-
COLORADO
any good things to look for here in colorado??
Posted:
Jan 2 2008, 10:26 PM EST by
-
Colorado Bound
I am heading to Colorado in May and would like to do some hunting for treasures. Any suggestions? I hear that Gunnison is a good place to look for minerals and gem stones.
Posted:
Mar 9 2008, 6:43 PM EDT by
-
Diamond prospecting and exploring Colorado/Wyoming
If you want to take an adventure tour this year that is UNIQUE come with Dan Hausel and I to the state line district.
This field trip is the most affordable geology adventure of it's kind offered this year in the United States! July 22-25... don't miss out on this one!
We provide the lodging, meals, and lectures. We'll show you where to look and what it is you are looking at! More DIAMONDS here than in Murfreesboro Arkansas!
Take a look, then call me to make your reservations! 303-884-9404
http://www.learngoldprospecting.com/index.cfm?var_file=fieldtrips/2009/gem-gold-fieldtrip.cfm
Let me know you found us on the Travelchannel.com site...
Happy Trails,
Johnny Walker the Adventure Guide
-
Celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the Colorado Gold Rush!
Come to the high country and enjoy a week long celebration of the Colorado's 1859 "Pikes Peak or Bust" Gold Rush! For the special discount rate of only $1859 ($500 less than a regular old dude ranch week) Rocky Mountain Tourism is offering 3, week long, all inclusive Gold Panning / history tours this summer!
http://www.learngoldprospecting.com/index.cfm?var_file=tours/gold-tours2009.htm
Wonderful accommodations, http://www.ColoradoRanchResort.com all the expected resort amenities, excelent high country meals, and best of all we'll teach you everything you need to know to get started prospecting for GOLD! Everyone will get a one year membership in the GPAA, (Gold Prospectors Association of America), this allows you access to prospect and camp on the gold claims held in 41 states and provinces when you go home!
Lectures and demonstrations right on the Fairplay Placer where 202,000 ounces of colorado gold have been produced. We have the last 17 acres of undisturbed placer ground to explore and learn from! Come play in the Park this summer, South Park the Buckle of the Colorado Gold Belt.
Enjoy open range horseback riding on our 3500 acre ranch, or take a jeep tour and explore the ghost towns, I'll tell you some of the colorful stories that have given the history and heritage of Colorado Gold Rush it's unique high country flavor.
Book your Colorado Gold Rush Tour right away! Only three tours will be offered: June 7-13, July 12-18, and August 9-15. Make those reservations NOW! SPACE IS LIMITED
O heck I forgot to mention the most important part... YOU KEEP ALL THE GOLD YOU FIND!
GIVE ME A CALL! 303-997-4133
Posted:
Apr 11 2009, 12:08 PM EDT by
-
Lost Spanish Gold at Treasure Mountain in Colorado
The real story of Treasure Mountain...
http://www.travelsos.net/colorado-journeyer/index.cfm?var_file=www/treasure.htm
I actually know one of the descendents who wrote a whole book on the story... Citidel Mountain... he's made several expeditions to the area as have many many others. I had an Uncle who summered up there looking for the lost Frenchmens gold. He was an expert prospector and dowser... nope, never found it.
However the story goes on that a couple of lost in a snowstorm cowboys sheltered in a cave up there and found the cache. They were only able to take 2 of the bars of gold with them, due to the weight, to Red Cliff and straight to the assay office. The bars were reciepted and noted that they still had the spanish mint marks. One was sold and the other supposedly resides in the Colorado State Museum.
The two cowboys spent years looking for the cave again, but naturally as with all good lost treasure story's, they never found the gold again.
Posted:
Jan 13 2009, 3:53 PM EST by
-
Looking for fun places in New Mexico or Colorado to hunt for treasure!
We are planning a trip from Dallas to Durango Colorado and I am wanting to find some places in New Mexico or Colorado that you can hunt for treasure. If anyone knows of any places, please let me know. We will have the kiddos with us.
Thanks!
Keyword tags:
None
Posted:
Jun 27 2008, 12:28 PM EDT by
-
150th anniversary of the Colorado Pikes Peak or Bust Gold Rush of 1859
Storys about the first miners to Colorado and the incredable specimens they stumbled across.
