We have a complete line of Keene products along with custom products engineered by our own staff. If you have questions or just want to chat about prospecting. We would enjoy hearing from you!

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Private Dredging, Power Sluice and Sluice Box Charters
Rob offers private dredging charters, gold panning/sluicing expeditions on private claims. One of the claims had a 20 stamp mill for production and a 6 stamp mill for just testing assays. The old miners followed the gold up the water way to the source and worked the load bearing rock in the earth. The tailing's from the mine covered the majority of the original water way. They never thoroughly worked the main water system as they found the load source which was the main objective of the mining operation. We are now working those key areas of the water way which are even more productive than before due to the tailing's decomposing and liberating gold out of the load rock onto the original gold deposits existing in the main water system of ancient tertiary gravels.

Email for more details and pricing. You will have a time of your LIFE dredging using a 6 inch Keene dredge equipped with a 263 and a T-80 air compressor so more people can Dive. Also available in the same area is a 21/2 inch dredge on a very limited basis. In off season Come out and enjoy using a High Banker or the Gold Grabber.

A new addition has been added for our adventures. It's location is on the famous woods creek near historic Jamestown, California. This area is known for its high gold content and only sluice boxes are allowed. Mining on this claim is year round. This claim has been aired on TV numerous occasions as Joshua Vick is the star feature with all of his wit and wisdom on the show of Cash and Treasure's. Records show that mining occurred a year before the famous gold rush in California during 1848 caused by Sutter's Mill. Sutter's Mill is when the secret of gold got out to the world.

Rob has studied and thoroughly tested the areas locating the Gold Belts on the claims. It will be Fun for all. He will build on the knowledge level you have by adding new techniques to your skill level. Wonderful time for NEW and OLD prospectors alike.

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CURRENT GOLD PRICES

Full Line Keene Dealership Including Power Equipment
Store Location:
11940 Yankee Hill Road
Columbia, CA 95310
Gateway to LDMA, GPAA, & BLM Claims

Mailing address:
Rob and Deborah Goreham
P.O. Box 1896
Columbia, Ca. 95310

Email : Robgoreham@hughes.net

phone: 209-588-1635

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Mining Tips
Hello folks,

We hope everyone enjoyed their holiday season. .

Here is a tip for the desert. Tarps are your best friend. During the night condensation can settle out of the air. It don't take much to affect your screen on the dry washer. Then when they run dirt the dust gets deep into the screen/cloth mesh and plugs (restricts) some of the air action and you lose gold. No matter what the temperature is always cover your machine with a tarp. It also helps to cover your dirt if you are storing it up for running the next day. A lot of miners lay a tarp out and shovel on to it during the day to break up and dry out the dirt (pay layer) during the day, then cover it up at night.

As a reminder test your out put at lest once an hour. If you get gold out of the tailing test you better: First, adjust how fast your feeding the material into the unit. Re-test tailing's. Second, adjust the angle of your riffle box. Re-test. Third, too much air flow pressure. Re-test.

Note: Only make one of the adjustment at a time then test before making another change. If you don't you won't ever know the reason for the failure and may cause failure with the other two unknowningly and never get it figured out.

The number one failure of any equipment is feeding it to fast. Most folks are guilty of this. They think the more material they can move the more gold they will get. This is not the case. You will (not might) lose 50 to 75 percent of your gold by over feeding your riffles! They can only process so much material at one time. Also the material is different from one location to the next. Examples:
- Clay based material.
- Heavier black sands.
- Heavy iron concentrations.
- A lot of lead. This one got me last year dredging but I know they shoot shot at the desert to. Once the riffles are full of heavies they need to be cleaned.

It's wonderful to know when someone is helped by these tips. Please drop me a line if it helped you.

May your pan turn yellow,
Rob