Stopover of the Arizona Gold Prospecting Expedition   (by Leonard Leeper)
 Denver's Geologic Setting   (by Paul Nagy)
 Detecting for Colorado Gold   (by Steve Cychosz)
 Dirt, Rocks, and a Little Creek Water   (by Carol Oakes)
 Dowsing Experience   (by Hank Innerfield)

 Dredging the Arkansas   (by Leonard Leeper)

 Early Gilpin County Miners' Code   (submitted by Dick Oakes)
 Evolution of Gold Fever   (by Leonard Leeper)
 Experiences in Gold Placer Mining   (by Mr Gold)

 Featured Speaker: Larry Sallee   (by Jim Yeatrakas)
 First Aid for Prospectors in the Field   (by Allen Mershon)
 First Aid for Prospectors in the Field 2009   (by Allen Mershon)

 Girl and the Ring   (by Don Ditzler)
 Gold at Union Flats   (by Leonard Leeper)
 Gold Nuggets Celebrate Their Rescue   (by Les Silver)
 Gold Panning Days   (by Leonard Leeper)
 Gold Placer Odyssey   (by Lou Cope)
 Gold Prospectors of the Rockies Feature Story   (by Jay Pastor)
 Gold Split   (by Leonard Leeper)
 GPR Member Markets Own Prospecting Line   (by Dick Oakes)
 Grow Me Some Gold   (by Paul Nagy)

 Hardrock Mining Today   (by Steve Rice)
 Herbertson Twins Find the Big One   (by Dale Herbertson)
 History of Gold Production in Colorado   (by Dr. Bruce Geller)
 Hobby Placering in the Upper Arkansas River   (by Paul Nagy)
 How I Caught Gold Fever   (by Don Ray)

 Leadville's Route of the Silver Kings   (condensed by Dick Oakes)
 Little Kingdom of Gilpin   (by Paul Nagy)
 Local Gold Prospecting Sites   (by Allen Mershon)
 Lure of Historic Mines   (by Rick Mattingly)

 Memorable California Moments   (by Leonard Leeper)
 Metal Detecting Museum   (by Dick Oakes)
 Mid-Winter Outing   (by Steve Cychosz)
 Mine Permitting in the 21st Century   (by Paul Nagy)
 Miners' Ten Commandments   (by James Mason Hutchings)
 Mining Camps Speak   (by Bill and Beth Sagstetter)
 Mining Claims and Maps   (by Jim Jarnutowski)
 Mining Colorado   (by Joseph Miller)
 Mining in the West   (by Paul Nagy)
 Mini-sluice Method of Gold Cleanup   (by Allen Mershon)

 Newly Revealed Research for Gold Placer Operators   (by Paul Nagy)

 Old Prospector   (compiled by Dick Oakes)
 Old Prospector   (a poem by Dick Oakes)
 Orphan Boy   (by Court Young)
 An Outing to Remember   (by Dick Oakes)

 Pannin' On the Platte   (by Caroline Mitchell)
 Phoenix Gold Mine Tour 2003   (by Dick Oakes)
 Placer Mining Show-and-Tell   (by Paul Nagy)
 Prospectors of Old   (a poem by Gary Hawley)
 Photo Diary, Arkansas River   (by Steven Cychosz)

 Recovering Gold from Black Sand   (by Charles Hawkins)
 Regular Place to Meet/Pan/Sluice/Highbank   (by Jim Davis)
 Roscoe Placer Operation, Jefferson County, Colorado   (by Beth Simmons)

 Sluicing Clear Creek   (by Steve Cychosz)
 Soil Sampling   (by Professor L. Graham Closs, PhD)
 Speed Panning   (by Shirley Weilnau)
 Star Mine Preservation Project   (by Diane Dudley)
 St. Patrick's Day Prospecting Trip 2009   (by Steve Cychosz)
 Summary of Modern Gold Mining   (by Paul Nagy)
 Survivor! The Denali Challenge 2001 Climb of Mt. McKinley   (by Dick Oakes)

 Territorial Gold Coins   (Submitted by Doug Taylor)
 The King Is . . . Dead?   (by Paul Nagy)
 They Came West   (by Keith R. Hawley)
 Texas Connection   (by Leonard Leeper)
 Topographic Engineers of the U.S.A.   (by George Lanum)
 Trip To the Mother Lode   (by Leonard Leeper)

 Use of Suction Dredges in Colorado   (State of Colorado)

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