Reference section for gold prospecting

[Au Seeker 2,500]

I've started this topic as a place for anyone to post reference materials, historical books, maps, topos, mining documents, etc.

I'll start it off with this book recommend by Steve A.K.A. El Dorado...."Tertiary Deposits of the Sierra Nevada of California"

This is in a PDF file, it can be read online or downloaded.

http://books.google.com/books?id=cpYNAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=THE+TERTIARY+GRAVELS+OF+THE+SIERRA+NEVADA+OF+CALIFORNIA&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false

[El Dorado 954]

Excellent.....

[ShinyCy 21]

I have this one and really like it. Haven't found a pocket, but I won't blame the book...

THE ELUSIVE "POCKET GOLD" OF SOUTHWESTERN OREGON

by Tom (T.H.) Bohmker

this is a great book for beginners to professionals!

A TECHNICAL GUIDE: SEARCHING TECHNIQUES, HISTORY, UNDERSTANDING SMALL MINE WORKINGS & GEOLOGY, HARDROCK PAN TESTING, METAL DETECTING ADVICE FOR HARDROCK GOLD, WHERE TO GO.

[Gold-digger 0]

It would be nice for all of us newbies to have a glossary of terms too. Or is there one that I missed? As an example what is "tertiary"? Haven't got a clue.

Ray

[ShinyCy 21]

It would be nice for all of us newbies to have a glossary of terms too. Or is there one that I missed? As an example what is "tertiary"? Haven't got a clue.

Ray

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tertiary

Basically, tertiary is a time period. Turns out that for some reason or another that a bunch of placer gold hangs out in gravels made up of rock formed during the tertiary period in North America.

[Au Seeker 2,500]

It would be nice for all of us newbies to have a glossary of terms too. Or is there one that I missed? As an example what is "tertiary"? Haven't got a clue.

Ray

I did some searching for a good glossary of geological and mining terms/words, couldn't find a good one as of yet, I'll keep looking.

Tertiary is a time period, in relation to geology, it is rock from the Tertiary period, e.g. tertiary gravels, tertiary bedrock, the following is from one glossary, but I'm still looking for a better one.

http://www.theodora.com/geology/glossaryt.html

"Tertiary Period

The earliest Period of the Cenozoic Era, beginning about 66.4 million years ago and ending 1.6 million years ago. "

[Hoser John 1,216]

Bohmker has a couple of RIGHTEOUS books in his series that absolutely cannot be beat. Hands on true stories,history,locations,complete geological explainations. Never found a more complete series a books.I can guarantee ya 1 thing for sure ---You will both respect and envy his long life of walking the walk- John

[Gaius 77]

I not sure how well this will load up these documents are dated 1889 & 1924 and not the easiest to read. If folks are interested these and others I can over time up load a few more. I have a large number of pdf documents from USGS Geology web site, if there is something specific let me know and (if this works) if I have it I'll added it to the forum. Also if odds "N" ends is not the one best location for this info then let me know which is.

Gold Fields of CA - 1889.pdf

Gold Placers of CA Bulletin 92 - 1923.pdf

[Gaius 77]

Couple More Gold References - 1986, 1970

CA Placer gold recovery methods SP 87 - 1986.pdf

Gold Districts of CA Bulletin 193 - 1970.pdf

[Steel Pan 327]

I highly recommend the "CA Placer gold recovery methods".

Very informative for beggiiners and a real good brush up for us old goomers.

[Gaius 77]

I have posted pretty much everything I have found last year or so, there are others but the files are too big (40,569 KB).

Cheers, Beers, & Gold

Chuck

CA Geological Survey Note 12.pdf

CA Geological Survey Note 24.pdf

Gold Deposits in Metamorphic Rocks Pat 1.pdf

USDA San Bernardino Soil Survey 1978.pdf

USGS Life Cycle of Mineral Deposits.pdf

USGS Mining Claim Activity on Federal Land.pdf

USGS Mercury Contamination From Historic CA Mines - 2000.pdf

USGS Rare Earth Elements.pdf

USGS Reveiw of samples trailing.pdf

USGS Sediments Samples, tailing.pdf

[Nugget Shooter 4,117]

This thread is fricking golden....

