More Gold Tales

[Lanny in AB]

Well, here

 

[IronMike]

Another great story. Thanks so much for sharing them with us.

 

[Lanny in AB]

Thanks Mike,

It's good to know they're appreciated--they do take many hours to put together, and I enjoy it all (the writing and the hunting).


Lanny

 

[Lanny in AB]

I have a story I've got to write down one day. It's about a visit I made to a site, a nugget patch site, where my buddies took out a pound of gold--that's right, a one pound patch. I've got pictures and the whole nine yards, but it's quite a tale, and it will take a while to put it together. Guess that can be my next major project, when I have the time.

All the best,

Lanny

 

[DOC]

n/t

 

[Lanny in AB]

n/t

 

[chucktx2]

Thanks for sharing your adventures, It is almost as good as being there.I have reach the age that most of my adventures are all in the past, & I enjoy reading of others adventures.
I tried hard to share some of my adv.What a mistake,I could not understand the mess my self & no one Else could ether.I thought you & Doc and others composed those stories with no problem, Glad to here that it was not that easy, that you had to work at it. chuck

 

[DOC]

You are kidding right? Man forums just live to have people post stories on them. And trust me, forum moderators really don't care about the stories you post, just something to keep things interesting.

Was as a BIG PLUS your stories are always interesting, and always very well written!

So the thanks is all on my part and the rest of the forum members, to you for taking the time to post.

Thanks again!

DOC

 

[Lanny in AB]

Did some reflecting today while I was responding to another post, and most of you probably can relate:

I'm not a geologist, and I probably should hang out with one for a few days just to learn the names of the rock formations that cause so much trouble--I'm just always too busy trying to sniff out the nuggets, but it's probably worth the time to learn the names and how to ID the rocks.

I'm probably like every other nugget shooter--every place I've ever been, I'm always thinking back on places I should have checked while I was there, or I'll learn stuff after I leave an area and realize all the nuggets I walked over/left behind because I just didn't know enough to get the gold while I was there.

Boy, there's some places I'll have to get back to as I know some prime places where the gold's just lying there waiting to be snared, and there's slim chance anyone else has been there since. That's the beauty of remote areas, but also the great challenge--getting back there again, that is.

One area in particular still haunts me: it was a large area of mined bedrock, and when you'd dig in the bedrock, it came off in chunks like soft cheese. You'd crush it up and pan in and it always had pickers in it. At that time I was using a VLF that couldn't run at all in that stuff, and I hadn't invested in a PI yet, but there was lots of ground there and all the nice pickers I was getting panning were in eighth to quarter gram range--the little Joey coil would have sniffed all of them out.

The intriguing factor was that the gold was in lenses in that soft bedrock--the pieces of gold were in with clay and small river stones. When you'd cut down to dig out a piece for panning, the cross section looked liked a layered sandwich of sorts: black, soft, decomposed bedrock, and orange to yellow clay with rounded river stones and sand--almost never any black sand! The problem was it was pure hit and miss with the shovel, lots of ground, but flooding fast in the storms, yet the Minelab would have been an awful sweet thing to have had before the rains set in.

It just blows my mind to think how a detector would just go crazy in there trying to track all of those signals. The knowledge of the location of that ground is very safe as I'm the only one that knows its location now, but it's a bear to get in there these days too as there's been lots of slippage and shifting due to some severe storms--the trails are in horrible shape, if they still exist at all since the last time I was in.

So, I'd have to hoof it in for quite a ways, and I'd really rather enjoy getting places on my quad--makes it easier to elude the grizzlies too--and the place is crawling with them.

All the best,


Lanny

 

[Lanny in AB]

Thanks Chuck,

It's nice to have you say it! Glad you enjoy heading down the trail with me, and you're very welcome for the kind words,

Lanny

P.S. Doc does work hard on his stories, and I have to spend a whack of time writing mine as well. Keep at it, at writing down your stories as I always love to read of other's adventures while chasin' the gold.

 

[Lanny in AB]

Doc,

Do your forum members know what a nice guy you are? Just how many of them have had the chance of meeting you in person?

For those of you that have not yet met Doc, if you get the chance, take the opportunity some time. First-class person, and extremely knowledgable about all kinds of things--well-educated and intelligent to boot! Plus, he's got a great sense of humor and is generous to a fault. Doc just proves there's still fine people in the world--if you listen to the steady diet of bad news on TV and Radio you'd think everybody out there is some kind of nut job.

Pleasure to know you Doc. I'll try to hook-up with you when I'm in Vegas in April.

Thanks again Doc,

Lanny

 

[Lanny in AB]

Hello Doc--are you still moderating this forum? It took me a while to find it again as I lost my bookmarks. But, I did some detective work, finally went to your site and found a tab under "links". Just wanted to say hello and let you know that I'm back writing down some more of my gold tales again. Sorry I've been gone for so long Doc--it's been far longer than I wanted. However, it's nice to be back--looking forward to catching up. And, hopefully, you and I can get out on your birthday to hunt some nuggets once again, or maybe you'll just have to make the trek up here and see if we can't shake loose a nugget or two of Northern gold.

All the best,

Lanny