Prospecting Equipment

It took me over 32 years to find one of the coolest hobbies I have ever done! Gold panning can be one of the neatest things you can do! The first time I went panning was about 3 months ago. Me and my dad decided to go to Dahlonega, Ga for our first prospecting experience. It took about 3 hours to get there from Alabama and we were shocked!

Atlanta has spread all the way into Dahlonega and there were houses on every block. We drove around for a few minutes and finally found their empty lake. It was a great idea; people have probably never been to some areas in many years! The levels were super low and we instantly felt the importance of water.

We parked at the doc and walked down the lake side and found a really nice outcropping of Quart. We pecked around for awhile hoping to find a Gold band. We ended up walked about a mile down the lake and turned around and decided to leave. We drove east of Dahlonega and found a really nice flowing stream.

As soon as I got in the stream I could see that there were many different kinds of rock and minerals in the water. I sunk the pan in and pulled it up and let the water wash the top sand off. That is when I saw this very pretty yellow on the bottom of the pan. I screamed “I found gold!” My dad come over and he laughed and said that is fools gold. It was everywhere and if you tried to break it would crumble apart. We didn’t find any Gold but we did have a fun day and got to see a very awesome river for a short time!

If you didn’t know about gold here is a little info to get you started.

First, is a very heavy yellow metal. It has a specific gravity of 19.3 which means a quart of gold would weigh 19.3 times as much as a quart of water. As a comparison, lead has a specific gravity of about 11 so gold is almost twice as heavy as lead.

• Malleable and Ductile. It can be hammered so thin that 250,000 sheets would be one inch high! One ounce can be drawn into a wire thirty five miles long.

• Gold is never found pure in nature. It is usually alloyed with copper, silver and/or platinum.

• Gold is so heavy it will act differently than the other material. So if you pan correctly it will stay in the bottom of your Pan!

• Gold has a shiny structure and looks about the same in and out of the light.

• Not sure you if you found gold? Take a hammer and if it breaks, you’re out of luck. If it is Gold It will bend and not break!

• Not recommended for beginners -get some Nitric acid and drop it in there. If it doesn’t react then you may have Gold! Nitric acid is dangerous if it gets on you or you breathe the fumes it can hurt you! Research how to use it!

Where to find gold

1. A Stream passes through many miles of different minerals.

2. The density is ten times that of common sand! Therefore it naturally falls to the lower place in a stream.

3. A new supply can be found annually. Spring showers always wash new Gold down creek.

4. Being on the river can be a way to spend day.

5. It can be hard to get on properties these days, stick to public bridges. We do have the right of way in the streams!

6. The placer gold sometimes may lead a trail to the mother lode. If you find it you may never have to work again!

Which Streams contain gold?

There are 4 characteristics that you need to find gold!

1. The Stream can not be damned and flow freely.

2. You need to have rich mineral content in the area.

3. The creek needs enough elevation to churn in spring floods.

4. Stream path and rock formations facilitate the deposition of the dense materials (gold, lead, iron, mercury etc.)

Gold is found as the free metal and in tellurides. It is widely distributed and almost always associated with pyrite or quartz. Gold veins can be found in alluvial deposits. If you find a vein of quart peck around on it and be sure and look very good! People have found Quart rocks with gold all through it.

I have read that if you find black sand that is a great place to look for Gold! Another place to look is around a big rock or by an old log! That is where you may find a nice nugget that has been hiding for years!

Go find you a pan and plan a great get-away and go Panning Today!

Thanks for checking out my Article!

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Goldcliff Resources (TSX.V:GCN) assayed a trenching sample from its 100% owned Panorama Ridge project that returned a value of over 15 ounces per tonne of gold. The bonanza grade sample was assayed twice to confirm the result, which has validated the company’s theory that there would be high grade zones encountered throughout broadly disseminated lower grade host rock.

In the Hedley gold camp, the gold mineralization occurs in altered (skarn) sedimentary beds.

At Panorama Ridge,very little of the gold mineralization is visible native gold, even in the Bonanza Trench intercept. In order to have these bonanza gold grades, a gold-telluride compound mineral is thought to be related to the high-grade gold values. Goldcliff is researching the mineralogical possibilities to identify the mineral that is attributed to the high-grade gold values.

