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  1. but then again, once it is empty you don't need a weight belt.
  2. Good idea, and once the tank is empty it can serve as a weight belt.
  3. I refuse to watch these shows; they cast miners and mining in a bad light and give fuel to the anti-mining nuts.
  4. Good, I was wondering why there were so many posts from you with no content or text.
  5. You are too kind Lanny. When I was in Alaska and first found mining forums, you were already there. I well remember reading about you finding gold just about everywhere you went. I have learned a lot from your posts and stories over those years.
  6. Rats!!! If Steve's generation is fading from the screen, mine must be gone. He was just a kid when I lived in Alaska.
  7. Those boots and hand bags probably keep many people from beach hunting there. I don't mind carrying a lunch, but don't really like the idea of being a lunch.
  8. I don't know what kind of shotgun shells are available where you are. But many years ago, here in the US, lead shotgun pellets were banned and we had to only use steel pellets. Then of course, you could no longer buy new shells with lead pellets. This was all done to to protect wildfowl from ingesting them and die of lead poisoning.
  9. Or, you could just live vicariously as I do over here in Northern California. I admit, it's not as much fun and no gold. I love stories like this, especially without the discomfort.
  10. Bobcats are normally very secretive and shy, avoiding people. To get to see one should be a treasured experience, not many are so fortunate. Aside from stories people tell, they are not a threat to people. I trapped Lynx for many years in Alaska, they are twice the size of any Bobcat, and also very shy. Being in the cat family, they, like most cats, make a lot of noise when breeding. I think that is what Jed was hearing when he talked about "the midnight screechers".
  11. Speaking of big trouble brewing; I have been wondering about the title of this adventure and what it could forecast. I am especially thinking in terms of what we have read so far, and contrasting it with an ending more in line with the title of the journal. Lost Gold At The Dead Man's Mine
  12. 340 buckets makes me wonder if he actually had that many buckets, or if they took what they had down to John at the Tom and dumped them on the ground. They certainly couldn't take 340 buckets of material all in one load.
  13. Yes it does, don't even have to worry about refrigeration. Bur human packrats are a whole other story.
  14. I understand that they brushed off the rocks too large to go in the bucket. He doesn't say anything about washing off large rocks in the sluice. But, anything of a size to fit in the bucket, and even smaller, like the size of a baseball, is going to result in lost gold. Classification is king in this game, no classification = poor recovery. If what you got out of the creek is any indication, they lost a lot of gold that size and especially smaller.
  15. It would have been great to work with them; but right now I would be content to be able to re-work their tailing piles and the creek, below where they had the Tom. In 1936 sluicing equipment and methods were very crude and many operations lost a lot of gold. I especially think back to where Jed told about what they filled the buckets with. He said in one place that if it fit in the bucket, it went through the sluice. That is pretty course stuff and basically unclassified. Today we know that classification is extremely important. Also, of great importance was the development of the Hungarian riffle, as well as under-current sluice boxes. Many of those old Long Toms used nothing more than small sticks laid at right angles to the sluice, not very efficient. There is every possibility that they lost a lot of gold due to these factors.
  16. Chris, were you on the California side or the Nevada side of the Cascades? It sorta looks like the California side.
  17. A cow attack! Not too bad though. If it were in Alaska, it would be bears and the tent in shreds.
  18. OK, so it sounds difficult to impossible for the general prospector to identify, unless trained to do so. Thank you, now I don't feel so stupid. Back to topic.
  19. I don't want to take this thread off topic, but wanted to ask a question of those that know. It may sound ignorant, but how can anyone tell what an actual fault is? How does anyone differentiate a gulch, gully, or even up-thrust of country rock from a fault? I have examined the pics that GM supplied, but to me they just look like a lot of places I have seen.
  20. Thanks GM, now that you said this, I do remember about the truck. I guess this is what I get for getting caught up in the story and letting things like this slip.,
  21. I had thought of that, but he never mentions anything larger than buckets. If he was remote there may not have been any way to get a truck there, or he may not have had a truck; no Ute's in those days. I suppose it will remain a mystery, but the story is good without knowing.
  22. Just wondering. He keeps talking about how many buckets they processed. Is it possible he actually had that many actual buckets? After all, back in those days buckets were metal, not plastic, that would have been a huge undertaking to get them all to a remote site. Not to even mention the huge cost of that many buckets.
  23. This is exactly the issue that has closed mining in California. The state has claimed it has power to regulate or close Federal Public land, so they banned all mining in California, within 300 feet of any waterway. No mechanical equipment can be used at all for recovery of minerals.
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