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RE: found gold - 9/15/2009 3:54:43 AM    rockbot Posts: 3477 Joined: 6/17/2009 From: Hilo, Hawaii Status: offline athometoo, I'm no rock expert but it sure looks like welding slag. All we have around here is lava rocks but I do a lot of welding. What size pieces are they? Rocky _____________________________ " Politicians are like diapers, they need to be changed often, and for the same reason" Samuel Clemens (in reply to Plumbata) Post #: 21

RE: found gold - 9/15/2009 7:20:21 AM    GuntherHess Posts: 11432 Joined: 12/13/2004 From: Frederick Maryland Status: offline quote: welding slag That would be easy to determine. Hit a piece with a hammer. If it crumbles to powder its probably pyrite. _____________________________ FREE Online Medicine Guide - http://www.antiquemedicines.com/MedicineNexus/Nexus.htm Web Site - http://antiquemedicines.com Email : mknapp@antiquemedicines.com (in reply to rockbot) Post #: 22

RE: found gold - 9/15/2009 6:51:34 PM    athometoo Posts: 1752 Joined: 9/25/2008 Status: offline ran a few more tests , hammer test  = cracks up . rosebud torch = strong sulphur smell and evaporates . steel file = sparks . final conclusion = its gold , just the wrong kind . sure is pretty though . we just got 8 inches of rain and the river is swollen , wait a coupla weeks and go back and pick up the rest . and a little bling to my rock garden . plus i have given some to the neighborhood kids . they think its cool too .     sam        sorry sizes are golfball to raquetball size although some resemble large dog droppings . kinda like the goose and golden egg < Message edited by athometoo -- 9/15/2009 6:53:34 PM > (in reply to GuntherHess) Post #: 23

RE: found gold - 9/17/2009 2:30:44 AM    rockbot Posts: 3477 Joined: 6/17/2009 From: Hilo, Hawaii Status: offline athometoo, save me one of those rocks, (minerals). This is all we get around here! Attachment (1) _____________________________ " Politicians are like diapers, they need to be changed often, and for the same reason" Samuel Clemens (in reply to athometoo) Post #: 24

RE: found gold - 9/17/2009 2:33:12 AM    rockbot Posts: 3477 Joined: 6/17/2009 From: Hilo, Hawaii Status: offline This is another hobby of mine. Unfortunately I can't find any of this around here. Attachment (1) _____________________________ " Politicians are like diapers, they need to be changed often, and for the same reason" Samuel Clemens (in reply to rockbot) Post #: 25

RE: found gold - 9/17/2009 8:25:02 PM    Plumbata Posts: 1642 Joined: 12/4/2007 Status: offline Racketball size? really? You want to sell me a bagfull of those bad boys? No need to clean them either! There are probably some good fossils in there too, hidden deep below the grasp of rock-hounding landlubbers like myself. Which reminds me, when i was young (8 and younger) I lived in Maryland and my father would take me out to the Chesapeake to hunt for Miocene shark teeth and other fossils. This one outing, I see these 2 scuba divers emerge from the murky deep with a mesh bag filled with gigantic megladon teeth and interesting fossil bones, ranging from 2 to over 5 inches (probably 30 spectacular teeth they had), and in awesome shape too. I could hardly believe it, and the stories of the large items they had to leave behind were insane. Made my little <3/4ths inch teeth seem like peanuts. _____________________________ Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest. Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. - Thomas Jefferson (in reply to rockbot) Post #: 26

RE: found gold - 9/17/2009 9:05:31 PM    GuntherHess Posts: 11432 Joined: 12/13/2004 From: Frederick Maryland Status: offline The bay is good for fossils but if you want to find really nice ones you need to go down to the phosphate mines in NC. The shark's teeth are still razor sharp when you find them. _____________________________ FREE Online Medicine Guide - http://www.antiquemedicines.com/MedicineNexus/Nexus.htm Web Site - http://antiquemedicines.com Email : mknapp@antiquemedicines.com (in reply to Plumbata) Post #: 27

RE: found gold - 9/17/2009 9:13:44 PM    GuntherHess Posts: 11432 Joined: 12/13/2004 From: Frederick Maryland Status: offline - < Message edited by GuntherHess -- 10/2/2009 1:10:53 PM > _____________________________ FREE Online Medicine Guide - http://www.antiquemedicines.com/MedicineNexus/Nexus.htm Web Site - http://antiquemedicines.com Email : mknapp@antiquemedicines.com (in reply to GuntherHess) Post #: 28

RE: found gold - 9/17/2009 9:15:56 PM    cyberdigger Posts: 12194 Joined: 11/29/2008 From: I 195 @ US 9, NJ USA Status: online Wonderful pic!!! I see you have.. backbone?? (in reply to GuntherHess) Post #: 29

RE: found gold - 9/17/2009 9:19:21 PM    GuntherHess Posts: 11432 Joined: 12/13/2004 From: Frederick Maryland Status: offline Lots of nice whale vertebrae there, the trick is hauling them out alive _____________________________ FREE Online Medicine Guide - http://www.antiquemedicines.com/MedicineNexus/Nexus.htm Web Site - http://antiquemedicines.com Email : mknapp@antiquemedicines.com (in reply to cyberdigger) Post #: 30

