"Prospecting story, part deux". What a prospecting story!
April 13, 1999 at 15:49:54
Doc, you've waxed eloquent once again. I truly enjoyed all of your prospecting story--both parts. Now that you're really thinking, I predict you're really going to have some mega fun. I'm no pro, but you're getting the hang of the thinking. As a mining buddy of mine told me four years ago, "you're getting the knack."
Being the big sponge around Hoss seems to have paid off. I've been a giant listening sponge for years and it's almost unbelievable what you can learn around experienced sourdoughs if you'll just let them talk. A lot of people are so busy trying to find nuggets, while listening to the detector, or panning down their contents, that they forget to listen to the more valuable information coming from the person that took them there!
Rock Chuck's advice about the binoculars is bang on. I find them invaluable for scoping out new areas as well. Your hint on getting to higher ground to survey the area is true and proven. You did what most prospectors fail to do--get a new perspective; view it from a different angle; refuse to think the same as most others do; try a little harder and work a little harder; move a few things.
Missed your generous email on the invitation to hunt as I had already left--thanks a million anyway.
If the snow will just clear out of our mountains, I hope to be hunting again soon--I don't care whether it's with the pan or with the detector--they both work fine at trapping those poor, homeless nuggets.
Later,
Lanny in AB
Note: I am currently running an "adopt a nugget" program. Anyone with a pesky, unruly gold nugget, that doesn't appreciate your home is welcome to mail it to me, and I'll give it a permanent good home, care tenderly for it, and make sure it comes to no harm.
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