How To Clean Your Gold Specimens................With A Hatchet

[Reno Chris]

These are from Brazil.
Some very nice gold with some serious specimen value, but not any more...........
And you thought only Arab Africans did this to their gold.
 If anyone speaks Portuguese, perhaps you can tell us what is said and written.

 

[vanursepaul]

Then you wake up early, go to your mining area without knowing how many grams per ton that new ravine will give you... you process and suddenly ... Hoooo ...

[El Dorado]

The miners in Brazil care not one thing about collecting gold or specimen value.  Most gold found there by artisan miners rapidly ends up in a gold dealers hands. The first thing the dealer does is what you see in the video, dolly the quartz or iron stone out so the weight of the gold can be determined.  I have witnessed this on my prospecting trips down there.  It is also illegal to take raw gold out of the country as all found gold is supposed to end up in the government coffers. Its their brand of socialism where the government owns just about everything

[Steve Herschbach]

Good to see Facebook video now posts on the forum - that was a issue before. This video Chris posted is much better quality than that posted before 

 

[jasong]

Sure seems like from an economic supply standpoint that larger nuggets are going to be very rare and valuable at some point. Throughout history they are always being melted down and nature isn't in much of a hurry to make new ones.

Larger diamonds tend to stick around by comparison.

[Ridge Runner]

the Gold gods told me this what I must do to make all happy that look for it. So i chop it up and I spread it over the land for the nugget hunters to find in the US. Here I am to chop and chop to the end of time.

You have just read the bull for the day.

Chuck

PS If I found something that big you would have to pull it out of my dead hand to chop it up.

[fredmason]

chuck, they might not wait for you to be dead...before they started chopping!

fred

[tvanwho]

Why does it say I cannot view Chris video in a Frame?

 

-Tom

[beatup]

Jeez what a way to clean your gold

[Clay Diggins]

I'm not seeing a video?

I had a Brazilian business partner for several years. He sponsored a lot of Brazilians into the States and taught English to them so I managed to pick up a little Português.

Not saying I could translate but I know the difference between an x and a sh.