When my prospecting buddy and I were running a small 4" dredge, we learned to keep a fishing pole handy. The fishing was often pretty good downstream from the dredge. We assumed that all the stuff we stirred up in the process attracted the bait fish and the bass that fed on them.4metals said:What was neat was I quickly learned to bring a pole spear down with me because a fresh fish dinner always showed up before the day was out. Unlike their salt water cousins, fresh-water fish come and look at you while you're spearing them!
4metals said:I remember many years ago in Ecuador waking early in the morning and sitting by one of 3 leaching lagoons where the bitter sweet aroma of a freshly made cyanide leach solution mingled with the morning dew.
That and Ecuadorian coffee made some memorable mornings.
anachronism said:4metals said:I remember many years ago in Ecuador waking early in the morning and sitting by one of 3 leaching lagoons where the bitter sweet aroma of a freshly made cyanide leach solution mingled with the morning dew.
That and Ecuadorian coffee made some memorable mornings.
Why does the image of you sitting shirtless, wearing a cavalry hat, and growling " I love the smell of cyanide in the morning" refuse to leave my mind? :lol:
4metals said:I remember many years ago in Ecuador waking early in the morning and sitting by one of 3 leaching lagoons where the bitter sweet aroma of a freshly made cyanide leach solution mingled with the morning dew.
The upper limit for a dredge for exploration use was 6" so that is what we used. It was able to move a lot of material although most of the nuggets we found were not in the riffles of the dredge, they were in the cracks we eventually uncovered in the streambed. When you uncover a crack in the bedrock that is hugging a few nuggets, that have been sitting there for who knows how long, that is quite a sight to see.
Barren Realms 007 said:When 4metals said that it made me want to go back to Panama and the bush. Oh the fun I had in the bush.
Ok take your minds out of the gutter. Jungle bush. :lol:
4metals said:Yep, here and now are the good old days.
goldsilverpro said:Maybe the reason I like these smells is because they all represent money in the works.
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