The Bonanza Trench, located at the south-western portion of the York-Viking zone, is a major gold discovery. The high-grade gold discovery at Panorama Ridge is comparable to the high-grade gold mineralization mined underground at the Nickel Plate Mine. The high-grade gold beds occur within an overall mineralized sequence that is up to 200 metres in thickness. The lower grade gold portions of this sequence were successfully mined by Mascot Gold Mines’ open pit operation.

The geological setting at Panorama Ridge is similar to these previously successful settings. Goldcliff has been targeting the bulk-tonnage potential of Panorama Ridge with success. The Bonanza Trench gold results confirm the high-grade potential of the property.

Meanwhile, trenching in the Nordic Zone at Panorama Ridge has expanded the area of previously determined mineralization by an additional 175 metres. The Nordic Zone and the York-Viking Zones are roughly 400 metres apart.

The Nordic Zone contains gold values averaging 1.30 to 2.32 g/t with higher grades ranging to 26.50 g/t.

Goldcliff will continue trenching throughout the 2008 exploration season, and will complete the rest of its 10,000 metre core drilling program.

Famous for gold since the first discovery in 1897, and once a thriving mining boomtown during the 1900s, Hedley was one of the great names in Canadian mining, and was named after Robert R. Hedley, manager of the Hall Smelter in Nelson, who had grubstaked many of the original prospectors.

Prospectors noticed coloured striations in the cliffs and recognized them as ore-bearing. Claims staked here were to expose one of the richest fractions in the history of mining in British Columbia. The mines were located high on mountaintops overlooking the town of Hedley below, and an aerial tramway 3 kilometres long had to be built to remove the ore.

The great northern railroad pushed through to Hedley in 1909, and the Nickel Plate mine continued to spew out rich ore at the rate of more than 50,000 ounces per year. The Mascot Fraction joined the action in 1936, to increase the total area production to more than 1.5 million ounces of gold and more than 4 million pounds of copper, significantly enriching the shareholders.

The Hedley Basin has had a long history of gold production (1904 to 1996) from the Hedley North mining district. During this period, 78,506,148 grams (2,524,313 ounces) of gold were produced from auriferous skarn deposits. The Nickel Plate and Hedley-Mascot mines produced more than 97 per cent of the gold from a single gold-skarn deposit (Nickel Plate deposit). Smaller production came from the French, Good Hope and Canty gold skarns. A small amount of gold production came from the Banbury quartz-carbonate veins (Maple Leaf and Pine Knot) located in Hedley Basin South.

The Mascot and Nickel Plate mines eventually fell under the ownership of Mascot Gold Mines Ltd, which traded from a start of $0.45 to a high of $20.63 on Tuesday August 4th, 1987.

Access to the Panorama Ridge property from Hedley is via Highway 3 by turning northeasterly onto the Old Hedley Road (Nickel Plate Mine Road) 2.5 kilometres east of Hedley. Alternatively, access from Keremeos or Penticton is via Highway 3A along the Green Mountain Road and the Apex Mountain Ski Hill Road. The Old Hedley Road public road passes through the northern portion of the property.

A number of logging and mining roads give excellent access to most areas of the property. The Winters Creek Forest Access road and their branches access the eastern and south eastern portions of the property. The West Cahill Forest Access Road accesses the western portion of the property (Skar prospect). The Good Hope Mine road accesses the south western portion of the property while the East Cahill Forest Access road accesses the Nordic, Spar, York and Slope prospects.

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When Teryl Resources (TSX.V: TRC) announced the initiation of drilling on its Gold Hill copper-gold-silver project located near Bisbee, Arizona, investors familiar with the area sat up in their chairs. Their interest was piqued, firstly, because Gold Hill is four miles from Phelps Dodge’s Copper Queen/Lavender Pit Mine, which produced in excess of 75 million tonnes of copper, silver and gold ore between 1954 and 1974. Secondly, because surrounding mines in the Bisbee area have collectively produced more than $6 billion in metals over the past 100 years.

Teryl Resources’ President, John Robertson, who acquired the property, expounds a strategy for finding minerals that is simple, effective wisdom in the mining exploration industry. In Robertson’s words, “the key to discovering a good property, any mining property, is to drill near existing gold and copper properties. Always. You want to be in any area where there is known gold or known copper production.”

