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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
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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