looking for mentor/guide, topic Options

[Mireton]

Hello everyone. My name is Michael and I'm new to the site and prospecting all together. I moved to Colorado over the summer and when I heard about prospecting, it's like something in me woke up. I knew that's what I wanted to do. So I began learning everything I could about it. But you can only learn so much from books and the internet, I need experience. So I am looking for someone who would maybe be willing to teach me the ropes. Sort of like an internship. Right now I'm not interested in money, just knowledge. I'm very serious about this and want to do it right. So if anyone needs a helper or just wouldn't mind teaching me a thing or two. Please let me know. :-)

[fenixsmom]

Haha sorry to have overwhelmed you! I meant that the same way as Swizz put it in a much better way. I wanted to ask you the series as something for you to contemplate. I apologize for my very blunt nature. Thank you Swizz for calming it down. Swizz is a great guy with valuable information!

In my unprofessional, inexperienced opinion, I'd buy a gold pan kit (2 pans, classifier, sniffer bottle, glass vials, shovel, tweezers and MAYBE a magnet. Season your pans and head to an open river. (open as in open to prospecting) and learn the very basic method of retrieval. You'll also be able to talk to the locals who will always give you a tip or two! Once you learn that you can learn the pros and cons of different recovery systems and figure out what will suit your needs. Some folks are happy as pie with the basic sluice set up.