Facts about Gold

[aarthrj3811]

I thought you said earlier there are millions of people using dowsing wands

Wrong again….I said there are “millions of Dowser:
It is possible that you do not understand what we are talking about….It has been explained to you many times what “we” call Rods…When you mention “Wands” all every one thinks of is the story about Kansas …Art

 

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[pronghorn]

Thousands of LRL and MFD users will go into the field and enjoy their hobby…
Soon to be 5,000 then 10,000 and then even more

So...will that change any of the facts about gold? Will we still call it AU, or something entirely different?

I thought you said earlier there are millions of people using dowsing wands

To about a billion people in the world Dowsing is a good word because it is their hobby.

Growing fast, at this rate by next week there will be more
people dowsing than the total population on Earth, and
they still won't have any finds to post

 

[aarthrj3811]

Growing fast, at this rate by next week there will be more
people dowsing than the total population on Earth, and
they still won't have any finds to post

I have been looking up on the finds..I guess fake treasure hunters do not have any finds to post…

 

[aarthrj3811]

Tom Ashworth's Prospector's Cache Conversion Table
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1 Pennyweight (DWT) = 1.5550 Grams
1 Troy oz. = 20 Pennyweight = 31.10348 Grams
1 Kilogram = 32.15 Troy ozs. = 2.204 Avoridupois lbs.
1 Avoridupois lb. = 453.6 Grams = 14.5836 Troy ozs.
CONVERSION CHART
Pennyweight to Ounces to Grams
DWT Troy oz. Grams DWT Troy oz. Grams
10 0.5 15.550 330 16.5 513.208
20 1.0 31.104 340 17.0 528.760
30 1.5 46.655 350 17.5 544.311
40 2.0 52.207 360 18.0 559.863
50 2.5 77.759 370 18.5 575.415
60 3.0 93.311 380 19.0 590.967
70 3.5 108.862 390 19.5 606.518
80 4.0 124.414 400 20.0 622.070
90 4.5 139.966 410 20.5 637.623
100 5.0 155.518 420 21.0 653.174
110 5.5 171.069 430 21.5 668.725
120 6.0 186.621 440 22.0 684.277
130 6.5 202.173 450 22.5 699.829
140 7.0 217.725 460 23.0 715.381
150 7.5 233.276 470 23.5 730.932
160 8.0 248.828 480 24.0 746.484
170 8.5 264.380 490 24.5 762.036
180 9.0 279.932 500 25.0 777.588
190 9.5 295.483 510 25.5 793.139
200 10.0 311.035 520 26.0 808.691
210 10.5 326.587 530 26.5 824.243
220 11.0 342.139 540 27.0 839.795
230 11.5 357.690 550 27.5 855.346
240 12.0 373.242 560 28.0 870.898
250 12.5 388.794 570 28.5 886.450
260 13.0 404.346 580 29.0 902.002
270 13.5 419.897 590 29.5 917.553
280 14.0 435.449 600 30.0 933.105
290 14.5 451.001 610 30.5 948.657
300 15.0 466.553 620 31.0 964.209
310 15.5 482.104 630 31.5 979.760
320 16.0 497.656 640 32.0 995.312

