Well hello Edge. Did you see, you're famous. Randi mentioned you
here and again
here (including your picture). He wonders, just like we do, why you haven't sent in you new application.
I'm still here and mining with the best 6 inch dredge that i could make. I don't have a lot of time right now ,but I am 9 for ten correct in placement of that dredge in the creek as far as being correct in locating and making a profit.
How much profit? Enough to afford to take the challenge again?
Move 6 inches over and you'll find nothing.
Of course, to prove that, you would have to move over 6 inches and show that there was nothing, and you'd have to do this numerous times. Are you doing this?
But putting that aside, Edge, nobody here doubts that you have some skills as a gold finder. That comes with experience. It is your insistance on magic that is the sticking point. You have never been able to show that your magic dowsing rod works
even when you know there is significant gold in one of the targets. You really should give yourself more credit for your own ability to evaluate the conditions for finding gold, even though by all accounts, you haven't found enough to escape what appears to be a rather austere lifestyle.
Right now I'm camping and mining.
All i can tell you is that I'm convinced!
LOL. We know you are convinced, Edge. But can you prove your skills to others? That is where you have failed.
I will get back to ya and Tricky your a bigger nut than I.
Oh, I couldn't accept such an honor!
Oh the geolagy {sp.} i'm seeing.
It's geology. Yes, that's a very geologically interesting area of the country. Almost all areas with gold deposits are interesting because gold does not simply appear in cooling magmatic rocks. It has to be concentrated by diagenetic (post-depositional) processes that can be quite complex. It can be further concentrated by differential specific gravity in fluvial (stream) processes, which is why you dredge in stream beds or old stream beds. It takes a trained eye to recognize the conditions where this concentration occurs. I'm a soft-rock geologist myself, so I don't claim to know as much as someone like
Correa Neto, who is closely involved with mineral mining.
I will read Randis blurb soon.
I am in town to resupply my self.
Be back soon.
I hope you do read it. He thinks you will never apply again. I hope you prove him wrong, but remember the advice you were given earlier. You cannot dictate the rules of the Challenge. Especially remember
Rule 6.
All of the applicant's expenses such as transportation, accommodation, materials, assistants, and/or all other costs for any persons or procedures incurred in pursuit of the reward, are the sole responsibility of the applicant. Neither the JREF nor JR will bear any of the costs.
If you expect a JREF representative to come to you, then you will have to pay his or her expenses. That means you had better have everything in place when they arrive so you don't have to pay lodging expenses for very long. Properly designed, it should only take an afternoon. The hard part will be hammering out the protocol with Jeff Wagg.
