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I have been watching Gold Rush on TV, the story of a group of men who go to
Alaska to look for gold. I have experience with gold mining, having had a mining setup for three years. The most we found in one day was two ounces. The least was about as much as could buy half a pack of cigarettes. From the start, I could see things they were doing wrong, but figured they would solve their problems. Now they have a person experienced in mining, and he is telling them things that I would have told them the first week. The gold table was a bust, as the only ones I saw that worked well only worked on a perfectly flat showroom floor under perfect conditions. I am interested in how this will turn out. I'm sure they will make just enough to have a season two, even if it amounts to the producers ponying up and salting the mine, or just some behind the scenes infusions of cash or equipment or supplies. They have a winner of a show, and they're not going to let it die before they get a few seasons out of it. Or a spin off or six. I got a 14' derelict travel trailer from the Nevada Test Site and stripped it down to the frame. Beefed it up, put an expanded metal deck on it, put a 100 gallon tank, 2" 5hp recirculating water pump, and a 10' long x 16" wide sluice. Fancy surrey canvas awning top over the whole thing, as Mojave county Arizona heat can be brutal. Made a 3' long x 16" diameter grizzly. It all worked pretty sweet. We ran the talings a few times that were left in the water trough through a "poop chute", a piece of 4" corrugated leach field pipe sawn in half on the horizontal with a mild water flow. That will catch fine gold. Then pan the black sand and fines. We never found enough to make it worth the six to eight hours to do it, so we were pretty confident in our machine. The next step would have been a motorized lift for raw materials, but we just used five gallon buckets. Has anyone here had any serious experience with gold mining of any kind? We did placer deposits and found angular placer gold and gold in white quartz of jewelry quality. Anyone have any comments on the show? Steve Heart surgery pending? Read up and prepare. Learn how to care for a friend. Download the book. http://cabgbypasssurgery.com |
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I know a local ebay seller who also set up some kind of a gold mining
outfit, kind of like you descrbied, and also went on to mine gold. Results were kind of similar, he did get some gold, but not enough to make it worthwhile. i |
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On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 22:38:32 -0800, "Steve B"
wrote: I have been watching Gold Rush on TV, the story of a group of men who go to Alaska to look for gold. Can't stand the melodrama. I wouldn't mind watching a show about gold that is not peppered with **** and vinegar characters. Where did I see that before? -- Boris |
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Have been in tons of mines though, I can spot tailings 20 miles away. That was one of my favorite past times out there in Nevada. I read your post about 3 hours ago and started looking for a mine that I've been unable to find again for many years. Well thanks to some silly GPS hunting games I found it! It's the Anniversary Mine. N36 12 57 62 W114 42 25 43 We went there with two dune buggies through the washes from Nellis back when it was first paved as separate directions in Feb. 1984. I remember approaching it from the North East, but I see now it would be a lot easier from the South. The roads around the mountains were terrible, like with half the tires hanging off the edge. That mine is very scary it has about 4-5 horizontal shafts that are connected by about the as many shafts nearly vertical approx. 75 degrees. I distinctly remember thinking when we where there that the probability of dead people at the bottom of those shafts would be very likely. The wooden ladders back then where very shady. They probably have closed in the entrance by now cause that is a VERY dangerous mine, but I know another way into it, if I ever get back that way. I also found out what they were mining, been looking for that information for 27 years. I had given the soft ball sized crystal that I took from the mine to my bro. and never could find anyone who knew what it was from a description. All that I had heard was from the guy who led the way and he said it was for electric transmission insulators. I had always wondered if it was asbestos... Guess not, doesn't seem to be mined anywhere near NV. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulexite Hmmm, the specimen I had was about 3 times bigger than the one shown. http://www.gemhut.com/ulexite.htm $44 ! Wow, wonder if anyone buys the stuff. Gave my bro. a good $500 rock ! Might have to go back and get some more now, that's IF I get back to sin city. Haven't found any gold , yet. SW |
