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The only treasure I am seeking is knowledge and insight. Before I go around crashing different threads, I have one burning question that I never fully get the answer to. '
So, I am watching this vlog of some guy going down some shaft of an abandoned gold mine. He's really down there and comes to a drift. He follows the drift and suddenly the old tram rails veer to the right, and a few more yards, sharp to the left. All the time he has just enough room to barefly stand and can almost touch each wall with each hand.
Ok, follow the vein, check. Assay samples as you hack your way through this impossible rock in the gloom, check. Now can some tell me how in the blue blazes you suddenly say, "gee we need to go down 150 feet, and right here let's go left and kill ourselves moving tons of rock and breath buckets of dust."
I read a tid-bit about the Six (Welsh) Guys Mine. That was some pretty sophisticated reading of the geology- and in age when Continental Drift and all the rest of it was largely hypothetical, these guys were pretty damn prescient. Did they ever say, "oy, mate, that there is an ancient stream bed just hanging out the side of a canyon in the middle of the bloomin' desert?" They were clearly not operating on a 7 Day Creation Model.
So, will one of you kindly direct me to some links so I don't bother you with more newbie questions?
So, I am watching this vlog of some guy going down some shaft of an abandoned gold mine. He's really down there and comes to a drift. He follows the drift and suddenly the old tram rails veer to the right, and a few more yards, sharp to the left. All the time he has just enough room to barefly stand and can almost touch each wall with each hand.
Ok, follow the vein, check. Assay samples as you hack your way through this impossible rock in the gloom, check. Now can some tell me how in the blue blazes you suddenly say, "gee we need to go down 150 feet, and right here let's go left and kill ourselves moving tons of rock and breath buckets of dust."
I read a tid-bit about the Six (Welsh) Guys Mine. That was some pretty sophisticated reading of the geology- and in age when Continental Drift and all the rest of it was largely hypothetical, these guys were pretty damn prescient. Did they ever say, "oy, mate, that there is an ancient stream bed just hanging out the side of a canyon in the middle of the bloomin' desert?" They were clearly not operating on a 7 Day Creation Model.
So, will one of you kindly direct me to some links so I don't bother you with more newbie questions?
