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Effective immediately, goldfever has taken over fulfillment of www.goldbay.com paydirt and gold sales.  Expect the same great rich paydirt you have always enjoyed.  

Dave and Harrigan, the respective owners of goldbay and gold fever prospecting, have been close friends for over 20 years.  As Dave is transitioning to more full time mining, travelling, and other exciting adventures, it made sense to make this change now.   You can follow along with Dave's new adventures on pretty much every social media site, including: youtube, tiktok and instagram.

A newly designed website is rolling out shortly as well.  

Latest Update - June 2023

Goldbay has a new look and is now on new store software. 

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 Announcing a new line of fluid bed trap sluice boxes.

MADE IN THE USA! The new generation of fluid bed sluices is here - the Grizzly Gold Trap Sluice

3 sizes of sluice box available with immediate shipping:

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‘Bering Sea Gold': New Season on Discovery Promises ‘The Most Gold Ever’ (Exclusive Video) - SFGate

‘Bering Sea Gold': New Season on Discovery Promises ‘The Most Gold Ever’ (Exclusive Video) - SFGate: "‘Bering Sea Gold': New Season on Discovery Promises ‘The Most Gold Ever’ "



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Discovery has renewed its hit show “Bering Sea Gold,”

Starting Friday, March 30 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on Discovery Channel, the returning captains will be back aboard their vessels in Nome, Alaska — but they’ve got company. Ken Kerr and Dave Young, owners of 600-ton Superdredge the “Myrtle Irene” just showed up, and they’re determined to become the kings of the Bering Sea. The new duo will have to get past “Mr. Gold” Shawn Pomrenke and his mighty “Christine Rose” to take that title.

This summer mining season will bring the highest gold totals in series history, Discovery promises. We just need to know who wins.

It almost surely won’t be Captain Kris Kelly, who has set his sights on taking over The Bluff with his newer, smaller, amphibious dredge the “Reaper.” His plans are threatened by a slew of encroaching miners in The Bluff’s now lawless waters. Plus, you know, he and his family are insane......

Read original story ‘Bering Sea Gold': New Season on Discovery Promises ‘The Most Gold Ever’ (Exclusive Video) At TheWrap

"Bering Sea Gold" Returns for New Season Jan 18th

Breaking News - Discovery's Hit Series "Bering Sea Gold" Returns for New Season with Crews Searching for Gold on New Ground | TheFutonCritic.com: "[12/16/16 - 09:01 AM]

Discovery's Hit Series "Bering Sea Gold" Returns for New Season with Crews Searching for Gold on New Ground

The new season premieres Wednesday, January 18 at 10:00/9:00c on the cable channel."

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This season, Shawn Pomrenke struggles to hold together his family's flourishing mining empire. Staking their future on 10,000 acres of property thought to contain a quarter-billion dollars in gold, closing the deal requires a $3 million down payment. To finance the transaction, Shawn returns to the Bluff, a remote location 100 miles east of Nome. With the family's future and his reputation on the line, Shawn needs a big payout. Anything less and the entire empire could come tumbling down.

Meanwhile, Zeke Tenhoff continues his alliance with former flame Emily Riedel. The pair heads 26 miles off shore to Sledge Island, a mysterious, deserted, volcanic formation fabled to have mounds of gold in its unexplored waters. If the duo can make it across the open ocean in their tiny dredge and manage to find gold, they'll be at the top of Nome's new gold game.

After five years of scheming and scamming, most of Nome harbors a severe distrust of the Kelly family, making it difficult for them to get access to good mining ground. This season, Kris has been elevated to captain, with the hope of turning things around, pulling his family's finances - and reputation - out of the gutter. This summer, he'll make sure everything works, including his dad and brother but with bridges burned, options are running out for the Kellys. If Kris can't learn to overcome the odds by legitimate means, it could sink his mining ambitions for good.

Nome newcomer - George Young -hopes to create his own gold mining enterprise and get out from under his older brother's shadow. An avid outdoors-man, diver, sport shooter, skier and passionate adventurer, George is clearly undeterred by the pick-up truck accident that left him paralyzed from the waist down. In debt from buying and outfitting the dredge, he sets his sights high from deep in the hole. Like so many before him, George thinks he has what it takes to hit a golden payday. He just hopes that unlike all those others, he's right.


