The Exceptional Botrychiums of Buckskin Gulch

Poking out of the gravel of an abandoned placer mining operation at Buckskin Gulch, Colorado is a curious little fern that belongs to the ge...

Gold Safari Sluice Box Review

The Gold Safari Sluice Box Guests are gone, new camp is shaping up, and some rearranging is finished.  As promised, I have a review of the G...

Alma Study Group Tours Buckskin Gulch July 10, 2010

The Alma Study Group conducted a tour of Buckskin Gulch. The tour started at the Buckskin Cemetery where we met a number of people from Alm...

The Nature of the Blog and the Blogosphere

The Colorado Earth Science Blog started out to coordinate the work of the Lake George Gem and Mineral Club's Alma Study Project in 2010....

Small Gold Ore Crusher

Crushing Rock This week has certainly been a busy one! I DO hope you were watching gold rise and fall this past week. It was interesting to ...

Prospecting for Gold at Cache Creek and Moving our Camp

Prospecting for Gold with Friends at Cache Creek, Colorado Gold was at $1256.30 when I started this blog today, but it has probably changed ...

Summer Gold Prospecting in Colorado

Fire at Cache Creek Yes, there was another RV that burned at Cache Creek last week.  Right across from the trailer that burned last year.  M...