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One of the hardest things to do at Rye Patch NV proper, is to find a specimen gold piece attached to quartz. Not sure how many of my Rye Patch NV swinging buddies are left from the mid 90's but we all have agreed on a couple things when it comes to gold at RP. Chevron gold is the most desired and valuable. There have been some amazing high dollar pieces discovered at the patch. Specimen gold on the other hand (gold and quartz mixed) is most rare to find at Rye Patch than many realize, why is that? I personally have found thousands of nuggets and have seen 10X dug up from all the local legends back then. But to see a piece of gold with quarts on it that came from RP, just does not seem to happen. There's big quartz boulders and quartz pockets scattered all over that area. Heck, one of the locals (Peg-Leg) used to dig out some of the pockets to discover massive beautiful clusters and even single solid monster crystals, but he never found any with gold. This is the largest specimen I have ever seen from Rye Patch proper and it was found in 2005/6 by one of my customers (Scott from Idaho) with a GP-3500 right near the burn barrel. As for me and all the thousands of nuggets I've collected in my 30 yrs of detecting RP, I have only found 2 small nuggets in the 2 to 3 gram range that had a piece of quartz attached. Anyone else seen specimen gold come from Rye Patch? Do any of you geology experts know why we are not seeing it happen more often, especially with all the quartz rocks and crystal pockets that are exposed out there? On a side note - My 1st of 2024 Rye Patch Field Training is coming up next weekend. Anyone wanting to learn some real hands on Field Knowledge and up your chances of finding that beautiful and expensive rare gold, contact Gerry's Detectors at 208-345-8898 for details.

I just came back from a trip to Gold Basin. As we know there are meteorites there. I found one about 80 grams. When it was washed off and brushed I could see some tiny yellow shinny spots. I've found lots of Gold Basins but I don't remember and of them with gold in them so I did a search. That search introduced me to a concept that many have that much of our mineable metals, including gold came to earth with meteor showers. If true this could explain a lot of unexplainable patches in different areas. Here is a primer from one of the AI tools, Copilot. This is new for me and might take a while to have my brain wrap around it after all of the info about gold being molten and coming up with eruptions. Someone help me understand this. Did meteorites bombard Earth with gold? | EarthSky https://earthsky.org/earth/did-meteorites-bombard-earth-with-gold/

I have a question about something that happened to me last night/early morning. It was around 3:30am when I went out for a smoke and heard a loud roar in the sky, as I turned to see what it was, there was a bright white light traveling from the North East towards the South West. The object looked to be about 500 to 600 feet in the sky on a downward slope. I have never heard anything like it before and would like to know if someone else here has ever heard something like this before. I could hear no impact and I could tell that the light was getting brighter the closer to the ground sa it passed over me. The whole time seeing this was no more than 3-4 seconds, but the sound I don't think I will ever forget. Any replies would be greatly appreciated to see if anyone else has ever had this happen to them. Thank you, Caleb

Hi there thanks for your help. This stone was found in the Sahara desert. I thought it was a fossil but to be honest I have no idea what it is. Any help would be appreciated. seems carved but maybe could be natural markings, extremely heavy. Sound 30cm x 20cm, some sort of quartz stone embedded.

I’m not totally convinced, but it does have a shiny outer crust, it seems metallic under that crust, and a magnet attached to a string is attracted to it. I found it while digging along my foundation wall. Any expert advice is very welcome!

“A museum in Maine is offering $25,000 for the remains of a space rock that streaked across the sky last week before landing near the border between the United States and Canada. Darryl Pitt, head of the meteorite division at the Maine Mineral & Gem Museum, said he was keen to study any fragments of the meteorite, which could contain valuable information about the solar system. The $25,000 reward is for the first meteorite piece found that weighs 2.2 pounds (1 kilogram) or more. However, he said the museum would be willing to pay for any specimen “irrespective of its size.”“ Full story with map to start your hunt! https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/12/americas/meteorite-maine-museum-reward-scn/index.html

Hello everyone I need some seasoned experts to take a glimpse at my find and judge if I'm right this is a meteorite or meteor(not). I've had this rock in my collection for some time and upon resent researching I read that Carbonaceous Meteorite are composed of millimeter sized chondrules called a matrix. This rock in my post has weathered fractured breaks, thumb prints shaped holes, rounded, and grainy like sand. Ill try to weight is and get it's mass and volume to check the rocks specific gravity. Someone tell me if I'm wrong or right thinking this is a meteorite.

I was going through a pile of junk silver for melting into a bar and came across a little silver ring I found detecting a park that was missing its stone. I didn’t really want to melt it so I took one of the meteorites I’d found out at gold basin and cut it to fit the ring and polished it to 2000 grit sandpaper. I think it’s interesting but probably not the most attractive material for Jewelry.

I found this meteorite in December while on a Vegas trip.

Mars meteorite that crashed to Earth contains 'huge diversity' of organic compounds | Live Science

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2022/11/29/minerals-never-seen-earth-somalia-meteorite/10797611002/

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2022/11/19/meteor-toronto-c8ff042/ AFAIK there is currently no report of anything reaching the ground, but it's still possible that occurred. Beware when reports like this say "hit the earth". I don't think there is evidence for that, yet. From tracking the trajectory, Niagra Falls area is apparently where a meteorites can be found IF anything of measurable size survived. Keep an eye out for updates. And if they got anything like Buffalo, NY area (almost 6 ft. in some spots in last couple days) it may be tough to even access a fall area for a while.

I thought they were not supposed to be this hot by the time they got to the ground, but maybe not? Or maybe just coincidence. But if that was a meteorite, it should be in the rubble somewhere and could be worth some decent money for that guy, given the circumstances.