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Dowsing 4 gold

Blackwell said:
Nice pics, edge. So are you dowsing for 1964 quarters? Or for silver in general?
Or maybe you're just dowsing for black electrical tape?
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The green pan is a bad day and the metal ones are good days, hits and misses predicted.
Your not funny so what's your point?
Oh let me guess, you don't believe it's possible?
 

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edge said:
The green pan is a bad day and the metal ones are good days, hits and misses predicted.
Your not funny so what's your point?
Oh let me guess, you don't believe it's possible?
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Oh, I'm HILARIOUS! Trust me! But I really do want to know what the silver quarter is there for (sorry if I missed it earlier in the thread.)
 
edona7 said:
OK, quick question, as I am not a geologist. I know gold often associated with quartz, but what's with the mercury? Does gold frequently come with mercury?
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Mercury was used on many levels, giant dredges used it and on many occasions lost
various amounts.
What it does and what the small time miner used it for was to collect the dust that you can't pan out clean, it turns a splash of liquid to a silly puddy you could easily recover.
In most cases there is a method called re-tort where when you heat up the gold the mercury is evaporated off and re-collected, like a still.

When we mined we actually helped remove what ever mercury we found from the creeks, or rivers.
I have heard of a dredger that found so much in his five-inch dredge, that it almost sank it.

I have another story where the guy fanned it out of a hole, under water into a five-gallon bucket; he said it was half full.

I personally have found it coating most of my finds on several occasions; at first you hope its platinum.
 
edge said:
Mercury was used on many levels, giant dredges used it and on many occasions lost
various amounts.
What it does and what the small time miner used it for was to collect the dust that you can't pan out clean, it turns a splash of liquid to a silly puddy you could easily recover.
In most cases there is a method called re-tort where when you heat up the gold the mercury is evaporated off and re-collected, like a still.

When we mined we actually helped remove what ever mercury we found from the creeks, or rivers.
I have heard of a dredger that found so much in his five-inch dredge, that it almost sank it.

I have another story where the guy fanned it out of a hole, under water into a five-gallon bucket; he said it was half full.

I personally have found it coating most of my finds on several occasions; at first you hope its platinum.
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Are you aware of the dangers of mercury vapor, even at room temperature and pressure?
 
Blackwell said:
Oh, I'm HILARIOUS! Trust me! But I really do want to know what the silver quarter is there for (sorry if I missed it earlier in the thread.)
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I'm guessing for scale. Many photographers use coins for scale when they're shooting extreme close-ups where the scale is not apparent from surrounding objects. Of course, in these pictures, the scale is quite apparent from the hands and other things, but giving the benefit of the doubt, perhaps they were shooting some close-ups too that we're not seeing here.
 
edge said:
...When we mined we actually helped remove what ever mercury we found from the creeks, or rivers.
I have heard of a dredger that found so much in his five-inch dredge, that it almost sank it.
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[Roy Scheider]We're gonna need a bigger boat.[/Roy Scheider]
That was a fictional story too.
 
Tricky said:
I'm guessing for scale. Many photographers use coins for scale when they're shooting extreme close-ups where the scale is not apparent from surrounding objects. Of course, in these pictures, the scale is quite apparent from the hands and other things, but giving the benefit of the doubt, perhaps they were shooting some close-ups too that we're not seeing here.
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Ah...good call! I hadn't thought of that!
 
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Tricky said:
I'm guessing for scale. Many photographers use coins for scale when they're shooting extreme close-ups where the scale is not apparent from surrounding objects. Of course, in these pictures, the scale is quite apparent from the hands and other things, but giving the benefit of the doubt, perhaps they were shooting some close-ups too that we're not seeing here.
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Is it just me or has edge's skin changed colour between the photos on page 4 and the one on page 5?
 
edge said:
It's B.S...
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Discovered over 150 years ago and documented again and again over the past century, the ideomotor effect has now been declared B.S. by Edge. Time to rewrite the encyclopedias.


As long as we are at it, did you want to take a moment to admit that the five pound number was completely made up and that you have absolutely no evidence that five pounds is the necessary amount?
 
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