Gold Seeker

8 hours ago, klunker said:

  I got the old jeep started, pumped up the leaky tire and headed out detecting. I was going to tell Sourdough Scott where I was going, but would you tell an excellent detectorist where you are going? Besides I often change my mind and go somewhere other than where I first intended to go. I headed down an old mining road that was chiseled in a cliff face in the 1850s it's about 5' 3" wide and the Jeep wheel base is about 5'2" wide so there's a good margin for error especially if you rub the wall a little bit with your front fender. The drive is much more pleasant if you don't loo down into the abyss. The road continues down a narrow ridge of loose ancient channel gravel with about two dozen switch backs which made me wish I had topped off my break fluid. When I got to the bottom there was only one place where I could park that I could bump start the Jeep if the battery was dead- again but, dang! There was a rattler all ready parked there. I carefully straddled the snake and parked and tip toed while I got out my detector. I then tight rope walked on a slippery rotten log that is across an old hydraulic pit drain that was blasted through the bedrock about 35' deep.

Found a few nuggets.

 When I got back home I read Jennifer's post on common sense safety and being prepared. It made me feel a little foolish (which is normal for me) so now I am the proud owner of a box of band aids.

So Klunker, that was you who I saw on that cliffside road?

It must of been, I snapped a photo as you drove by!!

19 hours ago, Goldseeker5000 said:

It is a dry gulch. The old timers had to transport the dirt and gravels in wagons down to the bottom of our gulch where there is a spring, to process.

Is there only the nuggets you're finding or is there any fine gold in the soil?

If there is fine gold is it worth processing?

Good find...but maybe it's just my computer but I don't see the new photos, only the one from you previous finds.

Being the casing length is 2 1/4" it would be a .44-77 cartridge, still for a Sharps rifle and mostly used for buffalo hunting and target practice.

It was the most popular cartridge for the Sharps Models 1869 and 1874, up until the introduction of the .45-70 which took over in 1876, but that caliber would of still been used for a long time after that by those who still own the previous models 44-77 Sharps rifles. 

http://www.thegunmag.com/the-colorful-history-of-the-44-77-sharps/

It's still possible that a prospector had a Sharps rifle for protection from bears if in bear country, or for hunting to feed himself.

Also found this on .44-90 cartridges..

An accurate case length will tell you which .44-90 casing it is.

"Apparently there is more than one .44/90 cartridge according to the 8th edition of 'Cartridges of the World'.

Both are bottle neck cases; .44/90 Remington Special, case length 2 7/16" made for the Remington rolling block 'Creedmore' Series about 1873.

.44/90 Sharps Necked, case length 2 5/8" made for the Sharps 'Creedmore' Series and listed in catalogue as early as June 1873.

The SPG Reloading Handbook lists the Sharps cartridge; boolit diam. .446" approx 414 grains in weight 1/40 tin/lead.
90 grains FFg; Federal 215 LRM Primer, .030" card wad and 3.30" oal."

https://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?15598-44-90

Not sure how accurate this info for this auction was but it dates that cartridge at 1883.

"This auction is for a raised letter headstamp E. Remington& Sons  44-90 Remington Special Bottle Necked 2-7/16" cartridge with a paper-patched inside Lubricated 550 grain lead Bullet.  The 44-90 was introduced as a match cartridge in 1883 for the Remington Rolling Block Creedmoor."

https://www.gunbroker.com/item/930752746

RIP Roger

Gold has dropped another $40 or so in the last 24 hours, I think the gold manipulators are reading this topic and toying with us!!

5 hours ago, Valens Legacy said:

That is a Double Image Hotwheel and they are on Ebay for around $30.00. They are also hard to find in good condition.

Nice find.

 

It's not called "Double Image", it's called "Double Vision", the name is right on the bottom of the car in the photo posted by Kaolin washer.

4 hours ago, Kaolin washer said:

found the exact ring on a website it sells for 925.00$ i wonder if its worth more than just scrap

If you sell it on eBay most likely, or sell it on Craig's List, also might get more than scrap from a pawn shop.

The gold value of that ring is $60+ at today's gold price, and then whatever you could get for the diamonds if anything.

https://dendritics.com/metal-calc/?RefreshEnable=on&Metal=Au&WeightU=1.856&cb=12964965001&Units=g&P=583&Purity=583

40 minutes ago, Luis said:

https://news.bitcoin.com/uganda-claims-exploration-surveys-discovered-31-million-metric-tons-of-gold/

 

possibly begin to decline as this gold enters the market

It will be a long time before that gold, if the surveys are accurate, enters the market.

Gold on surveys and gold in the hand are very different, it takes a long time to mine gold and they aren't even started yet, and once they do start 31 million metric tons will come out of the ground very SLOWLY!

