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The finer gold will be moved further from the source! This has to do with the direction of the prevailing winds and rain storms. How many of you sat in camp during a heavy rain storm. I'm talking about one that looks like an old cow pissing on a flat rock, and watch what it does to the surface...

I think the old-mate was right about ONLY taking Samples from the Surface to 2" deep. First is the Terrain which is a Very Dry Desert environment with not much vegetation. From the Videos I have watched of the different areas there is a LOT of what is Called "Desert Armor". This is where the...

BTW, the term Lime as Alex uses it is just Calcium Carbonate or Calcite for the newer mates.

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Pocket Mines. ALEX. QUARTZ. Mining and Scientific Press, San Francisco, July 8, 1893, page 22 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Pocket Mining. NUMBER II. ALEX. QUARTZ. Mining and Scientific Press, San Francisco, July 15, 1893, page 37...

The whole concept on what a weight/measure of a Corner of gold is in Dish is, has to do with some amount of gold per Ton or Per cubic Yard/Meter. I'm still struggling with what he means. I have been able to read and reread enough times that I think that a "Pennyweight Corner" has to refer to a...

Thanks Hawkear I needed that!!! I'm not sure how this got over in the conversations part of the forum but I'm posting a link here so others can view a Lot of info I have accumulated over the years. High, IBGold see you have found the Mess I've gotten myself into on this forum. And I also see DO...

Sorry for the late Thank You Hawkear, I was in a hurry on Sat to get to the shop. The owner was coming down to help me move some 120lb Doors I am going to make a 28ft bench against the back wall of the shop. The Doors are Commercial Solid Core 2hr Fire rated doors, and I got them for FREE from...

What is the time frame for recovering your lost post? minutes, hours, days??? after you leave the post page/thread.

Here is the one about gold nuggets found East of Ely, Nevada. Enjoy!!!!

Thank You Hawkear for your response!!! Where is my saved POST??? I lost 10 min of writing a reply. Does the site have a place to recover lost posts??? Or do we have to copy and paste from wordpad??

Well I guess after 62 views there isn't anyone who knows or thinks that defining these terms and other in Sam's book are worth perusing. WE HAVE METAL DETECTORS is the NEW cry!!! Can I ask how many of you have found even 1% of what Sam did in his First 5 years, over a 1000ozs??? Does anyone...

I am having trouble defining the meanings of the different mining terms in the Book Loaming for Gold by Sam Cash. If you have any idea or know some old-timer who might know and what I think different American terms would be. p8; Loam => a sample of soil usually from top 1" of surface dirt...

The proper way was to use them in gold mining is to find out what the different sizes you will need to Classify Placer to to recover the 80-90% of the total. Say if your gold is all 20 mesh minus then you could eliminate the 20+ faction and only process the smaller faction through what ever your...