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Metal Detecting for Gold
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<blockquote data-quote="Swinging &amp; digging" data-source="post: 339238" data-attributes="member: 2764"><p>These days with the recent flood of gold mining TV shows it seems so easy. They give the impression that all you have to do is show up with an excavator and a wash plant and youll start pulling out nuggets. Often these shows have some arbitrary budget that the miner needs to reach by the end of the season. Just seeing numbers like $500,000 per season will get anyone excited. You may be thinking if they can get that I can at least get $1000 on a random claim. Spending an hour per night watching guys pour jars full of gold flakes on shows like Yukon Gold or Gold Rush Alaska will fuel unrealistic expectations.</p><p></p><p>The fact is gold is valuable because it is incredibly rare. The value is largely due to the sweat equity of prospectors and miners who have spent lifetimes searching for the yellow metal. It will be a long road to get your first jar full of gold or even a vial for that matter. Prospecting for gold has an incredibly poor success rate. You will put in hard work, digging, hiking and panning for long hours and wont see more than a color. Some days you wont even see that. Gold is defiantly out there but dont expect to see any in your first pan.</p><p></p><p>If your expectations are of finding huge amounts of Gold, its not going to happen. The gold rush was years ago.</p><p>If you don,t like camping in Winter wait till the weather improves.</p><p></p><p>I am starting to think many newbies to prospecting would be better off buying gold bullion rather than equipment to go and look were all the gold no longer exists.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Swinging & digging, post: 339238, member: 2764"] These days with the recent flood of gold mining TV shows it seems so easy. They give the impression that all you have to do is show up with an excavator and a wash plant and youll start pulling out nuggets. Often these shows have some arbitrary budget that the miner needs to reach by the end of the season. Just seeing numbers like $500,000 per season will get anyone excited. You may be thinking if they can get that I can at least get $1000 on a random claim. Spending an hour per night watching guys pour jars full of gold flakes on shows like Yukon Gold or Gold Rush Alaska will fuel unrealistic expectations. The fact is gold is valuable because it is incredibly rare. The value is largely due to the sweat equity of prospectors and miners who have spent lifetimes searching for the yellow metal. It will be a long road to get your first jar full of gold or even a vial for that matter. Prospecting for gold has an incredibly poor success rate. You will put in hard work, digging, hiking and panning for long hours and wont see more than a color. Some days you wont even see that. Gold is defiantly out there but dont expect to see any in your first pan. If your expectations are of finding huge amounts of Gold, its not going to happen. The gold rush was years ago. If you don,t like camping in Winter wait till the weather improves. I am starting to think many newbies to prospecting would be better off buying gold bullion rather than equipment to go and look were all the gold no longer exists. [/QUOTE]
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Metal Detecting for Gold
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