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Strategies & Market Trends : Winter in the Great White North -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E. Charters who wrote (2780)	8/21/2002 4:31:33 AM
From: Bill/WA	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 8273

EC, <<Geodes have a sort of watery silica looking texture to the outside.>><<The skin of a geode is often unlike the surface of other rocks.>> Went into town (Whitehorse) today and looked at some cut geodes in some shops. The skin does look awfully thin, so wouldn't a little chip from a hammer knock it off to reveal the glazey inner surfaces? <<So let the big gold mine slip thru your hands.>> Actually I do remember where I found it (about 30 miles south of Dawson City), on the side of a hill right off the Klondike Hwy that looked like someone had dynamited it out. However, I also picked up some other pieces that had shiney gold in them but when they dried out (it was raining) the gold color lost its sheen (couldn't believe it would be THAT prevelent anyway. <<BC will not have placer workings going on since the 1985 government rule about 2000 yards being the limit to production.>> I think Discovery Rd in Atlin is still in the Yukon Terr. but going down Warm Bay Rd. to the south you cross the border into BC. I know last year the people fishing at the south end of Warm Bay Rd. were complaining about having to get a BC fishing license. Bad weather has moved in so will probably stay in Whitehorse another day and then go back up the Klondike Hwy. and film and GPS some of the rock spots for a rockhound tape. Bill/WA