NO ONE found a nugget as big as...since the biggest nuggets were caught in the -8 meche sieve (that would be 8 openings per square inch) or about the size of a hat pin. And they were all evenly distributed to the paying trommel run participants. We do have pictures of the Ohaus triple beam balance scales' scoop with the gold piled inside prior to distribution though.
As far as the recovery wheel and your association with aliens is concerned, who KNOWS where the idea for a portable wheel came from originally (grin) There are several miserable imitations out there, because I've bought my share of those that DO NOT work, and have vultched the bones of the wanna be shitty wheels and tweaked other projects with their innards. So, the oregontrail.net is the ONLY one I use, will use or recommend for usage by others who do NOT have or are not involved in the huge commercial sized operations.
But THAT wheel pictured is different, and works especially well on DRY processing. When wet processing with that wheel, the superfines can form a little cluster on the water's surface about at the "9 O'Clock" position and any disturbance upstream causes the little fines to scoot around the edge of the wheel and go on migrating downstream. And I hate to catch raw gold twice<g>
Re: the worldaccessnet.com URL, jewellery is just ONE item in that gold pan, so look again. That is the standard graphic for the recycled gold at $20 per ounce cost cross-reference page to the new exclusive distributor site, for the book/kit I wrote and assembled for those who want to recover more than gold jewellery....WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY more than gold jewellery, trust me.
I assembled 6 pages (single space type) which lists ALL the items I've found gold on or in above ground from which consistent and substantial amounts of gold can be recovered on a steady basis.
Many on this thread repeat the POG mantra that "all gold ever mined is still available." Theoretically that sounds good, but is also an indicator statement of a bear in bull clothing. As Richard Harmon has pointed out so very many times, maybe before you came along, gold can "dissapate" especially upon impact of a missle containing gold contacts for example. As Richard for details on those missles, as I've never recovered gold from a missle, dead or alive.
Furthermore, gold does exist in a gaseous form, and once reduced to a gas, that is extremely hard to recover, especially during sloppy refining processing by shade tree refiners.
Another mantra the POG bears like to repeat is the "scrap gold" recovery figures of various annual reports such as GFMinerals codifies in May of each year. But the truth is, SCRAP gold recovery is nothing more than an adjustment category for making the numbers come out right in the mined vs usage columns. For example, when I use the scrap gold numbers from those reports in my posts, I'm referring to what is available for refining, not what HAS been refined since I see that category for what it truly is, and not the way it has been misrepresented by others.
Furthermore, most of us refine our own scrap, instead of taking it to someone else, like a refiner, who, to the best of my knowledge doesn't keep sources of incoming gold on spreadsheets or as notations in various columns.
And when I've sold gold buttons such as are on display in my banner ad on goldsheet.simplenet.com (unless Bob has moved it to another locale), I've never had ONE buyer, NONE, ZIP, NADA, ask me the source of the gold I have refined and are selling them. They could care less! They just want to know the 3 P's: Price, Purity, Poundage, not source!!!
So, when I work on their website next week, I'll be putting up event pictures allright, and gold pictures, and tunnel pictures and their new distributor line of gold-wheels recovery equipment pictures and the reprint of the newspaper article on Roy published in the Baker Democrat Herald the weekend of the big event. So, stay tuned.
Nothing like studying gold from the micro as well as the macro picture. Especially on days when the POG takes a $10 drubbing, eh?
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