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  Anatomy and Location of a Gold Nugget Patch

  Published November 26, 2012 - No Comments

  It’s day 43…or 51 or maybe its only day 29 in the rolling red-gray expanse of the Mojave Desert. I can’t remember anymore and I was never keeping track anyways. My metal detector coil is swinging in front of me like a clock pendulum, undamped and infite, and I’ve fa ...

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  Virtual Prospector

  Published November 20, 2012 - 3 Comments

  Virtual Prospector is a free map interface including placer gold locations, USGS topo maps,  BLM surface ownership maps, mines and prospect locations, interactive geologic maps, geographic surveys (T/R/S), water flow and snow depths, platinum group and rare earth metal deposits, and much ...

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  How to Stake a Mining Claim

  Published November 12, 2012 - No Comments

  Jump to: Locating Staking Filing A Brief Introduction to US Federal Mining Claims The General Mining Act of 1872 grants all US citizens ages 18 and older the right to locate a mining claim on federal lands open to mineral entry. Lands not open to mineral entry are exempt from the Mining Ac ...

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  Placer Gold Locations Map and International Gold Prospects added to Virtual Prospector

  Published November 8, 2012 - No Comments

  Today we’ve made it even easier to prospect for gold! There is now a placer gold map for each state in Virtual Prospector. Simply zoom in to your state of interest and then check the box next to the Placer folder and you can browse all the USGS placer mine and occurence records. As a ...

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  Welcome to USminer

  Published September 20, 2012 - No Comments

    USM was created to bring original prospecting content to the web and to provide a single resource for free, openly available knowledge. Our library currently has links to relevant mining CFRs and USCs as well as the full text of the General Mining Act of 1872 and amendments for you ...

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Anatomy and Location of a Gold Nugget Patch

Published November 26, 2012 at 10:34 pm - No Comments

It’s day 43…or 51 or maybe its only day 29 in the rolling red-gray expanse of the Mojave Desert. I can’t remember anymore and I was never keeping track anyways. My metal detector coil is swinging in front of me like a clock pendulum, undamped and infite, and I’ve fallen into a walking hypnosis broken [...]

Virtual Prospector

Published November 20, 2012 at 5:07 pm - 3 Comments

Virtual Prospector is a free map interface including placer gold locations, USGS topo maps,  BLM surface ownership maps, mines and prospect locations, interactive geologic maps, geographic surveys (T/R/S), water flow and snow depths, platinum group and rare earth metal deposits, and much much more! Virtual Prospector is highly dependent on javascript and may not run correctly [...]

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Latest Articles from the Blog

• Welcome to USminerPublished September 20, 2012 at 6:59 pm
• Anatomy and Location of a Gold Nugget PatchPublished November 26, 2012 at 10:34 pm
• USminer Field Journal Nov 2012Published November 15, 2012 at 9:54 pm
• Placer Gold Locations Map and International Gold Prospects added to Virtual ProspectorPublished November 8, 2012 at 8:09 pm

Placer Gold maps, gold locations, gold prospecting, dredging, highbanking, panning, sluicing, metal detecting, mining for gold