Lost treasures, old ghost towns, stage robbery, the truth about lynchings, gold prospecting, and gem collecting. History and heritage articles about the colorful figures of the old west
Posted:
Jan 24 2009, 4:13 PM EST by
-
Places to Detect in Wyoming
"I'm aware that there are rules and regulations with the BLM land and National/state Parks. Does anyone know who to contact to get the rules/permits for detecting in any state on BLM land or National/State Parks? I read that the National parks will let you surface detect but you can't dig? Where or how do I know if this is legitamite? Thanks for any help" I would recommend two places to start - (1) the Gold Prospectors of America (wyoming chapters) and (2) the Rocky Mountain Prospectors and Treasure Hunters Club in northern Colorado. These groups have several people who detect and can give you information on their experiences.
http://www.cheyennegpaa.com/
http://www.wpagold.com/
http://www.rmpth.com/
Dan
Keyword tags:
None
Posted:
Apr 8 2009, 1:03 PM EDT by
-
Treasure Hunting
It seams their are a alot of places to go hunting for treasures but you keep on giving re-runs of the same shows. For example up in the mountains of Colorado next to the town of Cripple Creek their is another town called Victor. This town was burnt to the grown and rebuilt back in the cowboys and indian times. Everthing that was burt in this town was put in one area, that area is now a dump site for the town but the old area of the dump site is known only to a few including the worker at the dump site, if you get my drift. I have seen people return with the old jugs and bottles with different colores from this site. Another place to go after a storm is the treasure coast of Florida. How about the Diamond State Park in Arkansas, or safire and ruby hunting in Montana and Noth Carolina. How about gold hunting in Georgia or North Carolina, or the topaz in Texas. It seems that there are far more places to go.
Keyword tags:
None
Posted:
Feb 14 2008, 6:54 PM EST by
-
treasue hunting in kansas near bonner springs
To tell you the truth, I am not real familiar with Kansas
as far as Treasure Hunting goes, but I do know a few
interesting Tid-Bits of information that might interest
you and your kids.
First.....the western part of the state tends to turn into rolling
canyon like terrain......an ideal type of terrain to investigate for
Rock Hounding and Metal Detecting. Gold, Meteorites, Arrow
Heads and Bison Skeletal remains can be found in these areas.
I also hear that Opal is pretty prevelant in the state.
Also......you will notice that a large portion of the state is flat,
except the western region near the western Kansas / Colorado
state line.....it make sense to me that if any Gold or any other
precious metals or minerals were to be found, just like in the
mountains of Colorado, that these areas would be a good
place to start. I would do a bit of research first though to make
sure you don't get busted working someone else's claim
though......look for public sites in and around that region.
The U.S. National Geological Survey has a website that
has information regarding Gold and Mineral mining claims
up to 2004 which covers the entire Continental United States.
And you can use it to conduct your reseach for free.
Happy Hunting
And I hope you and your kids have a blast.
Keyword tags:
None
Posted:
Jan 23 2008, 4:33 AM EST by
-
Tip
1- DIAMONDS in Colorado & Wyoming. Start out by visiting the Great Diamond Hoax site at Diamond Peak in northwestern Colorado. In 1871, two prospectors salted a sandstone outcrop with several pounds of diamonds, rubies & sapphires & swindled Civil war generals, two presidential candidates, a congressman and other investors. More than 100 years later, I found the site with another geologist & panned out 4 diamonds, 17 rubies and 23 garnets left by the scam artists (find the approximate location by searching for ‘Diamond Field Draw, CO on Google Earth) (see: http://GemHunter.webs.com).
Next, select (CEDAR MOUNTAIN ,Wyoming on Google Earth). Butcherknife Draw is located to the northeast of Cedar Mountain and has dozens of anthills with fabulous Cape Ruby (garnet) & Cape Emerald (diopside) & diamond (http://gemstonehunter.blogspot.com/2008/12/cape-rubies-cape-emeralds-garnets.html).
Some of these gems are similar to those used to salt the Great Diamond Hoax area.
