RockyFrisco wrote:What if we get a party of about six or eight of us and comb the area for a few days?
Rocky,
My experience with organizing a party of 6 or 8 people to go into the mnts, is that by the end of the first day, you are down to a party of 2 or 3. By the 3rd day you are all alone, and nobody wants to go back again. It automatic not planned.
I'll bet there are some people on this set of fora that would not flake out so easily. I would still like to try it some day.
To update a previous post. I was misinformed about the chunk of ore I found by the old hospital in Cripple Creek. It occurred to me today that calaverite sounds a lot like Calaveras, so I did a search. Whatever it is I have, it's not calaverite. After the old (90 or so) man at the assay office had told me it was calaverite, I said, "Thanks." It now appears that I should have said, "Pull the other one; it's got bells on." He told me calaverite was 80% gold and 20% silver. The mineral site says it's roughly 45% gold and 55% tellurium. The picture of calaverite on that site doesn't look anything like what I have. The specimen is lost somewhere in my house, in a round green plastic snuff container. Probably easier to find the LDM than anything in this house. It will turn up when I'm looking for something else. I still think it's pretty rich; pyrites aren't that heavy and I'm pretty good at recognizing them.
Can't wait for the weather to turn here. I have located two friends who have likely treasure sites on their land, one near Skiatook and one near Tahlequah. They have found rocks with hearts and turkey-tracks deeply incised into them. I told them to not move them, since they might point at something. One of the main things I learned from Bob Brewer's accounts is that those old broken pieces of plowshares and guns I found were probably not just junk. I never suspected that they might have been placed where they were because they could be found with a good compass. I just never thought of a compass as a metal-detector.
One of the battle sites north of Tulsa was vandalized this last week. There was a really big hole right in the middle of the old abandoned road that appeared a couple of days ago in the morning that was not there the night before. When the property owner put the dirt back in the hole, it only half-filled it. Somebody took out something big during the night. Guess we'll never know what.
