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43 minutes ago, Gold Seeker said:

He can but only when there's photos.

 I'm a wee bit that way myself.

23 minutes ago, vanursepaul said:

I find it a little too wordy...

  You can read!?

 This is all I know. The Plumas National Forest minerals officer told me any operation "near" a water course needs to be reviewed by the Regional Water Control Board even if it only carries water a few days per year. I have ask repeatedly for that statement in writing. haven't seen it yet. The California Dept. of Fishy wildlife says that when you pump water out of a steam course you are diverting the stream and a stream diversion permit is required. there is also the Corps of Engineers to deal with. Your claims are in such a visible area and close to town I personally wouldn't try it. You might sneak by using an in-stream sluice.

 I'll lend you a good detector.

 I found the program to be unrealistic with twisted British humor and everyone had a funny accent.

And I loved it.

 Geof;

 Could you ship me a couple dozen of them alligator things and maybe a few drop bears. I would like to discourage Phrunt from even thinking about coming to my neighbor hood with his new 6000. After all gold is a finite resource. 

 I am relatively new at the relic hunting business but I think you need to be a bit more analytical like I am when gold prospecting. So if there are any boot nails found near the spurs keep searching until you find some trouser buttons. Check each side of the trouser buttons an you will find some pocket rivets . Near the pocket rivets should be some coins. Directly inline with the fore mentioned trouser buttons there should be a line of shirt buttons. Slightly above the shirt buttons should be some gold teeth and gold fillings. Just ignore the bones.  

 Boy am I glad there's a whole bunch of ocean between you and the Northern Sierra Nevada. I'm terrified to think what you would do an area with larger gold.

Wow! What a great big, huge and beautiful tractor. Not a bad bit of gold either.

Judging by the amount of blood in your photo I'd have to guess "projectile".

 Sorry but it's cold and rainy here. can't get out to detect so my imagination is my only entertainment.

Humans are the most disgusting people on earth.

10 hours ago, jasong said:

Well, no claim is valid until a discovery has been made on it (43 CFR 3832.11 part b) -

This is one of those times that I wish that instead of a like button there was a special button that turned on flashing colored lights and played audio of a rousing John Phillips Sousa march. That might spare all of you from having to endure one of my rants and save Mr. H. from setting off my shock collar.

Thanks J.  I couldn't have stated it better.

19 minutes ago, dig4gold said:

Nothing wrong with a one gram bit of gold.

  I fully agree. I consider any nugget I find as a special gift regardless of it's size.

 If you intend to detect for gold I would suggest a good used P.I. detector such as a Minelab GPX series. The soft decomposed nature of the bedrock will allow gold to settle much deeper than the practical range of a VLF detector such as the Gold bug. Also keep in mind that a hydraulic mine like this one with such soft bedrock the miners were able to blast a couple of feet of the bedrock off with their monitors so the remaining exposed bedrock now may be nearly barren.

If you removed all of the distractions from your photo I could get a better look at the bottle.

14 minutes ago, GhostMiner said:

 

Ok, have to ask a stupid question. did they just dig a 24 mile trench?

 Yes. 27 miles to be  more exact. there were a few fumes across some intersecting gulches but mostly they stayed on contour to pick up water at every intersecting water source. 'Nuff said from here, this is Ghost Miners story.

 There is a ditch that terminates on one of my claims that is 35+ miles long.

7 hours ago, phrunt said:

yup, typo

    You had me worried. Now your off of my "Another prospector goes insane" list.

18 hours ago, phrunt said:

0.0011 of a gram

why?

Just kiddin'

1 hour ago, strick said:

everything has a price

 I am going to request Mr. H to set up a Detector Prospector " go Fund Me"  section.

 spark plug seals.

 I think we need to bribe Strick and get him to reveal his source.

49 minutes ago, GhostMiner said:

Lee Marvin would be my pick

 Lee Marvin was also a gold miner. he had an interest in and financed the Sunnyside mine west of a mining camp called Seneca on the north fork of the Feather River. There was a rough little tavern in Seneca where Lee did most of his mining.

 That was left by  biology students collecting specimens for class. It was supposed to say "TANK FOR ALL THE ORGANISMS. 

Dang spell checkers.

 Definitely rocks.

 There are some very sharp experts here that are eager to help with I.D. but even they need as much information as you can provide such as location, size, density, found in place or purchased.. ... ...

 My apologies for the sarcasm. If you hang around her long enough you will learn to ignore most of what I post.

20 hours ago, Ridge Runner said:

 

One time I caught this fish and it was so big the picture alone weighed 5 pounds

Oh ya! I once found such a big nugget I needed a bigger camera.