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New generation of gold prospectors brings its pans to New England - The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram

New generation of gold prospectors brings its pans to New England - The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram:



“It’s no longer like a hobby for most of us. It’s become an obsession,” Illinski said. “It gives you a rush to know that people have been digging gold for 200 years and you found a piece they missed.”




“We worry that the federal government is going to come and say you can no longer use the land for these lands for that kind of thing,” he said. “That scares me more than anything — that all of sudden the land we pay taxes on, that belongs to us, will be taken away.”

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Gold Fever comes to Merced County

A treasure trove of Gold Rush-era images, documents and events comes to the Merced County Courthouse Museum beginning March 17.

“Gold Fever! The Untold Stories of California’s Gold Rush” is a traveling exhibit that will run through May 8 in Merced, museum officials said in a news release.

At the exhibit opening, Merced author and educator Eugene Hart will give a PowerPoint presentation titled “A Gold Seeker on the Merced River in 1849.”

The exhibit examines California before the discovery of gold in the American River, from the frenzied rush to the gold fields, and the experience of vigilante justice, to life in the rowdy gold camps, Gold Rush-era commerce and farming, and the shaping of California’s future.

The exhibition spotlights the remarkable stories of gold seekers who emigrated from all parts of the world during the tumultuous and colorful Gold Rush era, and examines the impact James Marshall’s discovery continues to have on all of California’s people, cultures, environment, politics and economy.

Read more here: http://www.mercedsunstar.com/entertainment/article64045402.html#storylink=cpy

‘Bering Sea Gold' returns 3/30. Punches are thrown in Season 6 promo

Punches are thrown

In Season 6, no one takes bigger risks than the Pomrenke family. Shawn, a.k.a. Mr. Gold, ventures 100 miles to an unproven claim at "The Bluff" while his father sinks the family fortune into a new inland mining operation. Meanwhile, despite owning her own dredge, The Eroica, Emily Riedel has trouble scrounging up a crew. Her former flame Zeke Tenhoff would rather mine for a large corporation than spend one more season on the water with Emily.

On the Reaper, Brad Kelly has big plans to strike it rich by purchasing 40 acres of off-shore claims, but first needs to convince his sons to bury the hatchet and rejoin the family business.

Meanwhile, Vernon Adkison feels pressure from investors when he struggles to find a ship to launch his "golden seahorse," and veteran miner Derek McLarty spends every penny he has to join the ranks as captain of his own brand new, guitar-shaped dredge: the High Noon.

"Bering Sea Gold" returns Wednesday, March 30 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Discovery.

Gold miners sue Western states over ban of dredging equipment

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/11/22/gold-miners-sue-western-states-over-ban-of-dredging-equipment.html

LOS ANGELES — The General Mining Law of 1872 promised Americans who went west that whatever gold or other precious minerals they found would be theirs for the keeping — the main driver of the California Gold Rush that fueled the nation’s great westward expansion.

Almost 150 years later, gold miners in the west, who now prospect mostly as a hobby, are invoking the same law to sue states over moratoriums on the use of suction dredge mining equipment.

Driven by environmental concerns that these motorized vacuums disrupt salmon habitat and affect water quality, California banned the practice in 2009. Oregon will do the same starting Jan. 1, 2016.

Miners are suing both states, arguing that their moratoriums on suction dredges to sift through gravel for specks of gold violate the federal mining law.

“It alleges that the state lacks power to prohibit mining on federal lands,” said James Buchal, a Portland, Oregon, lawyer who represents a consortium of gold miners in the lawsuits.

Miners scored a victory in California earlier this year when lower courts ruled in their favor, sending the case to the state Supreme Court, which has agreed to hear it.

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'Gold Rush' Season 6 premiere date and Oregonian Todd Hoffman's 'staggering' goal (video) | OregonLive.com

'Gold Rush' Season 6 premiere date and Oregonian Todd Hoffman's 'staggering' goal (video) | OregonLive.com:

Todd Hoffman, the big-dreaming gold miner who lives in Sandy, Oregon, returns with his fellow prospectors for "Gold Rush" Season 6 on Friday, Oct. 16, at 9 p.m. on the Discovery Channel.

The two-hour kickoff launches a new season of what Discovery says is its number-one show.

So what's coming up for Hoffman, and "Gold Rush" veterans Parker Schnabel and Tony Beets? Will they spend the season sitting around a campfire, drinking cocoa, and agreeing they'll all find more gold if they work together?

Nah. Where's the drama in that? According to Discovery, Season 6 promises "bold new challenges, new equipment and massive power shifts.  It's a battle like never before among the crews as they push to find the most gold yet."

