This updated edition of Dry Washing for Gold expands on modern electronic prospecting and current equipment.  Fr example, “Where to Find Gold in the Desert” introduces dry washing,  a profitable means of extracting gold in regions where water sources are not available. Filled with helpful photos, detailed illustrations, this book will teach you how to dry wash successfully and help you prospect for gold better. Learn about the history of gold, the geology of placer deposits, where to dry wash, how to build a dry washer, how to stake a claim, and much more!

An old time prospector and gem cutter relates his 52 years of adventure with verve and humor. Exploring & Mining Gems & Gold in the West describes how things were done in his day and how the mines he worked.

This unique guide directs you to a wide variety of "fee and free" rock hounding and mineral adventures all over the western states. It covers 100 collecting locations, and 153 museums, caves, points of interest, fairs and festivals. Discover digging locations in fee mines, gold prospecting areas, rock mineral and fossil collecting sites, and some adventures and cave tours. This book provides site information, hours of operation, costs, directions and maps, contact info, and tools and supplies needed. An excellent resource for anyone interested in rocks and minerals from the casual hobbyist to serious collectors to family vacationers.

Jim Straight has written a bible for the electronic prospector. This book was originally published in 1992 and was just revised in 2004 to include information on the newest gold prospecting detectors. This new edition has 300 pages loaded with information to help you learn how and where to find gold with a metal detector.

This best-selling title has helped push thousands of people into gold prospecting. You'll learn all the basics of gold prospecting from how and where to look to the best methods for gold extraction. The book covers the basics of panning and sluicing, plus information on turning your new-found gold into jewelry!

This one book outlines everything a beginner needs and wants to know about gold mining today as a hobby or a small-scale commercial activity. In easy to understand language supported by clear photographs and graphic demonstrations, this book covers all the important subjects including what gold is, where to find it, and how to find and recover it. It also touches on the legal aspects of claiming gold for yourself. The book covers up-to-date mining procedures when panning gold, sluicing, dredging, high banking, dry washing, hard rock mining, basic refining techniques, cleaning procedures, selling gold, and much, much more. Herein lies the most comprehensive and thorough work on electronic prospecting techniques or locating gold with metal detectors available in a publication today. Virtually an encyclopedia of modern gold mining techniques, there is no other book available more up to date, more understandable, or covers the entire subject as thoroughly as Dave Cracken’s Gold Mining in the 21st Century

The perfect compendium for gold nugget searching in Nevada, this book is packed with precise geological information and maps to gold sites and areas in Nevada.

Search the northern region of California with exact information on gold sites, areas, and potential caches. Includes useful and precise maps to help you successfully “nugget-teer”!

A complete manual with operating instructions and building plans for a highly-efficient old-fashion gold rocker. A low-cost machine that needs no expensive attachments, this is a great project for the DIY enthusiast!

The ABC's of Gold Panning covers all the essentials a modern gold panner would need, from locating place gold deposits, choosing the best equipment, and practicing proper gold panning technique

Completely illustrated with photos & diagrams, How to Find Gold holds mining stories, information on the latest methods equipment and electronic prospecting, up-to-date geology of placer deposits, and even teaches you how to stake a claim from the “old pros” themselves.

A very informative pocket-sized book that covers the essentials of gold panning for beginners to intermediates.

This book explains how the mini-rocker works and describes ideal prospecting locations and how to prospect for gold using the mini-rocker.

Magnificent Qwest focuses on desert nugget hunting with detailed information on minerals and mining in deserts, desert plants and animals, desert survival, and much more! An essential book that can save time and prepare anyone planning on prospecting in the desert. 

Part 2 of 3 of Placer Mining in the Western United States contains information on hydraulic and placer mining equipment, sluice boxes and riffles, canals, ditches, flumes. It also reveals how to operate sluice boxes, separate gold from concentrates, weigh and melt gold, and additional information on amalgamation, sampling, and a few other things.

Part 3 of 3 of Placer Mining in the Western United States contains information on excavating. dredging, screening, resoiling, drift mining, breasting, recent gravels, milling, mine maps, illustrations, and much more.

Who says you can't build recreational gold mining equipment? It’s easier than you think! Start with simple plans provided in this book, or jump right in to the big projects. Off-the-shelf parts and common tools make construction a snap. Plans are straight forward and designed to take you step-by-step into a rewarding hobby!

Even more plans for recreational gold mining equipment! With more types of plans to choose from, you can still start with the simple plans, or jump into the big projects with only off-the-shelf parts and common tools. Plans are straight forward and are designed to take you further into a fulfilling hobby!

Gold is where you find it! With over 50 years of productive experience in the desert, Otto Lynch shares his techniques and professional knowledge of finding gold in the deserts of the American Southwest. This guidebook includes blueprints for making your own drywasher as well as shortcuts and helpful hints that will expedite your way to finding your first nugget in the desert.

Did you ever wish you could find gold without using a pile of heavy and expensive equipment? Well, with sniping you can! Underwater Sniping for Gold reveals several best kept secrets along gold-bearing rivers. The equipment is inexpensive and the rewards can be great. Jump in knowing you have a head start on the learning curve with knowledge that Sam and Jim have spent years accumulating in this book!