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CONVERSION CHART
Converting To Other Measure
Abbreviations:
AV=AVOIRDUPOIS
DWT=PENNYWEIGHT
LB=POUND
OZ=OUNCE
To convert from To Multiply by To convert from To Multiply by
Grains Grams 0.0647988910 LB Troy Grains 5760
Grains DWT Troy 0.041666667 LB Troy Grams 373.2417050
Grains OZ Troy 0.002083333 LB Troy DWT Troy 240
Grains LB Troy 0.000173611 LB Troy OZ Troy 12
Grains OZ. AV. .002285714 LB Troy OZ. AV. 13.16571430
Grains LB AV 0.000142857 LB Troy LB AV. 0.822857100
Grains Carats 0.323994550 LB Troy Carats 1866.208525
Grams Grains 15.43235835 OZ. AV. Grains 437.4999973
Grams DWT Troy 0.643014930 OZ AV Grams 28.34952300
Grams OZ Troy 0.032150737 OZ AV DWT Troy 18.22916662
Grams LB Troy .002679229 OZ AV OZ Troy 0.911458298
Grams OZ AV 0.035273962 OZ AV LB Troy 0.075954861
Grams LB AV 0.002204623 OZ AV LB AV 0.0625
Grams Carats 5.0 OZ AV Carats 141.7476150
DWT Troy Grains 24.0 LB AV Grains 7000.0
DWT Troy Grams 1.555173843 LB AV Grams 453.5923745
DWT Troy OZ Troy 0.05 LB AV DWT Troy 2916667031
DWT Troy LB Troy 0.004166667 LB AV OZ Troy 14.58333324
DWT Troy OZ AV 0.054857143 LB AV LB Troy 1.215277841
DWT Troy LB AV 0.003428571 LB AV OZ AV 16
DWT Troy Carats 7.775869215 LB AV Carats 2267.96187
OZ Troy Grains 480 Carats Grains 3.086471671
OZ Troy Grams 31.10348606 Carats Grams 0.2
OZ Troy DWT Troy 20 Carats DWT Troy 0.128602986
OZ Troy LB Troy 0.083333333 Carats OZ Troy 0.006430147
OZ Troy OZ AV 1.097142900 Carats LB Troy 0.000535846
OZ Troy LB AV 0.068571429 Carats OZ AV 0.007054792
OZ Troy Carats 155.5173840 Carats LB AV 0.000440925

Tom Ashworth's Prospectors Cache / Tom Ashworth / October 21, 2000



Ounce= oz
Pennyweight= dwt
Gram= g
Grain= gr

One pound troy is 12 ounces troy (and that is a lot of gold).
One ounce is 20 pennyweight
There are 31.1 grams in one ounce troy.
So, there are 1.555 grams in a pennyweight.
One pennyweight is 24 grains. So, there are 15.43 grains per gram.
Or, one grain is 0.00017 pounds troy. That doesn't sound like very much. But, one grain is better than none.
By the way, if one ounce of gold (pure gold) is $270, then:
One Gram would be worth about $8.68.
One Pennyweight would be $13.50.
And one grain would be $0.56.

So, if someone offered you gold for, say, $16.00 a gram, it works out to $497.60 an ounce.
Ed





16 ounces = 1 lb = 256 drams = 7,000 grains

 

[aarthrj3811]

The first photo is of a GPAA clean up sluice. The second one is a bad photo of a Blue Bowl which is the fastest way to clean up…I recommend that you use a couple of wash tubs to re circulate the water. I use simple water cooler pumps. City water is expensive and tends to have a lot of air bubbles in it that robs the smaller gold from you… .More to come

 

[aarthrj3811]

So....you now jumping from Facts about Gold to how to clean gold or clean prospecting equipment?

This is getting rather confusing.

I thought you were here to keep people from getting ripped off. LRL and MFD users who decide to look for gold are going to find a lot of it. If they do not know how it is weighted they may get ripped off when they sell it. Since you have never found any gold you do not know that it has to be separated from the rest of the material. There are cheap ways and expensive ways to separate the gold from the material….Finding it is the easy part….Getting it cleaned is the hard part…More to come…Art

 

[aarthrj3811]

Sorry you do not want to help people who own LRL’s and MFD’s and the ones who will buy them in the future….I will continue to post the truth unless the powers that be decides I am in the wrong…All your posts tell us what you are about….no facts just rumors….Please tell us just where these honest treasure hunters are surposed to go to find out what to do with all the gold that they recover? More to come…
Thousands of LRL and MFD users will go into the field and enjoy their hobby…
Soon to be 5,000 then 10,000 and then even more

 

[aarthrj3811]

HOW TO BUILD A HENRY HENRY "POOP" TUBE

Heres How You Do It

Go to your local Home Depot or Lowes
Purchase these items.
• 1, 1x3"x 8' pine board.
• 1, 8' length or 4"dia corrugated plastice flexible drain pipe "not perforated".
• 1, small pack of flat head wood screws #10 in size.

