New Reloading Funding
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Lone Hunter
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Nice, If I went I wouldn’t know what to look for and with my luck I wouldn’t know what it was if someone gave it to me. Bet it was enjoyable but hard work too.
ELR LVR
Silver $$ Contributor
Yeah Man!
You doing great!
It's def time to get back out in the gold fields.
What detector you using? (Minelab I'm guessing)
I never did desert prospecting , only rivers, so Im kinda jealous at you right now haha
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I sold this beauty when Gold hit $2k like only a year ago
Listed on ebay and was getting lowballed
Took it straight to my local Jeweler and he gave me fair price plus more for the rope chain than the nugget haha -- I would have guess backwards on that
But yes!!! Im so happy for you
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Probably meant as a joke but I feel it is horribly inappropriate.
There was a guy on the ‘A’ train ( subway) that picked the wrong drunk to mug. Interesting 15 second event.
ELR LVR
Silver $$ Contributor
Mother nature pays an honest wage (minimum wage)
Was that a “Double Tap” event…??
Dry blower/Mine Lab detector?
Summer easing up in Yuma but you still better carry a lot of water… and have a hat.
Terrific find and I am sure it will go toward several items on the “wish list”.
I can remember many years ago the Chamber of Commerce putting up a bill board saying,
Welcome to Yuma,
Where Summer spends the Winter.
Then someone handy with a spray can added,
And HELL spends the Summer…!!
Lots of people taking advantage of the new gold rush with the price of gold nowadays. If I had more reliable transportation I would be spending winter out there doing just this. Been metal detecting most of my life but never just gold. I have found lots of it and silver and diamonds over the years. The old lady confiscates all the jewelry I find. Hadn't had to buy any jewelry in over 20 years because of what I find.
No. Subways rock side to side quite a bit. This guy grabbed the alleged drunks watch, the subway rocked at the perfect moment and the drunk hit him with a right cross on the jaw not only knocked him out instantly a bunch of teeth went flying. I do mean a bunch. My stop came and I stepped over the still unconscious thief and I saw his lower lip hanging at a weird angle. The alleged drunk was sitting back down, his hand bleeding, and the watch still on his left wrist. Bad judgment on the thief’s part. I only envisioned the dental bill.
Pat A.
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I have a minelab 6000, and my wife dry washes with a thompson 12volt puffer. she gets the small stuff and I get the bigger pieces. Temps out there started in the 90's the first few days, then tapered off to the 80's then down to the 60"s. I rained a little and cut my trip short. We did get some good gold. Going back sometime in January for another 2 weeks or so.
Pat A.
Gold $$ Contributor
It's just Hobby mining. Good to get away, unplug, campfires at night instead of the idiot box. Great camping meals, and the gold is the bonus.
ELR LVR
Silver $$ Contributor
Thats great!,I have been itching to get back out to my hot spots
last detector I had was Fisher Gold Bug II
Where I am, is too much black sand so it was useless except for finding high black sand concentrations
And you can usually read a stream to know where that would be so...
I havent got another detector since
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I need to get a Minelab at some point though I know that.
Hope you do just as well your next time out!
ELR LVR
Silver $$ Contributor
True that, it's more a great way to spend time outdoors, in the woods, overnighters etc,
and also recoup a little costs, like maybe even pay for the camping trip
I used to fly fish all over Norcal
until I realized the places I was fishing held gold haha
Once I took the gold pan with me back to my fishing `spots, the flyrod never came back out
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it seems once you find some, you need to keep searching or digging just a little further, until dark
if it actually paid well recreationally, everyone would be doing it
Sounds like "gold fever".
My wife and I aren't gold bugs but we enjoy touring the old hardrock mines in CO and CA when given the chance. Also, enjoy the youtube channels of Dan Hurd, Mine Operator, MBMMLLC, Ghost Town Living, etc.
PhilC
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I have the same luck as you!
ELR LVR
Silver $$ Contributor
Haha, yes, a lil bitSounds like "gold fever".
My wife and I aren't gold bugs but we enjoy touring the old hardrock mines in CO and CA when given the chance. Also, enjoy the youtube channels of Dan Hurd, Mine Operator, MBMMLLC, Ghost Town Living, etc.
it gets in your blood
and you must keep having to reason with
"Mining for gold at a loss"
You keep getting gold right, but it cost more to get it out of the ground than you usually get back in compensation.
(I know quite a few mining operations that went out of business due to just that reason
Or simply broke even after their expenses)
One soaked 490K into getting gold out of the ground up in the Trinity Area
And only made back $250,000
Well, thats still a lot of gold pulled out, too bad they couldnt hold onto it until Gold went up enough to realize a profit...but that's unrealistic.
I used to have 4 claims in Calif. they held gold, but dredging for 8 hours only yielded approx 1 gram per yard. There is still lots of gold, but to get it out ecenomically is unfeasible.
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so when you math it out, you might be lucky to get paid $7 / hr
Unless you get lucky and hit a paystreak or something which is maybe every 3 months
regardles of the pay, I think its a good contribution to put Gold back into our economy
as well as we clean the streams of lead, only miners can do that
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Pat A.
Gold $$ Contributor
Ya might want to check out the minelab gold monster 2000. It gives you a visual as well as a audible indication of what you detect. If the indicator bar goes to the left its metal, and if it goes to the right its gold. My buddy has one and it's very accurate and better in areas where there is a lot of hot rocks Monster 2000. there are alot of online dealers that have sales.
Pat A.
Gold $$ Contributor
Yea, once you find your first gold, you get the fever.
Pat A.
Gold $$ Contributor
I agree, that's why it's just a hobby. We are low budget miners, Out there to get a little gold and get away from everything for awhile.
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