Given the setting, optimism about the geology at Gold Hill seems fair. The geological conditions suggest a large, disseminated deposit of gold and copper amenable to low-cost open pit mining. In one report, John Shanahan of Resourcex Group cited a geological report on the prospect, commenting, “a report by Frederic Rothermel, PhD, outlined a pattern of mineralization that moved from copper-rich/gold-poorer at the centre of the system to gold richer/copper poorer at the fringes — this pattern is consistent with features of the Carlin Trend in Nevada, which contains over 100 million ounces of gold in proven and probable reserves.”

Hopeful that the Carlin trend comparison is apt, Teryl is moving ahead with exploration on the property. Teryl has employed Diversified Drilling LLC to drill at least three holes on identified, high-grade, surface copper targets. Exploration completed on the project so far has included aeromagnetic survey interpretation and field examinations. This work, and a sampling program that assayed up to 2.54% copper, were used to identify the proposed Gold Hill drill locations.

The advantageously located prospect consists of seven claim blocks including Old Gold Hill, Superior, and Bastion Mines in the Warren Mining District, Arizona. Teryl has the right to earn 100% interest in the property subject to 10% net profit interest.

At all Teryl’s properties, Robertson, who boasts twenty-five years’ experience raising money for companies in the natural resources sector, uses the same recipe for success. “First, find the money for the company; then find an excellent property. Next we start a junior exploration program that we finance ourselves. Once we come up with some excellent results, we will continue to drill, raise more money and bring in a partner and they can develop it further.”

If he makes it sound simple, it’s because Robertson has done it before in both oil & gas and mining. In Alaska, Teryl is one of the largest property owners in the mineral-rich Fairbanks Mining Division.

Teryl has collected properties adjacent or close to Kinross Gold’s True North Property and Kinross’ Fort Knox Mine, the largest producing gold mine in Alaska. Teryl’s Gil property, a joint venture with Kinross, hosts a resource of 400,000 ounces of gold. True to Robertson’s strategy, after doing grass roots exploration on the property, Teryl entered into a joint venture agreement with Kinross Gold to further develop the resource.

Another of Teryl’s Alaskan properties, the 100% owned Westridge property has seen initial exploration including sampling. A news release dated November 2004 reported results that favorably compared the Westridge geology to that of other gold properties in the Fairbanks area. The finding “suggests that gold mineralization within the sample grid may be intrusive related, a similarity shared by several other intrusive-related gold systems the Fairbanks District.”

Teryl’s Fish Creek gold property, a 50% option from Linux Gold Corp, comprises 30 mineral claims adjacent to the Gil property. Teryl and Linux Gold recently announced the discovery of six new geophysical targets on the property. The two companies, according to a recent press release, plan to begin an exploration program at Fish Creek this winter.

The remaining Alaskan claim is the Stepovich silver claim adjacent to Kinross Gold’s Fort Knox Mine where Teryl has 10% net profit interest and Kinross owns 100% of the claims subject to Teryl’s 10% interest.

Finally, oil and gas prospects in Texas and Kentucky provide a financial foundation for Teryl. Robertson commented, “One of the core things for a junior company is cash flow to pay for their administration costs. So having oil and gas properties is helping the company having revenue.”

With crucial cash flow, and excellent projects underway in Alaska, Teryl Resources has turned its attention to Gold Hill in Arizona. Robertson doesn’t mince words about his intentions. “We have claims in properties that could evolve into a major mine because we’re near a major gold and major copper mine. We’re looking to find a major discovery and then we will probably joint venture with a major company and they will put it into production.”

With properties collected in both Fairbanks Mining Division and Warren Mining District, major mining companies close by and money for exploration, Teryl Resources seems to be making all the right moves to follow through on Robertson’s plan.

This article is intended for information purposes only, and is not a recommendation to buy or sell the equities of any company mentioned herein. It is based on sources believed to be reliable, but no warranty as to accuracy is expressed or implied. The opinions expressed in the article are those of the author except where statements are attributed to individuals other than the author, in which case the opinions are those of the individual to whom they are attributed.

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