FrogMick

Hello Omer, I would be very interested in anything you have to say about the gold rush in your country. Glad you joined and I am looking forward to your stories....Frog

Fantastic pictures! I had an uncle that was a Navy vet from the 1920s and he joined the Seabees in 1942 and they followed the Marines all over the Pacific as they took it back an island at a time. He said the John Wayne movie "The Fighting Seabees" wasn't to far off. Uncle Hal was born in 1906 so he was 36 in 1942 and 40 when he got out in 1946. He said all the Marines and sailors always called him Pops.

IronMike, ROFLMAO A dress might help. Here's an example that's not so islamic. All of a sudden I got an urge to crank up some ZZ Top!

I enjoy the photos those customers in Sudan send Doc that he posts here. Please keep em coming Doc.

Maybe Al will go out there and see the builder up close enough to fall on him. Send Al those pictures with grubstakes explanation.

Slim, didn't feel nothing up in Prescott area, but NE Baja had the 7.2 and there have been aftershocks up to 4.6. The 3:42pm 7.2 info. Maps of Epicenter. Interactive map showing aftershocks.

Ebonbetta, I know what you're going through. My Dad had Alzheimer's and I took care of him until he absolutely had to go into a full care facility. He passed away 17 years ago and it is still difficult to think about.

Somebody get a rope!

Coming up on something like that out in the boonies would make me think of the movie, "No Country For Old Men". Friendo!

Very nice videos, thank you.

Sorry to hear about your Mom. We wish her the best for a good recovery. Always something, huh Gary.

The BLM is not the miners or prospectors friend. That is not our public land it is the federal government's land and the Feds do not want us on it except in controlled little areas doing only what they want us to do. That is the Fed's way of thinking all the way to the way to the very top. That has become more and more obvious to me as time has gone on over the last 50 years or so, I'm 64 now. The Feds don't like the current mining law and it will probably change in the not to distant future to cater even more to big foreign mining interest, they already control 65% of metal ore mining in the USA. Read the article I guessing that dollar wise small mining to the Feds is more trouble than it's worth compared to big mining that can really fill the Fed's coffers at the highest levels. Making jobs that bring in lots more revenue at all levels too. The Feds are busy building a global economy and sadly small mining is part of the old independent minded America they are moving away from. Times are changing and our America is fading into the past. I can remember my grandfather saying that and years later my father saying that and now I'm saying it.

The biggest object I ever found and with the cheapest detector I ever had was because of Halo Effect. It was a steel spoked car wheel like Model A Fords and other cars used in the 1930s. 3 feet down in the front yard of an abandoned house all grown over with blackberry vines and other vegetation in SW Portland, OR. That area had been small family farms in the old days. I found it with my 1st detector in 1974 a brand new Compass Yukon Nugget the cheapest of the Compass line at the time, $99.99. I still have that old Compass Nugget and it still works with my own Rube Goldberg fix to a busted open coil after something fell on it in storage. I got a weak signal in an area almost 3 feet in diameter. I started digging with small garden trowel in the center of the signal area. Down a foot and about 18 inches in diameter I got a good signal. I went home and got a long handle roundpoint shovel. Down another foot and about 3 feet in diameter I got a strong signal. It was wet black soil and easy digging with lots of nice fishing worms too. Down a few inches more and the rust stain started to show in the black soil. At the time I didn't even know the term Halo Effect. The wheel was laying flat and the top of the tire rim was 3 feet below the ground's surface, the hub was a little higher. The rust stain in the wet black soil was pretty consistent at about 8 inches around and above the wheel, under the wheel it was about 12 inches. Neighbors had come out to watch and everyone was left wondering why anyone would bury the wheel. One guy brought a coffee can and a couple beers. If he could have the worms I could have the beers, he got all the worms he wanted. This was on a Saturday and Sunday I was leaving town for about a month long job. When I got back to town I went to detect there and it was all bulldozed with a new house being built. Worm Catcher came over with a breakfast beer and said a few days after I was there they cleared the lot and started building. I always wondered what else might have been buried around that old house.

A pin pointer for $13.60. I looked at the 20% Super Coupon in Parade Magazine. Read the fine print on the coupon. Last sentence, "Valid only in Retail Stores through 7/14/10." The coupon don't work with online sales. Need a pin pointer that really works buy it from Rob.