[Gaius 77]

It was mention that having a glossary would be nice here a link to the USGS Geologic Glossary simplified definitions.

http://geomaps.wr.usgs.gov/parks/misc/glossarya.html

[Au Seeker 2,500]

This a on the technical side of the geology of gold but maybe of some use to some.

"Models and Exploration Methods for Major Gold Deposit Types"

https://www.explorationinsights.com/MediaLib/Downloads/Home/Models%20and%20Exploration%20Methods%20for%20Major%20Gold%20Deposit%20Types.pdf

[Au Seeker 2,500]

Placer Gold Deposits

of Arizona
By MAUREEN G. JOHNSON GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1355

https://ia600806.us.archive.org/12/items/placergolddeposi00john/placergolddeposi00john.pdf

Placer Gold Deposits

of Nevada

By MAUREEN G. JOHNSON

GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1356

http://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/1356/report.pdf

[Gaius 77]

The address below is to 9 training videos by Sprott Global Resource Investment titled Ore Deposits 101. These 9 part courses give an introduction to different ore deposit types in simple layman's terms. The web site notes there are 12 parts currently only 9 parts are posted. I have watched the first two videos and they are a little dry but loaded with some outstanding info.

Who is Sprott Global Resource Investments Ltd.? Sprott is a public natural resources investment management firm offering investments in precious metals, mining, oil and gas, alternative energy, forestry, agriculture, and/or water industries. Posting to advise folks about Sprott's training videos and nothing more, and comes via a commendation from a ICMJ's forum posting.

http://www.sprottglobal.com/natural-resource-investing/investment-university/

Cheers, Beers, and Gold

Chuck

[ShinyCy 21]

I just got Advanced Prospecting and Detecting for Hard Rock Gold by Jim Straight. I haven't even gotten all the way through it yet but I guarantee it needs to be in this reference section.

[Rimshot 181]

So you think Jim's material should be free? All them years of knowledge cost something. You got a good deal and I haven't even read it yet. Jim's daMan IMO.

Edited April 11, 2014 by Rimshot

[Gaius 77]

The item posted Telegraphic Mining Code was a tumble on while I was looking for other information and its bit on the interesting side. The first several pages are black outs and it seems nearly all the older posting I have found from the late 19th and early 20th century are like that. After the black out pages there are ads which are fun to read thru and afterwards you get into the meat of the book.

Telegraphic Mining Code - 1889.pdf

Enjoy

Cheers, Beers, & Gold

Chuck

KG6SYX

[Gaius 77]

I'm not too sure this has a whole lot to do with prospecting but I image some where down the trail some one is going to tell me it does or could. So attached is a publication from 1919 about model making.

Model Making - 1919.pdf

Enjoy

Cheers, Beers, & Gold

Chuck

KG6SYX

[Au Seeker 2,500]

MINING AND SCIENTIFIC PRESS VOL 107 JULY TO DECEMBER 1913.

This has a lot of great info from not only all mining districts in the USA but also the world, but probably more info than the average prospector is willing to read.

This is a PDF file and takes a while to load, there 1068 pages, it's very slow to view online even with high speed internet, but depending on your computer it's a little to a lot better once you have it downloaded to your computer, but if you have slow internet and or a slow computer I would advise to not attempt to view or download this file.

https://ia700404.us.archive.org/4/items/miningscientific107sanfuoft/miningscientific107sanfuoft.pdf

[Rimshot 181]

Misc. files.

Districts of Twenty-nine Palms Gold Park.pdf

G-GoldProspectingBasics.pdf

Mining District of 29 Palms_The Dale.pdf

Dave'sGoldbook-reders.pdf

mr7_gold_panning_in_arizona.pdf

gold_bull168_ocr.pdf

AZBMBull137LodeGold.pdf

Edited April 22, 2014 by Rimshot

[Patrick in Havasu 376]

Has anyone found a way to overlay the "Public Land Survey" (Prime Meridian, Township, Range, & Sections) onto Google Earth?

Thanks in advance,

Patrick .....

[weaver hillbille 487]

mega doc's

http://repository.azgs.az.gov/

[El Dorado 954]

Has anyone found a way to overlay the "Public Land Survey" (Prime Meridian, Township, Range, & Sections) onto Google Earth?

Thanks in advance,

Patrick .....

http://www.earthpoint.us/Townships.aspx