On The Gold with Kevin Hoagland
Welcome to On The Gold, a podcast created around education and practical application of gold prospecting and small-scale mining. I am your host Kevin Hoagland the Gold Prospectors Association of America Executive Director of Development.
I invite you to join me as I share with you, my 50+ years of prospecting and mining experience. Yes I started very young and it all counts, especially since I was finding gold. The goal of my guest and I is to help you become a better Prospector and Miner. We will cover, in detail the basics and the true art of prospecting and recovering gold.
On The Gold offers you the opportunity to ask questions and get answers from industry leaders. I know that we can help you find more gold. I invite you to subscribe to the On The Gold podcast. And as always, I invite you to join me out there, On the Gold.
On The Gold with Kevin Hoagland
Compartmentalizing & Confidence = Gold measured by, $ per yard over specks in a pan.
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Over four decades ago I stood on a ridge overlooking a huge Desert and suddenly felt overwhelmed. I had only been out a few times on my own and honestly, they were not the most successful trips I had made.
I decided to create a box in my mind's eye with compartments and each compartment was a step to the end goal of mining all the while building confidence. These steps have saved me hundreds if not thousands of hours aimlessly wandering looking for gold, over getting on the gold with less effort.
Today the box is a spreadsheet and before going from one the next, it has to be checked off and complete.
There is a sense of pure accomplishment when you work a plan and it ends in not just gold but really really good gold measured in dollars per yard over specks in a pan.