AZNuggetBob

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  1. beatup it's not that occasional big one that keeps me hunting the hillsides, it's multi-pound patches. AzNuggetBob
  2. Nice finds Tom. The Minelab 6000 is a great machine. I'm really happy with mine. AzNuggetBob
  3. beatup I have to say, I love the course nuggets you found the photo. I'm glad you pointed this out. I think where you found them is very important. I'm just going to say and I've said this before all the gold out there isn't always in the creek. thanks for sharing. AzNuggetBob
  4. So are you saying it is or isn’t genuine imitation tiger eye. Andyy between the gold and cabin fever' I think it's already starting to work on ya. I mean I know what its like. what do you do when your pendulum gets lost? When I start sufferin the ol cabin fever I start map searching, claim searching and planning for the next hunting season. When the next season rolls around I’ve got several new spots just waiting. Its always worked for me in the past. I just do a tour of the places I’ve researched and ad them to the list. AzNuggetBob
  5. Not worried about the bugs andyy, I’ve got that covered. (check below) I also use it to move bee hives in my spare time. 😀 That is a fancy looking pendulum ya got there. is it a real crystal? or genuine imitation tiger eye.
  6. Sorry Andyy no personal checks accepted. Anyway sure I’ll bring the Wishstick. But I think I’ll also bring the Minelab 6000 just in case the Wishstick and Pendulum thing don't work out. 🤣 AzNuggetBob
  7. Hey Tom good to hear from you again. I put the Wishstick together back in the 90’s It was just a spoof on dowsing rods. I agree about the heat. Back in the day I was out there in 100 plus without to much problem. But I was also packing four (plastic)canteens or two canteens and a hydration pack and still only hunting a few hours a day in the morning. these days I’m just getting to old for that 100 degree plus hunting. I’ve found hunting from 5:00 am to 10: 00 am up in the hills works pretty good if your not into night hunting.. I agree about the Minelab 6000 as you can see in Robs photo’s it doesn't care about the gold size. it finds them all, big or small. Take care out there. AzNuggetBob
  8. Nice finds Rob. It doesn’t look like your missing much gold. Thats some tiny gold with the chunkies. It’s good to see your still pounding them out even in this heat. But I prefer night hunting this time of year. 90 degrees isn't bad or I just go up in the hills to beat the heat. Quartzite and other low altitude gold locations is out of the question for me this time of year.. Andyy put your pendulum away. I’ve got just the device for you. It not only map dowses, and pin points huge deposits on Google earth, it finds long lost relatives too and it’s not affected by the heat either. This device is so sensitive it’s scary and you can operate it from the comfort of your living room!. Introducing the Wishstick 2000! This revolutionary new device can find it all, from fabulous treasures to long lost relatives. The Wishstick 2000 is constructed of the finest materials available. Just check out these fantastic new features. Genuine ultra sensitive quartz controlled tip, (common quartz crystal) Unlimited range, (only limited to your imagination) Fully automatic ground balance, it's not even affected by minerals. Low battery alert built into a precision meter, (cheap battery tester) Finest quality low oxygen copper multi-stranded windings, (lamp cord) The handle is made of fine quality hardwood,(common Az .mesquite But wait if you act now we'll include at no extra charge, A positive/negative switch in the handle for tuning out those undesirable relative finds,(obnoxious mother in law) We have a limited supply of these, (limited to as many as we can sell) Left handed models also available. (Duh) Dont delay for those that take advantage of this great offer today we'll include a free AA battery! Dont miss out on this special offer Only $2000.00 plus S.H. We accept payment by Great West Union monygram purchased from S. Africa banks or cash!. All returns subject to a $1995.00 restocking fee. Some assembly required. Another fine product brought to you by Crapyoudontneed Corp. a division of fly by night industries. Note: This product is for entertainment purposes only, any resemblance to any other product is purely intentional. All rights (if any) are reserved. I've had this hanging on the wall for years and has been a lot of fun. AzNuggetBob
  9. Great story FlakMagnet. We P.O.ed a few neighbors also. I know what you mean about the geysers of water from the blast. At first we used the water as a buffer for the noise and fly-rock.,when the dynamite went off it had more of a big thump to it. but with water in there it really shook the ground. after we pumped it out we lost that advantage and sent some rock sailing. We were drilling shallow hoes in the boulders and that by itself creates a lot of fly-rock. They referred to us as those crazy miners in town and down at Stanton. We had a lot of people driving by also up on the main road but none of them had the guts to stop and come down to the creek and see what we were doing. Just kept driving by. It was like we stirred up a hornets nest of them. I've got another story similar to yours. I wrote it years ago here on Rob’s. If I can find it I will move it here or I will re-write it. I have several more dynamite related stories. If I were you I would get a metal detector and hunt the area above and around the crater in the creek, you probably created a new nugget patch up on the hillside.. and remember gold never disappears completely, it just gets re-deposited. lol AzNuggetBob
