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The Devil's Ear

HonoluluDudeHonoluluDude Posts: 2,167 ✭
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Not sure if this has already been posted, but pretty cool find nonetheless.

6664 grams, found on Friday the 13th.

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  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,764 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If anyone has been to Breckenridge, Co you might remember seeing all the tailings on the right hand
    side going into town. They are all along the river there that was worked by a floating dredge. Seems that the
    dredge owners set the grates to 3/4 inch. Which means all material larger than 3/4 was discarded
    into those tailing piles. Well, it seems that there were more than one nugget larger than 3/4 of an
    inch and detectorists today still find them in those piles.
    It was more economical to reduce everything to 3/4 and less for the onboard sluice to work properly.

    Oh well, been meaning to go back and detect but it seems I'm only there in the winter for skiing and
    detecting in that weather under all that snow is a big problem. Need to go in the fall when the weather
    is best.

    bobimage

    Edited: so I understand why this huge nugget was discarded.
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  • jmski52jmski52 Posts: 22,858 ✭✭✭✭✭
    6.66 kg. Wow! That'll make a mark!image
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    I knew it would happen.
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    $270K at current melt..... Cheers, RickO
  • GBurger717GBurger717 Posts: 575
    very nice find. I have found 1 cw gold coin while detecting cw sites and thought I hit the jackpot. I cant imagine finding something like this.
  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 28,334 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Not sure if this has already been posted, but pretty cool find nonetheless.

    6664 grams, found on Friday the 13th.

    image >>

    nice find image
  • Timbuk3Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wow, very nice, what a huge score !!! image
    Timbuk3
  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,082 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>$270K at current melt..... Cheers, RickO >>



    Would that need to be refined first?
    theknowitalltroll;
  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,541 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>$270K at current melt..... Cheers, RickO >>



    Would that need to be refined first? >>



    It is a lot rarer and more desirable as a huge nugget than as bullion.
    In memory of my kitty Seryozha 14.2.1996 ~ 13.9.2016 and Shadow 3.4.2015 - 16.4.21
  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,082 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>

    << <i>$270K at current melt..... Cheers, RickO >>



    Would that need to be refined first? >>



    It is a lot rarer and more desirable as a huge nugget than as bullion. >>



    I was just musing that you couldn't get a real melt value as is.
    theknowitalltroll;
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Just using gross weight....it is worth much more in raw form..... Cheers, RickO
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