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Date Posted: 09:42:05 06/16/04 Wed
Author: Hoser John
Subject: Re: Otay.....
In reply to: Jim McCulloch 's message, "Otay....." on 09:43:21 06/13/04 Sun

Ballentyne used to publish a great book on pocket gold. I found a huge pocket but never got to weigh it----Been blasting and mining in the rain in 80 for 6 days and froze,cold,and going home.My last charge uncovered this ROTTEN CRUSTY,BLACK, mess a iron garbage in a large hole on between schist and quartz. I was totally shot so i packed 13 sticks a dynamite in there with all my cord,primers and fuse to blow off my rotten luck and go home to nevada to dry out. I scooped out some of this black garbage into a empty cig pac as a rememberance of how dumb I was. Slipped in the rain and almost blew myself up,got some great pices of my feet facing uphill with fuse going off.I blew that *&^%$#@ over hundreds a cares-great FUN. Went to pizza joint in mariposa to eat,drink,and dry and go home.Ol'miner sittn' there scrubbung a metal pan with steel wool.Place is empty so I ask if'n he wants to share a pitcher? We talked and I related my tale of black garbage woe and he smiled as I handed him the cig pak with the garbage.He pulled out a small bottle a clorox bleach and dumped my junk into his pan and talked while he swished it around.In a couple a minutes he put the pan on the table and I screamed every vulgar,foul,dirty,word in 3 languages-it WAS PURE PRETTY YELLOW GOLD!!!!! I had blown at LEAST a 1/2 a cubic foot of pure gold from here to LL and back. Pocket gold is not always gold color,mostly ironish,black,looks like junk. This ol'dog learned a new trick and I pray someone who reads this benefits my ignorance of many pockets ago-Tons a au 2 u 2-John

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