Gold Fox

Are you looking to upgrade your prospecting equipment this summer? I would like to give a shout out to our good friends at Gold Fox USA.   This video shows their newest product, the Lil Monster, and boy it looks like that name is right on.  Wouldn’t it be nice to just shovel in to a rig like this rather than classifying and spoon feeding a sluice?  Great American Made product.  Check out their website at www.goldfoxusa.com   Oh and did I mention you also get a sample of our Paydirt with every purchase from Gold Fox?

Alaska Trip Planning

Hello Folks,
Seems there are some of you that are planning trips to Alaska. I
thought I might do a little post with places I’ve been and pay-to-pan and free
areas where I have gotten good gold.
Kennecott Copper Mine in McCarthy, Alaska. If you guys are planning a trip here, message me and I’ll give you some tips on making this trip, its a little tricky with shuttles and places to park, etc.  Its breathtakingly beautiful to see the old mining town overlooking a glacier.

Kennecott – Wrangell – St Elias National Park &Preserve

Independence Mine. This is not too bad of a drive from
Anchorage, they even rent pans and let you work the tailing piles.

independence

Independence Mine State Historical Park, Alaska State Parks

Now, my most favorite, pay-to-work claim. Its a little spendy, but I’ve always gotten my monies worth in gold in the end. In face quite a few people have joined the “one ounce club”
on their facebook page this week. This is quite a drive, but if you are driving
through Canada to get here, its not too far from where you cross the border in
Tok.
Chicken Gold Camp ,Chicken, Alaska: RV Park, Cabins, Caf, Gold Mine & Dredge

I have never worked here myself, but I have heard realty good things about Crow Creek
Mine in Girdwood, only a short drive from Anchorage.
THE HISTORIC CROW CREEK GOLD MINE Girdwood, Alaska

I recently met some of these guys in a Mining Safety class I had to take, I have never been to their camp, but have heard good things.  I have prospected in the area (see below petersville).  In fact the first gold I ever found was near their camp.  They run a bed and breakfast with gold mining.

http://www.cachecreekcabins.com/

Now for free to pan areas:
This publication is for areas on the Kenai Peninsula. I have gotten good gold in most of them, though some of the streams require a permit to dredge and
open\closed dates if there are salmon in the stream. If you have any questions
on these I may be able to help you, as I have worked most of them.  I’ve had the best luck on Resurrection Creek.

https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5195151.pdf

I have also visited the Petersville area and had good luck, the road can be
treacherous. If you are going to visit Denali National Park, its on your
way.
http://dnr.alaska.gov/mlw/factsht/mine_fs/petersvi.pdf

There are many others in the interior, I have not visited them all but here’s a little
bit of info on them.

http://dnr.alaska.gov/mlw/factsht/mine_fs/caribou1.pdf
http://www.alaskacenters.gov/upload/…ning-in-AK.pdf

For you GPAA folks, there are a lot of really great claims, some are not too far from Anchorage.

http://www.goldprospectors.org/Community/Chapters/Chapter-Directory?state=AK
Also, my biggest piece of advice, if your driving around
Alaska, you need to buy a Milepost book, you wont be sorry.

http://www.themilepost.com/

Frozen Ground

So what’s going on in this picture?  Why, I am thawing out a pile of frozen paydirt that’s what!  I have a big old tarp and a diesel heater and I’m thawing and screening paydirt to sell.  At the end of the mining season last year, I made a pile just in case.  I never thought to have to do this as we had 1500 bags in my garage, ready to go.  That’s what we get for aiming low.  We have been so blessed with folks wanting our paydirt to try their hand at mining in the comfort of their own home.   We sold that 1500 bags by January, so every few weeks here I am, going back for more.  Thank you to all of you for your support for our dream.

The other thing you may notice is there is no snow on the ground.  While the rest of you are buried in snow in places like Tennessee and Georgia, we have YOUR warm weather up here.  I’ve lived here all my life and have never seen anything like this winter.  Its gotten up to 60 degrees around here at a time its supposed to be below zero.  Don’t know what is going on with our planet, but I say let’s just skip this winter and go straight to Mining Season!