| Gold in Alaska! Thousands have spent their lives searching for the elusive metal in the Great State. My name is Steve Herschbach. I am fortunate indeed to have been born in Alaska, and to have been introduced to gold mining at an early age by my father, Bud Herschbach. Prospecting has taken me far and wide across Alaska, and is the main reason Alaska Mining & Diving Supply was founded. Although the company has grown far beyond it's original beginnings, to this day I am still actively involved in the search for gold and other minerals. Most of my spare time in the summer is spent gold dredging, metal detecting, and prospecting. While the extra income is nice, it is the search itself that keeps me going... the adventure of prospecting in Alaska!
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 Steve with 14.1 Dwt Nugget found at Ganes Creek, Alaska
First Gold with a Metal Detector 1973 - 1989
Winter Dredging at Crow Creek Fall 1996
Spring Dredging at Crow Creek April 24, 1999
What's Placer Gold Worth? May 1, 1999
Origin of Gold at Crow Creek May 8, 1999
Flooded Out! of Crow Creek Goldmaster & SD2200D Detectors May 15, 1999
Detecting w/Tesoro Lobo at Crow Creek May 23, 1999
Detecting Small Gold at Crow Creek May 30, 1999
About Subsurface Gold Dredges June 24, 1999
Old Stream Layers at Crow Creek July,10 1999
Mills Creek Cooperative July 17, 1999
4" Subsurface Dredge at Mills Creek August 15, 1999
5" Subsurface Dredge at Mills Creek August 21, 1999
Gold Mining at Mills Creek September 5, 1999
Gold Dredging at Mills Creek October 2, 1999
Metal Detecting at Mills Creek October 5, 1999
4" Subsurface Dredges at Crow Creek October 9, 1999
Sluicing Gold at Crow Creek October 17, 1999 |
Sniping for Gold at Mills Creek October 24, 1999
Gold in Hawaii Winter 1999
Spring Gold at Crow Creek May 2000
SD2200D at Crow Creek June 10, 2000
GPAA Claims at Mills Creek June 24, 2000
Detecting Gold at Chisana July 21, 2000
Detecting for Lode Gold August 13, 2000
Detecting Gold in the Fortymile September 1, 2000
Fall Mining at Mills Creek September 16, 2000
Fall Dredging at Crow Creek November 4, 2000
Gold Layers at Crow Creek June 15, 2001
Detecting Gold at Ganes Creek June 22, 2001
Exploring Petersville, Alaska August 5, 2001
Lode Gold at Hatcher Pass August 12, 2001
Minelab SD2200D at Fortymile August 18, 2001
First Gold with White's GMT May 11, 2002
Memorial Day at Ganes Creek
May 25, 2002
Detector Reps at Ganes Creek June 17, 2002 |
Labor Day at Ganes Creek August 29, 2002
Shadow X5 at Crow Creek September 18, 2002
Garrett Infinium in Hawaii February 18, 2003
GP Extreme in the Fortymile
Spring 2003
GP 3000 Gets Fortymile Gold June 6, 2003
Moore Creek, Alaska June 28, 2003
Minelab GP 3000 at Moore Creek August 7, 2003
Garrett Infinium at Moore Creek Fall 2003
White's Electronics in Alaska 1972-2002
Moore Creek, 2004 June 2004
George's Nugget (Moore Creek) July 2004
Platinum in Hawaii December 18, 2004
The Bulldozer Adventure (Moore Creek) Fall 2004 & Spring 2005
Minelab GP 3500 Review September 2005
White's Matrix M6 in Hawaii December 20, 2005
Minelab X-Terra 50 in Cabo Spring 2006
Detecting for Micro Nuggets September 13, 2009 |
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