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Thursday, January 31, 2013
Gold nugget panned at Knotts Berry Farm
We salted our pan with a 4.9 gram nugget and had a good time with the worker Gary.
Friday, January 25, 2013
The Meekatharra gold miner
To the tune Acres of Clams the song describes the pitfalls that await the new chum when he moves from panning alluvial gold to mining the hardrock. Set in Meekatharra in WA during the gold boom of the 1930's we are back in the days of pennyweights rather than grams. There are 20 dwt as against 31 grams to the ounce of gold. Providing you were still in the weathered zone the panning-off dish was used to estimate grade by crushing a sample of gold rock and then panning off the light rock to leave a tail of gold, the grade of which could be estimated almost as well as a formal assay. It is a feature of gold mining that the longer you are away from a prospect the better you remember it. Adjourning to the bar to talk about it can hasten the remembering greatly, which is what happens here. There were many ways to salt a mine -- witness Busang in the 1990's, which was the biggest gold deposit ever discovered yet it contained no gold. There wasn't much in the Pharlap gold mine either, but I made up the tongue in cheek words in memory of a great prospector I knew. The Pharlap was later mined out in a huge open cut. www.robertpyper.com.au
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Heavy Pans & High Waters
First trip of 2013, Gold Prospecting in East Tennessee! Heavy Rains and High water didn't keep me off of the creek. Good Gold and Big Fun. Walk Far and Dig Deep! -Hale Yes
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