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GOLD BLOGS

Donlin Creek Gold Deposit, Alaska

- *Dr. Paul Graff, 1988, Snow Gulch, Alaska.* I was sadden to hear we lost another member of the Donlin Creek discovery crew! My best friend, Dr. Paul Graff ...
1 year ago
Gold in Arizona - A Guide for Prospectors & Rock Hounds

Finding Gold and Silver in Arizona - *Superstition Mountains, Arizona, site of the infamous Lost Dutchmen gold mine legend.*Geologists separate Arizona into three provinces: (1) Basin and Ra...
2 years ago
Prospecting for Gold

Gold! Finding Your Personal Gold, Silver, Gemstone or Diamond Mine. - *Visible gold in core sample of granodiorite from the* Copper King* mine, Wyoming. Many people like* *to make gold out of pyrite, chalcopyrite, or mica. ...
2 years ago
Tin Cup Jasper, Ruby, Gold district, Wyoming

Tonnes and Tonnes of Jasper - A Rockhounds' Treasure Trove! - *Never seen so much *jasper*! Tonnes and tonnes of jasper in the Tin Cup district, yet much * *of the area remains to be prospected. Some jasper was ex...
2 years ago
FERRIS HAGGARTY COPPER-GOLD MINE

Millrock and Volcanogenic Massive Sulfides at the Ferris-Haggarty mine, Sierra Madre, Wyoming - In times past, more than a billion years in the past, the familiar mountainous terrain of the southern Sierra Madre of Wyoming, was actually, nothing mo...
3 years ago
Arizona Lode & Placer Gold Mines

New Arizona Gold Book Tells All - Yipee, its finally published!*'**Gold in Arizona'*, I must say that I am amazed at all of the potential *gold* and *silver* deposits in *Arizona*. They ar...
4 years ago
GOLD & COPPER in ARIZONA

GOLD IN ARIZONA - New book on gold in Arizona - took about 4 years to complete - but tells prospectors where to find some gold deposits worth $millions and even $billions. Ev...
4 years ago
Gold Deposits at South Pass, Wyoming

Rock Creek Gold Placer - A Mine Frozen in Time - *Introduction* *1987 photo of the Rock Creek gold placer, South Pass. Near center of photo, * *some relatively fresh diggings **mark the location of the Ger...
4 years ago
Mountain of Gold

Diamonds, Gold, Fish, and Friends in the Seminoe Mountains of Wyoming - *The Bradly Peak Hilton in the Seminoe Mountains, Wyoming*I met Charlie and Donna Kortes at my front door of the Seminoe Hilton (my tent) on Bradley Peak ...
4 years ago
COPPER KING GOLD MINE, SOUTHEASTERN, WYOMING

A $3 to 4 billion gold-copper deposit overlooks Wyoming's State Capital - *Consulting geologist, Dan Hausel (aka GemHunter)searching for gold in the Copper King area.* Some decades ago, Dan Hausel, a research geologist at the ...
5 years ago
Gold in Wyoming

Giant and Hidden Gold Deposits, Wyoming - *Ah, Atlantic City, my home away from home. While working at the University of Wyoming for the Wyoming Geological Survey, I mapped the South Pas...
6 years ago
GOLD - A Prospector's Guide

- *GOLD in ARIZONA - A Prospectors Guide* is now available on Amazon. I can't help but be impressed by all of the hundreds and hundreds of *gold deposits*,...
7 years ago
Gold in the Seminoe Mountains, Wyoming

Wyoming Gold, Diamonds, and Rattlesnakes - *Quartz vein samples from Penn mines dumps containing visible gold recovered in 1981 (photo by Dan Hausel). All photos in this blog (except Google Earth...
10 years ago
Rattlesnake Hills, Wyoming

GOLD RUSH WYOMING! - It's hard to believe that it has been more than three decades since I discovered gold in the Rattlesnake Hills in central Wyoming and classified the new ...
10 years ago
Gold in Montana

Diamonds In Montana's Gold Fields - *Outline of the Wyoming Craton (basement rocks of Archean [>2.5 * *billion years old] age) showing locations of known kimberlites, * *lamproites, lamprophyr...
10 years ago
How To Operate A Gold Pan

Panning for Gold, Diamonds, Rubies and Sapphires - Did someone pan this nugget from a stream using a gold pan? Nope - I picked this out of the back (roof) of a lead-zinc mine in Utah's Bingham district in t...
11 years ago
Centennial Ridge Gold Field Trip Guide

Centennial Ridge Gold & Diamond District - In the *Medicine Bow Mountains* of southeastern Wyoming, Archean basement rocks rocks to the north represent part of an early continental core partially ov...
11 years ago
The Douglas Creek Gold, Wyoming

