mn90403
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No more Alien Jerky for you! haha
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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!
The writer of this story and the publication are worth a read while some of us are still locked down.
Mitchel
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We keep wondering Minelab ...
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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.
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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.
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Too good!
Thank you.
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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.
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Ouch on that one!
How is the hand?
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9 hours ago, Norvic said:
Bugger the photos, MN stop beating about the bush is the COORDs of find we want from KL...………...……… I`ll flog Nurse Pauls return ticket once he`s over here shortly, be first one at COORDs...……......
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. 😛
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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
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That was fast.
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It would be nice to have a series of pictures of it as it bloomed.
How long did yours take?
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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.
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Here is a 'guide' to nugget value. I mean it tells you which types of nuggets bring the best prices.
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Did you sell it at auction?
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All of this talk about gophers and moles. Let's have a laugh about a children's book about beavers.
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Should we be buying the stock? They have to be after a bigger market or higher market share.
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Don't stop your research and searching waiting for better detectors. Go to the best spots you can think of and then go back if you get a 'better' detector. Just think of all the golden hoards that have been found in England without the benefit of the 5 new releases coming up! I'm even glad I found a few things and I didn't wait for a better detector.
Blast on! Go back.
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Contact Gerry and Lunk. They'll give you pointers.
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Pan it. Take the black sand and put it in anything really, add some water and separate the black sand from everything else and if you have any gold you will see it. As you separate it keep the part that doesn't stay in the pan just in case you are too forceful and you lose some of your gold.
Have fun.
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The guys who use the 800 on dredge tailings in Idaho like the bigger coils so if you don't have a 6" coil you are ok. Dig everything for the beginning until you get a feel for what is there in terms of type and size. Once you really know the sound of trash then you can skip some of it and start to look for the gold numbers of 0,1,2. You don't have to be in gold mode either but it can help on the small stuff but you likely have a few larger nuggets in that stuff.
Have fun. It is sure worth a try and with a tip like you've got you are ahead of the game.
Were the tailings trucked in from another location? Research where they were found and you will know how much gold was there before they processed it.
Mitchel
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Years ago I thought of a competition of sorts of getting metal detectorists together to go through a 'course' which would be akin to a test garden. BYO detector and see who could 'tell' what was and what wasn't at each stop on the course. This is nothing like that. haha
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Seller be aware! Get more than one offer. Value is determined by a willing seller and getting multiple offers over a reasonable amount of time.
If you don't do these things you will almost always end up with a case of 'seller's remorse!' (I know it was worth more but ...)
Now, go find another ring.
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Well, you learned a lesson. Gold and precious metal buyers buy based upon weight. If they like the piece and they can make money they will pay you 'spot' based upon the purity. They are like going to a bank and getting quick money. It is not always the best price. If you do a lot of business with them they should give you a better price over time or find another guy.
If you have a finished piece of jewelry you will just about always get a better price selling it on eBay. Take good pictures, give an accurate weight and try to show the markings and give some details about your research of the piece.
I have a good gold buyer and seller but they could care less if it is jewelry or nuggets when they pay me. They have someone sort the stuff and they melt their own and deal in big volume. They tell you to take the stones out before you sell it.
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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