Now go to Walmart into the Sporting goods dept and purchase a 12vlt boat bilge pump 750 model.
You now have all of the ingredients to build your Henry "Poop" Tube.
NOW FOR THE ASSEMBLY...
• Cut the 8' 1x3" pine board in half into 2, 4' peices. Use one peice save the other.
• Cut the 8' length of corrugated drain pipe into 2, 4' peices. Save one use the other.
• Now take the 4' of drain pipe you are using and split in to 2 halves, by splitting it length wise.
• Take one of the halves of the drain pipe and screw it onto the 1x3"x4' pine board.
• Put the screws into the bottom of the corrugated riffles, 1 every 6" will do nicely.
• Now take the other split half and set it on top of the one you screwed down onto the pine board and snap it in place.
NOW YOU HAVE BUILT A BASIC HENRY "POOP" TUBE...
• You can now use it in a creek or stream to work out your concentrates and fine flour Gold.
• You can add on the bilge pump with a stop valve and some garden hose and by using a
couple of 5 gallon buckets you can recycle your water and use the Henry Poop Tube at home.

IMPORTANT THINGS TO REMEMBER...
• Remember to set up the elevation from top to bottom at 1" [one inch] per/linear foot of Henry "Poop" Tube.
• NOW...Adjust your water flow so the tube doesn't load up with blondes or blows out all of the material leaving the riffles empty.
• Using a scoop from those dry soap detergent boxes is perfect to feed the tube.
• Load the tube 1 [one] scoop at a time allowing it to clear before loading again.
• Look for all of the Free Gold and Snuffer it out every chance you get.
• Remember to classify your cons down to #20 mesh for use in the Poop Tube.
• Larger than #20 mesh you can pan out easily with either a 14" pan or 10" finishing pan.

You now have one of the most DEPENDABLE TOOLS IN YOUR PROSPECTING SUPPLY BIN...
Total cost to build one is less than $30 and total time to assemble one is less than 2 hours

 

[aarthrj3811]

There are safer ways to get the gold from your cons….But this is the way I have did this for 30 years and I am now to old to change..


Cleaning your cons

I pan and remove all the gold you can see and bring everything else home. I screen every thing with 25, 50 and 100 mesh keeping them in separate buckets. I save the plus 25 mesh for later if my rods show that there is gold in it. I then soak the cons with vinegar ( it's cheap at Sam's Club.) for three days stirring it when ever I think of it.

I run it thought the blue bowl starting with the 25 mesh lowering the water level for each size collecting the gold as I go. I now have all the cons back in one bucket. I now take my hot plate outside ( the heat range dial goes from 1-7 and I have it at 3 1/2 ) and using a Pyrex bowl dry it and dump each batch into a tub of cold water ( cracks the cons )

The next step I used a cement mixer when I was getting large amounts of cons from my big Dredges but now I use a rock tumbler. I put each batch in the tumbler with 4 half inch stainless steel ball bearings and turn it for two days ( more or less ) then add Mercury for another day. When I have all the cons back in a bucket I go back to the Blue Bowl.

I run it at a high water level and then at the lowest water level collecting the gold-mercury in snuffer bottles saving all the black sand. I pour all the gold-mercury into a newer pan ( the least amount of scratches ) working it with a small amount of water to bring all the mercury together taking the black sand out as I go. Using PLASTIC GLOVES I put a piece of fine silk over a pan and pour the gold-mercury into it. Grabbing the silk by the sides you can squish the excess mercury out of the silk saving the mercury for next year. You now dump the stuff in the silk into your Pyrex bowl.

