🥇 BANNER 153 lbs of Silver.

[cryptic]

Went metal detectecting in the old silver tailings around here and I got a great signal on the F75. It came in at around 67 on the screen. Oh great another piece of tin i thought to myself. Oh well, dig everything because you never know what it might be. After about 35 minutes of digging and having the hole collapse in on me many times I finally saw the target. It was a nice pink coloured rock. That is a good sign since around here a lot of silver has Cobalt in it. That is one of the ways the miners would find silver veins back in the old days. Anyways, after finally digging it out, I couldn't lift it out of the hole. It was too heavy for me. It was also a very deep hole. I had to get a ratchet strap from my truck and pull it out of the hole. It is so heavy that I could hardly carry the thing over the tailings piles and through the bush. I ended up dragging it most of the way with the ratchet strap which finally gave in and broke apart from the abuse. I ended up rolling/carrying it the rest of the way. When I got home I found out the true weight of it. It weighs over 150 lbs. I still have to clean it up. It has cobalt and calcite in it and I estimate it to be at least over 75% silver. I rubbed it up a little bit to show some of the silver. It still has to be cleaned.

 

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[jb58]

holy #$@55 bannnnnnnnnnnnnnnner! im speechless.

 

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[Real de Tayopa Tropical Tramp]

Ok oK cryptic, that was 'stolen' from My Tayopa mine, so send it back ! Need the asddress?

Don Jose de La Mancha

(well one can only try, after all if one doesn't try, one cannot expect to win)

 

[coinshooter]

That look a lot like Cobalt.
If cut into slabs on a rock saw it could be quite valuable. You should see if you can get a rock hobbiest to cut some of the smaller pieces into slabs. That way you can get these assayed w/o too much trouble.

 

[cryptic]

It's good silver ore ! I know who he went with . They know what they are doing , they know what comes out of that area . I have seen some . It might not be solid , but it is rich ore ! Rich enough for BANNER!

Thank you strickman! I went out and met Jim Hemmingway in one of the Cobalt tailing piles tonight doing some detecting. Jim agrees that it is extremely high grade silver ore. Took a few pictures and I will probably appear in the next report he does. . I passed your message onto him and he says he will get in touch with you. He does not have a computer or internet access right now.

 

[MUD(S.W.A.T)]

Are you kidding me ??
That's $58,727 of silver !!
Banner for sure !!
Keep @ it and HH !!

 

[cryptic]

Long time no chat MUD(S.W.A.T). I won't be trading this piece of silver like I did with some of the smaller pieces I had

 

[TwoRivers]

That is a hum-dinger for sure........a banner find!

John in Va..

 

[maine_Jim]

Wow - great find. Inspiring. Thanks for sharing.

Maine_Jim

 

[calisdad]

Glad you made banner. Couldn't the piece from the same hole be tested to determine what the large piece is worth?

Digging a hole in that rock required lots of dedication and sweat. What a door stop you have. Congratulations.

 

[sonofadigger]

not to be a debbie downer but this made banner before anybody even knows what it is?

 

[ossi]

ossi

 

[DocBeav]

Congrats man! Fingers crossed that it turns out to be what you (and all of US here!) hope it is! Helluva find man!

 

[vergador]

How cool is that, what's the depth ur particular detector reaches? That was deep?

 

[cryptic]

How cool is that, what's the depth ur particular detector reaches? That was deep?

Check out the picture I posted earlier. It shows my metal detector in the hole. The whole shaft of the detector was in the hole.

 

[mr_larry]

That thing is awesome! Can you take a file to one of the smaller pieces and get the crust off to see what is inside?
Congratulations!

 

[oldsalty19]

 

[strickman]

For any non believers ........ It's real ,it's rich ore ! I have a good friend ,another respected member of the BANNER CLUB who very kindly gave me a few samples of the ore in question.It came from the same pile ,inside that 153# rock are a BUNCH of these ............................

 

[strickman]

Congrats on making the banner !!!!!! Very well deserved ! Most people don't have a clue how rare that really is . Anyone in doubt should google silver nuggets .

 

[worldtalker]

For any non believers ........ It's real ,it's rich ore ! I have a good friend ,another respected member of the BANNER CLUB who very kindly gave me a few samples of the ore in question.It came from the same pile ,inside that 153# rock are a BUNCH of these ............................View attachment 683286

Well by gosh there partner,that ain't the best photo,but,then sure look like silver nuggets to me!!! WHOEEEEE!

 

[strickman]

sorry about the glare ,I used photo booth in mac. It don't do well up close .