good evening Dick

[aballein]

noticed that we were the only two on..soo hello from Ohio

[Dick]

Hello, yourself, from "sunny CA!". You will find me on almost 24/7, being a "night-owl, I am up, (still up) when you "eastern dudes" are just getting up for the day! I get up around 11 AM, and then it's "balls-to-the-wall"! Gotta find that 1913 liberty-head nickel"1 My dad told me about that before I knew what a "nickel" was! Still looking, tho! BTW, I am a year younger that he was when he died, in '83.

Dick

[eagames]

Hey Dick,

Here's where lost lost 1913 nickels are, under a freeway or spent on ice cream Maybe if it was spent it's still waiting to be found. Another might be in a collection or on the side of a road or never was real but check out the stories! I've got a shovel and pick ready!


http://www.krnv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1297619&nav=8faOG4ao

And yet another one:

http://coins.about.com/od/famousrarecoinprofiles/a/1913_Nickel_2.htm

[Dick]

Wal, I don't reckon I'll be gittin' ,y prospectin' stuff together agin, cuz I don't see as good as i did when I wuz prospecting, so I gess it'el have to jest stay thar The stories do make for interesting reading, tho. That does not go to say that I won't "test the soil, if I see black sand in a wash!
Dick!

[murphy]

Do you watch Prospecting America and that other Gold Prospecting show on tv?

[Dick]

I used to watch the outdoor channel for many years, while in AZ. The area where I lived is very rich in "micron" gold, and it is also very easy to find fine gold. There was a "blow out", some time in the past, that left a fan-shaped area, SW of Prescott,AZ loaded with the fine gold. It is too scattered to be workable commercially, but individual prosprctors can make pretty good money with a little HARD WORK, and a lot of luck! I have gold that the wife, and I found, and worked with a dry-washer, for several years. We have never sold any. We did it for the healthy activity, and to have something to occupy ourselves. It is much more fun "finding it", and knowing that it is worth good money, than working so hard for just a few dollars. THen there is the "Terrist organization" more commonly known as the IRS!
Dick

[eagames]

The show with the funny song and the guy that always ends up bumping into a cactus or something.

They might make as much $ off selling stuff to the prospectors as they find but it's fun to watch.

Found some neat items detecting even though most stuff here in Az is fairly recent.

[Dick]

Yes, it is. I have done some detecting, but only on an occasional way. I have a jar with rings, chains, religious emblems, etc. The coins usually were just spent, as they were for the most part, just commom current coinage. I used to do a lot of Ghost town searching, but my detectors were not that good. And it goes without saying most times, the info was as bad, or flat-out lies!. Include a year of "treasure hunting in Mexico. I could relate a few escapades that happened while there, that would be funny, even tho it had to do with the integrity of certain people. It could have been tragic, as well. I will say that the common acceptance of the "painted rocks," etc is not as well understood as it should be. Many of the paintings were not related to treasure at all. They were instead, directions to other information, a s we use the road signs, today.
Dick

[Rhubarb]

Do you guy's Metal Detect and Prospect also?


Rhubarb

[eagames]

LOL...

I try but unlike prospector Dick I haven't found any gold other than a ring but I find a lot of spending coins and a few older ones while detecting.

It's still fun to try!

I think the reason is the gold here in most areas is very small, maybe a dry washer (assuming you know good places) would be better than a detector. The big stuff is hard to find in most areas or was well hunted.

Recently I was out at Lynx creek... in 1863 they found 125,000 ounces along that creek. I figured it should be easy to find a nugget but after digging all day and getting nearly to China I found one flake I know up to the 1960s people were finding nuggets in the same spot but not me.

[Rhubarb]

LOL Ed.

I was having yellow diaper's at that time.

Lol

[Dick]

ED, I'm familiar with Lynx Creek. The case there isn't THE digging, but where you dig! When there is water available, you can run a sliuce, or a dredge, but to use a drywasher, it has to be DRY! I like the Copper Basin area better, because there are a lot of "pickers" there, that can be located with a detector. I believe that there was a large "blow-out" in that area, (Copper Basin), and that it was the cause of the large amount of very fine gold, but very easy to work area, fan-shaped, going SW from the Basin area. This includes Skull Valley. There is very fine gold everywhere. It is better known as Micron gold, but there are small pieces that are big enough to be called "pickers". The bad part of it is that with all the gold there, it is not commercially workable. I lived there more than 60 years, except when I was in the service, and while we were living in Mexico. After returning from Mexico, we worked a lot of the area south of Skull Valley, and over to the Forest windmill, in Copper Basin. Later I was a partner in a claim close by. Been a member of the G.P.A., Gld Prospectors of America, which gave us "rights" to work claims in many parts of the U.S. I kind of miss the HARD WORK
Dick!