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Nice nuggets fellas!

It's back down to $682. Seems to be going up and down lately. Thankfully it's not shooting way up. This would be bad for everyone, of course.

Exciting! Did you find any gold in it?

Interesting article: http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/gold...2D9E0299359E%7D

Almost looks to me like someone has been diggin there already.

ha! Look to the right a little

Fred, Very true! Had this happen to me recently. Was climbing up to a very small saddle to get into a side canyon. On the right side was a huge decomposing rock, and to the left was a 30' drop back into the main canyon. The path I was taking was about 3' wide, so I didn't have much wiggle room. As I near the top where the large rock ends is a small somewhat flat area with a few tree's/bushes, and then it goes uphill another 10' to the saddle. When my head comes up to the flat area I hear this buzzing to the left of me and out of the corner of my eye I see this rattler about 2-3' from my head, right at face level with a huge fat belly. It was stretched out straight facing away from me mostly, but was turning it's head towards me. I almost had a heart attack, literally. I'm the biggest snake chicken in the world. I started yelling and ran straight like an idiot. Went about 5' to a rock and climbed up on top of it. I stood there for 10 mins, silent, freaking out because the snake is between me and the path back down. There was no way in hell I was going up anymore as it was all bushes and tree's. The snake is in a bush right in front of me, or so I thought, and I can't see it. It's not buzzing anymore either. So I took a small rock and tossed it into the bush to see if the snake would come out. Nothing. Not a lick of movement or sound. This is really bad I thought to myself. So I yell down and one of my hiking buddies comes to my rescue. Turns out the snake had moved to the side of the path back down. When he was coming up, he got face to face with it just near the top, it was on the side of the path that dropped into the canyon sitting in the rocks. He lightly tossed some dirt on it and the snake slithered away finally. The lesson here is, like you said, never put your hands somewhere you can't see. If I had grabbed up to the left where that flat ledge was, that snake would have bit me. If I had went back down the way I came up without calling my friend, I would have got bitten too. Also, here is a picture of it. You can see how hidden they can be.

+1

Congrats Rob!! What a great achievement.

Happy B-day! (I know I'm way late)

I get these quite a lot, spoof e-mails from "paypal". You can forward them to spoof@paypal.com and paypal will handle the offenders. NEVER GIVE THEM YOUR INFO, EVER!

Glad your alright Grubstake! Take it easy killer.

Grubbie, Go shoot some prairie dogs or go for a jog...or drink some Starbucks, then you'll be so into lala land that you'll forget all about the detector and start diggin for nuggets in your own back yard...

Was it near Halloween time? Looks like the moo version of Michael Myers...

Why yes, that's the famous white skull marker. It leads to the famous Peralta White Stone mine, which is full of cow $hit...