bigwater
Full Member
- Jan 3, 2010
- 210
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- White's GMT
My name is Ron Brown, and I'm from Dahlonega, GA, the site of the first U.S. Gold Rush. I'm not shy about sharing my personal information as you can probably tell already. By day I'm a sign maker, and by night I run internet servers and maintain about 300 web sites for other people as well as run 4 of my own discussion forums on various topics from airbrushing to linux maintenance.
Due to my heavy involvement in internet discussion forums, I've met many people from all over the world, and this has enriched my experience on this earth. I have an open invitation to any of my friends that I meed from the online world to come by for a meal of my wife's world famous fried chicken... and by world famous, I mean that. We've had visitors drop in from as far as Australia to eat her chicken.
I've lived in Dahlonega, GA for 10 years now, and never much considered gold prospecting, although I knew that was a lot of gold here. You can't kick over a rock on my property without seeing the sparkles of the flakes in the granite and quartz. I had a friend from one of the forums I run come down here a few months back and just insist that I take him to Crissom Gold Mine, said he wanted to go panning for gold. It's the only active gold mine still here in the Dahlonega area. When we got there he spotted the sluices that they have set up for the tourists, and decided to buy a bobcat bucket full of crushed rock and wash some sand. Wasn't five minutes into it and out popped a gold nugget that weighed out at 5 grams, and I've been hooked ever since. By the time we got done with the sluice and panning the concentrate that day, we walked out with almost a full ounce of gold, all for a $60 investment in a bucket of sand.
I've got four acres of land here, and an old dried up creek bed runs right through the middle of it. Since I sit on a vein of gold I figured the dried up stream bed might be a good place to start prospecting. I purchased a White's GMT detector, and have been trying to get it tuned in so that it will ignore the smaller deposits of gold in the rocks and help me locate the nuggets that I know are there. I've only had a few days to play with it though. Christmas rolled around and I ended up on the road for a few days visiting the kids and the grandkids, and it's been too cold to get out and prospect since I got home. Looking forward to warmer weather coming around so I can play with my new found hobby.
Due to my heavy involvement in internet discussion forums, I've met many people from all over the world, and this has enriched my experience on this earth. I have an open invitation to any of my friends that I meed from the online world to come by for a meal of my wife's world famous fried chicken... and by world famous, I mean that. We've had visitors drop in from as far as Australia to eat her chicken.
I've lived in Dahlonega, GA for 10 years now, and never much considered gold prospecting, although I knew that was a lot of gold here. You can't kick over a rock on my property without seeing the sparkles of the flakes in the granite and quartz. I had a friend from one of the forums I run come down here a few months back and just insist that I take him to Crissom Gold Mine, said he wanted to go panning for gold. It's the only active gold mine still here in the Dahlonega area. When we got there he spotted the sluices that they have set up for the tourists, and decided to buy a bobcat bucket full of crushed rock and wash some sand. Wasn't five minutes into it and out popped a gold nugget that weighed out at 5 grams, and I've been hooked ever since. By the time we got done with the sluice and panning the concentrate that day, we walked out with almost a full ounce of gold, all for a $60 investment in a bucket of sand.
I've got four acres of land here, and an old dried up creek bed runs right through the middle of it. Since I sit on a vein of gold I figured the dried up stream bed might be a good place to start prospecting. I purchased a White's GMT detector, and have been trying to get it tuned in so that it will ignore the smaller deposits of gold in the rocks and help me locate the nuggets that I know are there. I've only had a few days to play with it though. Christmas rolled around and I ended up on the road for a few days visiting the kids and the grandkids, and it's been too cold to get out and prospect since I got home. Looking forward to warmer weather coming around so I can play with my new found hobby.
