Prospecting Gold Tailing Piles with a Metal Detector
Find Gold in Tailing Piles with a Detector. The evidence of past bucketline dredging operations can be found in mining districts all throughout the west. These dredges were nothing like the modern suction dredge that we use today; bucketline dredges were massive floating pieces of mining equipment that churned up the valley floors in many gold rich areas and processed the gravels.