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  1. i got a feeling the big guy likes you a lot and he's reading this forum real regular just to see what his friends are up to.
  2. don't I wish, but if it was possible i think the demand on Steve would be so high he'd have time for nothing else. The owners of the winery are good friends of good friends and the caretaker is a really nice guy I understand, who enjoys a glass of wine or two when company is around. So this trip I'm going to be torn between two lovers, we are of course going up with our friends and my mother in law (she's really nice) is also visiting from China, time will be a little divided. The tough part is going to be trying to stay sober enough so i don't fall into one of those holes I'm digging, the care taker and I are the only non Chinese and he likes to drink... i have no hope. Had a wedding party in China and I only remember the first half, custom is the groom walks around the room and toasts with each guest and there was over a hundred people there... I only know we cut our wedding cake because I saw the pictures. Every dinner with friends in China is accompanied by lots of BiJo (high proof white rice liquor) and you can't say no, you can try... it'll work for a while, but eventually you give in. This trip i hope it's not to bad, oh the hangovers in Shanghai. thanks for the good word, clark
  3. Thanks deathray and thanks strick, i am bringing both machines I'm sure ill use those and some other things i won't use, that i will need to rearrange every time i try to get something from the car, eventually the entire contents in the car will resemble an unorganized landfill until i unload everything an put it all back in its place... then the dance starts again. good luck yourself, clark
  4. was the Onida mine that my great uncle almost died in when the ceiling caved in.
  5. Finally got an invitation to prospect on some private property in gold country, i have been waiting for this opportunity since before the GPZ came, it's been a carrot dangling off in the distance in front of me and a source of inspiration. My nose is buried in Chris' s book and a dozen others getting ready and although my skull is thick and the pathways narrow little pieces of the puzzle are coming together. History of the place as I'm told is that it has been a privately owned winery since the early 1950's and off limits to any mining activity and therefore never been electronically prospected. there was mining activity in earlier days and in one old building on the property, in the basement it shows writing on the walls left over by Chinese miners and there are some old mining tools left behind in the basement as well. My friends also tell me the care taker on the property says gold can be easily found in the river on the adjoining private property. the property is a mountain top and gentile hill sides, the area is peppered with quartz outcrops and iron stained gossans and according to the records a history of very coarse gold. I have a couple days to bungle around the property and it's going to be a little personally embarrassing if i don't come up with something good here. But it's a big piece of property and my skills are still new. it will be another fantastic learning experience no matter what i find and another adventure to add to the books. Ill take a few pictures and keep ya posted.
  6. please don't strike me down, but JP's the god I've been saying my verses to every night before bed... and may JP guide me to the golden light - ta hope nobody finds this offensive (so many years of catholic school to recover from), but we are all like giddy school girls when JP talks of gold and I hope that never stops!
  7. roaring camp in pine grove just a few miles up highway 88 has taken some 15 to 25 pound monsters off their property in years past if i remember correctly from the speech they give on the ride down down to the river. they stop at the county hanging tree and tell you of the history there as well, it's really an interesting tour, but very sad for those who found themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time. they sure had great gold back then if you lived long enough to enjoy it.
  8. you have no idea how much id like that... he died at 33 an inn keeper in the same town. newspaper called it liver disease, but it was sudden, not a lingering sickness. newspapers can at least help me feel i know a little bit about him. his brother was almost killed one day according to the local newspaper in a mine collapse, 40 ton section fell in trapping him in a void. he was basically uninjured and spent the next few days recovering at my great-grandfathers boarding house in center jackson, the newspaper said. few days recovering makes you wonder what uninjured was back in those days (guess it would take at least a few days for me to fully clean my shorts). other newspapers have stories that add some mystery surrounding his death. My grandmother was a little girl at the time and remembered many stories of her dad and life in Jackson, she told them often, yes, it would be very nice indeed...
  9. thought id post a picture of a nugget that has special meaning for me. this nugget was found by my great grand father in Jackson California back in around 1890 when he was a young man of about 22 years and working as a gold minor.
  10. Jasong, I posted it today a told everyone to be brutal, so far its generating some discussion and not an immediate reject... i am happy about that. I'm learning more for next time so all is good in the hunt and either way i love it. I might go back to look for more of the zircon brown matrix stuff, there might be a specimen worth collecting to be found and it gives me something else to look for while I'm not finding gold.
