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Finding Gold in Colorado: Prospecting Log
November 8, 2020
We are thrilled to announce the launch of a new tool every prospector should put to work! Keeping track of where you dig will help more than you may realize. By tracking our …
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Finding Gold in Colorado: Inspiring Images
November 4, 2020
We are very excited to announce the next book in the Finding Gold in Colorado collection! Finding Gold in Colorado: Inspiring Images takes you on a photographic journey through …
Read more →Think Like a Miner
October 28, 2020
Think like a miner. Hmm what does that mean if you are a small scale prospector in a public access prospecting area? Well, a miner is someone working a mine. Maybe on their own …
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Gold Panning In Southwest Colorado
October 20, 2020
The southwest part of Colorado was the last area properly explored by US gold prospectors as they migrated across the state. Many towns such as Ouray, Telluride, Silverton, …
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Gold Rush Ghost Towns
January 11, 2020 · 1 comment
Gold Rushes in Colorado left many old ghost towns, Mills, and mines worth visiting for their history, beauty, and even their gold!
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Texas Creek BLM prospecting site
November 24, 2019 · 13 comments
Tips on prospecting the Arkansas River at Texas Creek Junction, including a map.
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Far Northwest Colorado Gold
September 3, 2019 · 1 comment
Ever heard of the Iron Springs Divide? How about the Little Snake River? Maybe Lay Creek? These are geographic features in far northwest Colorado and are geographical highlights of …
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Cocktails of the Colorado Gold Rush
September 3, 2019
Ever wonder what the gold rush era miners drank besides beer and straight whisky? Here’s a couple popular cocktails you might like to experiment with yourself:
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Finding gold in Colorado! The George Andrew Jackson story.
March 29, 2019 · 2 comments
Interested in what it was like to be a prospector before the Colorado Gold Rush? Here’s the journal of the first U.S. person to discover serious gold in Colorado and then mine it. …
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