New Discovery! Dead Camel Jasper September 2015, For my fall digging season, a friend of mine Walt Harrison, came over from California to help me dig at my Linda Marie Plume agate claim (Rock And Gem Magazine, January 2016). The next day we were going to head out to the mine to begin the dig, but in the mean time we were hanging out in my shop, talking and comparing notes on different stuff I had laying around. Walt starts looking in my buckets I have in the shop. “You know Jake Jacobitz says, ‘someone might have piles of rock in their yard, but you can always find the best rock sitting around by a man’s saw,” I say. Walt says with a laugh, “Is that right?” I can see he’s mulling that thought around and he say’s, “You know…now that I think about it he’s right!, I have some of my best rock sitting by my saw waiting to be cut!” He drops the rock back in the bucket he was looking at and starts heading toward my saws. I have my own “on deck” rock sitting around my saws in wire baskets and in small piles. Milling around by my saws, he pulls a basket of another and says, “What the heck is this?” I walk over and look at it. “Oh yeah, I forgot about that, it’s Lahontan Jasper.” Walt, looking at the pure porcelain quality says, “Man! that’s some hard stuff and the colors are so bright!” I tell him the story of stopping by the rock shop on the way to California for Thanksgiving, and explain I never got around to go looking for it because of being so busy with my other mines. Walt is a great prospector. I have always been impressed by his innate ability to find and dig up some of the best rock that everyone else has been walking over for years. Knowing this, I had an idea. “Let’s go look for it in the Spring. I know the general area, and if it turns out to be a good place, we’ll go into together on the claim”. Walt says, “Sure! Let’s do it”. I had done some research on it years back. I’ll hand it off to Walt to do some more investigating. https://bietmu.over-blog.com/2021/02/pixinsight-157-released-for-mac.html. But for now, I put one of the Lahontan rough’s in the saw and began cutting. After a while, the saw stopped cutting and shuts off. Lifting the hood, we looked at the cut slab. We both looked at each other. We both had wide grins and twinkles in our eyes. Bright blood reds, greens, blues and yellows with a brecciated pattern stared back at us. I washed off the slab and to our amazement, the jasper was so hard that the surface of the slab looked like it was polished by the saw blade. All during my dig at the Linda Marie Plume claim the following weeks, Walt and I discussed how we were going to find the Lahontan. |
March 2016, Autocad 2009 keygen 64 bit. Weather plays a great deal in the planning of mining or prospecting in the desert. Too hot, and the time spent looking or digging is limited to early morning and late evening. Protection from heat and sun is paramount. Sun screen and tons of water are essential. With no shade in the desert, exhaustive hand digging can be dangerous. https://torrent-thai.mystrikingly.com/blog/caesars-palace-classic-room. Heat exhaustion and heat stroke are always in the back of your mind. Too cold, and you have to wait until late morning, so the sun can warm things up, especially the hands and joints. Then, you head back to camp before the sun goes down, to cook, clean up and get nestled in. In the desert, nights get cold fast and you need to be well prepared before daylight disappears. Too wet and the chance of being stuck out in the middle of no-where for days or perhaps a week, until the ground dries up is not fun. So, finding a “window” or “goldilocks zone” of not too hot, not to cold and no rain in the weather pattern is what we are looking for before heading out. A week in March 2016 turned out to be a prime weather window. Well prepared and out fitted, Walt and I, with a handful of Google maps, set out to start our search.
Later that evening, having had dinner and now relaxing at camp, we share stories and thoughts of our current expeditions. Now, we begin discussing a name for our new discoveries. Most claim are named according to where the discovery was found, an old sweet heart, wife, animals, or a particular feature of the stone or mineral. Having researched the maps of the area, I remembered seeing the nearby Dead Camel Mountain Range on the map. So, I say to Walt, “How about Dead Camel Jasper?” Walt gives me a funny, dubious look and says, “Dead Camel?” I say, “Yeah, after the Dead Camel Range”. Then, I tell him the story behind the range’s name. Walt says, “ I knew they used Camels down in Quartzite Arizona years ago, but I didn’t know they had them up here too? Laughing, he says, “Well, it’s a name you won’t forget”.
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Legend of the red falcon (You have to make your way from the bottom of the slums to the golden halls of the palace.
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