Finally, select VIRGINA-DALE, CO in Google Earth). This will take you right to the middle of the largest diamondiferous kimberlite district in the US and potentially one of the largest in the world. In 1960, kimberlite was accidentally discovered here, but it was not until 1975 that it was accidentally discovered by the USGS. During sample preparation, a carborundum grinding wheel was carved by tiny diamonds from a rock collected from one of the State Line kimberlites. Since then, more than 130,000 diamonds were recovered from microdiamonds to a 28.3 carat gemstone. The district has fabulous specimens of kimberlite along with gem-quality pyrope garnet (Cape Ruby) and gem-quality chromian diopside (Cape Emerald). In the last couple of years, I found another 200+ kimberlites in this region. Many appear like impact features. (see: http://discussionsondiamonds.blogspot.com).
Keyword tags:
None
Posted:
Apr 11 2009, 11:39 AM EDT by
-
State Line District and Jack Slades stolen $60,000 in Double Eagles
Actually there are quite a few around Colorado. The pictures are of a "Pinz Club" outing that Dan was on. We were hoping to be able to take folks on our field trips next summer up to the Gold and Gem claim along the Colorado Wyoming border.
Diamond Dan is prolly the formost geologist in the U.S. regarding diamonds and gemstones and a real expert on Wyoming in particular. We hope to schedule a field trip or two, campout style for a couple of nights/3days.
There are lots of history and heritage stories about the gold rush, wagon trains, the Indian wars and the cavelry, Jack Slades amazing story and lost treasure, the old ghost town of Keystone, centennial ridge and the snowy range for a backdrop. Simply Spectacular !!
Please let us know your thoughts on such tours and maybe we'll all go out and stake a diamond mine!
-
Hi looking for locations to treasure hunt
Howdy Brojas, I'm kinda a newby my self on this board... very friendly folks!
Come on out to Colorado this summer and I'll tell ya where to look for this incredable lost treasure. It's a treasure not all that many folks have searched for because of it's location above timberline. The season is very short up that high, genuine tundra.
Still 3 coffee cans full of GOLD DUST and $40k of civil war era greenbacks would be a heck of a find...!
http://www.learngoldprospecting.com/index.cfm?var_file=reynolds-gang.htm
Posted:
Jan 30 2009, 8:24 AM EST by
-
HOW TO FIND AND RECOGNIZE GEMSTONES
Hi Bill,
I keep forgetting to check the treads - after a month, I'm still not use to this site. I am working with Johnny Walker and it looks like there is a possibility that we will be putting together a geological tour (to include the diamond fields of Colorado and Wyoming) for this summer. Hope all is well.
Dan
-
Finding Diamonds and other gemstones
Howdy Diamond Prospector! We've got a whole district laced with Kimberlite pipes on the border between Colorado and Wyoming.
Douglas Creek southwest from Laramie near the ghost town of keystone is an outstanding spot to run through your grease trap. It is far more likely that one can make money finding diamonds than gold in this area. Several thousand oz's of gold came from the district when they hydrolic mined the hill above town. A giant long tom set up washed all the overburden from the cone shaped hill. Apparently no one at the time realized the cone shaped hill was actually a kimberlite pipe.
Dr. Housel Geologist at the University of Wyoming wrote a paper on the area that sounds very encouraging.
So what kind of grease is best? Are we talking crisco lard or Synthetic axel?
Can't wait for the snow to come off this spring!
-
Any good treasure hunting place in California??
California is loaded with places to find valuable treasures. The cash and treasures show highlighted several of them including tourmaline near san diego, jade near big sur (monterey area), fire agate at opal hill between palm springs and nearer to colorado river off rt 10, and benitoite in san benito county (benitoite is probably the most valuable). Listed below is a website to help you find most of the treasures in your area.
http://www.desertusa.com/Thingstodo/du_ttd_treasure.html
Posted:
Nov 15 2008, 6:14 AM EST by
-
Who Has Any Good Ideas for Kirsten's Next Trip?
"If you have any thoughts for an ideal place for Kirsten to visit, post it on this thread. Let's see how many travel plans we can come up with." Several ideas -
1- Diamond, Cape Ruby & Emerald (Colorado). There are 40 diamond deposits north of Ft. Collins & >300 that remain unexplored. Nearby streams contain diamonds (see: http://discussionsondiamonds.blogspot.com).
