A little gold shot!

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A little gold shot!

Post by Leonard » Sat Sep 08, 2018 4:49 pm

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 it to me. What a feeling!
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Re: A little gold shot!

Post by Jim_Alaska » Sat Sep 08, 2018 4:55 pm

About all anyone can say about that is WOW.
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Re: A little gold shot!

Post by chickenminer » Sat Sep 08, 2018 5:06 pm

And I suppose they made you give it back!
That would be something to heft.
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Re: A little gold shot!

Post by Leonard » Sat Sep 08, 2018 5:27 pm

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 close you can see the drill hole where they bored through it.
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Post by Jim_Alaska » Sat Sep 08, 2018 5:35 pm

I see you both got your Avatar up on the board , good work.
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