Where to Find Gold in Oregon

Delos Toole's Where to Find Gold in Oregon is packed with maps, directions and commentary on places to prospect for gold in Oregon. Includes information on public panning areas, gold bearing streams, mines past and present and points of interest along the way. 144 pages. ISBN: 0-9654559-1-2

Where to Find Gold in California

Delos Toole's Where to Find Gold in California is packed with maps, directions and commentary on places to find your own gold in California. Includes information on public panning areas, gold bearing streams, mines past and present and points of interest along the way. 141 pages. ISBN: 0-9654559-0-4

Where to Find Arizona's Placer Gold

Delos Toole's Where to Find Arizona's Placer Gold is packed with maps, directions and commentary on places to look for placer gold in Arizona. Arizona is rich in placer gold deposits and Delos gives you the scoop on where to find your own. 144 pages. ISBN: 0-9654559-2-0

Gold Nugget-Teering in Northern California

Delos Toole's Gold Nugget-Teering in Northern California is packed with maps, directions and commentary on places to look for nuggets in Northern California. Home of the world famous Motherlode, Northern California is rich in placer deposits with big chunky nuggets and Delos gives you the scoop on where to find your own. Delos Toole, 140 pages. ISBN: 0-9654559-6-3

Gold Nugget-Teering in Nevada

Delos Toole's Gold Nugget-Teering in Nevada is packed with maps, directions and commentary on places to look for gold nuggets in Nevada. Nevada, despite being dry, is rich in placer deposits and good sized nuggets are being found today. Delos gives you the scoop on where to find your own. Delos Toole, 144 pages, ISBN: 0-9654559-4-7

Where to Find Yankee Placer Gold

Delos Toole's Where to Find Yankee Placer Gold is packed with maps, directions and commentary on places to find gold Maine, Vermont, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Yes, there's gold in New England and you can find it! Delos gives you the where. The rest is up to you. Delos Toole

Deluxe Gold Panning Kit

Black Cat's Deluxe Gold Panning Kit comes with a lot of the popular extras as well as the must-haves for any panning adventure. The Deluxe Panning Kit includes: one Proline 14 Inch Professional Gold Pan - one of the best pans on the market, a copy of The Weekend Gold Miner - 80 pages of gold getting guidance, one Snuffer Bottle - used for sucking up the gold from your pan, one of each 1 Dram and 5/8 dram Screw Cap Glass Vials and a Gold Nugget Display Cup for showing off your gold and one 10x 21mm Folding Jeweler's Loupe. This kit includes everything but the gold!

Audubon Pocket Guide to Familiar Rocks and Minerals of North America

Rocks and minerals pocket guide for the beginning rockhound. Organized with full-color, full-page identification photos and complete facing page text. Chesterman, 192 pages, ISBN 0-394-75794-7

DK Pocket Fossils

Introduces the world of fossils including information on where they are found, how they are formed, and how they are classified; also describes many of the various kinds from amphibians to trilobites. This authoritative guide provides a fascinating insight into the origin, formation, and remarkable variety of fossils. Palmer, 160 pages, ISBN 0-7566-0206-8

DK Pocket Guides are great for the kids, but informative for adults as well!

14 in. Classic Steel Gold Pan

This classic steel gold pan is very similar to the ones the '49ers used in the California gold rush. At 14 inches across, it's the right size for most prospectors, and being steel, can douple as cookware around the campfire.

Proline 14 Inch Professional Gold Pan - Blue

This light weight but super-tough gold pan is one of the best selling pans ever produced, and will hold up to years of prospecting. The Professional features six riffled gold traps to catch your gold as the lighter material flows out of the pan, a wide textured bottom for efficient separation of gold from your remaining black sands and deep blue color to highlight the fine stuff.

Proline 30 in. Sluice Box

At 30 inches by 8 inches, this sluice is perfect for any prospector who likes to pack light but still move a good amount of material. This is a top-quality sluice box featuring coated steel riffles over expanded metal over ribbed carpet with ribbed matting at the throat for quick sampling without a full clean up.

Snuffer Bottle

Snuffer bottles (also called sucker bottles) are used to suck fine gold out of your pan, squirt black sands out of your way and to hold your pickers and nuggets while out on the stream. Made of flexible plastic, they won't break if dropped on the rocks and float if dropped in the water.

The siphon tube on a snuffer bottle extends into the body of the bottle, so once gold gets in, it cannot flow back out. Simply squeeze the bottle and suck up the gold.

* Actual bottle shipped will depend on stock on hand and may not match photo

Recreational Gold Prospecting for Fun and Profit

Written by someone who's done it all - from panning to staking a claim - Recreational Gold Prospecting for Fun and Profit simplifies the language of prospecting. Informative and straightforward, this book covers all the basic techniques; where to go, what equipment you'll need, what to do with the gold you find as well as how plan a gold prospecting adventure for you and your family. Gail Butler, 206 pages, ISBN 0-935182-98-5

Gold Prospector's Handbook

The Gold Prospector's Handbook is one of our favorites. Some of it is pretty advanced with regards to reading a stream, geology etc, but it's also loaded with information of use to the absolute beginner. This book will have a place on your shelf for years to come.

Covers geology, stream dynamics (where gold is likely to deposit in a watercourse), how to pan for gold, tools, etc. This is a non-technical but somewhat advanced prospecting book that will help you in your search for gold. Black, 176 pages, ISBN 0-935182-32-2