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To: long-gone who wrote (69168)	5/15/2001 3:00:07 PM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 116786

Hutch has good values. Heck he would be an honorary member of the gold club. He hang out here and criticizes us, so he must secretly admire us. Thanks for the flattery Hutch. Well after two weeks in the bush we take him to Vegas, and show him a pile of chips, a few knock out dancers and a ton of gold. I will bet I know where he will dive first. And it will take all his strength. Then we he will call over the show girls. You can sweep up the chips. *************************** I used to take scores of geologists and company presidents out onto some claims in Northern Ontario where you could pan for gold in a shear zone near a small pond. In a few minutes you would get a tail of bright yellow metal halfway around the pan. Going out to the claim and walking around the geology you got talk and argument. Buyer's talk. Dry hassle, and doubt. I would always get them to pan their own gold, giving instructions as to technique. When they saw that gold, they stopped dead. They looked again. Out came the hand lens. The gold gleamed so bright you could see it from ten feet away. And to man, over 15 years, they they all smiled. From the USA, Australia, South Africa, France and Germany. They got excited. Yelped, some of them. They all knew. And man were they hot! Only one guy, a PhD from some company called SELCO looked at me and said, "how do you know that isn't pyrite?" I told him, "I ask you". I don't wonder about the worth of gold. I take it from the world. When you get close to it, the feeling is visceral. I may know where there are lots of gold. Bright and yellow, hard and cold. Molten, graven, hammered, rolled, heavy to get, light to hold, Stolen, borrowed, squandered doled. A guy who travelled to Australia one time predicted on arrival at New South Wales he would find gold in one week. He did. I think I know why he said it. I know what Billy Barker, the 19 year old Cornish miner, knew on Wild Horse Creek. And what Sutter's foreman knew. It's currency of systematic inference when you have sought for a time. Gold yields to laws of science in its occurence. Money for gold. It's easy to calculate. EC<:-}