Posted on 05/02/2010 3:30:48 AM PDT by One_Upmanship
Gold fever can hit anyone, but when you find a 9-pound nugget like Jim Sanders did on his Nevada County land, the thermometer climbs quickly.
“What's exciting is the potential,” Sanders said recently while standing on the mountain property his family has owned for years. “If I get a mining operation going, we'd have an industry here.”
For security reasons, Sanders and The Union agreed to not divulge the exact location of his land. In addition, he asked that photos for this story did not show his face.
Sanders always thought there might be gold on his property because of the site and its geology. He knew the rocks were from the hydraulic era, and it seemed logical that placer gold might be beneath them.
But Sanders wanted to know for sure, so he had the land assayed for gold by experts using ground radar and metal detectors.
“We did some test pits, and they estimated there was about 3,800 ounces in the first few feet,” Sanders said. “That should increase as we go deeper.”
The San Francisco Bay Area businessman said he was reluctant at first to inform The Union about his find, though the land is remote. But when he thought about the tough economy here and the possible economic impact of a new gold mine, he decided to share the news.
He will offer more information when he starts the permit process for gold mining, he said. The land is filled with stones washed downstream from the hydraulic mining days of the 19th century, and he figures he has a fortune just in decorative rock.
Family ‘patiently excited'
On the day they discovered the 9-pound chunk, “the metal detector went off the charts,” Sanders said.
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The above before and after photos will do.
The story continues three months later:
Terry Mohr: "Well, when I started to file the paper work with the government agencies I had a NINE pound nugget of gold." (see first picture of 9 lb. nugget)
"Then as the process went on, THIS is all the government left me with!!! (see second photo of him holding the 2 oz. nugget.)
Never give up, if you get a chance to hunt for gold, the next step could be on a big one.
Something does not pass the smell test here. Could Jim Sanders be a huckster wanting to get investors and then leaving them high and dry?
The notion of a find that large is the quintessential “American dream.” OTOH, as you say, the government and enviro-weenies will turn his dream a nightmare. Not to mention the money necessary to scale the permit hurdles.
Close to the old family digs...
I doubt the story, and the pic.
Yeah. I see a perfect con about to unfold. The mark(s) will do all the work (sell themselves) and pay dearly for it.
My thinking parallels yours. I could only find the one photo (above) on the net.
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I don’t know much about metals in their natural state but the big one looks like it was pieces of gold melted together.
I would wait until Obama is long out of office. See, he dont like mining. And even if he did allow it, he would take by force most or all of the gold.
Good luck with that, Mr. Sanders.
LOL. Has anyone looked up his facebook account yet? LOL
The only thing in the photo for size indication is what appears to be a tape measure. It could have easily been added with photoshop. (I did not examine the photo)
His statement:
“If I get a mining operation going, we’d have an industry here.”
That statement makes me suspicious he is mining something other than gold. There have always been mining scams.
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