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I like to put gold back in the creeks

Gman		Posted : Sunday, 19 August 2012 1:17:50 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Dust Groups: Registered Joined: 15/06/2012(UTC) Posts: 8 Location: Taranaki Thanks: 7 times Was thanked: 1 time(s) in 1 post(s)		i was chipping away at a crevasse and my test nugget fell out of my pocket I had it in a bubble wrap plastic bag so it floated off downstream spent 8 hrs looking for it if anyone finds it give me a call might be in cook straight by now. Also hi to gjj,pete and nugget- hunter

oroplata		Posted : Sunday, 19 August 2012 1:31:02 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered, Moderators Joined: 16/06/2011(UTC) Posts: 1,040 Location: Christchurch Thanks: 23 times Was thanked: 211 time(s) in 152 post(s)		Bummer.
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gjj109		Posted : Sunday, 19 August 2012 3:55:26 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Medals: Groups: Registered Joined: 14/03/2011(UTC) Posts: 464 Location: Thames Thanks: 217 times Was thanked: 194 time(s) in 115 post(s)		It's a crap day in paradise when you finish up with less than you started with.

peteatpapaaroha		Posted : Sunday, 19 August 2012 5:16:02 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Nugget Groups: Registered Joined: 7/01/2012(UTC) Posts: 41 Location: Papa Aroha, Coromandel Thanks: 151 times Was thanked: 25 time(s) in 14 post(s)		Hopefully your loss is a bit of karma, got to pay a bit before you receive a heap. Should of had a dog, could have been the start of of new Lotto Add. with the nugget heading home to Coromandel. Best of luck Gman.

NiteHUNTER		Posted : Sunday, 19 August 2012 6:08:36 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Dust Groups: Registered Joined: 24/07/2012(UTC) Posts: 4 Location: Wellington		i think i found it wait no its just bubble wrap

Lammerlaw		Posted : Monday, 20 August 2012 12:10:27 AM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered Joined: 24/05/2011(UTC) Posts: 1,721 Thanks: 72 times Was thanked: 579 time(s) in 396 post(s)		'Such is life' - the last words of Ned Kelly - apparently. Up on the mountain on my own property once I found a nice little gold nugget and placed it in a small metal telescopic cup which in turn sat in a small tin - this was an antique cup which had been carried by two generations of gold miners before me - in any case to cut a long story short I took the cup out, gave it a shake to telescope it out and dipped it in the creek to get a drink - need I say more? The gold will be in the tussocks somewhere. I also remember a person I took gold mining found a nugget upstream and ran around the side of the hill to show it to the rest of us - he was holding it up and at fifty metres I could clearly see it - thats when he tripped...he never did find it. I am also sure it would have weighed quite heavy as I found a 13dwt nugget, (19grammes), three nuggets at 8dwt (12 gramme) and a 10dwt nugget (15 grammes) all within view of that spot or very close by that spot. I guess we all have those losses sometimes - I also lost about 1.5 grammes when my bottle fell back into the stream in the Arrow and dropped another nugget of about 1.5 grammes in the Cardrona. Sitting somewhere between Purgatory and home is a 'Skol' suntan lotion bottle with mercury and gold in it which I lost a fair few moons ago - This is getting depressing - so it could be said that these things happen - but as Rudyard Kipling said in his poem 'If' written in 1895 that; - If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings, And never breathe a word about your loss: ...............................................................etc Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And---which is more---you'll be a Man, my son! I like Rudyard Kiplings poem but unfortunately in some respects I am still waiting to grow up! I guess you risked it when you took it with you but I am sure you will get more...may your next nugget be a humdinger! Hope all that made sense! Just a little suggestion - why not take a small piece of Gold painted lead into the field as a 'test nugget' - I do that to test my metal detector - although in my case the little bit of lead is a definite symmetrical shape and sort of poking out of a bit of brass - still a good tester for the detector! Edited by user Monday, 20 August 2012 12:22:16 AM(UTC) \| Reason: Not specified

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peteatpapaaroha		Posted : Wednesday, 29 August 2012 9:25:15 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Nugget Groups: Registered Joined: 7/01/2012(UTC) Posts: 41 Location: Papa Aroha, Coromandel Thanks: 151 times Was thanked: 25 time(s) in 14 post(s)		EH,WHAT WHO?

rgmcbrid		Posted : Thursday, 30 August 2012 4:08:34 AM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered Joined: 3/06/2010(UTC) Posts: 583 Location: Southland Thanks: 23 times Was thanked: 180 time(s) in 140 post(s)		Quote: ...in any case to cut a long story short... Say it isn't so! :) Used to live by a farmer who was a pretty accomplished talker and he would in mid yarn often say: "To make a long story endless..."
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mineforgold.co.nz		Posted : Thursday, 30 August 2012 5:31:28 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered Joined: 14/11/2011(UTC) Posts: 299 Location: Nelson Thanks: 58 times Was thanked: 38 time(s) in 35 post(s)		Everyone should have a catch and release policy - that way there would be gold in the creeks for generations to come.
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