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To: ralfph who wrote (2664)	7/31/2002 1:51:03 PM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 8273

The gold appears in a fast flowing section. # this is murphy's law of gold deposition. "Gold will be deposited in a section of the river most economically where it is too fast to dig." What is weird is there is about a kilometer of calm water upstream from this spot. We always figured there was one hell of allot of gold sitting in the bottom of this calm water. # this I would not bet on. Although it ~may~ be upstreamed sourced, the prejudice I prefer is a local adjacent slope source. The gold is flat , from real tiny to the size of an eraser head , the thickness will change from paper thin to about 1/16 of an inch. # Big gold for a slow river. The fraser will change about 30 feet from high water to low. I have seen it suck a telephone log under and not let it pop up for at least a thousand feet. There is allot of ice action on it as well. I have picked up a finger nail sized nugget off the top of the gravel and moved 20 ton rocks on bed rock and found black sand like crazy, lots of nails and such, some little red gemstones garnets, most likely and not one friggin flake . Thats what makes it fun. I would be upset if I was trying to make a living from it though. # You mean demented. # Fraser is a Scottish word meaning "river of broken hearts and pocketbooks" EC<:-}

To: ralfph who wrote (2664)	7/31/2002 5:36:56 PM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 8273

I think what has to be done to make placer mining more eco-friendly is to change its image. We change its name to Rural Peasant Small Scale Mining and People's Financial Empowerment Process. We speak of Utilization of the Gifts of Mother Earth To create Positive Change and Trivial Rearrangement of essentially Barren Soil Structures, and Resiltation of Potentially Productive Near-Aquifer Growing Areas, and Revival of Fish Breeding grounds. When gold production is spoken of, we say we are liberating metals enslaved in stifling gravel beds for utilization by the people for renewing social structures in areas oppressed by reactionary centralized big business capitalism.