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<blockquote data-quote="WalnLiz" data-source="post: 50946" data-attributes="member: 147"><p>Hi guys, been watching this thread with interest and can't help myself but give my two bobs worth. Got to ask yourself before you get involved with all the technical side of loaming / soil sampling...." am i looking at trying to find a gold source to begin a commercial mining operation????".</p><p></p><p>This in many cases requires extensive digging and registering a claim, (not as simple as many may think), OR , am i looking at covering a small area to get the best amount of easily attainable gold from it. 99% of us on the forum are after the latter and the technical differences, in the long run, are only academic, and in my opinion not worth losing any sleep over.</p><p></p><p>Personally, I sample using both methods and couldn't give a hoot as to which is the technically correct term. I sample to get a pattern of where the gold is shedding from, with amateur prospecting in mind.....not to potentially fire up a "Tod Hoffman" operation.</p><p></p><p>In over 50 years of prospecting all over the country, have come across only three small reefs the old timers missed.....and</p><p>they didn't warrant setting up a mining claim. </p><p></p><p>Got to keep this "Loaming" in some sort of perspective....use whatever you want to call it, and concentrate on enjoying the hobby. We won't be tested on what we've "technically" achieved, and we now live in an era where nobody really cares about being politically correct.....enjoy the hunt and keep the dream alive,</p><p></p><p>Cheers Wal.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WalnLiz, post: 50946, member: 147"] Hi guys, been watching this thread with interest and can't help myself but give my two bobs worth. Got to ask yourself before you get involved with all the technical side of loaming / soil sampling...." am i looking at trying to find a gold source to begin a commercial mining operation????". This in many cases requires extensive digging and registering a claim, (not as simple as many may think), OR , am i looking at covering a small area to get the best amount of easily attainable gold from it. 99% of us on the forum are after the latter and the technical differences, in the long run, are only academic, and in my opinion not worth losing any sleep over. Personally, I sample using both methods and couldn't give a hoot as to which is the technically correct term. I sample to get a pattern of where the gold is shedding from, with amateur prospecting in mind.....not to potentially fire up a "Tod Hoffman" operation. In over 50 years of prospecting all over the country, have come across only three small reefs the old timers missed.....and they didn't warrant setting up a mining claim. Got to keep this "Loaming" in some sort of perspective....use whatever you want to call it, and concentrate on enjoying the hobby. We won't be tested on what we've "technically" achieved, and we now live in an era where nobody really cares about being politically correct.....enjoy the hunt and keep the dream alive, Cheers Wal. [/QUOTE]
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