Eureka! 9-POUND NUGGET TIP OF THE ICEBERG?

TheUnion.com ^ | April 30, 2010 | Dave Moller

[One_Upmanship]

I don't see anything suspicious here. Move along folks. #/;-)

[derSchurfer]

After the intensive hydraulic mining in the 19th century you’d be very fortunate indeed to find nuggets at all. Mostly flakes and dust. Still, gold is where you find it! Gold was found there in the past, I’m sure they didn’t get it all.

[One_Upmanship]

[ladyvet]

I have one of those in my basement....not the guy, the jackhammer. My husband is a miner and brought one home to “make a lamp out of it” one day many years ago. I couldn’t break it like Ralphies mom could the leg lamp, but I laughed so hard he never brought it up again.

[ladyvet]

Jack leg.....sorry.

[Fresh Wind]

Could Jim Sanders be a huckster wanting to get investors and then leaving them high and dry?

Hmmmm. I've been hearing ads on the radio lately offering stock in some gold mining operation.

[One_Upmanship]

Great story! You may (or may not) want to tell your clever husband about this incredibly crazy, delightful store on the west side, in Manhattan, called Mantiques. (Run by the gheyist blade you can imagine!) It seems that hubby may be on to something! Give the guy some credit! LOL

[One_Upmanship]

Not the ones by G Gordon Liddy?

[wiggen]

When i said i have no clue i may have been giving myself too much credit. I truly would not know.

[ladyvet]

OMG! There is no way on God’s green earth that I will ever show him that! He will never let me live it down after laughing at that thing all these years!

[One_Upmanship]

LOL. It's gold fever. Happens to the best of us. ;-D

[wiggen]

Now that i looked at the other photo(the link didn’t appear in the ping) that you so kindly provided that rock was clearly part of another rock at some point in time. there are no smooth looking areas such as we see in the nugget.What we see on that side of the nugget looks nothing like the hygraded gold in your link.

[One_Upmanship]

LOL. Better have it insured. It’s worth at least $1600. LOL

(Not your husband. The lamp!)

[One_Upmanship]

Good observation. I am clueless about this stuff. But it is intriguing.

[Fresh Wind]

Not the ones by G Gordon Liddy?

No, a different one, definitely a speculative venture. I'll have to write down the URL next time I hear it.

[B4Ranch]

We have always said, “There’s gold in them thar hills.”

[PeaceBeWithYou]

He should have kept his mouth shut and continued to search with the detector. If more was found, small recreational equipment can be used without permit. Advertisement is often the surest way to end up with nothing or less than nothing where gold is involved.

That is placer gold, the rounded edges show it has traveled a goodly distance from it's source. There is likely more, but it is unlikely to be a mineable lode on the property.

I'm going to call BS on the found 10 foot deep with a detector too. I could believe 4-5, but 10 is a real stretch.

He better research it's value too, a 9lb nugget like that could easily fetch $200,000 or more at auction, possibly more if it has character, or some other signifigance.

[One_Upmanship]

In comments on the article, others have commented likewise. 10' does seem to be a stretch. New use for a two-mile hole.?

[One_Upmanship]

Apologies for the size of the image! Yipes!

[Cyber Liberty]

I know a guy who likes going to the AZ hills to prospect for gold. He spends most of his time at the courthouse ripping off people’s mineral rights. Word spreads through those communities, and he had the crap beaten out of him the last time he went “prospecting.”