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"Sunworshipper" SW@GWNTUNDRA wrote in message ... Have been in tons of mines though, I can spot tailings 20 miles away. That was one of my favorite past times out there in Nevada. I read your post about 3 hours ago and started looking for a mine that I've been unable to find again for many years. Well thanks to some silly GPS hunting games I found it! It's the Anniversary Mine. N36 12 57 62 W114 42 25 43 I have been in that area, and it is accessible from the North Shore Road. It is quite desolate, but the washes make it easy travel for a dune buggy or an ATV. We went there with two dune buggies through the washes from Nellis back when it was first paved as separate directions in Feb. 1984. I remember approaching it from the North East, but I see now it would be a lot easier from the South. The roads around the mountains were terrible, like with half the tires hanging off the edge. That mine is very scary it has about 4-5 horizontal shafts that are connected by about the as many shafts nearly vertical approx. 75 degrees. I distinctly remember thinking when we where there that the probability of dead people at the bottom of those shafts would be very likely. It is very likely that the Mob has planted some people there over the years. The wooden ladders back then where very shady. They probably have closed in the entrance by now cause that is a VERY dangerous mine, but I know another way into it, if I ever get back that way. Exploring mines is tricky stuff. I also found out what they were mining, been looking for that information for 27 years. I had given the soft ball sized crystal that I took from the mine to my bro. and never could find anyone who knew what it was from a description. All that I had heard was from the guy who led the way and he said it was for electric transmission insulators. I had always wondered if it was asbestos... Guess not, doesn't seem to be mined anywhere near NV. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulexite Hmmm, the specimen I had was about 3 times bigger than the one shown. http://www.gemhut.com/ulexite.htm $44 ! Wow, wonder if anyone buys the stuff. Gave my bro. a good $500 rock ! Might have to go back and get some more now, that's IF I get back to sin city. What, you left the glitz and glamour of Las Vegas? Where did you go? Haven't found any gold , yet. We found ours over at Meadview, AZ. SW |
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"Boris Mohar" wrote in message ... On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 22:38:32 -0800, "Steve B" wrote: I have been watching Gold Rush on TV, the story of a group of men who go to Alaska to look for gold. Can't stand the melodrama. I wouldn't mind watching a show about gold that is not peppered with **** and vinegar characters. Where did I see that before? -- Boris I can't stand to watch American Choppers any more. The old man is a psycho. The kid is a wimp. And the old man needs to go clothes shopping. He has worn that same old costume on every show since day one. I guess he can't see he's getting flabby triceps and three chins, and isn't tank top material any more. He's stuck in the seventies, and I think the booze and drugs have taken their toll Steve |
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--Honestly I find it hard to abide another collection of people
having a soap opera, regardless of how interesting their tasks may be. Oh for a new paradigm, where people get along, lessons get learned without drama and we all move on together... -- "Steamboat Ed" Haas : Steel, Stainless, Titanium: Hacking the Trailing Edge! : Guaranteed Uncertified Welding! www.nmpproducts.com ---Decks a-wash in a sea of words--- |
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Steve B wrote:
I can't stand to watch American Choppers any more. So don't. Duh. Cheers! Rich |
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steamer on 01 Feb 2011 17:20:33 GMT typed in
rec.crafts.metalworking the following: --Honestly I find it hard to abide another collection of people having a soap opera, regardless of how interesting their tasks may be. Oh for a new paradigm, where people get along, lessons get learned without drama and we all move on together... Great idea. Too bad it just doesn't have whatever it takes to be a Great Show. Which is why all that "drama" in the first place. This is entertainment, not documentary. B-) pyotr -- pyotr filipivich We will drink no whiskey before its nine. It's eight fifty eight. Close enough! |
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Rich Grise wrote:
Steve B wrote: I can't stand to watch American Choppers any more. So don't. Duh. Cheers! Rich Hey , I watched that show ! Once ... for about 15 minutes . I rate it at about the same level as rasslin' . Which means that if it's the only thing on I turn off the TeeVee . -- Snag Learning keeps you young ! |
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Rich Grise wrote: Steve B wrote: I can't stand to watch American Choppers any more. So don't. Duh. Cheers! Rich No wonder I plonked you. |
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Steve B wrote:
