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Short Rich Gully Followup
mn90403 replied to Condor's topic in Gold Panning, Sluicing, Dredging, Drywashing, Etc
Good gully miss molly! Nice gold. Thank you for the posting. I just read something that could explain gold not being on bedrock in very dry areas. Sometimes when it rains it 'pours' like a thunderstorm and that storm doesn't wash all the way to bedrock. The flood goes over the top of the desert and slows down in depressions. All of the gold above the bedrock is not moved and some of the gold that is moved by the flood just settles in a nearby depression. Kinda like the 'potholes' in the area. The slope now could be considerably different than when the gold moved there assuming you are not at the source. -
Nice shooting. Too good. I'd like to get my wife over a few nuggets like that. Maybe I'll head back to Yuma next week. I'm getting over the flu now.
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Strike!
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It's only gold ... I have some friends here who want to take me back to their Mexican homes and search around the houses. They know lots of things are buried. I don't know if I would make it back from that trip. Be careful and leave directions to your patches before you go back again!
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Thanks for the look at the nuggets.
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Garrett Infinium Discontinued
mn90403 replied to Steve Herschbach's topic in Garrett Metal Detectors
This is an Infinium thread and I have never used one but I can tell you that on a recent trip to Southern Arizona many detectorists there and some Aussies at the Gem and Mineral show call the Zed 'a piece of shit 7000' as soon as you mention what you use. Something about it not being 40% deeper than an 18" NF. That attitude hardly puts us in the user of the most elite machine category. I'll still keep mine (I have found more pieces in less than a year than I did with my 5000 for much longer) and my GPX. I didn't respond to them at the time but if I did I would tell them they would find more gold with a Zed (with their keen ability to use a GPX) than they do without one. Mitchel -
Very nice gold. Lots and lots of places to hunt down there. I was around Yuma for the first time last week and found a nugget on a dry wash claim and then I went to the Arizona side. I chatted with some folks and decided to crawl up a bench. I knew going up I wasn't coming back down that way. It was all layers and layers of loose Colorado river. You lose your footing on that and you slide to the bottom. I got up to a road and hiked for another hour and a half just to look around. I don't understand the layers so I didn't stay. Mitchel
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Nice shooting with a big coil to find that little one. Mitchel
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A 7000 finds a pointer no matter where you carry it. I use a pointer on the beach.
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Some Old History...And A Nugget
mn90403 replied to strick's topic in Metal Detecting For Coins & Relics
That is just great. Very fine stuff you got there. WTG -
The 17" is a ring finder for sure. Good job Rob. Gold Basin in the morning.
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Nice Fred. Gives her a good feeling about her daddy-in-law. He's a good gold finder she tells everyone. We tell everyone that too.
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Congratulations on that first gold ring. I've seen a page of jewelry marks some place. Let me try to get it. I looked up the one I was thinking about and it is for silver and you have gold so try this: http://university.langantiques.com/index.php/Category:Jewelry_Maker's_Marks Mitchel
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Jason, You have asked for comments based upon government regulations and the effects that it has on the mining industry. Of course those are great and the basis for our lawsuits and objections to the BLM, Forest Service and other agencies cited. There are other, perhaps more controlling laws than those issued by the government. Those are the laws of economic reality (profit and loss). I started going to Gold Basin in 2011 to look for gold. My drive was from Santa Monica where I live and I made this trip several times. I joined GPAA and started hearing about the mining claims and regulations that controlled the land where I was prospecting. Miners seemed to be mostly against the BLM but I didn't know why. While taking this trip at odd times of the day and night I noticed that a place just off the interstate (Mountain Pass) was going 'gangbusters' with activity. Many new buildings were being made, earth was being moved and thousands of workers were all over Whisky Pete's at Stateline, Nevada. Something was being mined and I didn't know what it was. I didn't look it up to understand the project at the time. As it turned out the project was about rare earths. The project was Molycorp's Mountain Pass mine. It became a multi-billion dollar project to extract rare earth metals from deposits in San Bernardino County. Many of the deposits were on company land but there are also mining claims on BLM land surrounding the project. (I'm sure there is someone here who knows a lot more about this project than I do. They may have been an investor or a worker there.) The company was 'allowed' to make a massive project involving public and private lands as stated here: http://www.techmetalsresearch.com/2011/10/is-this-the-site-of-molycorps-new-heavy-rare-earth-prospect/ Why was this economically feasible at the time? There was a price bubble on rare earths. Prices were high. Supplies were stated to be low. Time to build a new mine. The budget says 'go for it' and we have investors! Fast forward to last year: http://www.hcn.org/articles/the-u-s-s-only-rare-earth-mine-files-bankruptcy The reasons the company went bankrupt was that more supplies of rare earths have been found, many of them are cheaper to extract, the prices for rare earths dropped even as they were building the new mine and engineers redesigned products that require the rare earths. This doomed the company and the mining project. Based upon everything I have read the company got all of the government approvals that it needed to mine on a very large scale but it was unsuccessful because the economic laws caused it to run out of money. In the end it did not make economic sense or cents!
