Prospecting For Gold

Charles Butler Butler Lab has developed a test procedure to be used as a supplement to the oven titration minerals of noble metals. It is fast and inexpensive, most tests require 15 to 20 minutes.
It is an excellent tool perspective and field guide for drilling teams. It can also be used to test samples Mill Run and tails, leach solutions, chemical precipitates and any noble metal salts, including silver, gold and metals group platinum. It is...

The easiest way and the cheapest place for the artisanal miner to recover fine gold concentrates can be done in six simple steps. You will need a plastic pan, distilled water, household lye, an ounce of mercury, nitric acid, a Pyrex measuring cup, safety...

Fire Assaying
Fire Assaying  , in use for thousands of years, still stands the test of time. The following summary of the process is derived principally from "strength", by Jim Steinberg in Mining Artifact Collector. The article was written from a historical...

While panning is, on its own, a means to finding and recovering gold, more seasoned prospectors tend to purchase a sluice box after about their first year in order to move more "material," the sand and gravel in which placer gold is found. Later on,...