I have been watching Gold Rush on TV, the story of a group of men who go to Alaska to look for gold. I have experience with gold mining, having had a mining setup for three years. The most we found in one day was two ounces. The least was about as much as could buy half a pack of cigarettes. From the start, I could see things they were doing wrong, but figured they would solve their problems. Now they have a person experienced in mining, and he is telling them things that I would have told them the first week. The show lost a bunch of credibility when they started spoiling for a fight with the new guy. If I were in their shoes and an experienced miner showed up, the first words out of my mouth would be "show me how to fix it", not snarling over my ****ing grounds. And I don't miss Dorsey at all. |
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"steamer" wrote in message ... --Honestly I find it hard to abide another collection of people having a soap opera, regardless of how interesting their tasks may be. Oh for a new paradigm, where people get along, lessons get learned without drama and we all move on together... -- "Steamboat Ed" Haas The whole thing is interesting, as I have experience gold mining. Yet, for these guys to pony up $250k and not know their asses from holes in the ground, I don't have much sympathy for them when they make newbie mistakes. They all seem to know everything, yet, duh, they make mistakes on the lowest levels. I will say that without Harness, they'd be dead in the water by now. I am just hanging around to see what happens next, as I know that this is not a real program. Just like when I watch home decorating shows with metalwork or welding, I know it just doesn't happen anywhere near that in real life. Steve Heart surgery pending? Read up and prepare. Learn how to care for a friend. Download the book. http://cabgbypasssurgery.com |
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What, you left the glitz and glamour of Las Vegas? Where did you go? Haven't found any gold , yet. We found ours over at Meadview, AZ. I got out just in time, felt like my house was the last to sell. I even left a month before it sold, took some major chances. Plan was to leave the year before, but took on one more year contract, and would have made a killing. And ended up in Texas, but on a low budget ended up a mile SW of being a Yooper. Temperature change from high to low is about 140 degrees. I'm really beginning to like it, was fed up on dust and brown. Left june '08. SW |
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I do not watch anything with melodrama, I especially cannot stand
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Ignoramus24017 wrote:
I do not watch anything with melodrama, I especially cannot stand to see crying women, it is ****nig painful. I watch some sitcoms, primarily because there's usually a laugh or two, and there's nothing else on. But I find myself talking back at them - "Well, why don't you just ..." sort of stuff, but then I realize that if any of the characters had had common sense in the first place, they wouldn't have had an episode to air! I read somewhere recently that people watch sitcoms because they like to see the antics of people who are stupider than they themselves are. ;-) Cheers! Rich |
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Steve B wrote:
Rich Grise wrote: Steve B wrote: I can't stand to watch American Choppers any more. So don't. Duh. No wonder I plonked you. Well, you're pretty damned attentive for a plonker! :- Thanks! Rich |
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On 2/1/2011 1:46 PM, Rich Grise wrote:
I read somewhere recently that people watch sitcoms because they like to see the antics of people who are stupider than they themselves are. ;-) Given the popularity of sitcoms, that's scary... Jon |
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On 2/1/2011 12:30 PM, Steve B wrote:
The whole thing is interesting, as I have experience gold mining. Yet, for these guys to pony up $250k and not know their asses from holes in the ground, I don't have much sympathy for them when they make newbie mistakes. They all seem to know everything, yet, duh, they make mistakes on the lowest levels. Yeah, not much sympathy here either. I know nothing about that level of gold mining. And if I had a quarter mi to invest, it wouldn't be in gold mining... But if I were to give it a try, I'd probably spend a year researching equipment and methods, and would damn sure try to hook up someone that knew what they were doing as a partner. I had to laugh, in one episode, one of the guys asks "Where is the gold?". Where ya find it of course! Jon |
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Rich Grise wrote:
Steve B wrote: Rich Grise wrote: Steve B wrote: I can't stand to watch American Choppers any more. So don't. Duh. No wonder I plonked you. Well, you're pretty damned attentive for a plonker! :- Thanks! Rich If you look , you'll see he responded thru my reply to him ... -- Snag Learning keeps you young ! |
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On Tue, 01 Feb 2011 14:10:07 -0800, Jon Anderson
wrote: On 2/1/2011 1:46 PM, Rich Grise wrote: I read somewhere recently that people watch sitcoms because they like to see the antics of people who are stupider than they themselves are. ;-) Given the popularity of sitcoms, that's scary... Jon And all this time I thought they were learning how to handle their own life by example. SW |
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On Tue, 01 Feb 2011 14:10:07 -0800, Jon Anderson
