CP Club Monthly Mtg Tonight Options

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Enter Chat Room tonight @ 6:00 or later to join in! Always fun. Talk mining, prospecting, or whatever....
Click on "Chat Rooms" and enter your CP monthly password to access the Chat Mtg. If you're a paying club member you received the password via email today.
Hope to yuk it up with some of you tonight!

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Thanks Mrs. CP

I've never prospected (which in my limited understanding means "looking for gold or gems with some hope of finding something valuable") - but I do rockhound with my kids, and I tumble, cut, shape and polish stones, and make jewelry etc.

I'll look around and see if there is a "getting to know you" section.

Thanks for the welcome!

John

We'd all enjoy seeing some of your work John like Mrs. CP said.
I would like to offer some better definition to the term "prospecting" for your and others reading future references too. It's very important in the field to understand this, even what many like to refer to as "rockhounding" does in fact mean the very same thing as "prospecting". Rockhonding and or prospecting involves taking "mineral samples" in a specific area of interest for a "valuable" mineral deposit. There are many "loacatable" minerals that can be claimed and in which cases then the taking (prospecting or rockhounding or sampling of any kind) within the boundries of any location claim would be illegal. Just as it would be if you stop on private land such as road cuts/easements or someone's farm land and started taking their rocks.....you've got to know where you are to know the samples you are collecting are in fact open to collecting and not someone else's property.
Utilizing our rights to access our lands (BLM/FS) is something we are very passionate about around here as you'll see browsing around in the future.

We have a couple great threads with info on the prospecting/rockhounding topic which will help explain the definitions to reference/use while out in the woods.

Small scale mining, truth vs myth

Prospecting definitions

With the proper information at hand, then one can make their own successful decisions in their field work. No one want's to end up in a confrontation just trying to take the family out for the day's adventure.
Good luck out there on your adventures and stay safe.