RE: found gold - 9/18/2009 12:36:50 AM    RedGinger Posts: 6693 Joined: 12/7/2007 Status: offline Cool pic Gunther!  That must have been fun! _____________________________ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyVTdY2BI3g (in reply to GuntherHess) Post #: 31

RE: found gold - 9/18/2009 6:15:27 PM    athometoo Posts: 1752 Joined: 9/25/2008 Status: offline plumbata  , and rockbot i will pick the best and largest size for you (you perfer round or croissant shaped?) weve had a week of rain 12 inches or more . as soon as the river drops i will go back and pick up a 5 gallon bucket of it  . there was a rock nearby 6 ft away that was 2ft long and 1 foot wide that resembled petrified wood but looked like the stuff stallagmites(caves) are made of  . is that calcite? it had some pyrite chunks in it but was to heavy to hold with both hands already full of chunks . when i go back i will take pics of the area .     sam       as a kid we picked up chunks of real stuff in creede , cripple creek , and silverton colorado . i have a burlap sack full of those . 2 areas were old mines and 1 was the back side of a famous still working mine . everyone thinks to check the tailings but no thinks to check around the pylons where the cable cars used to bring it down the mountain . at one point me  ,my father  ,and my son had to take off our socks (they make good gold sacks) because rolling your shirt up off your belly was full .we rolled a 30lb chunk of quartz with gold flakes down the hilland put it beside a tree vowing to one day come back for it with my grandson .  good times . miss my son at 4 yrs old he was so sweet .      sam < Message edited by athometoo -- 9/18/2009 6:24:53 PM > (in reply to RedGinger) Post #: 32

RE: found gold - 9/19/2009 2:45:53 AM    rockbot Posts: 3477 Joined: 6/17/2009 From: Hilo, Hawaii Status: offline Hi Sam. I would be interested in a crescent piece. I would gladly trade with you something. What would interest you? Aloha, Tony _____________________________ " Politicians are like diapers, they need to be changed often, and for the same reason" Samuel Clemens (in reply to athometoo) Post #: 33

RE: found gold - 9/19/2009 8:33:27 PM    JGill Posts: 263 Joined: 7/8/2009 Status: offline Hey Sam cool thread, really enjoyed seeing and reading about all this stuff.  I to dabble in rocks, minerals and fossils and I have actually been to the Clavert Cliffs where you can find the sharks teeth and whale bones and other stuff.  It's hard to get to unless you come in from the water when I went I climbed down the cliffs maybe 100' but couldn't get back up because they are made up mostly of sand.  I finally had to walk down to the nuclear power plant and go under the fence.  Lucky me no one saw me.  They have a neat park/museum there too. (in reply to rockbot) Post #: 34

RE: found gold - 10/1/2009 11:51:28 PM    JGUIS   Posts: 1931 Joined: 3/18/2006 From: New Lexington, OH Status: offline quote: ORIGINAL: GuntherHess Hmmmmmmmmm < Message edited by JGUIS -- 10/1/2009 11:53:28 PM > _____________________________ Problems are not solved by the same level of thinking that created them. (in reply to GuntherHess) Post #: 35

RE: found gold - 10/2/2009 12:04:59 AM    ancientdigger69 Posts: 341 Joined: 7/31/2009 From: Central Illinois Status: offline now THATS wrong but oh so funny. TACKLEBERRY!!!!!!!!! _____________________________ Wanted: Central Illinois (Peoria) and Philly bottles (in reply to JGUIS) Post #: 36

RE: found gold - 10/2/2009 3:20:00 AM    Just Dig it Posts: 1357 Joined: 5/7/2007 From: The Whaling City Status: offline I used to volunteer in a nature par In sarasota Florida They had dug the intercoastal waterway and disturbed the geological record spreading the sand to form the park One day i had a 6 inch megalodon tooth in my pocket when i came home so happy to go surfing i forgot the tooth when i came home my mom had put the pants through the dryer.. it was so nice of a speciment like a light golden brown turned to dust after it hit the dryer = ( .. _____________________________ My other cars a bottle... (in reply to ancientdigger69) Post #: 37

RE: found gold - 10/2/2009 9:51:27 AM    bottle_head9 Posts: 1151 Joined: 4/3/2009 From: new england Status: offline It survived a million years of heat and pressure, but couldn`t survive your Maytag.What causes that to happen?I don`t know a thing about fossils. (in reply to Just Dig it) Post #: 38

RE: found gold - 10/2/2009 4:49:27 PM    rockbot Posts: 3477 Joined: 6/17/2009 From: Hilo, Hawaii Status: offline Its Surfing! It seems that surfing and shark teeth have a lot in common. lol, Rocky _____________________________ " Politicians are like diapers, they need to be changed often, and for the same reason" Samuel Clemens (in reply to bottle_head9) Post #: 39

RE: found gold - 10/4/2009 3:16:19 AM    JGUIS   Posts: 1931 Joined: 3/18/2006 From: New Lexington, OH Status: offline quote: ORIGINAL: JGUIS quote: ORIGINAL: GuntherHess Hmmmmmmmmm Sorry Gunth, didn't think it would **** you off. _____________________________ Problems are not solved by the same level of thinking that created them. (in reply to JGUIS) Post #: 40

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