The U.S. Forest Service is in the process of closing many roads on public lands in (2009). That means if you can't access your claim on public lands you can't mine for gold, or fish or hunt, unless you walk there.

People for Public Lands needs your help NOW, Feb 2009!

Read more, I clipped a post from the PLP website, please read this article by clicking on the title.

I have personally donated $100 today, I know it's not much, but it's all I can afford right now, and plan to donate more in the coming months.

Found this website surfing the Internet and thought other gold miners would enjoy reading True Stories and Diaries from the gold rush era. The diaries from 1849 and 1850 were of paticular interest to me, because it referenced real life experiences of the miners.

http://nevada-outback-gems.com/gold_rush_tales/california_gold_rush1.htm

The Odyssey is probably the most equipt ship in the world for Marine Exploration. Using the most modern technology and some very talented and knowledgable crew to locate and retrieve treasures from the ocean.

Now this is what I call mining. Video of an excavator and a trommel. I hope to have an operation like this some day. Yea some day. Click the link to watch the video.

HI VOLUME PRESSURE OUTLET kit from Keene to blast out those cracks and break up that hardpack clay with the greatest of ease. I purchaed one last year, and have been using it ever since, great investment for improving productivity.

WARNING - Watch this video with caution, it will give you gold fever.  Video is Working NOW.

El Dorado is a gold mining town in South America's Venezuela area. Trace Crutchfield visits the area and captures a glimps of the goldfields and lifestyles of the miners.

Watch the 5 part vidoes series of the El Dorado mining district in South America.

TAMPA, Fla. - Deep-sea explorers said Friday they have hauled up what could be the richest sunken treasure ever discovered: hundreds of thousands of colonial-era silver and gold coins worth an estimated $500 million from a shipwreck in the Atlantic Ocean.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Nov. 29, 2003 - Historical records indicate the sidewheel steamer SS Republic was carrying 20,000 gold coins — worth $120 million to $180 million today — when a hurricane sent it to the bottom of the Atlantic in 1865. But there could be more. A lot more.

This is one of my favorite gold photos. It shows some of the gold recovered from the SS Central America shipwreck. You can also download this photo and make it your desktop wallpaper.