herchenx
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Post by herchenx on Jul 8, 2014 16:57:29 GMT -5
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Jul 8, 2014 23:24:02 GMT -5
Wow, If they would allow it can you imagine mining the gutters of Rodeo drive in the Hills. Now that would be a gold mine.....Mel
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donkeyrokman
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Post by donkeyrokman on Jul 9, 2014 0:56:58 GMT -5
It crossed my mind that one with a metal detector could probably clean up in Japan where the tsunami hit. Or New Orleans. Imagine all the lost bits and pieces of gold and other precious metals. Then I immediately thought that was a bit ghoulish.
So... it'll have to be some other guy.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2014 5:46:57 GMT -5
Nothing ghoulish about that.someone is going to find it. Dave
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donkeyrokman
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Post by donkeyrokman on Jul 9, 2014 9:42:50 GMT -5
No doubt.
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moonmopus
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Post by moonmopus on Jul 9, 2014 21:09:55 GMT -5
good for him. even in today's gilded manhattan, nothing out of the ordinary here and that's what i always loved about that city.
it's hard not to imagine that this post story will pull in some unwanted competition for a guy making that hard fought 30 to 45 minute commute from queens.
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Post by jakesrocks on Jul 9, 2014 21:21:05 GMT -5
Imagine what he could find if he was allowed to pan the mud in the storm sewers.
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Post by phil on Jul 9, 2014 22:44:17 GMT -5
Many years ago, some guy got the great idea of panning the sediment in the drain channels in Los Angeles (not sure which, was a loong time ago) to see if any gold was washing down from the goldfields. Must've been good, as he offered (and was accepted) to clean out the sediment in all the drain channels with a front end loader for free. I've always wondered just how much he got.
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Post by jakesrocks on Jul 9, 2014 22:58:02 GMT -5
I've often thought of cleaning the culverts under the roads in the gold producing parts of the Black Hills. Those corrugated culverts should be mighty fine sluice riffles. The only drawback is the rattle snakes like to hole up in them during the hot part of the day.
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Post by fantastic5 on Jul 10, 2014 7:42:47 GMT -5
I almost felt like I was stealing when we visited The Rock Shed in Keystone SD last summer. We parked in a gravel lot across the street just after a rain and the kids and I just started picking up all this great material out of the gravel. Asked the guy in the shop about it and he laughed and said that is where they unload the trucks of rough and there was no telling what all we would find but were free to take anything that was dropped. I have two gallon Ziplocs labeled Rock Shed Gravel On a similar note, years ago when I was in college and working part time as precious metal chemist my boss told me that any cloths I wore to work would become his property when I quit. My job was to take old pawn shop jewelry and ring trees (center molds from large production casting) and cook them down with Aqua Regia to an end result of 99.99% pure gold powder (multiple step process). Once all the jewelry was in solution every drop of that solution was worth a lot of money. So every scrap of paper used to wipe lips of beakers and such were sent back through the process. And after working for him for a year the two sets of cloths that I had for work were speckled in red dots of saturated Aqua Regia and sure enough my cloths were taken and burned and the ash was sent back through the process by the next co-op chemist.
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Post by phil on Jul 10, 2014 10:21:37 GMT -5
I've often thought of cleaning the culverts under the roads in the gold producing parts of the Black Hills. Those corrugated culverts should be mighty fine sluice riffles. The only drawback is the rattle snakes like to hole up in them during the hot part of the day. I used to do just that here after every heavy rain. And yes, the water can drop a lot of gold in the riffles. More importantly, if you do it, make sure you clean out (and fill back in) the leading and trailing lip edges. good gold there also. Can't do it anymore, not nimble enough, plus too many people know about it now-a-days, and there just aren't enough culverts (locally) to go around. Those who live closest and get there first clean up. (pun intended???)
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Post by nowyo on Jul 12, 2014 2:23:02 GMT -5
Mining the gutters in NYC may make a guy some money, but wouldn't that mean you'd be in NYC?
Russ
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