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Date Posted: 01:56:46 09/13/02 Fri
Author: Jim Straight
Subject: Re: DONE DEAL !!--- you got a good machine!- and I was the poster boy
In reply to: Bill(OR) 's message, "Re: DONE DEAL !!--- you got a good machine!" on 16:11:24 09/11/02 Wed

Hello Bill and Ralph

Yep, in all accounts.

Great-grandaughter "Bella Gloria Ponce." Saw her for the first time this morning as she was born while I was out prospecting. Just came back from spending the day with the daughters and granddaughters and inlaws; a tribe of about 14 of us. I'm the oldest of a large extended group of perhaps about 40 members which includes in-laws.

Yep Bill, I did okay. All was good. The "detector" handled the very worst mineralization-- which can be overpowering-- that is found within the broad area. Found a 4.4 penny weight about a 2-miles from the Keystone in which Bob Arnold and I mapped and sampled the underground workings back in 1961. At this time I stayed at the Keystone and sad to see the snug cabin beyond repair.

Yep Ralph, I was the poster boy; 137 pounds ago. The LST is a good all around machine.

I saw the 27.5 ounce nugget found a few weeks ago. Nice. It was found with the Gold Bug-2 and 6.5 shoe. In the alkali the bug-2 works pretty well; while there I saw numerous flyspecks and several grain-sized being found by those using Bugs. I used to live in Lovelock and our old home 475-- 13th St now abandoned and in disrepair. As a young geologist during the 1950-60-70-and up to 1982, I did considerable underground consulting work for the local miners.

I first was involved with using a metal detector underground was with mine-owner Gery Eden back about 1959.
Gery Eden bought a White's on the installment plan from Ken Sr., himself. We used it underground on the "blacksmith" level at the Old Relief Mine. Got a reading on a wall rock--- "iron." I was working at Eagle-Picher and didn't have time, so Gery hired Mr. Basso to shoot a couple of rounds into the wall and it opened up into a small pocket of high grade (silver) but that was it. A couple of years later I loaded a compressor onto an old 1941 Dodge pickup with enough hose to drill a round; but the weather closed in so I couldn't as I had to go back to Fontana (Kaiser Steel) as vacation over, and Mr. Basso again took over and "borrasco."

The last time I went underground as a consultant was in 1982; again silver/lead ore near Panamint Springs north of Trona. The ground was "wild," and I was lowered in a harness down a winze and decided on the spur of the moment that it was now time to give it up; finished out the job, and that was my last underground venture.

I also gave up drywashing about this same time and went strictly into nuggetshooting. Found my first nugget on a hardrock gold mine dump near Manhattan, Nv. Then to Quartzsite and also what is called "Ryepatch," (where I had drywashed during the 1950's with "Scotty the Assayer." Both areas were good up to about 1990 or so as the Gold Bug and Goldmaster II cleaned out most of easy and once prolific
"patches." However, at Ryepatch some of the shale bedrock still host of good gold, but it takes a PI-type to punch down a foot or so.

I have used varous VLF-types but then about three years ago I started using a Minelab 2200d--- found some nice gold with it, but nothing big. In w. Nevada the PI-types are able to punch down a foot or two through alkali into the shale/and-or red iron oxide bedrock and hit nuggets as big as 8-9 ounces.

Also there are still other areas, such as at Quartzsite, and even around the El Paso/Randsburg area where the PI-types are the best using small Mono coils.

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