I then load my PU. I take a potable generator, hot plate, jugs of water, gold-mercury, saftey mask, Nitric acid and the remaining black sand go to a friends 20 acres of isolated land. I set everything up, start the generator, put on my mask, pour the nitric acid into the bowl and walk away for a 1/2 hour. When I return I fill the bowl with water and let it cool. I pour the water into a safe container and collect my gold. I then dry all the black sand to burn off any mercury that may be on it.

This is a long process but when it's raining and cold I set in the garage with a heater and drink a few beers while I run the blue bowl. My rods show me that there is still some gold in the black sand so I will crush it and start over.

 

[davebien]

Just the last paragraph sounds like ART. The rest of it sounds like cut 'n paste (the spelling, etc is too good). Just my 2 cent observation.

Thanks.

 

[Ted Groves]

Just the last paragraph sounds like ART. The rest of it sounds like cut 'n paste (the spelling, etc is too good). Just my 2 cent observation.

Thanks.

You got that right. It's not too hard to figure out where Art's typing ends and his cut and paste begins. Plus he seldom if ever gives credit to the original author, desperately hoping the reader will THINK he wrote the stolen text.

 

[aarthrj3811]

You got that right. It's not too hard to figure out where Art's typing ends and his cut and paste begins. Plus he seldom if ever gives credit to the original author, desperately hoping the reader will THINK he wrote the stolen text.

Funny..I have put that post on about 20 other web sites over the years and nobody has complaint about my writing style. Poor losers I would guess….Art

 

[aarthrj3811]

WHO I AM

Let me start with a little background. In the 60's and 70's I was busy raising a family and working 12 hours a day 7 days a week from June until September. When I did get some time off we would go camping. I did some panning and knew a few full time miners.
In 81 my place of work shut down. I was able to take an early retirement but with a lot of restrictions if I worked. The first few years I worked and started to prospect. Then I realized with the retirement restrictions they were taking most of my retirement money away from me so I became a full time miner.
At first I helped my Nephew operate a 12 inch dredge on the Bear River and prospected with a 2 inch dredge .I've worked on the Feather River with 2, 4 and 6 inch dredges. I worked on the three forks of the American River with 6 and 8 inch dredges. I have worked 50 foot under water with a 8 inch dredge and that was no fun at all..
In 1997 I had to come out of the water because of a heart problem. I still wanted to look for gold, so I started to prospect with Electronic devices. One of them used rods to follow the signal that it made. In 2002 I started to learn about Dowsing. I found that many of the things I had learned using the electronic device could also be used with Dowsing. I developed may skills with the rods and found many ounces of gold.

In 2004 I started looking for large treasure. It took a lot of time to learn how to research areas and was a whole new ballgame…..

As I have become more home bound I started to map Dowse…At first I was real bad at it…As I have progress I have gotten better and better..No it is not perfect but it will get you in the right area….Art

 

[aarthrj3811]

Is this from Tom or Ed? 2000 is kinda outdated.

Kinda…..As far as I know these weights and measures have been around for a whole lot of Year. So in my opinion they are not outdated…..
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[davebien]

LOL... I can't think of any reply other than LOL.

Thanks

 

[aarthrj3811]

LOL... I can't think of any reply other than LOL.

Thank you Dave…I am glad I made you laugh..I know that real facts are hard to except but that is the way things go when you know nothing…

 

[aarthrj3811]

Here are a few examples of gold specimens. The three small examples were found in the flower bed at my Doctors office and the big was found in the Dixie Valley…So..keep your eyes open all the time…Gold is where you find it..

 

[davebien]

ART... I know what I know which is a bit more than nothing, so please keep your insults to yourself. Sorry that I don't happen to agree with you but that's your problem not mine.

Thanks

 

[aarthrj3811]

ART... I know what I know which is a bit more than nothing, so please keep your insults to yourself. Sorry that I don't happen to agree with you but that's your problem not mine.

Thanks Dave for proving my point

 

[davebien]

ART... to be blunt, which you may or may not understand, what in the hell are you talking about?

Thanks