M-3 GoldenIrishmans Monsoon Mining Thread

[goldenIrishman]

Well as much as I hate to admit it, I've been DUPED! I did learn that I really need to have my glasses with me out in the field. After gathering everything up and bringing it home it sat in the baggie for a couple of days until I got around to checking it out. When I checked it out the first thing that hit me was that the color of the material are way to consistent to be natural. Grabbing my glasses I looked at it closer and found that this was only rocks that had been painted!!!!! Man... Did I feel like a total idiot!!! Between the lack of glasses, the dust and dirt on the pieces it looked like the real McCoy. (Good choice of color on the paint and it was applied very well.) I'm thinking that someone had put them out there as a joke. Well they got me, but it was a lesson learned. That lesson? Bring my freakin glasses out to the field with me! My close up vision is getting pretty bad and I have to wear my glasses when I pan so now I figure I should be wearing them out in the field now. I don't deal in rocks, nor do I wear jewelery so the mistake was (I feel) an honest one.

Sorry if I got anyone all excited for nothing! Like I said... I feel like an idiot about now.

 

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[kazcoro]

Kinda worried that your rock shop guy got duped. You should take a bag of them in there and "try" to sell them to him. That would be worth a laugh for sure.

 

[goldenIrishman]

My eyes are getting bad, but his are worse Kaz. He showed me some cabs he had been working on. Can you say lopsided? I knew you could!! I couldn't take advantage of the guy. I don't want that kind of stuff on my karma.

On the bright side, the Sodalite IS the real McCoy. Need to get back out there (with my glasses!!!) and get some pieces large enough to slab out so I can cut some cabs and polish them up. Damn... If I start getting back into lapidary work I'm going to have to build ANOTHER workshed!!!! Well I guess I could combine a silver smithing work station in it as well.

 

[KevinInColorado]

My eyes are getting bad, but his are worse Kaz. He showed me some cabs he had been working on. Can you say lopsided? I knew you could!! I couldn't take advantage of the guy. I don't want that kind of stuff on my karma.

On the bright side, the Sodalite IS the real McCoy. Need to get back out there (with my glasses!!!) and get some pieces large enough to slab out so I can cut some cabs and polish them up. Damn... If I start getting back into lapidary work I'm going to have to build ANOTHER workshed!!!! Well I guess I could combine a silver smithing work station in it as well.

Silversmithing, very cool!...how about gold smithing?!!

 

[goldenIrishman]

Man... Silver is cheap Kev! The overhead on gold would kill me!

 

[kazcoro]

I would not suggest taking advantage of the guy. It would be fun to have a laugh though. Sell it ot him at 80% spot on the material, then go to Walmart and buy a bag of the stuff and bring it to him and try to sell it in the bag. Somehow it would be hi-larious.

 

[goldenIrishman]

Naw.... I'm not going to poke fun at the guy Kaz. His eyes may be going but he's still a good source of info and he is close by. He's got a really nice shop about a mile from me and I don't know him well enough to know just how far I could push things with him. I don't want to burn any bridges before they've even been built!

 

[Clay Diggins]

How much snow did you get Jeff?

Heavy Pans

 

[goldenIrishman]

Just a light dusting here Clay. It was melted by 09:00. Wind has been cold and hard enough to cut right through ya though. I've been wanting to tie into that 2 yard pile of materials in the processing area but that water is like 33 degrees!

How'd you guys do on the white stuff?

 

[Clay Diggins]

Just a light dusting here Clay. It was melted by 09:00. Wind has been cold and hard enough to cut right through ya though. I've been wanting to tie into that 2 yard pile of materials in the processing area but that water is like 33 degrees!

How'd you guys do on the white stuff?

No white stuff here Jeff. I like the stuff at a distance - like up in the mountains. It's real cold though, it just dipped below 50.

Heavy Pans

 

[Jeff95531]

Well said Barry!

 

[goldenIrishman]

Well I do like a little snow every once i a while. It reminds me of why I hate it so much!

 

[GoldpannerDave]

Just a light dusting here Clay. It was melted by 09:00. Wind has been cold and hard enough to cut right through ya though. I've been wanting to tie into that 2 yard pile of materials in the processing area but that water is like 33 degrees!

How'd you guys do on the white stuff?

Over a foot and its 17 degrees with continuing snow here in northern Colorado Springs.

 

[GoldpannerDave]

Over a foot and its 17 degrees with continuing snow here in northern Colorado Springs.

Now it is -1 degrees F and we still have a foot of snow, though the winds have redistributed it a bit.

 

[goldenIrishman]

LOL...... Now does everyone understand why I DON'T live in Colorado? Visit.... Yes Live there year round? No way Jose!

 

[Sample Pan Dan]

Beautiful skies in the Mother Lode right now. We get about a week break from El... what's its name... lol. NF American river was ripping earlier this week at 20,000 cfs... it is now back down to its normal 800-1200 cfs. Hoping to find some pickers sitting up on top.

 

[Hard Prospector]

You picked one hell of a winter to move north Dan. For the first time in half a decade, I've been able to really sluice down here (you know the areas) and some days have been impressive. Sorry buddy had to rub it in just a bit. In long run you made the wise choice, better gold and family living up there.

 

[Sample Pan Dan]

Glad you've finally got some water down there Rob. There's a couple places I'd love to hit down there with some H2O

 

[goldenIrishman]

Why do I feel so guilty?

Well situations around the homestead required me to install chains and No Trespassing signs across the driveways here. While doing the work, I had to use my panning tub to mix cement to set the poles in. Now I know that the tub was designed for mixing small batches of cement in and that I hadn't purchased it for anything other than use in the processing area for panning. I've been feeling like a traitor to my trade by actually using a tool as it was intended to be used instead of some re-purposed application. Do I need to seek professional help? Only time will tell!

 

[SpecJet]

You can make up for it by going into the kitchen and "borrowing" a utensil to dig with