After 6 years of frustrations panning for Gold this past winter I knew I had to go about this a little different. Hour upon Hour I would set at this computer researching and then researching some more.
Smack dab in the middle of Gold country in the Eastern part of the United States it seemed I could not go wrong as in my arsonal of prospecting supplies I had my Gold Pans, Shovels, Mini Beaters, Hammers, Rock Picks, Classifiers and last but not least my Viper Metal Detector.
It was back in mid May of 2011 out for our family weekend cruise in the middle of nowhere I seemed to be seeing alot of quartz rock along the road.
Thinking to myself "if I were out there smacking that quartz around I just may find something in this rolling hills type country".
My eyes could just not take anymore so in a whimper I asked my prospecting partner if she would mind driving while I walked the roadside and bash up some of the quartz rocks I was seeing.
Of course she had no problem in driving so here I was in the middle of nowhere walking, breaking rock, taking looks to see if there was anything encased in this quartz.
At about the time I was to give up I noticed there was a group of quartz that had some funny black lines running through it so I whacked it untill a peice about 10 lbs. broke off and I tossed it in the back of the vehicle, climed in the drivers seat and took off for home.
During the course of that weekend trip I had plenty of quartz and spent my afternoons breaking up the chunks I had brought home and after not seeing what I was looking for wondered where did I go wrong after all the research I had done prior to this past trip we took hunting for Gold.
Two weeks later on a Saturday I woke up and thought to myself "I am going fishing".
Having an hour to waste before the bait shop opened I headed onto the back porch, sat down and started going through my peices of quartz with little hope I had over looked something.
I picked up a piece of quartz and there giving off some intense colors of Silver and Gold my mind started to question just what the hay was this?
Almost breaking the door down I scream at Joni "Just what in the world does this look like"?
Well she came back with a word I had grown to love at first then began to hate.
"Gold" she said under her breath!
Right away I knew where it had come from, at least the general area.
The following Monday we sent some specimens out to California to be looked over by the GPAA as we are both members there.
Waiting for the news of what we had the day finaly arrived and opening the letter the GPAA had sent back to us confirmed Gold and Silver!
With that kind of report we just had to go get more of the hard rock ore and that we did.
On our 3rd trip back I see Joni getting some prospecting tools out of the back of the vehicle and where we were parked she did some rock breaking then she hollars at me "is this it"?
Needless to say I was in the ditch filling buckets and hearing her I take a look from where I was and sure enough I had to tell her "yes" when I looked under the vehicle and dagumit there was a big, big bump in the road that showed up dark grey in color!
That bump bothered us as no matter how hard we tried we could not get it to break apart so we could get the confounded bump out of the road.
After 4 trips to this spot we finaly got the piece of ore to break loose from the vein and loaded up a 150lb. specimen of highly mineralized quartz.
Since then we have had assays done and not only does it hold Gold and Silver but also Rhodium and Platinum!
We go back to this place every few months and get a little more ore from the vein and I must say we do sleep alot better once we got this "bump" out of the road.
The vein now is entombed in the ground under the dirt and no one would even have a clue it is there.
Two weekends ago we went and visited this spot and watched with smiles as four different vehicles drove accross the Gold Vein in a matter of less then a half hour!
No need to try and stake a claim on something that does not exisit we just casualy go through life knowing we beat the odds in a most unusual way but are always reminded that yes we did it! We found a major Gold Vein!
I am sure at this point you would not mind seeing this 150lb. specimen so here ya go and always remember....Just because some say you will never find something like this I say "if you belive you can then thats means I know you can"!
HAPPY HUNTING!
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