Introduction<br > The locating of a gold placer pay streak is not an easy task;<br >if it were， we would all be rich with a minimum of effort. It is<br >quite simple to find flour gold， but to find where the bigger<br >nuggets and larger flakes have accumulated into a highly prof-<br >itable gold placer pay streak is quite a different story.<br > I wrote this book because I felt that the knowledge that l<br >had gained over the past ten years of gold prospecting would<br >he well worth the investment that you just made in purchasing<br >this book. I might add that 1 believe this book is the best little<br >， how-to" gold book on the market today.<br > My credentials include being an instructor of a successful<br >noncredit gold prospecting course at Eastern Montana College<br >for the past four years， the creator and producer of the Gold<br >Prospector s Field Guide， and author of Prospecting for Lode<br >Gold， which has been on the market for six years.<br > Armed with the knowledge that is presented in this book，<br >you may very possibly find a gold placer pay streak. I sincerely<br >hope that you do， and when you do， please sing the praises of<br >this work. However， gold location detection will take time and<br >many prospecting trips， but I assure you that it will be worth<br >the effort. I must admit that the majority of those striving to<br >become gold prospectors lose interest within the first few<br > months because of a lack of immediate success. For example，<br > my first three years of prospecting were total failures. I simply<br > didn t know what 1 was doing， nor did 1 know what prospect-<br >