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It's worth a shot. But if it's the same guy I'm thinking of, then he'll probably offer to sell the claim since that's his 'business'. If it is in fact the same guy, he hung a bunch of paper over an area I was working and then sold a few claims to some people from California. Now, every 'winter', those people come out and 'camp' on that land for months at a time.

By your logic... What's the difference between placer gold and lode gold? If you're detecting and find a target and start to dig, will you stop digging if the target is in the bedrock? If you dig it out of the bedrock, was it placer or lode? Will you put it back if it wasn't what you wanted it to be? Will the claim owner listen to your argument? Is the trouble worth $20 of gold? The simple answer is.... if it's not your claim, placer or lode, then you shouldn't be there collecting minerals. I bet I can guess the name of the guy who claimed that wash.

I viewed moving that dirt as 'my workout'. So much so, I ordered another three yards and did it again... At 45 now, I'm not young or old. Old enough, that the 'youngsters' don't want to hear my advice, and young enough that the 'elderly' think I don't know anything. Congrats on that gold by the way. I'd be pretty happy with how those buckets panned out.

Oh, it wasn't that bad. I broke it up in three days, with the middle day being the 17 load day. Plus, I'm still a 'young man' compared to most of 'you guys'.

Thanks for the informative reply. Luke

I think you meant 40 full 5 gallon buckets? In a slightly related story: 3 'yards' of landscaping dirt delivered to my driveway equals 27 wheelbarrows moved to the backyard. One wheelbarrow 'equals' 20 heaping flat shovel scoops.

Way to go on those nugs Tom. Luke

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Thanks for clearing that up. What else is new?

What about Executive orders and pardons?

Some presidents do make decrees. Whether or not their desires are ever implemented is another story. I realize there's a process to some extent. I just find it interesting how the 'timing' in these cases played out.

The next 12 days will be interesting for sure. I wonder why these important decisions were left until now?

Or for that 'right spot' to continue to pan out as the days roll on. Someone might get lucky for a couple days here and there, but consistently, good luck.

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With the wide variances in those results, what about the results lends those samples to being meteoric? The sample on the left, is 12% iron and 'negligible' amounts of everything else. Roughly composed of 87% of what? The sample on the right, is 10% iron and almost 10% manganese. No manganese was detected in the other sample. Very few of the other numbers are close to each other. I guess I don't understand what makes them so similar. Other than they were found/left in the same place. Those results look 'slaggy' to me. But I don't know anything about slag, so it's tough to

On the premise that these rocks came from the same fall and therefore the same mass. Shouldn't the test analysis be more similar between the samples? ....and who wrote "Gu" as the atomic symbol for gold? lol

That gold has a nice character. Even the 'dinks' are chunky. Excellent finds. Congrats to you both!!

Even if you moved the decimal to the left one place... it'd still be twice as much. Excellent couple of days. Congrats!!

Wow!! Congratulations on that one !! Was it on bedrock or in the gravels?

So what's worse, dealing in stolen goods or buying stolen goods?

Don't forget Medicare and VA benefits.

Why all the negativity Dan? You seem so sure you know what you're talking about. Stop believing all the rhetoric designed to keep you in fear.

Did the demand for mined metals just evaporate? Why would your job be in jeopardy? The one of the most fundamental aspects of business is supply and demand. If there is demand, someone will supply it. I just find it hard to believe that those at the very top (1%) would just close up shop if their profit margins were taxed by a few percent. All the other extraction industries pay something and they remain in business and profitable. Your company takes something that doesn't belong to it.