Getting things organized.....

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Discoveries »  +  ?  Results 1 to 5 of 5 1Likes TopAllThis Page 1Post By TheNewCatfish Thread: Getting things organized.....«Prev Thread | Next Thread»LinkBack LinkBack URL About LinkBacksThread ToolsShow Printable VersionEmail this Page…Subscribe to this Thread… Ignore this ThreadSearch Thread Advanced SearchDisplayLinear Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded ModeYesterday, 11:58 AM#1goldenIrishman Mr.Feb 2013Douglas, AZNone at this time48 16 times Prospecting Getting things organized.....

Now that Robi and I have decided to get serious about our prospecting hobby I've decided that this is going to call for an organized approach do doing our research.

So far I've just started getting books on this areas geology together but so far have three that are specific to this area. While looking for more reading materials I was looking through Amazons' selection and found one that in the description stated that it was a reprint of a USGS report. Not that got me thinking, "If it's from the USGS, why not check their site and see if it is available from them?' Sure enough it was there as a free PDF download. That was $12.00 saved with just a few clicks of the mouse. Doing some quick searches I also found several other useful publications on both the USGS and Arizona Dept of Mines that were free to download. There are a few other books that we're planning on getting but since they're for use in the field PDFs are not going to work as well.

One other thing I've started doing is listing my testing results down on a spreadsheet to keep track of all the different testing sites I've been hitting in the wash. The spreadsheet covers things like:
1. Location
2. size of sample in gallons.
3. Amount of gold recovered
4. number of garnets found
5. amount of black sand recovered
6. interesting minerals found other than gold or garnets.

I'm thinking that knowledge is power and I hope to start seeing a pattern with all this information that will lead us to (or at least towards) the source of the gold.

Now here is the question... Do you feel that this approach is worth the effort or am I just bored out of my mind and looking for things to do when I can't be out prospecting or working samples?

Jeff

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Yesterday, 12:13 PM#2Sl33t Mar 20131 All Types Of Treasure Hunting

Have you tried google book search I have found a lot of good reference material from that.
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Reply With Quote Yesterday, 05:31 PM#3goldenIrishman Mr.Feb 2013Douglas, AZNone at this time48 16 times Prospecting

I've looked all over for materials. I used to live/work with a used book dealer so I know a lot of places to get specific books that your usual person wouldn't know about. Finding reference materials isn't a problem at all. Finding ones that are relevant as well as current is a little trickier.

Reply With Quote Yesterday, 10:29 PM#4Fullpan May 2012nevada628 261 times All Types Of Treasure Hunting

Research and record keeping are always a plus. Wish I'd done that when i was active! Aside from far too few pics, only have fading memory now.

Reply With Quote Today, 07:48 AM#5TheNewCatfish Mar 2011225 43 times

I prefer the "disorganized" unprofessional approach myself. Here's why. If you look at the records, it soon becomes evident most of the really "BIG" nuggets are discovered by people doing anything OTHER than prospecting. Farmers plowing fields, kids hunting cray-fish, hikers and bird watchers. In fact, the California "Gold Rush" began with a fella who said he was just takin a walk down a creek, and (wasn't even lookin for gold). I got skunked at Cache Creek, Colorado by a 14 year old girl with a plastic shovel and a beach bucket. Took her all of about 15 minutes to find a $500 dollar nugget buried in a clay layer in a hole i had abandoned, (everybody knows gold sinks right through clay). Except this little girl.

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