REPORTS OF COARSE GOLD AND SILVER
JUST SOME TIPS ON WORKING WITH A METAL DETECTOR ON AN OLD MINE DUMP. FOR THE MOST PART, MINE DUMPS ARE NOT UNIFORM WITH NATIVE METALS, SAY GOLD. THE MUCK ROLLS OUT OF THE MINE, GETS HAND SORTED, AND THE WASTE IS LEFT ON THE DUMP, THE DUMP GROWS BY LAYERS, AND IF VIEWED IN THREE DIMENSIONS, EACH ORE CART DUMP MIGHT LOOK LIKE A TONGUE OR SLIDE, KIND OF CURVED THIN, BUT A DISCRET LAYER. THE DUMP MIGHT EVEN BE LOOKED AT A HALF AN ONION, WITH RICHER LAYERS IN IT. I TOOK THE LIBERTY OF ADDING A RICH DISCOVERY DUMP, WHERE THE ORIGINAL MINERS FOUND RICH ORE ON THE SURFACE. NOT SHOWN IS THE HAND SORTING WHICH HAPPENED NEAR THE BUILDING WHERE RICH ORE WAS SORTED. HAND SORTING WAS INEFFICIENT, IF IT WAS EFFICIENT, THERE WOULD NEVER BY ORE MINERALS SUCH AS PYRITE OR SPHALERITE ON THE DUMP. ALSO KEEP IN MIND THE "ROLL OUT ROCKS", SOME TIMES BIGGER ROCKS ROLLED OUT OF THE MINE DUMP. ALSO NOTE THE UPSLOPE OF THE MINE AND DUMP, FOR EASE AND DRAINAGE.
I'VE SEEN THIS SEVERAL TIMES, WHERE SOMEONE METAL DETECTED SOMETHING VALUABLE, AND STARTED DIGGING AT THAT SPOT. HE MIGHT NOT EVER FIGURE OUT THAT HE'S BURYING MORE GOOD ORE. LIKE BELOW, START AT THE BOTTOM, OR COME BACK LATER AND DIG THROUGH MODERN MAN'S MUCK.
TRY TO KEEP ALL ROCKS THAT ARE CONDUCTIVE AND BEEP. USE HCL OR EVEN "IRON OUT" ON THEM. TAKE THEM TO THE CAR WASH AND PRESSURE WASH THEM. THEN CAREFULLY INSPECT FOR NATIVE METALS. EVEN AFTER THAT STILL KEEP THEM.
I'M SAVING UP FOR ON OF THOSE HAND HELD X-RAY, PORTABLE, ASSAYERS.
IT SEEMS THAT THOSE PORTABLE XRF DEVICES ARE QUITE PRICEY AROUND 20 THOUSAND. I JUST LEARNED ABOUT THEM FROM YOUTUBER "CODY'S LAB". THESE DEVICES CAN DETERMINE HOW MUCH INVISIBLE GOLD IS IN A PIECE OF ORE. I WANT ONE. THEY ARE A NEW TYPE OF METAL DETECTOR, A POCKET ASSAYER, TELLING A PERSON THAT A PIECE OF ORE HAS ENOUGH GOLD IN IT TO KEEP. MY RESEARCH SHOWS THAT ORE CAN OCCASIONALLY, BY ASSAY, HAVE UP TO 100,000 OUNCES OF GOLD PER TON. AND IF THOSE MINERS COULD SEE THE GOLD, WHY WOULD THEY ASSAY THE ORE? I THINK THE MATH DOESN'T WORK OUT, I'LL HAVE TO DO SOME RESEARCH.
LET'S SAY YOU FOUND A PIECE OF ORE AROUND ONE KILOGRAM, AND YOUR XRF SAYS THERE'S ONE PERCENT GOLD. TEN GRAMS OF INVISIBLE GOLD, A KEEPER.
XRF SEEMS TO BE A NEW KIND OF METAL DETECTOR, USEFUL IN THE FIELD, ON DECIDING WHICH ROCKS TO KEEP. I'D LOVE TO HELP XRF MAKERS POPULARIZE THEIR MACHINE, WITH WEB SITES AND YOU TUBE, ALTHOUGH I'M NOT ON YT YET.
SO IF YOU KNOW OF THE MAKERS OF XRF DEVICES, SEND THEM MY WAY. THE COST WILL COME DOWN, WHEN EVERYONE WITH A METAL DETECTOR BUYS A XRF MACHINE.
I'VE GOT QUITE A FEW OTHER WEBSITES SOME ABOUT MINING AND SOME NOT. AND I'M LOOKING FOR A SITE THAT GETS FEEDBACK, WHERE YOU CAN ADD INFO.