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z0mG nice find!

I'm only a couple of hours drive from there. Where's my hard-hat and torch!?

..teddy..jimmy wrote:

Saweeeet.. I have 2000 pounds invested in gold stocks

Oh shi-

Yeah Teddy! Nice one.

..teddy..jimmy wrote:

Saweeeet.. I have 2000 pounds invested in gold stocks

Wouldn't a big find like this, drive prices down?

I'm just using my basic knowledge of supply/demand here, I don't really know what I'm talking about.

Mek-Stizzle wrote:

..teddy..jimmy wrote:

Saweeeet.. I have 2000 pounds invested in gold stocks

Wouldn't a big find like this, drive prices down?

I'm just using my basic knowledge of supply/demand here, I don't really know what I'm talking about.

That would usually be the case but gold is still rare..

Take oil as an example..new supplies and reserves are constantly being found but prices on oil stocks remain high

Same concept

What you can't see you can't touch...

Was there perchance a rainbow and a Leprachaun sitting atop this hill?

Man where's a clip of Haggard yelling that when you need him?

HurricaИe wrote:

I'm getting myself a plane ticket

shit, with that money I could probably buy the whole airline

I guess we could fly to Belfast and then steal some right hand drive cars to drive down to Clontibret.

Damn, the prices for hotels in Monaghan are highway robbery! We'll have to set up our own mining camp and create a boomtown.

i live about 30mins from Coloma where gold was first discovered in CA and what triggered the 'gold rush' of 1849.  that's why they call us the 49'ers.  there's a state park in coloma where you can buy a pan and sit in the riverbed and swish the silt around with some water to maybe get a fingernail size of gold if you are extremely lucky.  enterprising people build sluices that are simply a box with a filter at one end that sits in the river.  this allows the river to do the work - you just have to collect the stuff in the filter.  pretty much the river there has been picked clean.  it's a nice day trip to bum around and learn about stuff though - especially when it's 110F outside and the river is 60F - nice to cool off. 

additionally there are some mines nearby where you can take an audio tour that shows how they do the operation.  back in the day, they simply dug into the side of the hill and found deposits of quartz.  then, they would make a 'drift' and follow the vein of gold in the quartz by digging/blasting.  The quartz would be collected and sent to a local stamp mill.  the stamp mill consisted of several 1 ton pistons that would be driven by a water powered shaft.  the pistons would be used to pulverize the quartz.  then water and mercury would be used to reclaim the gold.  yes, mercury.  these people doing the reclaiming had some major health problems i'm sure.  anyway, once they did that, they'd melt the gold down to bars and transport it to sacramento to the assay office where they'd weigh it and pay cash for the money.

it was a hard life for these people since you'd work all day for maybe like few cents of gold.  you had to buy the equipment to do it also and there were rackets for this.  they even leased equipment to you so you were a slave to your payments.  the big operations used hydraulic mining where they would hook up a series of smaller and smaller pipes in the river and then direct a nozzle at one end (at high pressure) to essentially erode entire hillsides to wash away the dirt and expose the quartz deposits.  it was a different time.

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ATG wrote:

m3thod wrote:

ATG is a gold miner sorta.  he does that swishing water in a pan to collect gold.  I seen it.

yabut hard rock deposits beat out placers any day.

placerville is a town near me - named for the style of mining (placer mining - pronounced plah-ser).  it's nickname is 'old hangtown' since they used to hang people there back in the day for various crimes like claim jumping, horse theft, etc.  there's even a noose and a dummy hanging off side of one of the buildings there on broad street.  they didn't mess around back then.

ATG:  have you ever been up this way before?  (sacramento or tahoe region)?

placer mining:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placer_mining

From wikipedia:

Placer mining (pronounced "plass-er") refers to the mining of alluvial deposits for minerals. This may be done by open-pit (also called open-cast mining) or by various forms of tunneling into ancient riverbeds. Excavation may be accomplished using water pressure (hydraulic mining), surface excavating equipment or tunneling equipment.

The name derives from Spanish, placera, meaning "alluvial sand." It refers to mining the precious metal deposits (particularly gold and gemstones) found in alluvial deposits—deposits of sand and gravel in modern or ancient stream beds. The metal or gemstones, having been moved by stream flow from an original source such as a vein, is typically only a minuscule portion of the total deposit. The containing material may be too loose to safely mine by tunneling. Where water under pressure is available, water under pressure may be used to mine, move, and separate the precious material from the deposit.

here's a link to the placer cradle:  [url]Placer mining (pronounced "plass-er") refers to the mining of alluvial deposits for minerals. This may be done by open-pit (also called open-cast mining) or by various forms of tunneling into ancient riverbeds. Excavation may be accomplished using water pressure (hydraulic mining), surface excavating equipment or tunneling equipment.

The name derives from Spanish, placera, meaning "alluvial sand." It refers to mining the precious metal deposits (particularly gold and gemstones) found in alluvial deposits—deposits of sand and gravel in modern or ancient stream beds. The metal or gemstones, having been moved by stream flow from an original source such as a vein, is typically only a minuscule portion of the total deposit. The containing material may be too loose to safely mine by tunneling. Where water under pressure is available, water under pressure may be used to mine, move, and separate the precious material from the deposit.

here's a link to the placer cradle http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/top … cyclopedia