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Gold dredging situation in California is like something out of a science fiction mo

5/6/15 reposting new 49ers email dredging update:


In a surprising oral ruling on 30 April in San Bernardino, 
Judge Ochoa instructed our attorney that we could not file 
for injunctive relief in Siskiyou County to prevent California 
Department of Wildlife (DFW) wardens from enforcing the 
unconstitutional suction dredge moratorium. The judge instructed 
that our motion for injunctive relief should be decided in his 
own courtroom at 8:30 am on the 23rd of June. The good news is 
that he also suggested that he is inclined to grant us the 
relief we are asking for.

Therefore, the existing status quo has not changed. Prospectors 
believe Judge Ochoa’s Ruling allows us the right to operate our 
dredges. More dredgers are arriving in Happy Camp by the day to 
begin the 2015 season. DFW wardens warn that they will be out 
seizing dredging gear that is in violation of the unconstitutional 
moratorium. And Judge Ochoa ruled that there will be no civil 
remedy available for dredgers to stop the unlawful conduct of DFW 
wardens for another 8 weeks or so. 

But in a surprising turn of events on the first of May, California 
Fish & Wildlife (DFW) wardens arrested two suction dredgers on the 
Klamath River who had recently discovered a very substantial underwater gold deposit. The arrest was because they refused to 
sign the citations they were being issued. The citations were written 
for violating the unlawful moratorium and 2012 regulations, both which 
have already been struck down by Judge Ochoa in San Bernardino County. 
This case will allow our Siskiyou County Court to decide in early June 
if wardens have any authority to enforce a moratorium that has already 
been struck down as illegal.

This whole ever-evolving situation is like something out of a science 
fiction story!  You can read all about it in our video-enhanced free 
May newsletter right here:

http://www.goldgold.com/newsletter-may-2015.html

For those of you who are not yet New 49'ers members, please
consider the special half-price offer on Associate Membership
that we are extending to our Internet subscribers:

http://www.goldgold.com/associatememberoffer

If you are new to our newsletter, you can read some recent
back issues here:

http://www.goldgold.com/whats-new

All the best,

Dave Mack

CA Dredging UPDATE

California Department of Fish and Wildlife Reminds the Public Suction Dredge Mining Remains Unlawful in California

May 5, 2015 - In 2009, California enacted a statutory moratorium on suction dredge mining throughout the state. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) reminds suction dredge miners the moratorium for use of motorized suction dredge equipment remains in effect. In addition, possession of any such equipment within 100 yards of any river stream or lake also remains unlawful.

Suction dredge mining is a method for vacuuming gravel from rivers, streams or lakes to sort through the sediment produced, usually through a sluice box, to recover gold or other precious metal.

Beginning in 2005 and thereafter with the moratorium taking effect in 2009, several lawsuits were filed to challenge the moratorium and the updated suction dredge regulation adopted by CDFW in 2012. Legal challenges to the regulations and the moratorium are in progress in both the San Bernardino County Superior Court and the California Supreme Court. Unless directed otherwise by the courts through a final order and consistent with CDFW obligations under the California Constitution, wildlife officers will continue to enforce the current prohibition on suction dredge mining in California.

Currently there is some misleading information provided on unofficial Internet websites suggesting the legal matters are resolved, the moratorium is no longer in effect, and miners may lawfully mine using motorized suction dredge equipment in California. This information is inaccurate. CDFW is concerned that this misinformation may lead some miners to return to operating suction dredges where they will be at risk of citation or arrest and possible forfeiture of their equipment.

When the legal procedures conclude, CDFW will notify the public of the final outcome and changes to the law, if any.

More information can be found at http://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Licensing/Suction-Dredge-Permits.

Alaska raid that left miners fuming

In August 2013, law enforcement agents -- wearing bulletproof vests, waders and side arms -- hopped on all-terrain vehicles and aircraft for a journey into the Alaskan wilderness.

The team from U.S. EPA, the Bureau of Land Management and the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation was on the lookout for Clean Water Act violations at a small gold-mining outpost near the Canadian border, not far from Chicken, Alaska -- population seven in the 2010 census.

Allegations of wrongdoing in the wake of the raid soon rained on the agencies, particularly EPA. Republicans saw the enforcement as emblematic of an administration that keeps sticking its nose where it doesn't belong. And Alaskans saw it as another example of the federal government's heavy hand.

