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The long-awaited sequel to The Nugget Shooter's Field Guide
Strategic Gold Detecting
The Art & Science of Gold Nugget Exploration & Recovery
After decades of experience in the goldfields, Reese has compiled the strategies, techniques, and field-tested knowledge that have enabled him to consistently recover gold nuggets where others have given up. Strategic Gold Detecting is the next evolution in modern metal detecting and gold prospecting.
What's Inside
- Geology, Gold & Detecting
- Skarns
- Contact Zones & Faults
- Gold Bearing Rock Types
- Mass Wasting & Gold Movement
- Dig & Detect Operations
- Ground Sluice Operations
- Detecting Desert Washes
- Strategies for Heavily Pounded Areas
- LiDAR & The Modern Prospector
- Dryland Dredge Tailings
- Cleaning & Selling Your Gold - Part II
- Photo Resource Guide
- Gold Detecting Etiquette
- Equipment - Part II
- True Tales From The Goldfields - Part II
More Than A How-To Book
Strategic Gold Detecting goes beyond teaching techniques—it teaches you how to think like a successful gold detectorist.
Reese has been hunting gold with a metal detector since 1980 and has made his full-time living recovering gold nuggets since 2021. Every strategy, theory, and technique presented in this book has been developed and refined through countless hours in the field. When an area appears hunted out, Reese approaches it like a detective, developing new ways to locate the next hidden nugget.
Whenever a new strategy consistently produces more gold, it earns a place in this book. The methods you'll discover have enabled Reese to continue making a living finding gold nuggets year after year, even in heavily detected locations.
You'll learn practical prospecting skills, develop a better understanding of gold-bearing geology, recognize overlooked opportunities, overcome setbacks and dry spells, and build the confidence needed to continually improve your success in the field.
Whether you're just getting started or have years behind the detector, this book will help you become a more informed, more strategic, and ultimately more successful gold hunter.
About The Nugget Shooter's Field Guide
The Nugget Shooter’s Field Guide
When done correctly, detecting yields more for the effort
you put into searching for gold nuggets and increases your chances of finding the locations that produce the coveted yellow metal. In this book, you learn strategies for detecting dredge tailings, hard rock tailings, hydraulic mining, ancient river channels, heavily forested regions, and much more. You will also learn the Townes’ Theory, which will help you identify the earliest stage of a present stream channel. In short, the Townes’ Theory can put you on top of more nuggets! These strategies, techniques, tips and applied theories can be applied worldwide.
ADDITIONAL TOPICS:
- Detecting tips & strategies
- Geology in relation to gold
- Mass Wasting & Gold Deposits
- Detectors, coils & gear
- Detecting and base camp safety (With Stories of True Events)
- Sampling, Hydro-Shocking & Cleaning Quartz/Gold Specimens
The Nugget Shooter’s Field Guide includes 170 color photos with color-coded markers to help you identify key factors as well as techniques to help you find more nuggets more consistently.
New Book is in the process of being written now, Called
"Strategic Gold Detecting - The Art & Science Of Gold Nugget Exploration & Recovery"