Gold Prospecting is a fun hobby and is a great excuse to get outdoors! We have a lot of fun prospecting for gold and are constantly learning how to be more effecient prospectors. We enjoy getting together to prospect, hang out and go camping.

If you're looking for fun, adventure, discovery and definitely no shortage of hard work, this is the hobby for you!

Here's a couple shots of a piece of Virginia gold still attached to quartz. Pieces of gold like this are called "specimens". Gold still attached to quartz is very hard to find. This piece was recovered in April 2011.




My wife Karrie with Kaitlyn and Andrew.
 2011 has proven to be the "year of adjustment" for me. I retired from 20 years of service in the Marine Corps in April, and life hasn't been the same since. I miss the Marine Corps; it is a very important part of my life. A couple buds and I normally get out to Northern California each summer to prospect on our claims. We all had a pretty hectic summer and could never align our schedules for our traditional summer trip. We're working on a Minelab Americas video series with American Iron TV Productions, and somehow the summer just escaped us this year.

There was no way we were going to let the year get by without our trip, so this year we took our trip in the fall. We got to witness the amazing running of the Salmon, which was really neat to watch. We did some prospecting, and Kevin and Claes found some great gold to pay for the blisters on their hands. Overall, the trip did what we needed it to do (annual therapy), and we had a great time out there and can't wait to get back next year.

Kevin and Claes on "the big one", Sumpter Oregon 2011.


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