** Lost Gold At The Dead Man's Mine ** A Miners Journal **

[dig4gold]

1 hour ago, GhostMiner said:

OK. You're out LOL. 

Thanks, but I do enjoy your journal.

D4G

[Reg Wilson]

How about you fill your new forum with knitting, jam recipes,  photos of miniscule specks of gold, dribble about your grand kids, lots of mutual back slapping and kissy kissy? Add some armchair experts and admin that have never made it as real prospectors and you will have a perfect replica of Australia's number one (so called) gold forum. Yuck!

[Hunterjunk]

Ah geezze Reg , I was going to post up some truly tiny Manticore gold on this forum . You have made me all shy now 😁

Ghostminer , starting a new forum would be a lot of work , and catering to an ever smaller audience as most people seem to be gravitating towards FB etc .

[dig4gold]

6 hours ago, Reg Wilson said:

How about you fill your new forum with knitting, jam recipes,  photos of miniscule specks of gold, dribble about your grand kids, lots of mutual back slapping and kissy kissy? Add some armchair experts and admin that have never made it as real prospectors and you will have a perfect replica of Australia's number one (so called) gold forum. Yuck!

Gezz Reg. That was a bit heavy handed. You get out of bed on the wrong side, or had a bit much home brew top shelf? You obviously really miss Finders.

D4G

[GhostMiner]

9 hours ago, Reg Wilson said:

How about you fill your new forum with knitting, jam recipes,  photos of miniscule specks of gold, dribble about your grand kids, lots of mutual back slapping and kissy kissy? Add some armchair experts and admin that have never made it as real prospectors and you will have a perfect replica of Australia's number one (so called) gold forum. Yuck!

Or perhaps a phony YouTube channel? Better yet, one of these fake gold shows on TV. 

 

[Tahoegold]

If you really wanted to make some big bucks, take those concentrates with the dozens of ounces, pay some actors to look like they are shoveling into a sluice and then coming up with pounds of gold. People don't care if its fake. Comic book characters made Marvel millions. A new super hero Gold Miner Man would be a hit only because people wouldn't care if its fake when they only see simple tools, and a couple of guys with pounds of real gold. No one would be able to resist seeing that much gold in a pan no matter how fake... People believe fake stuff all the time and tune in regularly to be fooled by it. 

   Of course, this is all sarcastic. Just thought I'd add to the fun.

[GhostMiner]

4 minutes ago, Tahoegold said:

If you really wanted to make some big bucks, take those concentrates with the dozens of ounces, pay some actors to look like they are shoveling into a sluice and then coming up with pounds of gold. People don't care if its fake. Comic book characters made Marvel millions. A new super hero Gold Miner Man would be a hit only because people wouldn't care if its fake when they only see simple tools, and a couple of guys with pounds of real gold. No one would be able to resist seeing that much gold in a pan no matter how fake... People believe fake stuff all the time and tune in regularly to be fooled by it. 

   Of course, this is all sarcastic. Just thought I'd add to the fun.

Indeed. Look how long Gold Rush has been on TV LOL. We won't tell the viewers we had to run hundreds & hundreds of yards to get the gold.  I will try to get a new post out on the journal today. Looks like everything is back to normal (whatever that is). 

[GhostMiner]

September 27   2002     Moving The operation     

 

   Clay was not able to get much pay gravel hauled yesterday and today was no different. The rain has let up but the road needs work. Conor and I finished up running the gravels yesterday and we weighed up the concentrates from 60 yards. We ended up with 14.3 ounces. Not too bad but now we are out of pay gravel to process.

   I hiked up to the pond and got a surprise. It was over one half full of water. All the recent rain had started to replenish it. The seasonal north/south creek was starting to run again as well. We all talked over the idea of moving camp back up to the dig site and using the pond as our water source once again. I asked Jacob what his opinion was and he thought it was worth one last try. If the pond held up for a week or two we might hit our jackpot. If not then at least we had given it our best effort.

   We all worked like dogs and had our camp set up near the digsite before dark. We will need to run water line and set pumps tomorrow morning. If it rains hard again it will only help us by replenishing the pond. Now to see what lies in the bottom of that pit. 

   TO BE CONTINUED ...............

[Mike Furness]

17 hours ago, dig4gold said:

Thanks, but I do enjoy your journal.

D4G

GM I think that goes for most if not all of us here. 🙃

[GhostMiner]

  September 28     Gambling Gold For Gold

 

   We worked all morning and afternoon setting pumps and running water line the long distance needed. Of all things the weather decided to turn sunny and hot. The forecast on the radio says it may last a few days. We are caught between a rock and a hard place. If there is no more rain for the next week or so we will quickly use up what water is in the pond. There is not near enough water in the seasonal creek up here to help us at all. So now we are hoping for more rain. The haul road is a mess and not worth the effort of fixing again this late in the season. 

   Jacob came up with an idea today and we talked it over and agreed. He suggested not processing any more upper gravels in the cut even though they contain decent gold. The water supply is limited and his idea is to wait until we get the bedrock gravels and use the water to wash them. Those gravels are what we are after right now. All of us have the fever to see what’s down there. We will stockpile the upper gravels and either run them if we have the time and water or leave them to start our next season. It’s a bit of a gamble but we are all willing to take it.  

   TO BE CONTINUED ............