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A little wire gold.

Kurt is flintgreasewood on the ICMJ forum http://forum.icmj.com/topic/766-life-at-the-bottom-of-a-64-shaft/ He definitely isn't afraid of work. He's dug a 63 foot shaft by hand near Fairbanks. His story is really something. I met him locally here near Boulder Co. He took me to his claim in the hills...

I spent a month a year for 3 years in Alaska courtesy of a friend I met on my forum. It was the greatest prospecting time of my life. Not in gold but in the friendships I made. Most of the time I was in the back country near Eureka and Manley Hot Springs about 170 miles from Fairbanks. I was a dredg...

2008 my prospecting pal and I met at Nome. I flew in from near Eureka and he came from Denver. We met at the airport in Nome. That was about all that worked as planned. We were to meet a friend and go inland to his claim. Long story short was he didn't make it. This left Dave and I on our own in Nom...

I have the getting up and down problem also. When I help the wife weed I get down and then pretty much crawl around. That wears out the knees in all of my jeans. The good thing is I have years worth of pictures and stories left to "prospect" through. I can do my prospecting from my computer chair. L...

That weighed 13.3 pounds. I see it was sold. They didn't say how much. I was at Bohemia Mining Days in Oregon a bunch of years ago. The whopper was there sitting on a metal folding chair. There was a guard standing nearby. I didn't ask to hold it then as I already had a picture with it. It you look ...

There's a real joy holding something like this as you can tell by the look on my face! This is the "whopper" We were in Allegheny looking at gold samples that were for sale at the 16-1 mine. The sales person said "I have something you might want to see". They came back around the corner and handed i...

Kenny's Gold My hands trembled as I very carefully removed the large plastic bottles filled with gold from their home hidden deep within the protective floor safe. 1 - 2 - 3 - 4. Each bottle was over half full of gold. Gold which had been classified and sorted to specific sizes. Each bottle held inc...