Gold Mania in the Yukon

Finlay MacKay for The New York Times "Shawn Ryan outside Whitehorse, Yukon Territory."

A recent article in the NYTimes detailed out not only the tremendous increase in gold prices these days, but also the Gold Rush going on in the Yukon. Alaska is where The Gold Cone was invented and where it still serves best as a quick and utilitarian method to quick pan and heck, even feed [...]

Prospecting for early GoldCone artifacts

I was able to get in touch with the original Alaskan prospector who designed the GoldCone as a preliminary to possibly filming him coning as well as providing video history of his experiences. While we don’t have the videos yet, what we do have is the original mold to produce GoldCones. This mold along with [...]

HOWTO Use The GoldCone While Waiting to Go Gold Panning

We have contacted a number of our customers trying to get those who are using The GoldCone to send us pix, instructions, tips, etc.. to compile into a HOWTO for using the Gold Cone. This led one of our customers to take his lovely daughters out to teach them howto use a GoldCone to find [...]