wrote: On 2/1/2011 1:46 PM, Rich Grise wrote: I read somewhere recently that people watch sitcoms because they like to see the antics of people who are stupider than they themselves are. ;-) Given the popularity of sitcoms, that's scary... The entire IQ-less content of 500 channels of programming is scary. No wonder Al Qaeda keeps finding people to kill us, if they see what we're watching and think that's the extent of our intellect. deep sigh -- To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. -- J. K. Rowling |
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Snag wrote:
Rich Grise wrote: Steve B wrote: Rich Grise wrote: Steve B wrote: I can't stand to watch American Choppers any more. So don't. Duh. No wonder I plonked you. Well, you're pretty damned attentive for a plonker! :- If you look , you'll see he responded thru my reply to him ... Yeah - he's so obsessed with me that he had to go to some length to rant at me. ;-) Cheers! Rich |
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In article , Steve B
wrote: I have experience with gold mining, having had a mining setup for three years. The most we found in one day was two ounces. The least was about as much as could buy half a pack of cigarettes. Twenty-four years ago one of my uncles had a "foolproof" method of extracting gold from beach sand. He invested everything he had into the scheme, and leased a portion of the Guadalupe Dunes not far from my house to test the "equipment." My uncle died in Las Vegas a couple years later, poor and destitute. Drowned in his own vomit. I don't know what the lesson is. Maybe better Scotch, or a better pillow. Frank -- Here's some of my work: http://www.franksknives.com |
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I went gold panning once...All I got for several hours work was a sore
back. JR Dweller in the cellar On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 22:38:32 -0800, "Steve B" wrote: I have been watching Gold Rush on TV, the story of a group of men who go to Alaska to look for gold. I have experience with gold mining, having had a mining setup for three years. The most we found in one day was two ounces. The least was about as much as could buy half a pack of cigarettes. From the start, I could see things they were doing wrong, but figured they would solve their problems. Now they have a person experienced in mining, and he is telling them things that I would have told them the first week. The gold table was a bust, as the only ones I saw that worked well only worked on a perfectly flat showroom floor under perfect conditions. I am interested in how this will turn out. I'm sure they will make just enough to have a season two, even if it amounts to the producers ponying up and salting the mine, or just some behind the scenes infusions of cash or equipment or supplies. They have a winner of a show, and they're not going to let it die before they get a few seasons out of it. Or a spin off or six. I got a 14' derelict travel trailer from the Nevada Test Site and stripped it down to the frame. Beefed it up, put an expanded metal deck on it, put a 100 gallon tank, 2" 5hp recirculating water pump, and a 10' long x 16" wide sluice. Fancy surrey canvas awning top over the whole thing, as Mojave county Arizona heat can be brutal. Made a 3' long x 16" diameter grizzly. It all worked pretty sweet. We ran the talings a few times that were left in the water trough through a "poop chute", a piece of 4" corrugated leach field pipe sawn in half on the horizontal with a mild water flow. That will catch fine gold. Then pan the black sand and fines. We never found enough to make it worth the six to eight hours to do it, so we were pretty confident in our machine. The next step would have been a motorized lift for raw materials, but we just used five gallon buckets. Has anyone here had any serious experience with gold mining of any kind? We did placer deposits and found angular placer gold and gold in white quartz of jewelry quality. Anyone have any comments on the show? Steve Heart surgery pending? Read up and prepare. Learn how to care for a friend. Download the book. http://cabgbypasssurgery.com |
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"Jim Stewart" wrote in message ... Steve B wrote: I have been watching Gold Rush on TV, the story of a group of men who go to Alaska to look for gold. I have experience with gold mining, having had a mining setup for three years. The most we found in one day was two ounces. The least was about as much as could buy half a pack of cigarettes. From the start, I could see things they were doing wrong, but figured they would solve their problems. Now they have a person experienced in mining, and he is telling them things that I would have told them the first week. The show lost a bunch of credibility when they started spoiling for a fight with the new guy. If I were in their shoes and an experienced miner showed up, the first words out of my mouth would be "show me how to fix it", not snarling over my ****ing grounds. And I don't miss Dorsey at all. It's very hard to tell anything to someone who knows it all. When Todd sneered at the teenager for telling him how to fix that Duplex jig, he lost some or my respect. As you said, I'd suck it up if a really knowledgeable person showed up, and all I would ask is "How would you like your eggs cooked?" Steve |
