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Post by captbob on Jan 6, 2018 12:26:35 GMT -5
How do you look for gold in the desert? I’ve heard of dry panning, although I know nothing about it. I’ve panned black sand on Lake Superior and found some flour gold, so I do know how to pan with water. Do you have other equipment to search for gold? Rob, Rob, Rob ... You, outta all people, should know this! Same way ya look for gold in the Arctic.  |
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Post by captbob on Jan 6, 2018 12:18:40 GMT -5
^^^  bettin' the turkey was DONE! |
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Post by captbob on Jan 6, 2018 10:07:08 GMT -5
Nice report Jean. Interesting stuff! You feel "safe" leaving your trailer unattended out there in the desert while off rockhounding - no problems?
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Post by captbob on Jan 5, 2018 11:34:13 GMT -5
It might cost you a couple hundred dollars to have your chunk transformed into polished bookends.
Maybe you could find someone to do it for less and trade of material - if it is worth having.
Would love to see pictures of your find! Nice use of trundling.
Welcome to the forum.
If you are willing to do all that work to get a huge chunk of agate home, you will like it here!
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Post by captbob on Jan 5, 2018 10:51:54 GMT -5
I think that turned out fantastic! Was really looking forward to seeing the finished stone. I have some of this Mary Ellen that I want to get started when one of my high speed tumblers opens up. Now I know what to strive for. Running my coarse grinds in the high speed machines and switch over to the regular machines for the latter stages. This place needs a For jamesp Threads Only section. Would make stuff I want to read easier to find! just sayin' |
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Post by captbob on Jan 5, 2018 9:50:44 GMT -5
I wouldn't call that larger piece in the first picture tiger iron. Hematite and jasper or jaspilite or even banded iron yeah, but not tiger iron. Tiger iron needs to have hematite, jasper and tiger eye in it, and I'm not seeing tiger eye in that piece. Should cab up nicely (messy) but don't forget that the hematite may undercut the jasper. tiger iron - notice the bands of tiger eye  |
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Post by captbob on Jan 4, 2018 17:15:02 GMT -5
Nice work Billy. That greenstone is pretty cool stuff!
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Post by captbob on Jan 4, 2018 17:10:01 GMT -5
Perhaps my moral compass is wound too tightly? Perhaps. As long as there are tens of thousands of illegals in this country that I/we/taxpayers have to support, tens of thousands of US citizens filing false disability claims that I/we/taxpayers have to support, tens of thousands falsely receiving food stamps, housing or other welfare program payments, as long as there are tens of thousands ... etc etc and all low numbers I'd probably sat F' the BLM. But, I would cover my tracks. Not bring out over daily limits that I could be caught with. If I were to sell it offsite, good luck proving where the material came from. I'm not condoning stealing the US Constitution and trying to sell it, but a couple/few hundred pounds of rocks... pffft |
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Post by captbob on Jan 4, 2018 10:57:44 GMT -5
aside: I was just back having a smoke (freakin' cold out there!) and came back inside and went in my iguana's enclosure. 111° in there  He is still out on his (heated) sleeping shelf and I will lower the enclosure temperature to around 100 before I put him in there. But, it sure was nice standing in that enclosure for a little while! |
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Post by captbob on Jan 4, 2018 10:47:22 GMT -5
wow - you ever have snow like that in your area before? Had to have closed the city down.
I have noticed that if you hit the refresh F5 key that the accumulated snow goes away. You might want to try that!
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Post by captbob on Jan 4, 2018 9:04:53 GMT -5
adam, maybe you should put getting a car on your bucket list. Makes it easier to get to all those places you want to go.
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Post by captbob on Jan 4, 2018 8:37:15 GMT -5
Dying with $1,000,000 worth of rocks for wife to deal with.  |
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Post by captbob on Jan 4, 2018 8:19:47 GMT -5
You have any BIG flea markets up around you? Might be a place to check. People sell the goofiest stuff there.
Nice looking tumbles.
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Post by captbob on Jan 3, 2018 23:38:23 GMT -5
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Post by captbob on Jan 3, 2018 23:04:16 GMT -5
^^^ I'm feeling warmer already!  |
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Post by captbob on Jan 2, 2018 20:35:40 GMT -5
uh ... NO!
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Post by captbob on Jan 2, 2018 19:49:01 GMT -5
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Post by captbob on Jan 2, 2018 17:14:15 GMT -5
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Post by captbob on Jan 2, 2018 14:59:47 GMT -5
The Congolese are in Quartzite with literally tons of super nice specimens similar to those. Just sayin'. So it is a good thing that I'm not within reasonable driving distance from Quartzite! I could blow through my rock budget for the year (not that I really have one) in an afternoon. |
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Post by captbob on Jan 2, 2018 14:57:32 GMT -5
People measure grit?
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He is still out on his (heated) sleeping shelf and I will lower the enclosure temperature to around 100 before I put him in there. 
