A good day and a bad day:thumbup::sad:

[B.T]

Was chasing up a reef that I was sure was there and finally found it, maybe, no big stuff but rich stone nonetheless. Hard going though and ended up badly tearing muscles around the ribcage. Now have to wait for a month to heal up and see what or if there is any real body to it or if I only found the left overs of a once rich reef on its last gasp!
The stones just too beautiful not to share, full on mineralised.

 

[Jonathan Porter]

Beautiful stuff Brett, found with VLF or PI?

JP

 

[David]

Hope you get well soon, you won't be able to cough or sit up for at least about a week without alot of pain. A light(weak) mix of whisky and water helps with the pain. Also string a water-skiing rope from the ceiling from a hook screwed to a roof rafter. Then with your arms you can pull on the water-skiing handle to pull yourself up from the bed or couch-sofa(chesterfield) much easier with much less pain this way.

Wow, did you chisel that out of hardrock(bedrock), were those loose species laying around on top of the ground, or both ??

In the past I found a hardrock vein(reef) with a VLF and I hand chiseled over 10 ounces out of the bedrock, later on there was no more signal there with my PI. To this day I have never taken it down deeper because I do not know blasting. Someday I will take it down 5 feet to find out if it carries on.

 

[B.T]

Got it with my 45. It appears that what I picked up, isolated within an area 7 foot long by 2 foot wide is smack on top of, i hope, the reef. Nothing above it and below it drops off pretty deep very abruptly. These were not broken out by me but the ground was mongrel hard to dig nonetheless and got harder as I dug a bit deeper hence the damage. The way I got some of it looked like it had, the reef, sort of disintegrated or broken down on that very spot, no travel. Specie piece on top of specie piece, beside specie piece....etc.
Laughing, sneezing, coughing and laying down, damn! And getting up out of bed..what the! The whiskey sounds good though!

 

[Nugget Hunter Smith]

Very nice ore! I found a few of those here in Arizona, mainly in old tailing piles.
Get well soon and get back out there to check for more!

 

[ColoradoGoldMan]

Nice BT! The only thing that would keep me off that site would be death. LOL Sorry to here of your injury. Get well soon BT, it should still be there when you are well.
Keeper Swinging
CH

 

[Jonathan Porter]

Very tasty stuff BT, will be interesting to see what you can get with your GMT if the ground isn't too nasty. Hope you mend soon, its nice to know you got a spot to go to but not nice to leave it too long for the vultures to pick clean!!

JP

 

[SNOWY]

Really lovely stuff Brett !
Boy you can see by the colours how mineralized they are !!!

Would you say the site would be too minerlized for operating a VLF ???

 

[B.T]

VLF should be ok though will probably have to be run at about 60%. Lot of iron mineralisation. I'm gonna let an old mate who has one go over what I eventually dig out with his GMT and see whats left over. But hey, might be nothing more to dig out either, Ive done that before.

 

[TURNMASTER]

That is some pretty rock.

 

[Aussie MXT]

Very pretty BT,

Good find there buddy. Get well soon and I hope you keep us posted when you get back to that place.

Dicko..