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"Sunworshipper" SW@GWNTUNDRA wrote in message ... What, you left the glitz and glamour of Las Vegas? Where did you go? Haven't found any gold , yet. We found ours over at Meadview, AZ. I got out just in time, felt like my house was the last to sell. I even left a month before it sold, took some major chances. Plan was to leave the year before, but took on one more year contract, and would have made a killing. And ended up in Texas, but on a low budget ended up a mile SW of being a Yooper. Temperature change from high to low is about 140 degrees. I'm really beginning to like it, was fed up on dust and brown. Left june '08. SW We still have three vacation rentals there that do very well. We have a fantastic management couple. We still do real estate analysis, and go to Vegas at least once a month. Sometimes we have to stay overnight, but most of the time, we just get up early and get out and come back the same day. We live in a rural Utah community of 900 people, but about half a mile or more on the outskirts of it. We just love it here. I'm going to get out a lot more this year, as construction has finished. What's a Yooper? Whereabouts in Texas? I lived in the Houston area for a few years, and in Louisiana. Loved Louisiana. Steve |
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"Ignoramus24017" wrote in message ... I do not watch anything with melodrama, I especially cannot stand to see crying women, it is ****nig painful. i Dorsey's wife cried as much as he did. Steve |
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"Frank J Warner" wrote Twenty-four years ago one of my uncles had a "foolproof" method of extracting gold from beach sand. He invested everything he had into the scheme, and leased a portion of the Guadalupe Dunes not far from my house to test the "equipment." I made some hefty equipment for a friend of mine who had a claim on the American River in California. Then, one day, he went on a trip to Catalina Island with some hippie chick, and they went on the glass bottomed boat. She built a viewer out of 4" PVC with a glass bottom, and walked the creek. In the first week, she found one nugget the size of a golfball, and several smaller ones of good weight. Hugh gave up on all the heavy stuff and just used the underwater viewer after that. The separation part of the operation is relatively simple. Getting all those tons of dirt into the grizzly is where all the work is. Steve Heart surgery pending? Read up and prepare. Learn how to care for a friend. Download the book. http://cabgbypasssurgery.com |
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"JR North" wrote in message ... I went gold panning once...All I got for several hours work was a sore back. JR Dweller in the cellar There must not have been any there. duh. But no, I mean to say that gold panning is very easy, and if you do have some gold of any size in the pan, it is hard to shake it out. Now, flour gold is a whole nother story. Steve |
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Steve B wrote:
id wrote in message ... I do not watch anything with melodrama, I especially cannot stand to see crying women, it is ****nig painful. i Dorsey's wife cried as much as he did. LOL |
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On 2011-02-02, Steve Ackman wrote:
In , on Tue, 01 Feb 2011 13:46:55 -0800, Rich Grise, lid wrote: I read somewhere recently that people watch sitcoms because they like to see the antics of people who are stupider than they themselves are. ;-) Big Bang Theory. Sometimes socially inepter, but certainly not stupider. ;-) That's the only one which I watch. :-) Enjoy, DoN. -- Remove oil spill source from e-mail Email: | Voice (all times): (703) 938-4564 (too) near Washington D.C. | http://www.d-and-d.com/dnichols/DoN.html --- Black Holes are where God is dividing by zero --- |
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"Sunworshipper" SW@GWNTUNDRA wrote in message ... What's a Yooper? Steve http://www.usaring.com/yooper/glossary.htm It's under D. SW Better file that in the back of your brain. Them Texicans don't like words that they don't know. And they have a vocabulary all their own. Steve |
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On 2/1/2011 10:19 PM, Steve B wrote:
She built a viewer out of 4" PVC with a glass bottom, and walked the creek. In the first week, she found one nugget the size of a golfball, and several smaller ones of good weight. Hugh gave up on all the heavy stuff and just used the underwater viewer after that. Another neat item, though a lot pricer, is the White's Goldmaster, tuned specifically for gold. The 16 to 1 mine in Allegehaney, California, has taken to using metal detectors quite a bit. They found one dang decent size specimen in a well traveled tunnel, just a foot or two inside the rock. They'd been walking right by it for many years and had no clue it was there. Jon |
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DoN. Nichols wrote:
