One of my little hobbies - Page 2

BudSniffer · 03-09-2011, 06:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Tricto

Didn't know that about the burning sides of mountains off, that's crazy.

Also when you guys are all talking about 'panning', are you talking about when you buy a bag of stuff and then put it upstream into a chute and then sift it when it comes down the chute in front of you? This thread makes me realize that a metal detector might actually be cool even if you don't find anything as valuable/cool as gold, gonna go check some out

Nope, you look for a likely place, and dig down deep and run that down a "chute", it's called a sluice box.

Tricto · 03-09-2011, 07:00 PM

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Originally Posted by BudSniffer

Nope, you look for a likely place, and dig down deep and run that down a "chute", it's called a sluice box.

Ahh, I wouldn't have remembered sluice boxes had you not mentioned them but now it all makes sense. Thanks for sharing haha

MrJinx · 06-06-2011, 06:09 PM

thats pretty cool. Theres a place in northern NH where people pan in a river. I tried it for a few hours with my mother in law and found a piece the size of a spec of sand. Seems like a good time to cash in but thats what i thought when gold hit 500/oz

Geeno · 06-08-2011, 04:48 PM

I've got one of the sickest gold plans of all time. I just need more experience and money to pull it off.

Then you'll all see who the crazy ones is!

kitch · 06-08-2011, 04:55 PM

So were those just solid chunks or did you have to dissolve in mercury then melt the merc off? Speaking of merc what happened to old skinny jeans?

BudSniffer · 06-09-2011, 05:49 PM

They were solid chunks, I don't mess with no mercury.... Still haven't sold mine, bout time I was talking about, it made an upward move, been hanging around +$1500 for awhile now. I dug out some of my old dirt couple of weeks ago and ran it through my panning machine, which I didn't have when I brought this dirt home a few years ago. I got 5 nice little chunky pickers right off the bat, got a little more to run still. I haven't been able to go up to my pros. club for awhile, but I sure want to go!

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MrJinx YaHookan Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: NH Posts: 41 Thanks: 5 Thanked 8 Times in 7 Posts	thats pretty cool. Theres a place in northern NH where people pan in a river. I tried it for a few hours with my mother in law and found a piece the size of a spec of sand. Seems like a good time to cash in but thats what i thought when gold hit 500/oz

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