2. Peridot, Cape & Emerald, Lamproite volcanoes, Green River Basin WY. Anthills in the GRB near Rock Springs have extraordinary peridot (http://gemhunter.webs.com/peridotolivine.htm). These are in the Leucite Hills(http://leucitehills.blogspot.com/) . South in Butcherknife Draw, anthills have fabulous Cape Ruby (garnet) & Cape Emerald (diopside) & diamond (http://gemstonehunter.blogspot.com/2008/12/cape-rubies-cape-emeralds-garnets.html).
3. Another trip - Sweetwater Station WY where one of the largest opal fields in the world was discovered in 2005 (http://gemhunter.webs.com/opal.htm). Nearby are rubies, jade & Jasper (http://gemhunter.webs.com/rubysapphire.htm).
4. Since 1995, 3 major iolite deposits were discovered in WY(http://gemhunter.webs.com/iolitewatersapphire.htm). Two discovered in 2004 & 2005 (http://danhauselauthor.pbwiki.com/Discoveries) are world-class deposits (http://iolite-wyoming.blogspot.com/) that not only have the largest iolites (water sapphire) in the world, but also gem-quality ruby, sapphire & kyanite.
5. South Pass Gold, Wind River Mountains, Wyoming. Gold is found in lode, shear zone, placer & paleoplacers in this 250 square mile district. Prospectors take out nuggets every year & one deposit in the region was reported to host more than 28.5 million ounces. South Pass has a couple of quaint ghost towns, near ghost towns & often visited by hundreds of antelope & wild horses (http://gemhunter.webs.com/goldplatinum.htm).
DiamondProspector - Dan
Keyword tags:
None
Posted:
Apr 7 2009, 4:59 PM EDT by
-
I found some tourmaline, now what?
I just shipped my gems off to a Jeweler in Colorado who will cut and facet them. He estimates $40-$50 per gem. Does that sound reasonable to you guys? I will post again when they are returned to me. He said a one week turnaround. Huge leap of faith to ship them out, for me, but I couldn't find anyone to do it in my area.
Keyword tags:
None
Posted:
Apr 11 2008, 5:52 PM EDT by
-
Got Plans for next summer?
Howdy fellow treasure huntin' buddies! These days ya gotta plan way ahead to take one of those "special" gem hunting field trips so that's exactly what we're up to.
Summer 2010 plan to come prospecting with us! We're in the process of putting together field trips to hunt for Gold, Diamonds, and Emeralds!
Our gold prospecting field trips usually include famous historic areas in Colorado's South Park and Wyoming's Centennial Ridge. BUT.... in addition to this, next summer we invite you all to come to British Columbia to work our two mine claims on the Fraser River between Lillooet and Layton. We'll stay at the Cayoosh Creek Campground and RV Park then take the jet boat down the river to the claim. Learn to pan and sluce, get to know the subtle art of extracting fine gold and flakes. Prolly more importantly you'll learn where to dig and why there. Gold is where you find it, we found some and you may too! There's lots of placer gold on our claims to shine in the bottom of your pan. Naturally you keep all the gold and gems you find... O did I mention that we've also found Jade, Serpintine, Agates and (man was I surprised) Sapphires!
For our next incredable rockhounding adventure we're adding a helicopter expedition to our Emerald Mine near Revelstoke... right now we're thinking floor tents and 3 days... anybody curious? Please help, we'd love to have your take on all this, comments?
Diamond Prospector Dan and I have considered trying to have a couple of field trips to the State Line district to hunt for Diamonds this next summer... millions of the little gems just laying in the creek bottoms out there! REALLY!! Anybody wanna help work out the details? Hey custom gem tour... on the cheap 2010
We're thinking camp out style for this next summer as the Guest Ranch and Hot Springs Resort accommodations kinda priced everyone out of the '09 tours. Wadda you guys think?
Posted:
Sep 2 2009, 7:29 AM EDT by
-
Nevada's Peacock Mine
I was just at the Royal Peacock Mine in Sept. from Colorado, found very small pieces of Opal. Did find a 30# piece of petrified wood. The last day I was there the manager found a fire opal that was worth thousands I think. The mine is for sale so I don't know if it will be open this year. I have a reservation at the Juniper Ridge Opal Mine in August. I am 73 yrs. old with a bad back, but it is exciting and fun. Opalman
Keyword tags:
None
Posted:
Jan 18 2008, 4:04 PM EST by
|
|
