Where's the Gold? from the upcoming Mar/Apr 2025 issue of Gold Prospectors Magazine

COMMENT BELOW WITH YOUR ANSWER FOR A CHANCE TO WIN A GOLD RUSH NUGGET BUCKET

By: Kevin Hoagland

This is going to be yet another tough one. No multiple-choice answers, this is all about visualizing the area and thinking about gold and gravity.

Some 30 years ago I met an assayer in Congress who when he wasn’t assaying, he was out with his Gold Bug looking for pocket gold deposits. We made a couple of trips out looking at spots and detecting the ones that made sense to both of us; this is one of those spots.

This area is known for stringer veins with gold ranging from 100mesh to the occasional nuggets up to 1/4 ozt., all found in small pockets, making it not commercially viable but a great spot to get on the gold if you could read the clues.

Remember that mining in the day was opportunistic — grab the best and move on in most of the areas around this location. The miners left a lot of gold that they never knew was there or they just didn’t care about small deposits.

Study the photo hard before making a choice, and once you do, stick with it. You got this as long as you don’t over-think the area. Remember that gold loves gravity— that is the most important thing to remember. Think of Occam’s razor, a principle that says that if you have two or more competing ideas to explain the same question, the simpler answer is usually the correct one.

Leave a comment below with your answer and you could win a Gold Rush Nugget Bucket Kit ($154.99 Value). Answer with either Lower Left, Lower Center, Lower Right, Upper Right, Upper Center, or Upper Left, and why you think that.

No purchase necessary to enter for your chance to win the Gold Rush Nugget Bucket Kit, just comment below by 2/28/25 with your best guess at "Where's the Gold?" Winner will be announced here early March, 2025.

Look for the answer in the March April issue of Gold Prospectors Magazine, hitting mailboxes beginning March 1, 2025. 

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