kaldorlon
spending too much on rocks
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Post by kaldorlon on Jan 31, 2014 15:20:43 GMT -5
Watched season 1 of Gold Rush Alaska...I saw lots of great looking rocks going thru their sluce/shaker (great colors) and wondered if they could have sent out dumprtruck full at .50 lb( to help offset costs )of what looks like agate and neophyite (sp) jade...
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quartz
Cave Dweller 
breakin' rocks in the hot sun
Member since February 2010
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Post by quartz on Jan 31, 2014 16:17:14 GMT -5
About 8 yrs. ago they dumped tons of nice geodes into a crusher on a hwy. project near Ontario, OR. We knew the D-9 operator on the project, and cut some on a split basis that he gathered after work. He said the wheels figured no time to even grab big ones [1ft +]. Sad. Went over there once to collect after shutdown, that was one of two days during the entire project the 9 was down, found little.
Larry
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Post by rockpickerforever on Jan 31, 2014 17:33:15 GMT -5
John, I've had that same thought, watching all those great looking rocks go off the end of the sluice or shaker.
The pursuit of gold has a way of blinding people. They get tunnel vision, and just plain don't see all the cool rocks they are throwing away. You can bet they aren't "into" rocks! Besides, they don't need to offset costs when Discovery Channel is picking up the tab. Maybe not all of it, but you can bet it's a big chunk.
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Post by Drummond Island Rocks on Jan 31, 2014 17:47:19 GMT -5
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kaldorlon
spending too much on rocks
Member since October 2013
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Post by kaldorlon on Jan 31, 2014 18:05:14 GMT -5
Saw a lot better rocks in the show than those..lol
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