Once they start what they mine in a week or month will be a lot to one person, or even 10 to 100 people, but for the market it will not be a huge amount.

They will be lucky to mine 2 to 3 metric tons in a year's time, if that, once they are up and getting the gold, and it could take a year are two to get too the gold and up to speed.

53 minutes ago, phrunt said:

Thanks guys, I already have a black sand magnet gadget and it works well, it does suck up some fine gold in with the black sand but not terrible.  I was hoping more to get something to try make it so I don't need to rip my sluice out of the river every hour when it clogs up with black sand as if I leave it in I'm losing gold, sometimes I can clog it up in as little as 20 minutes we just have crazy amounts of black sand.  I collected it one day and filled up half a bucket with black sand in a days sluicing.

My dealer also sells this gadget that looks pretty good, but again it's for after the fact, I want something to help prevent, that first item the Magnetrap seems good as I can pop it on and off easily without taking the sluice out of the water.

This is the other black sand separator, this one looks good.

That's made by the same guy who makes the Magic Bit video I posted.

That works really well but it would take a long time to do a lot of blacksands that "might" have a little bit of gold, if the blacksands are holding a lot of gold it would be great tool to have.

Trying to embed video but failed.

I was doing a little more searching to see if the sluice magnet i posted above is still being sold anywhere and it seems it's not....but I found this little device for separating blacksands from gold after the panning stage instead of the plunger type magnets which tends to pickup gold along with the blacksands.

It seems to work rather well at leaving the gold behind

https://youtu.be/fiN9EaX6Cno

I haven't seen this product before but years ago there was a magnet device being sold that was suspended across your sluice box and hung down into the top of the water flow and would lift the blacksands up to it allowing the gold to stay down at the bottom of the flow.

It was basically super magnets inside a PVC tube with attachments on the sides to attach it with, you could easily make a similar one for your sluice. 

I don't think it's still being sold but here's a link to one that says "Sold Out"

https://www.goldfeverprospecting.com/sluicemagnet.html

I also found a video of it in action.

https://youtu.be/dyDBxgEJfv4

5 hours ago, Swegin said:

They made a movie about them.   https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3829920/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

 

It's playing now on the FX channel, it will be on again in the morning at 2:00 AM eastern standard time.

That's awesome, great job!

29 minutes ago, kac said:

Good idea but kids are picked up and dropped off at their houses either by the buses or the parents. Not like the old days were we had to walk 10 miles up hill both ways in 6ft of snow.

I'm not sure but I think he referring too public transportation type buses, not school buses, but I could be wrong.

Here's the interview I saw.

7 hours ago, maxxkatt said:

His dog were really not helping like dog should. Funny, when the man finally got the roo down on the ground the video stopped. I guess they didn't want to anger PETA showing the rest of the video of the man beating the crap out of the roo.

 

I heard the man says in a interview that the reason he got into it with the kangaroo was because the kangaroo was attacking/going after his dogs and he was defending them!

Those .35 Remington cartiriges can also be used in this....

I own one of these, this one is not mine, mine is in storage and needs some TLC but still functions quite well, it's a Remington Model 14 Pump Carbine, it came in a full size rifle as well, yes that's right it's a pump action rifle, Remington also later made the Model 114 .35 Pump Rifle, here's a photo of one.

7 hours ago, CPT_GhostLight said:

The V-nickel only lasted to 1913, so maybe WWI counterfeit, but it could also be a legit US die. There have been cases of US dies stolen and sold on the black market. Some have been used to produce fake (not produced by a US mint) collectable coins.

4 hours ago, Denny said:

If it were a counterfeit die why would they cut off the stamp part of the die? Wouldn’t it be easier to just toss it out.  
 The U.S. mint would cut off the die stamp and destroy it. Yes maybe this one slipped by.

The US mint sells dies without the stamp they would cut that off and sell the rest of the die to the public. 

denny 

I don't think it's any part of an official die, it could be from a counterfeit die but if so wasn't very well done since it seems it's off centered to my eye.

I'm not sure if everyone knows but a coin die is a "rod", (not just a thin piece of metal like this one, the rod is for strength when the coin get stamped so the image doesn't get distorted), with the reverse impression of the coin engraved into the end of the rod and there's a die for each side, so if this was ever a die it was indeed cut off the rod.

6 hours ago, kac said:

Brass pins hammered down.

Did you use recycled scales or did you make those and do the engraving/Logo?

That was going to be my suggestion...XRF spectrometer

Still hard to say from a photo, but if it's a meteorite it would have to be a iron meteorite just looking at the "window" you filed which shows a solid metal, but it should be more highly attracted to your magnet than what you have described,