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Thanks Guys! Jim, I view THIS as THE single most important technological development for prospecting in our lifetime! Every prospector's DREAM come true! In the dream... We climb into a Helicopter. Somebody else paid for the Helicopter. Somebody else filled 'er up with fuel. Somebody else is paying ...

Thanks Jim!

I have spent THOUSANDS of hours metal detecting all over Alaska while in Arizona!

I have made HUNDREDS of discoveries that probably include some amazing GOLD deposits...

Ask me how!

- Geowizard

Dick Laxton, Dick Laxton tried to get on the forum. He passed away and deserves mention. He was in the USAF during the early part of the cold war and served his country in Alaska on two tours stationed at Tatalina AFS - a Radar facility near Takotna. He was a GOLD prospector. I spent the past year d...

Another method; An interesting YouTube channel is "Cody's Lab". Cody is a Geology Student in Utah. He has many interesting and educational videos that demonstrate various precious metal recovery methods. One method shown recently is the dissolution of GOLD in a solution of Hydrochloric Acid. The GOL...

Interesting Wiz. On a claim I had in Alaska I had shale and gold sandwiched between the sheets of shale, I always assumed that the gold was deposited over time by flood events and that was why it was between the shale sheets. I never occurred to me to look into the shale, nor did I have the means t...

Slatco, Your question was "What is the most effective method"... The answer is determined by testing the various methods in a laboratory. Efficiency of recovery is controlled by the mineralogy of the deposit. There is a long list of variables that affect each of the known methods. It takes time and ...

It's all relative; Thirty years ago, I met a real self-made millionaire with a third grade education. He was 82 and walked with a cane. He originally was a horse trader and traded horses to the US Army. He had volunteer "helpers". He would point with his cane... "Sonny, that one... pick that one up ...

Hi Slatco, Welcome to the Forum! :) That's a very important question. The recovery of micron GOLD and Nano GOLD is most often carried out by chemical and electrochemical processes. A process referred to as "leaching" involves chemistry. The chemistry can be as simple as introducing a reactive solven...

Leonard, That's a very kind compliment! Thank you. So, the placer tailings have an economy of scale. It's a break-even proposition running tailings on the scale I was at. In order to turn Ophir into a GOLD mine, something had to change... Prospecting provided a better understanding of the Geology at...

Geowizard, What's an A-Star? It's a Helicopter. In this case, a special helicopter that has a metal detector attached (suspended) below. With Jim's permission - we can continue discussion under this Forum - or I might propose a separate Forum on the subject of Geophysical Metal Detecting. :? - Geowi...