Gold and Mineral Prospecting, Geology
Deluxe Gold Panning Outfit You are out in the gold country thinking it might be nice to strike it rich, but don't know the first thing about what to do. Our gold prospecting kit will get you started with a selection of quality items and tools. We feel that it is important to start with good equipment so that you meet with success and don't get discouraged before you meet with that early success. Gold is where you find it! Gold has been discovered in almost every state.
Included in our starter kit is the patented 13" Garrett Gold Trap pan, a pick hammer, a small collapeable shovel/pick, a magnet to separate the iron ore from the gold, a magnifying glass, a snifter bottle to pick up the gold from your pan, and sample bottles to put your gold nuggets in. Also included is one of the most popular books, "The Weekend Gold Miner", now in it's seventh printing, and a respected book on gold prospecting and panning. Deluxe Gold Panning Outfit $49.95
Sluice Box After your early success with your gold panning outfit, it will quickly become obvious that the more volume of sand and rocks that you process, the more gold you will get! A sluice is just what you need, and a high quality sluice will catch all the gold nuggets and flour gold. The Keene compact A52 has been the standard portable sluice of the industry for decades. It is constructed of metal and high quality riffle design and easy disassembly for cleanout. It weighs just 15 lb. and can be easily carried with a built in handle. Compact-Portable-High production Hand Sluice $79.95
Youth Beginners Gold Panning Outfit We offer this beginners gold panning outfit for the youth, or as a low cost outfit to throw in your suitcase when your heading out west to gold country. Included is a 12" thermoplastic pan with ridges, a hand lense, magnet, and eyedropper, the "secrets of Gold Panning booklet, and a sack of gold ore. Thisincludes everything but the stream. Beginners Gold Panning Outfit $12.95.
Books:
Rock and Minerals, A Golden Guide. A handy pocket identification guide to the most common kinds of rocks and minerals, it offers concise and fascinating information on properties and origins, helps you identify gems and semiprecious stones and is illustrated in full color throughout. $4.95
The Weekend Gold Miner: by A.H. Ryan, an excellent pocket guide to prospecting and panning for gold. This book is in it's Seventh printing and is the definitive book on the hobby of gold prospecting. $4.95
Gold Miner's Handbook: by Bruce W. Harris. This is a major reference book on all aspects of gold prospecting, mining, recovery methods, types of gold and ore, and methods of mining, slucing, dredging and panning. The book contains many illustrations, diagrams of setups, and color prints of various rocks, ores, and nuggets. If you have gold in your blood, you must have this book. $19.95
Gold Mining in the 1990's: by Dave McCracken. This is a major handbook for the weekend "nugget pincher". It explains what gold is, where it comes from, where to find it, panning gold, sluicing, dredging, drywashing, lode mining, electronic prospecting, cleaning gold, and selling gold. If you want one book that covers it all, this is it! Large format with many illustrations. Author Dave McCracken is recognised worldwide as today's leading authority in small-scale gold mining techniques. $19.95
Buried Treasures you can Find: by Robert F. Marx. So you live in one of the states where gold is not in abundance. Not to worry, treasures are everywhere. Coins and jewelry are in the sand, in the grass, and under old properties. Searching by hand, with a seive, or metal detector are all discussed. This book lists over 7500 sites in the US by state, where you can search for buried treasures, relics, coins and machines. It also covers the laws of ownership and property rights so that you won't get into trouble. There are more stories, maps and caches of value to be discovered than you can beleive. $14.95