I do agree a lot does not add up....a lot!I will say though that one thing is very factual and I think that any of the experienced miners on here will agree....this show shows what gold does to people.It effects folks like nothing else and brings the worst out in them.
I had a glory hole of my own some years ago,on a family members ground.He wanted me to suction dredge it as it was a known 20 feet deep,hole in limestone bedrock that was about 50 ft x 50 ft.There was thousands of dollars in gold taken above and below,but the "hole itself could never be de watered properly,so it was virgin. The deal was I did the work,my equiptment(he would man the box up top)and we would split everything right down the middle(gold)My first venture down I realized the hole was deeper than 20 feet,as my 25 ft of hose wouldnt even get me to the top of the overburden,so I had to order more hose and rig a booster on my jet tube,which actually was a blessing because I couldnt get that for a couple weeks and my "partner",wanted to dig right in the center,which I didnt want to do,and we couldnt anyway until the mods were done.So were were forced to start on the outside and work in....like we should do anyway...sample,figure out where the paystreak was and what it did instead of dumping tailings on good gold being greedy.Long story short at the end of the first day we had far exceeded even what I thought we would pull...in a spot where gold wasnt theoretically supposed to be(gold is where you find it)There was a nice rose quartz rock with gold shot through it in the box as well that I gifted to my "partner",with the agreement I would get the next nugget.I continued on with fantastic results in the same area where gold just should not have been,but it was there,all the while my co hort was growing more and more restless and wanted to hit the center and go down.He would ask everyday where the several ounce nuggets were,why werent we finding those?I tried to explain to him that the area had been known for that kind of gold but gold is gold and the stuff we were getting was just as pure as any old nugget,we would clean up the butter first,then move in methodically,even if it took another season or two.Well he just couldnt see that and at the end of the second month and many ounces in the poke he accused me of swallowing the BIG NUGGETS while I was under,and informed me he was going to buy an outfit and do it him self.Well..........I have never been one to allow anyone to call me a theif,cheat or liar....that had actually never happened to me before,and after the initial shock my first instinct was to knock this sob out but he was a elder family member whom I had looked up to my whole life and I was hurt....I didnt quite know what to do,he had been holding all of what we found and I didnt have as much as an ounce,but I remembered what my Grandfather had told me about gold,and what it did to people ....the fever,best friends had killed one another,grown men had completly gone batty,family fortunes had been spent and lost in its quest and he told me to never let that happen,and to beware.I was raised mining for gold and had disputes in the past with guys I had teamed up with,but never had it strike home like this time did.
He never bought an outfit,I did get SOME of the take,but I honestly was so disillusioned with whole thing I didnt want any of it.See I know whats more important in life and some things just arent worth dieing over(I honestly beleive,he is and was capable of that)I just chalked it up as a lesson learned.The hole sits there still untouched,and still haunts me to this day,....it will for the rest of my days.The rest of the family knows what went on,and knows what kind of a person I am,so someday God willing,I will see just what lies at the bottom of that deep dark hole
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