Sonoran Dave Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 Drilling is hard work and expensive...even when its done half assed! Cores have to be spaced close together or you risk missing a pocket or vein. Bob, your story reminded me of the first delivery I made to one of our jobsites. They had a 70's vintage Ford F700 that was a deathtrap, same deal, crappy brakes, rust holes through the floorboard and it took a about a can of ether to get fired up. After delivering a new load of drill steel and mud waay out off of the Denali Highway, I started back towards Anchorage and promptly lost the clutch. I had to walk almost 30 miles to the nearest phone...in the cold rain. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzNuggetBob Posted January 13, 2017 Author Share Posted January 13, 2017 Thanks for the likes I'm glad you guys like the stories. Mining has been a lot of fun for me over the years. when Dave mentioned the core drilling that story popped into my head again. Swamp I talked about it before and I may have forgotten some details but it did happen about 30 years ago. Mining, nugget hunting and the adventure have been a blast for me and I hope for you guys too. as a matter of fact that last comment ("blast")just reminded me of few more stories. Dave now that you mention it the water truck had a clutch problem too. If it popped out of gear going up the mountain you could not get it back in. even with the clutch in it would just grind. you had to coast it back down the switch backs to the nearest flat spot and turn off the motor, put it back in gear and start it back up and go for it again. what a joke, driving the truck I got paid by the hour. the guys on the rig got paid by the foot! AzNuggetBob 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyy Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 WhooHoo!! The AzNuggetBob campfire stories are back! Grab your cup of joe and some Smores and gather around the fire, where AzNuggetBob will have you begging for more and the gold pile just grows higher and higher. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nugget108 Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 About dang time Bob. I mean honestly, what the heck could you have going on in your life that is more important than telling us your gold stories???? JK Bob. I know your a busy feller. Keep em coming when you can. Dan 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzNuggetBob Posted January 16, 2017 Author Share Posted January 16, 2017 Andy dont know about the cup of Joe but if ya had a beer I may show up around the camp fire. you know that I always try to slip in a little useful info in my gold stories. Thanks for watching. Dan Sounds like the cabin fever is working on ya. should I bring a snowmobile? JK AzNuggetBob 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nugget108 Posted January 16, 2017 Share Posted January 16, 2017 3 feet and counting. We can go sledding and maybe even build a snowman if you want. I'm ready for spring lol. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzNuggetBob Posted January 16, 2017 Author Share Posted January 16, 2017 (edited) Dan I'll tell ya when I was living up there the snow sucked for a few months out of the year. One of the reasons I moved up there was the driving back and forth from Az. and the gold was so easy, right off the road I was finding patches. But you didnt always have all the easy indicators because of all the sluff or blow covering the desert valley floor in that area.Poo dirt as we called it, a decomposed clay and old sedimentary silts, you drive through it and just quivers like talc. and when wet the slimiest mud I've ever seen. I have to admit this had a tendency to push me to the higher elevations. but on the flip side I knew there were patches down in the flats, found a few. but it was just random gridding to find them. sometimes there only a few inches deep under the silt.Often thought about dragging a sled coil behind a quad through some of those areas. AzNuggetBob Edited January 16, 2017 by AzNuggetBob 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nugget108 Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 Bob, I know there are patches around here that are undiscovered. My problem is I have a hard time leaving an area I've been finding gold in for an area I want to test lol. I need to though. I know there are some patches around. Lots of epithermal deposits here. From the research I've done (frigging years and years worth lol) I believe there is some sort of placer, usually small, associated with epithermal deposits. Have you found that to be true? Dan 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzNuggetBob Posted January 18, 2017 Author Share Posted January 18, 2017 Dan I know how hard it is to move away from a patch that has been good to ya. I think almost all the gold deposits N.W. Nevada at lower elevations are epithermal deposits.Your question is not a simple one to answer. but most of the gold and quartz around these suggest epithermal deposits. there are a few scattered ancient placers too. Some very high on the hillsides. I have been researching it for years too. Ive found coarse gold with or near smooth slugs with at first no obviously apparent rime or reason. Ive found some right next to the source vein. I know because the gold is cut ya coarse but just below the coarse nuggets soon turn into very smooth larger slugs having never traveled that far. 50 to 100 yards? The answer, I think I know. glaciers and/or catastrophic flooding plowing down through there. and the coarse nuggets, more recent erosion since the last glaciers..Ive seen some large nuggets come out of epithermal deposits. over 23 oz's. from claims I was working on. AzNuggetBob 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzNuggetBob Posted January 21, 2017 Author Share Posted January 21, 2017 Round and Round. AzNuggetBob 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitebutler Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 I don't believe all the theories on where gold comes from. I do know one thing I find it under my coil. So I believe gold comes from there! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzNuggetBob Posted February 2, 2017 Author Share Posted February 2, 2017 Whitebutler When I first met my wife she thought gold came from Zales, we have since disproved that theory.now she is a firm believer that in fact it comes from my pockets. AzNuggetBob 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitebutler Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 Bob, My wife believes there is Toyota parts down there. When she goes with me she says "OK going to find some gears and lockers today." It's kinda funny what they come to believe! John 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dakota Slim Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 (edited) Bob, I'm watching the National Geographic video with great interest. I've heard about the trees under millions of tons of coal before and wondered how that happened but the sulfur trioxide theorized in this asteroid collision makes me think of a new explanation for some surface gold deposits.... http://www.livescience.com/43960-asteroid-extinction-sulfur-ocean-acidification.html Edited February 7, 2017 by Dakota Slim 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzNuggetBob Posted