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So tell me why all of this 'stuff' that they took was still in storage and not sold? This is the more than curious part to me in many similar thefts. Tons and tons of stuff is recovered. Much of it could be traced back to the owners so they keep it. How do they cash out? I'm sure the land and lot sales people out there didn't tell the new purchasers that they will lose anything valuable in their sheds or cabins. I would think they would be required to disclose it to the buyers because they pay the real estate taxes for roads and protection.

I have followed that 'case' here. https://nuggetshooter.ipbhost.com/topic/31485-gold-basin-murder-update/?tab=comments#comment-310755 After the house was knocked off the foundation it was vandalized repeatedly until one trip I took it was all gone. Empie's house was also picked up and only the stacked rocks remain. This caused me to look up what happened and he just pleaded guilty. http://www.mohavedailynews.com/news/empie-pleads-guilty-in-2016-meadview-murder/article_caba4722-89dc-11ea-833e-b7ddd73fd780.html

UCLA Meteorite Gallery Lecture Series The Meteorite Gallery is temporarily closed to the public until further notice. Dear friends, We hope that you are all safe and well. Due to the California Stay-at-Home Order, we have decided to continue our Monthly Lecture Series virtually, using the Zoom platform. Thank you for your support, we hope to see you again soon! Advance notice of the next lecture Title: "Spherules in Sediment Deposits from Asteroid Impact Ejecta" Lecturer: Dr. Frank Kyte, UCLA Cosmochemist. When: 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, 14 June 2020. Invitation: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0ud-yppzkpH9zTgL43K75yP73wYub-w6ET This talk will discuss formation of impact spherules and their occurrence in impact deposits ranging in age from 0.8 Ma (million years before present) to 3400 Ma. When asteroids impact the Earth with cosmic velocities (about 20 km/sec) they release enormous amounts of kinetic energy. A large portion of this energy is transferred to the Earth's surface that results in seismic waves and excavation of a crater many times the asteroid's volume. Materials ejected from this crater are deposited mostly near the crater, but in large impacts the ejecta with the highest velocity can travel above the atmosphere and return as a global deposit. The famous dinosaur-killing impact at the K/Pg (a.k.a. KT) boundary produced a global deposit that was probably only a few mm thick. It is well known that this K/Pg layer has lots of iridium from the asteroid but its most distinctive characteristic on a macro level is that it is composed mainly of small spherical particles known as impact spherules. Impact spherules are a common feature of distal impact deposits (those deposited far from the impact site). Large impacts can melt significant amounts of crustal rocks in the impact crater, producing spherules around the crater. The highest velocity ejecta likely comes from a supercritical* "ejecta plume" composed of a mixture of crustal and asteroidal materials. As this ejecta plume expands, melt droplets will form, some condensing from a vapor, and these will solidify to form the silicate spherules common in impact deposits. Admission Free and open to the public.

When you use Historic Aerials are you looking at the maps or the actual aerials? When I look at the aerials it seems to be low resolution and the copyright mark is there.

Well done. Reno has quite a history of being an area where gold riches were spent and fabrications were done to take back to the mines. I once found some Levis buttons and traced the history back to the original company in Reno that was purchased by Eli. As you saw from the ring I found there's also some more 'modern' stuff in the trash. I don't think the palm tree ring is very old because it says 18k. Mitchel

I think our laws are similar if you have to 'show' any gold income. It is possible to sell (cash sale) without a trail but that likely is not to a refinery. They would be required to report the cash they pay you in the form of a 1099 which is the same as if you were to get a large casino winning. Gamblers always have a way of showing losses to exceed winnings unless it would be a big tournament.

An Aussie prank

3 pair heavy drawers ... haha

How much of the field is really dependent upon the coil (and type of coil) itself? Bigger coil, bigger field and all that stuff. You did 'address' what comes to my mind each time I see those diagrams repeated because as you say, all of us know coils and targets don't work that way. You say donut. I say nerf ball or I'm drawn to the flame like a moth. I think the real truth is that we must hear it with the fringe and then center it to dig it. I think the better detectorists with more coil control and good hearing take those fringe (iffy signals) and enhance those into real nuggets. I don't have that 'mastery' of it and I'm seeking the 'holy grail' or the edge/fringe/ground. We buy technology to help us deal with that and coils are one part. What makes someone believe they have a 'hot' coil? I think I had one with a 19" Nugget Finder on my 5000.

Steve, Why do ALL drawings of coils and their fields NEVER include the outer limits of the real detection. Side detection on the coils above can be as much if not more than the width of the coil. Is it less for the DD over the mono? Mitchel

No more Alien Jerky for you! haha

Here is a report from Pogo, Alaska. Maybe Steve can tell us about it. I don't think we'll be headed there with our metal detectors but I find some of the numbers in the report interesting. There is a poured bar there where it is stated that it is the 4 millionth ounce of gold from that mine. These things just begin to boggle my brain and I go back to thinking about those 'olympic swimming pools' of gold that say how rare gold is. There just has to be more gold and now that the price is up it will be pouring out of the ground even more because some costs are way down (fuel) and the price is up so get that stuff to market miners! https://www.miningnewsnorth.com/story/2020/05/01/news-nuggets/covid-19-protocols-limit-pogo-gold-output/6267.html The writer of this story and the publication are worth a read while some of us are still locked down. Mitchel

We keep wondering Minelab ...

Anytime you find the multi-grammers where you are hunting it makes news! There are still some ouncers out there on the BLM lands of Gold Basin. I'm not good at finding them. You will one of these days if you can keep from falling in the Joshua Trees! You've already brought fresh eyes to worn out patches and done better than I have in the last couple of years. I wish I could get over there and explore with you on a couple of trips but that is not possible right now.

There is a wash on the eastern part of the GSSN claim and then you go over to the MPA. There have been some half ouncers found over there in the past. When I was last there I chatted the drywashers there and they were finding nuggets down deep with their detectors and getting good fine gold too.

Too good! Thank you.

Well, I really don't know what to say. If I lived as 'close' to GB as you do I'd be out there a lot too. It seems you are detecting the more challenged locations to find what a coil was not over. The steepness and loose rocks can be too much.

Ouch on that one! How is the hand?

Norvic, I know better than to ask that question. You know by now that klunker speaks in tongue. I wouldn't understand the location no matter what he said. It surely would include a location which would say 'over next to the tree!' I suspect I couldn't follow your directions either if you ever showed us a nugget. 😛

Steve, You just reminded me of probably my closest encounter with the rattlesnake while detecting. I was over on the Lake Road on the Arizona Side near the old dam and boat launches. There is a canyon over there to pull up and I walked up that tall bank and followed the road back into there and found 'the workings' a couple of miles in. On my way out I didn't want to slide down those loose rock slopes so I went down a gully. Those were steep also but you could grab on to something. I was about to take a step down and my foot was just above a curled up snake. When your momentum is already headed down and you are put into flight mode with your hands full of detector and pick you try to make your foot go some place else. I did and he didn't move but I was within inches. It would have been hard to get out of there because it was still 25 minutes before I got to my car. Mitchel

That was fast.

It would be nice to have a series of pictures of it as it bloomed. How long did yours take?

It'll make some collector proud. You should have given us a chance to make you an offer. haha There would be a Klunker nugget premium.

Here is a 'guide' to nugget value. I mean it tells you which types of nuggets bring the best prices. https://goldnuggetsforsale.com/index.php?main_page=how_are_gold_nuggets_priced&zenid=75b78b9f79f22916d031950fa700ff45

Did you sell it at auction?