On 2011-02-02, Steve Ackman wrote: 13:46:55 -0800, Rich Grise, lid wrote: I read somewhere recently that people watch sitcoms because they like to see the antics of people who are stupider than they themselves are. ;-) Big Bang Theory. Sometimes socially inepter, but certainly not stupider. ;-) That's the only one which I watch. :-) I wonder why they broke up Penny and Leonard? Just more opportunities for jokes? (BTW, I identify with Leonard; who doesn't? But in real life I'm probably more like Howard. =:-O ) Thanks, Rich |
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"DoN. Nichols" wrote: On 2011-02-02, Steve Ackman wrote: In , on Tue, 01 Feb 2011 13:46:55 -0800, Rich Grise, lid wrote: I read somewhere recently that people watch sitcoms because they like to see the antics of people who are stupider than they themselves are. ;-) Big Bang Theory. Sometimes socially inepter, but certainly not stupider. ;-) That's the only one which I watch. :-) I've worked with people like them. -- You can't fix stupid. You can't even put a band-aid on it, because it's Teflon coated. |
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"Jon Anderson" wrote in message ... On 2/1/2011 10:19 PM, Steve B wrote: She built a viewer out of 4" PVC with a glass bottom, and walked the creek. In the first week, she found one nugget the size of a golfball, and several smaller ones of good weight. Hugh gave up on all the heavy stuff and just used the underwater viewer after that. Another neat item, though a lot pricer, is the White's Goldmaster, tuned specifically for gold. The 16 to 1 mine in Allegehaney, California, has taken to using metal detectors quite a bit. They found one dang decent size specimen in a well traveled tunnel, just a foot or two inside the rock. They'd been walking right by it for many years and had no clue it was there. Jon IIRC, they are the prime method of finding gold in Australia, and companies have even made specific models to deal with Australian soils. I have been using mine for looking for meteorites. None yet, but some possible specimens. I use three neodymium 1.5" disks right now, and boy, you can hear it when something clicks and jumps on the magnets. Will have these analyzed at some time, there is a lot of iron in the soils hereabout, the next county north being Iron county, and iron ore to make cast iron has been mined there for 150 years now. Steve |
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On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 20:21:01 -0800, Rich Grise
wrote: DoN. Nichols wrote: On 2011-02-02, Steve Ackman wrote: 13:46:55 -0800, Rich Grise, lid wrote: I read somewhere recently that people watch sitcoms because they like to see the antics of people who are stupider than they themselves are. ;-) Big Bang Theory. Sometimes socially inepter, but certainly not stupider. ;-) That's the only one which I watch. :-) I wonder why they broke up Penny and Leonard? Just more opportunities for jokes? (BTW, I identify with Leonard; who doesn't? But in real life I'm probably more like Howard. =:-O ) Thanks, Rich I had to look this up through the names, didn't know what ya'll were talking about. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFS1F-3XVtk Never seen it before. That has to be the best sitcom I've seen so far. My wife gets box sets of everyone loves raymond from the library and it is like fingernails on a chalkboard to me, makes me feel like I should start jumping up and down on all the DVD's. Wow, that chick is hot ! SW |
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On Wed, 2 Feb 2011 21:41:47 -0800, "Steve B"
wrote: "Jon Anderson" wrote in message ... On 2/1/2011 10:19 PM, Steve B wrote: She built a viewer out of 4" PVC with a glass bottom, and walked the creek. In the first week, she found one nugget the size of a golfball, and several smaller ones of good weight. Hugh gave up on all the heavy stuff and just used the underwater viewer after that. Another neat item, though a lot pricer, is the White's Goldmaster, tuned specifically for gold. The 16 to 1 mine in Allegehaney, California, has taken to using metal detectors quite a bit. They found one dang decent size specimen in a well traveled tunnel, just a foot or two inside the rock. They'd been walking right by it for many years and had no clue it was there. Jon IIRC, they are the prime method of finding gold in Australia, and companies have even made specific models to deal with Australian soils. I have been using mine for looking for meteorites. None yet, but some possible specimens. I use three neodymium 1.5" disks right now, and boy, you can hear it when something clicks and jumps on the magnets. Will have these analyzed at some time, there is a lot of iron in the soils hereabout, the next county north being Iron county, and iron ore to make cast iron has been mined there for 150 years now. Steve You should see it up here by Iron Mountain Mi. My cheap metal detector in Vegas would beep loudly over a penny, up here the penny doesn't ever beep at all. Matter of fact, the thing has a tone and goes blank over something metal and back to a tone here unless it's an anvil. Wonder if this has anything to do with it. http://thebigfoto.com/earths-gravity I seem to have moved to a big low spot. I'd like to make a magnetometer some day. Plus try to get it to work just above or below water. SW |
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