February 7, 2017 Author Share Posted February 7, 2017 Slim I'd like to hear any theories you have on it. Sulfur trioxide is another SO heavy oxidant, also another by-product of coal burning and fossil fuel usage and also suspected to be ejected into the atmosphere after and asteroid impact. like sulfur dioxide, also known to be produced in volcanic activity and that in in self makes it difficult to say how or where it came from or when, or If,it rained down in a specific time period. it also contributes to acid rain along with the sulfuric acid that's also created. What does it have to do with gold formation,precipitation,concentration or even liberation from host rock,?. you also have to consider the temperatures and the pressures involved as that in it self can change everything. As far as trees under coal. I would imagine there were huge amounts of soil displaced and massive chemical processes thrown into the air in an large asteroid impact. AzNuggetBob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alwaysdirty Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 On 2/1/2017 at 7:15 PM, Whitebutler said: Bob, My wife believes there is Toyota parts down there. When she goes with me she says "OK going to find some gears and lockers today." It's kinda funny what they come to believe! John LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!! My wife says going to find solid axle swap parts? Sorry to get way off track guys, but this is so funny!! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swampstomper Al Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 1 hour ago, Alwaysdirty said: LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!! My wife says going to find solid axle swap parts? Sorry to get way off track guys, but this is so funny!! Crawling on rock or crawling on bedrock..? Same-same, almost -- the biggest difference being when ya tip over on rock there tends to be a great deal more damage involved.. Swamp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alwaysdirty Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 49 minutes ago, Swampstomper Al said: Crawling on rock or crawling on bedrock..? Same-same, almost -- the biggest difference being when ya tip over on rock there tends to be a great deal more damage involved.. Swamp Haha! I just tip the Bronco over and check bedrock for gold without ever getting out of the truck! Seriously though, rock crawling and prospecting go hand in hand, especially in AZ. Just this last weekend I was in 4low crawling the truck around trails and had just as much fun doing that as I was detecting! 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonoran Dave Posted February 8, 2017 Share Posted February 8, 2017 19 hours ago, Alwaysdirty said: Haha! I just tip the Bronco over and check bedrock for gold without ever getting out of the truck! Seriously though, rock crawling and prospecting go hand in hand, especially in AZ. Just this last weekend I was in 4low crawling the truck around trails and had just as much fun doing that as I was detecting! Sometimes it's more fun! I love taking the Jeep places it shouldn't go. Bill Southern won't ride with me anymore 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dakota Slim Posted February 8, 2017 Share Posted February 8, 2017 On 2/7/2017 at 4:08 AM, AzNuggetBob said: Slim I'd like to hear any theories you have on it. Sulfur trioxide is another SO heavy oxidant, also another by-product of coal burning and fossil fuel usage and also suspected to be ejected into the atmosphere after and asteroid impact. like sulfur dioxide, also known to be produced in volcanic activity and that in in self makes it difficult to say how or where it came from or when, or If,it rained down in a specific time period. it also contributes to acid rain along with the sulfuric acid that's also created. What does it have to do with gold formation,precipitation,concentration or even liberation from host rock,?. you also have to consider the temperatures and the pressures involved as that in it self can change everything. As far as trees under coal. I would imagine there were huge amounts of soil displaced and massive chemical processes thrown into the air in an large asteroid impact. AzNuggetBob Bob, when I read that article I thought about the gold deposits I am aware of and I wonder if some of the the crystalline gold found in northern Nevada and perhaps elsewhere could have been formed at or near the surface in soil rather than in hard rock, as a result of chemicals coming down from the atmosphere. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swampstomper Al Posted February 8, 2017 Share Posted February 8, 2017 11 hours ago, ArcticDave said: Sometimes it's more fun! I love taking the Jeep places it shouldn't go. Bill Southern won't ride with me anymore I bet Garimpo would ride with you.. But probably only if you uninstalled the seat belts first.. Swamp 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzNuggetBob Posted February 9, 2017 Author Share Posted February 9, 2017 12 hours ago, Dakota Slim said: Bob, when I read that article I thought about the gold deposits I am aware of and I wonder if some of the the crystalline gold found in northern Nevada and perhaps elsewhere could have been formed at or near the surface in soil rather than in hard rock, as a result of chemicals coming down from the atmosphere. http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/video/radioactive-glass-on-earth-offers-new-evidence-for-how-the-moon-formed/vp-AAmK2m5?ocid=mailsignout This may answer that question. AzNuggetBob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzNuggetBob Posted February 9, 2017 Author Share Posted February 9, 2017 (edited) Slim Could this explain some of the tektites we are finding on the surface of our planet? I've found a bunch of them and far away from any well documented large meteorite or asteroid impact sites? AzNuggetBob Edited February 9, 2017 by AzNuggetBob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dakota Slim Posted February 9, 2017 Share Posted February 9, 2017 2 hours ago, AzNuggetBob said: Slim Could this explain some of the tektites we are finding on the surface of our planet? I've found a bunch of them and far away from any well documented large meteorite or asteroid impact sites? AzNuggetBob I would have to think a large asteroid collision would disperse tektites around the globe. Obviously more would be found in some areas than others. The distribution and redistribution of minerals and chemicals contained in the earth as well as the asteroid would also be a given. When I read about the clouds of acid I thought about heap leaching and this baby.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzNuggetBob Posted February 9, 2017 Author Share Posted February 9, 2017 13 minutes ago, Dakota Slim said: I would have to think a large asteroid collision would disperse tektites around the globe. Obviously more would be found in some areas than others. The distribution and redistribution of minerals and chemicals contained in the earth as well as the asteroid would also be a given. When I read about the clouds of acid I thought about heap leaching and this baby.... Hmmm smells like hydrofluoric acid to me.? but is a nice chunk of gold. AzNuggetBob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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