  11. Like on family guy when Stewie and Brian glue their hands together in the big box store, don't get it on your hands and then grab the pick handle. although, you can tell the wife you might as well go prospecting the pick is stuck to your hand anyway.
  12. They make some amazing epoxies and such, I used some stuff from west marine on one of my bigger mistakes. I bought this old boat for $300.00 (anyone who has made this mistake knows that you have to add a couple of 00's to the price you pay if you plan to get it in the water) anyway, the wood in old boats as most of you know changes a little over time... the transom in this one turned out to be filled with wood chips and dust. I filled it with this this liquid epoxy and damned if it wasn't stronger than new just by drilling a few holes and squirting two or three paychecks worth of this stuff into the rotten wood. amazing... finally gave the boat to my mechanic and bought a decent one, but oh what a lesson.
  13. OK final analysis on the supposed meteorite is that it is sadly not, but for the edification of all interested it is most likely rutile with small zircon crystals and possibly some quartz as well... good eye LipCa! Was doing some more reading and zircon crystals are frequently dull grey and square as well as rust colored patches and the more gem quality are of course transparent and multi colored. this all matches for a small chunk of zircon crystals possibly some quartz and rutile on a brown matrix and NOT meteorite. This is what I love about this... I'm learning all kinds of stuff you couldn't shove down my throat when I was in school and now I can't wait to crack a book! Thanks again for all the help, now I can't wait to go find something else... ok gold i hope. (gee... the more i look at all this stuff the more it all looks alike)
  14. Quartz from what I've read is not associated w/meteorites, I also have read heat damage may alter the crystals although I'm not sure in what ways outside my own experiments with minerals and gemstone in one of my ceramic kilns which produces similar results.
  15. Hi LipCa, Jury is still out, it has very interesting things going on and it will be fun trying to find out exactly what it is and I appreciate any help.
  16. Hi Fred, I found this piece late in the day, when the lightning started I got in my car and was going to go home the rain was also coming down very heavy. As I was driving the weather cleared and I began checking new locations. By chance I marked a waypoint on my gps a few feet away because I was interested in returning for other reasons near by.
  17. I hope these are better pictures, they show the fusion crust and two areas where larger crystals have broken off probably during impact, fragments of the crystal remain although heat damaged. you can also see lines remaining on the metal from the crystal in the empty pockets. other pictures show the many small crystals intermixed in the metal, some of the rust patterns are also visible in these pictures I hope, it may also be a lot easier for me to see because I want to... anyway I think it is?
  18. Jasong, you make some really good points and minelabs response sounds like it is painted with a very broad brush. Obvious too Minelab I would believe if they had not wasted your time with some caned reply. I'm a bit confused really by the mistakes on something as simple as the ring when my other customer service experience was so good. Did you call minelab America and talk to Nadia?
  19. I'm no expert on meteorites and what I know would not fill a tea spoon in an ocean of information and am really sorry about the quality of the pictures, my photography skills are not much better than my detecting ones. I was very cautious about calling this one a meteorite when I found it, just threw it in my pocket not being sure if it was a piece of slag or cast iron. when I got home and washed it up i could see it infused with clear yellow crystals, all of the light yellow rust orange areas are transparent crystal spots in the metal. you can also see with a loop the thumb printing in the non burn crusted areas and a difference in the rust patterns in the nickel iron.
  20. sorry to hear of your problems, hopefully it dries out a starts working for you. Im sure Nokta will take good care of you soon. good luck getting it working again
  21. I was also kind of wondering just how big a difference the ring would make when used in the western united states, the ring is targeted as I understand for a very specific mineral content as found in a limited geologic reagin and as such seems counterintuitive if used in soil conditions of a different composition? If there is a need for something like this worldwide (and I'm not saying there is by any means) shouldn't it be formulated to match the targeted mineral content and then, this is really something IMO the detector does very well already without any outside interference by the operator. I just want one to hang on a string and wear it around my neck as a token to the Zed gods as I'm about wondering the hillsides, ferret ring warding off evil spirits...
  22. Been doing a some research on this little rock and it looks like another meteorite for the ZED, this one is a nickel iron pallasite weighing 6.51 grams.
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