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<blockquote data-quote="Grey Panner" data-source="post: 663956" data-attributes="member: 15464"><p>Hi Moneybox.</p><p>I agree with your final remark. Finding personal artifacts and trying to visualise the circumstances leading to their existence is more satisfying than</p><p>simply finding gold.</p><p>Mind you, we did find gold. It was specimens in quartz. We filled a couple of peanut butter jars with them. They were rich in gold but there was no reef there,</p><p>just a lot of very fine dust. We concluded that some early prospector may have set up a dry blower there and carried the pay dirt from further afield.How he came to miss so many specimens amazes me. Perhaps he was sick and found it hard to concentrate. Perhaps he was getting such good results that a few grammes wasted didn't worry him. Perhaps he wasn't operating his dry blower correctly. Who knows. It is all part of the mistique of reworking old areas.</p><p>Grey Panner</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Grey Panner, post: 663956, member: 15464"] Hi Moneybox. I agree with your final remark. Finding personal artifacts and trying to visualise the circumstances leading to their existence is more satisfying than simply finding gold. Mind you, we did find gold. It was specimens in quartz. We filled a couple of peanut butter jars with them. They were rich in gold but there was no reef there, just a lot of very fine dust. We concluded that some early prospector may have set up a dry blower there and carried the pay dirt from further afield.How he came to miss so many specimens amazes me. Perhaps he was sick and found it hard to concentrate. Perhaps he was getting such good results that a few grammes wasted didn't worry him. Perhaps he wasn't operating his dry blower correctly. Who knows. It is all part of the mistique of reworking old areas. Grey Panner [/QUOTE]
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