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		<title>The Dolores River and The Hanging Flume</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[KevinInColorado]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2024 17:09:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[121-year-old western Colorado mining flume clings to its secrets Click on the picture above to go to the article directly. Or try this Colorado mining flume clings to its secrets – The Denver Post. Just don&#8217;t click on the DP logo at the bottom of the image since that takes you to their overall webpage. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Year-round Gold Prospecting in Colorado</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[KevinInColorado]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Aug 2023 04:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Gold prospecting sites]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Where and how to dig year-round in Colorado. Includes links to specific prospecting sites recommended for each season of the year.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ben Parker: Colorado Gold Placer Mining Hero</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[KevinInColorado]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jun 2023 04:54:48 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Gold prospecting tools & techniques]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ben Parker is justifiably one of the heroes of the Colorado gold prospecting community. He was a student at Colorado School of Mines over 60 years ago. For his dissertation, he chose to create a compilation of ALL the information he could find about gold placer deposits across the state. He used original source material [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>I’m on TV!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[KevinInColorado]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jun 2023 01:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Mining Tourism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arapahoe bar prospecting park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dan Daru]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[metro Denver gold panning]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[There was recently a broadcast of a short piece about prospecting in metro Denver with long time fellow prospector and friend JJ Long and me. The local TV station, KDVR 31 runs special interest stories about cool things across the state. When they decided to talk about gold prospectors, they reached out to my friend [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Wandering Prospector Guidebook</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[KevinInColorado]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jun 2023 05:16:16 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Finding Gold in Colorado - The Books]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Announcing the latest book in the FInding Gold in Colorado series: The Wandering Prospector. Available now!]]></description>
		
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		<title>Finding Gold in Puerto Rico</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[KevinInColorado]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2022 15:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Finding gold elsewhere]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angelito Trail]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Gold prospecting in Puerto Rico dates back to at least the Spanish in the early to mid-1600’s, so it’s no surprise there’s still gold to be found today!! On a recent visit, my wife and I were able to spend some time gold panning the Mameyes River in the USFS El Yunque National Forest. As [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Gold Prospecting in different types of Streams</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[KevinInColorado]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2022 23:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Learning about different types of waterways can make us smarter prospectors. Here’s how!]]></description>
		
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		<title>Castle Rock Conglomerate gold in metro-Denver</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[KevinInColorado]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2020 18:03:44 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Gold prospecting sites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arapahoe County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[castlerock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[castlerock formation]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of the great mysteries which stumped The early gold rush pioneers was the gold they found in metro-Denver, and south of there, which seemed to have no upstream source. This mystery was highlighted several times in the early stages of the gold rush: &#8211; decent gold found in spring 1850 in lower Ralston Creek [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Gold Panning In Southwest Colorado</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[KevinInColorado]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2020 04:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ben Parker]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ouray]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[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, Durango, Rico, Dolores and Placerville owe their existence to the early prospectors. While my book (learn more about it here) and various other articles on this website, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Gold Rush Ghost Towns</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[KevinInColorado]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jan 2020 17:32:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Gold Rushes in Colorado left many old ghost towns, Mills, and mines worth visiting for their history, beauty, and even their gold!]]></description>
		
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