Product Description

Gold is where you find it! With over 50 years of productive experience in the desert, the author shares his techniques and professional knowledge of finding gold in the deserts of the American Southwest. This guidebook includes blueprints for making your own drywasher as well as shortcuts and helpful hints that will speed you on your way to finding your first nugget in the desert.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #52020 in Books
• Published on: 2008-06-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 32 pages

Customer Reviews

Very Helpful
I took this book out, along with a dozen others on prospecting, at my local library. I found it to be very helpful. If you need to understand the basics - and it doesn't get more complicated than that for the occasional prospector - and are a neophyte at prospecting, this is a good resource among many. It is specifically geared to porspecting in the desert where you have no naturally supplied source of water. I recommend it to you.

Gold Fever
I bought this book because of the review by the author's (son? daughter?), and I'm glad I did. I'm an amateur rockhound, and this book is very informative for anyone hoping to prospect for gold. I won't be building the drywasher the author designed (blueprints are included as an insert in the book), but Otto relates plenty of good advice. His no-nonsense style also makes it clear that dry-panning is not a good way to get rich. It's only for rockhounds who love the hunt for treasure as much as those little specks of gold that can be painstakingly picked out of the dirt (and that would be me). That's why Otto earns one of my five-star reviews.

Great!
For a small book , it has many nuggets of Great information. i used the blueprint to build my own drywasher, and have already been quite successful in just a few outings. i highly recommend this book to those whose desire to try and find Gold in the desert.