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Prospecting for Gold in the United States

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Gold Fields along the southern Railway

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The Rock Cycle

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The whole earth is made of rocks & minerals.
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The Canadian Shield (or just the "Shield") is comp...

Finding Gold in New England 3

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You can find gold at every location in the planet.

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where to find Placers

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Placers can be found in virtually any area where gold occurs in hard rock (lode) deposits. The gold is released by weathering and stream or glacier action, carried by gravity and hydraulic action to some favorable point of deposition, and concentrated in the process.

Gold in New Hampshire

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Small amounts have been found in vein and placer deposits in New Hampshire.

Gold

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Through the ages men and women have cherished gold, and many have had a compelling desire to amass great quantities of it--so compelling a desire, in fact, that the frantic need to seek and hoard gold has been aptly named "gold fever."

The "Gold Rush"

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It was here, in this sleepy valley, that the American Dream was re-defined. An accidental discovery near the obscure American River would forever change a young nation. The simple life would no longer be enough. In its place would come a new kind of lifestyle: entrepreneurial, wide-open, free. The new American dream: to get rich; to make a fortune--quickly.

Basic Gold Panning Techniques

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Gold Panning Intructions--Panning for Gold

How to Read a Stream

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Perhaps the trickiest theories yet to confront the beginning gold-dredger are those that relate to placer geology, also known as "the science of stream deposition." Placer geology concerns the varying conditions which cause gold and other heavy materials to be deposited in a streamflow environment.