Gold and Diamonds in the Douglas Creek gold district, Wyoming. - Want to know more about the Douglas Creek placer gold deposit and your gold deposit? Find out more in our books at Amazon. And at least one tributary in t...
12 years ago
CARISSA GOLD MINE, WYOMING

Major Gold Deposit at Carissa Mine, Wyoming - *Report of Investigations 44 on the geology and mineralization of the South Pass greenstone belt,Wyoming (photo by Wayne Sutherland).{Revised 2/9/2022}....
12 years ago
Field Trip to Snowy Range

Common Geology, Mining and Prospecting Terms - *Some geology, mining, rock, mineral and prospecting terms used in this field trip guide.* Adit: A horizontal mine tunnel (see also shaft). Anticline: A fo...
12 years ago

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GEMSTONE BLOGS

Wyoming Gemstones

The GemHunter State - Since Idaho is known as the Gem State, shouldn't Wyoming be referred to as the Mineral & Rock State, Gemstone State, Rockhound State, GemHunter State, ...
2 years ago
Chromian Diopside - The Emerald of Diamond Deposits

- *Diamond-bearing kimberlite sample collected by the author from the Sloan 2 kimberlite, Colorado.Note the large, emerald green, chromian diopside megacr...
2 years ago
RUBY & SAPPHIRE IN WYOMING

Wisdom, My Most Valuable Gem - *"Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.* *For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desire...
3 years ago
Peridot Gemstones & Geology

GemHunter's Guide to Finding Peridot - *One of many public field trips scheduled to teach people where and how to find gemstones and gold. On this trip, the author discussed pyrope garnet and c...
6 years ago
Prospecting for Iolite (water sapphire) Gemstones

Where to find iolite gemstones in nature - *Group of faceted iolites set in a golden cross. Iolites are some of the more attractive* *gemstones, but few jewelers keep them on hand because of rel...
7 years ago
Gemstones, Minerals & Rocks of Wyoming

Gemstones Discovered - *Rough ruby, sapphire, iolite and kyanite gems in schist from Wyoming* As you scroll down through rock and mineral images in various magazines, books and ...
7 years ago
Giant Opal Deposit Discovery Along Highway

New Gemstone Deposits Discovered - *The author with foot on large boulder of kyanite schist. All of theprismatic crystals in the boulder are kyanite, some gemmey.**{revised 2/8/2022}* *WHA...
8 years ago
Finding Gemstones

NEW GEMSTONE DISCOVERIES - A 368-page book published in 2014 with color photos, provides insight into the physical characteristics of raw gemstones, listing dozens of GPS coordinate...
9 years ago
The Discovery of Giant Iolite Gemstone Deposits

Finding Gemstones - A Prospector's Guide - *"Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies" Proverbs 31:10* *[Updated, 2/8/2022*]. One of great gemstone discoveries in Wyoming oc...
9 years ago
Diamonds - Mineralogy & Prospecting

How to Recognize Rough Diamond - Beautiful, flawless diamonds in the rough from the Argyle Mine in Australia. Photo "Copyright © 2014 Rio Tinto.".After my book on Finding Gemstones was pu...
9 years ago
Prospecting for Garnet in Wyoming

Prospecting for Gem-Quality Garnet in the Cowboy State - *Aren't these pretty? Garnets in schist from the Wrangell mine, Petersburg district, Alaska. Yes,* *I know these are not from Wyoming, but they are very at...
10 years ago
LEUCITE HILLS, WYOMING - lamproites & gemstones

Diamonds in lamproite in the Leucite Hills, Wyoming and Ellendale Field, Western Australia - *Boars Tusk lamproite (wyomingite) forms a distinct and prominent volcanic neck with Table Mountain in background* The Leucite Hills north of Rock Spring...
10 years ago
JADE

Jade - An Extraordinary Gemstone - * Sample of jade shows evidence of extreme deformation required to produce jade. Numerous fractures in the original rock* * allowed fluids to fill open sp...
11 years ago
Gem Garnet

GARNETS in my Boots! - *Gem-quality garnets and diopside found in anthills.* Garnets are relatively common in many places in the US. A good place to start a search for gem-qual...
12 years ago
Sloan Ranch diamondiferous kimberites

Field Trip to the Diamondiferous Sloan Ranch Kimberlites, Colorado - *INTRODUCTION* *Granite xenolith (foreign rock) exposed in the mine rib (wall) of the Sloan 2 diamondiferous kimberlite in Larimer County, Colorado. Bern...
13 years ago
Blue Barite in Wyoming

Blue Barite Crystals from Wyoming - Barite (BaSO4), a barium sulfate, when found in crystalline form may produce attractive mineral specimens that will enhance most any mineral collector’s or...
13 years ago

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