  10. Rob I remember where your claims were. You were way up above us on the creek. It was steeper than where we were. It was only wet for a short time after the rains. Sorry to hear things didn’t work out for you up there. I know what your saying, I've walked away from some ground that I regretted and heard about it later. It sucks. Down where we were it was much flatter and we had several ponds with elevated granite dikes crossing the creek acting as dams. We had a problem with the water!. We were drowning the dozer and dozing blind under water half the time banging along trying to figure out what was bedrock or boulders in the muddy water with an old cable rig dozer, and had to put in pumps to continue digging. I remember water flying off the dozer fan blade before we gave up and started pumping the hole out with two 2” pumps. Ok one and a half pumps, I remember one pump only worked half the time. I think It pumped out more water with the pull starter than it did running on its own. That’s all we had. we put a lot of work into it but once we got the boulders blasted with the Dupont rock softener and out of the main hole it was payday. When we were done, it was also the best swimming hole in the whole area.,surrounded with trees. I do miss that place, it still holds a lot of great memories with me. AzNuggetBob
  11. Hi all I decided to start a new thread called Nine Lives. I've had some close ones in my life and just thought it would be fun to share some of them here. You are welcome to jump in here and share your own. Back in my early days of mining (1980’s) I hooked up with a guy named Johnny. We were into wet placer mining and dredging back then. He had a 20 acre claim on Antelope creek just north of Stanton Az. He had a Cat d-8 dozer and we were pushing off top gravel and the boulders aside in the creek and running what was below it through a suction dredge. We were doing very well once we got the dozer finding several ounces a day.. We were blasting some of the big boulders with dynamite to fracture and reduce their size. Some of the boulders were too big and locked into the bedrock holes and we ended up breaking a side rail on the dozer trying to push them out or aside. The track was kinking and trying to run off the idlers. So I managed to run it in reverse back up out of the creek and keep the track on up to the mill site to fix it. (weld it) we knew we were done for a few days down in the creek so Johnny loaded up the dredge and what dynamite we had left, about six sticks in his little beater pick up and followed me up on the Dozer. So we get up there and johnny is unloading things out of the truck and I’m contemplating the best way to weld up the cracked dozer rail. So I walk into the the mobile home where johnny was and sit down on the big chair across from johnny and I look over and I see the dynamite on top of this little antique end table next to the end of the couch where he was sitting. And I remember looking down and seeing the little table has three little wheels under the ends of the legs but one is missing, so someone had put a little block of wood under the leg missing the wheel to level up the table. So I look over as johnny got up off the couch and walked by the little table with the dynamite on it he kicked that little wooden block out from under the table leg as he headed toward the fridge. then he turned and asked do you need a beer? then Johnny and I watched the table tip and the sticks of dynamite roll off the end, we just looked at each other and everything else just seemed like time just froze. It was almost like everything was in some other realm of reality. I remember hearing all six of the of the sticks of dynamite as they rolled off the table in slow motion one by one bounce on the wooden trailer floor and I was just waiting for the explosion. And as we looked at each other in amazement,nothing happened? I jumped up shaking and picked up the dynamite and put it in a cardboard box on the floor with some old magazines and I remember saying to Johnny, I need a beer. AzNuggetBob
  12. Frank Wish I could help you out but I'm still trying to learn more about them myself. AzNuggetBob
  13. Sounds good fishing8046, Now if we can just get 20 people to jump in here with us.😆 AzNuggetBob
  14. fishing8046 on the subject of keywords from a Google standpoint you need to be careful not to use to many keywords in your post for the purpose of getting more views. As a matter of fact you don't want to use to many in your header. Its better to use them in your comment body. You see google doesn't like content or keyword "stuffing" and will lower your page rating and traffic. I'm not taking a shot at you just trying to help. AzNuggetBob