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Your Gold Mine of Prospecting Information on the Web

 

Get Excited as Hooked On Gold assists you, the recreational, small scale miner or gold prospector to find gold, use of dredging, mini sluice, metal detecting equipment, high banking, and FREE proven gold panning tips from experts.  Find places to prospect for gold, books on gold and gold prospecting, learn some of the geology and history of gold, the value of joining prospecting clubs, read the Prospectors Blog, familiarize yourself with prospecting Codes of Ethics and correct terminology of your activities so you are covered by the mining laws and responsible prospecting, get answers to your gold panning, prospecting, and equipment questions, so that you will be able to find golden adventures.

 

 

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  • APRIL UPDATE  on the Arkansas  River Drainage - check the links to a BLM documents that concern the Arkansas River and the CACHE  CREEK prospecting areas as new information comes out.  You can find the links on the Arkansas River Drainage page.  Check back for more updates.

  • NEW!  Gold 'N' Store is now available with more to come as time permits.  NEW!  Prospecting Themed amethyst, bark, pyrite and rail spike novelties.  If you have been looking for gold nugget, or gold in white or black quartz 14K or sterling silver jewelry, check out the new Orocal catalog pages under the Gold 'N' Store sub pages.  Take a look at the SLIDESHOW of jewelry we have in stock.

  • Is it REAL gold or is it something else?  Check out the REAL OR NOT page for the answer.  Still not sure?  Give us a holler and ask us a question.  You can do that on A Prospector's Blog page, or at info@hookedongold.com

  • Want to know more about how to use a gold pan?  We also have instructions on making a DIY bucket classifier on the Gold Panning Tips and DIY Page.  Trying to decide which gold pan is right for you?  Read our gold pan reviews HERE

  • Gold is UP, Gold is DOWN.  Watch it on the Charts and Regs page.  Get the low down on the Prospector's Code of Ethics and general prospecting regulations, including dredging, on the same page. 

  • GPOC Temporary Pages are hosted here for the convenience of Gold Prospector's of Colorado members.  We keep up a calendar of club events as well as what is going on with the club's claims.  Get your info on this active Colorado prospecting club, along with pictures, their applications and requirements for claims use.

  • Setting up a Sluice box can be a bit confusing.  Our page is devoted to how to do it,  give you an explanation of the process as well as how sluices work.

  • Metal Detecting?  The MXT page will give you some information on the machine as well as some general detector use.  You can also get some of your questions about how gold is formed in those rocks you are detecting, too, on the Gold Formations page

  • A vacation to Colorado can be a wonderful experience for everyone.  The Mine and Mining Museum Tour page has suggestions for many other things that you can do while you are here exploring Colorado's mining history.

  • Like pictures of BIG GOLD?  Well, check out the slide show at For the Love of Gold.

  • Last but probably first, you might like to know HOW to find Gold.  Where to look, what to look for, and some of the most unusual places that gold has been found.

 

 

PROSPECTING CALENDARS, MOUSEPADS, and Gold Panner Ornaments are now available for 2008.  Visit my cafepress store and get that prospecting calendar you've always wished someone had.  The new gold panner ornament can be hung up anywhere, even the rear view mirror on your truck or car.  Get your site information, and come back to the HOME page to follow the link.   After purchase you should be sent back to Hooked on Gold's home page.

 

 

GPAA Denver

Former National and many time Colorado State and GPAA Gold Panning Champions, Larry and Shirley Weilnau, bring to you their 30+ years combined knowledge and experience of gold, gold prospecting, dredging, highbanking, metal detecting, and gold panning, so that you can be successful in your search for gold.  Take a tour of hookedongold.com for some interesting photos, facts, and tips on everything that has to do with prospecting.  We welcome questions and cater to those who are just starting.  Teaching has been an active part of our prospecting experience, and we willingly share most of what we know.  (Hey, nobody tells where their "secret" spots are).  Join us, and you may find yourself, also, Hooked on Gold.

 

FREE Gold Panning Tips and DIY Bucket Classifier Directions.

Good Prospecting to all of You, and get out there and find some GOLD!   

 

 
 

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ARASTRA near Alma, Colorado

 

Y'All remember:  Prospectors do it in those cold mountain streams and hot steamy deserts.  See you on the River, at the Museums, on the Mining Tours, Highbanking, Dredging, Metal Detecting, or anywhere else you might find GOLD!

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