Some media reports, painting the probe as an EPA-led assault with storm troopers in full-on SWAT gear, soon took hold. Now, almost two years later, some lawmakers remain angry enough to threaten stripping the agency of its firearms.

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Alaska raid that left miners fuming

GPAA: Gold Trails TV Series to Premiere Jan. 3

GPAA: Gold Trails TV Series to Premiere Jan. 3: "GPAA: Gold Trails TV Series to Premiere Jan. 3
Gold Prospectors Association of America to launch TV premiere of Gold Trails with Kevin Hoagland Saturday, Jan. 3."

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Sarina Finkelstein photographs participants in California’s new gold prospectors in her book, The New Forty-Niners.

Sarina Finkelstein photographs participants in California’s new gold prospectors in her book, The New Forty-Niners.:



Almost 160 years after the first California gold rush of 1849, a new wave of prospectors rushed to the state seeking fortune. In 2009, Sarina Finkelstein left Brooklyn to join them, but instead of looking for treasure, she went looking for photographs. Her book, The New Forty-Niners, is the result of her four-year journey into an amazing subculture made up of gamblers, adventurers, veterans, retirees, freelancers, ex-convicts, and off-the-grid types. 

Nugget Alley East Fork San Gabriel Ca

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Facebook Vs. Gold Mining Industry: One Could Buy The Other [CHART]

Facebook Vs. Gold Mining Industry: One Could Buy The Other [CHART]:

This is a truly Absurd World we live in.





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The San Francisco Mint Burned Its Carpets to Find $200000 Worth of Gold

The San Francisco Mint Burned Its Carpets to Find $200000 Worth of Gold: "The San Francisco Mint Burned Its Carpets to Find $200000 Worth of Gold"

Even after the gold fever died down, gold itself was in the air in San Francisco—as long as you knew where to look. That place would be in the San Francisco Mint. In a majestic granite and sandstone building downtown, bullion was turned into gold coins—as well as lots and lots of gold dust.

A fascinating 1893 newspaper tour of the San Francisco Mint—spotted by historian Yoni Appelbaum spotted on Twitter—takes us into the workrooms where men cut gold into strips and the adjusting rooms where ladies filed coins down to just the right size. Millions in precious metal passed through these rooms every year, and none of it went to waste, recovered, instead, through "seemingly small economies." This included setting fire to the carpets to find any gold dust trapped within:  read more...

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miller table - for fine gold recovery

Yukon Gold - Season 2 Series Trailer - YouTube

Yukon Gold - Season 2 Series Trailer - YouTube:



Big Al McGregor - Go big or go home!  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e6g6MHXS_8&feature=share







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VIDEO: 'Klondike' Cast Invade 'Gold Rush' Preshow 'Dirt' (Exclusive)

'Klondike' Cast Invade 'Gold Rush' Preshow 'Dirt' (Exclusive):

The six-hour miniseries, which stars Game of Thrones' Richard Madden, tells the story of the last great Gold Rush in history. Madden will join Klondike co-stars and executive producers for a special episode of Discovery's Gold Rush preshow The Dirt on Monday, Jan. 20 at 7 p.m. 

That special will lead into a new episode of Gold Rush before the first two-hour part of Klondike debuts at 9 p.m.

READ MORE:  http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/klondike-cast-invade-gold-rush-669359

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Gold rush series ‘Klondike’ set to premiere on Discovery Channel (VIDEO) | Showbiz | The Malay Mail Online

Gold rush series ‘Klondike’ set to premiere on Discovery Channel (VIDEO) : "Miniseries ‘Klondike’ produced by Ridley Scott will hit the small screen in the US and Canada on January 20, 21 and 22, the Discovery Channel has announced.

The miniseries, based on Charlotte Gray’s novel Gold Diggers: Striking it Rich in the Klondike, is set during the end of the 19th century in Canada’s Yukon territory, not far from the border with Alaska, which was the setting of Charlie Chaplin’s classic “The Gold Rush”.

The story follows two childhood friends, Bill Haskell and Byron Epstein, who set out for the west, where adventure and danger await them at every turn."

The screenplay for “Klondike”, the channel’s first scripted miniseries production, was written by Paul Scheuring, creator of “Prison Break”. - See more at: http://www.themalaymailonline.com/showbiz/article/gold-rush-series-klondike-set-to-premiere-on-discovery-channel#sthash.csOzoXhw.dpuf

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