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Lunkster, Does that make 4 ozt Quartzsite? Well done. Mitchel
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Ground Noise In Hot & Cold Ground With GPZ7000
mn90403 replied to ozgold's topic in Minelab Metal Detectors
I'm not going to get a second 7000 for my wife. Too bad about that Scott. -
You must have seen these: http://www.rd.com/health/wellness/poison-ivy-home-remedies/ Also saw these: Comment from: adam,Published: April 12 Tooth paste. Apply 1 hour before bed let dry then cover. Shower to remove toothpaste in morning. My poison sumac was gone in 2 days. Comment from: Liane, 55-64 Female (Patient)Published: September 05 I have poison ivy in my garden at the cabin. I've had good luck with scrubbing my arms and any other areas I might have exposed with dish soap and cold water - as cold as you can stand. I got this advice from my plumber! It seems to work. I used some GooGone when I had it years ago.
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World's Largest Drill Running Again
mn90403 replied to Steve Herschbach's topic in Detector Prospector Forum
Root, Can you tell us more in another thread? Can't imagine they would be drilling BART so close to the bottom. Mitchel -
A calculation is made using the air/dry weight and then the weight of the specimen in water. This takes advantage of known specific gravities for gold and quartz by themselves. It is an estimate. Quartz and gold vary from place to place but it allows you to estimate the gold content. I used a more 'simple' method at the time I found it. I looked around for a piece of quartz that was about the same size. I weighed that and subtracted that weight from my specimen weight. It was within 5% of the later calculated value using this method. Specific Gravity Tests For Specimen Gold
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World's Largest Drill Running Again
mn90403 replied to Steve Herschbach's topic in Detector Prospector Forum
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Scott, I like the Ass but that big guy is going to kill him! I hope it doesn't have metal shoes. Mitchel
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klunker, I was helping rusty. Now, you have taken my good and valuable info and spread it over your expenses and you want to charge me! I think this is a violation of some right I am supposed to have as it relates to theft of good and valuable directions and business advice. I choose to ignore your assessment but I still expect my 15%. mn90403
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Tortuga, It was difficult to pinpoint with the 18, the 3030 and the pinpointer. Funny thing is that I have used it since I found it in training. I've taken it and some other gold and non-gold and covered them/hid them and had people swing on it with their coils and many can't tell which is the big gold. PI's get so loud that everyone thinks it is trash. I was told if I heard that big signal later in the day after many 50 cals I would have skipped this signal to. I was glad to find it about 9 AM in the morning on a cool day. Mitchel
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There is hidden gold all over the west. Some from bank robbers. Some from hoarders. Some from miners. Pick up any book about the west and you can read a story about someone putting gold into the ground. Long before a gps gold was put back for you to find. Now, go find it. When you find some of it, send me my cut.