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Turquoise Fever

Postby golden optimist » Thu Sep 19, 2019 11:38 am

I've been watching this on the Insp channel on Dish channel 259. Not gold but prospecting and plenty of digging and blasting. It's shot in Nevada. Check it out. I find it very interesting.
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Re: Turquoise Fever

Postby golden optimist » Thu Sep 19, 2019 12:17 pm

It looks like I'm a little late. The final show is next Wednesday. It's the ISP channel. You'll have to watch for replays.
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Re: Turquoise Fever

Postby golden optimist » Thu Sep 19, 2019 12:19 pm

It's definitely not dredging country.
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Re: Turquoise Fever

Postby russau » Thu Sep 19, 2019 2:00 pm

I've been watching this show and it is sure interesting !
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Re: Turquoise Fever

Postby micropedes1 » Thu Sep 19, 2019 4:03 pm

I remember stumping around the Nevada hills some 25 years ago looking for gems like turquoise. Our best strikes started atop an ant mound. Them little burrowers would bring up gravel from 20 feet down. Even found some gold that way! And they worked cheap and continuous !! :D
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Re: Turquoise Fever

Postby russau » Fri Sep 20, 2019 2:33 am

Glen , SORRY for my comment that got added to your post ! The devil made me do it ! :roll:
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Re: Turquoise Fever

Postby Matt Mattson » Fri Sep 20, 2019 5:44 am

micropedes1 wrote:I remember stumping around the Nevada hills some 25 years ago looking for gems like turquoise. Our best strikes started atop an ant mound. Them little burrowers would bring up gravel from 20 feet down. Even found some gold that way! And they worked cheap and continuous !! :D


That was a excellent tip for gem hunters you gave - and that is what Larry Lake and I would do looking for peridot and pyrope garnet (found in the same kimberlite pipe as diamond). Actually, any gem they'll bring up because they don't like anything with sharp edges. People that saw us must've thought we were crazy for ants at the time, going around inspecting mounds with magnifying glasses for chips.
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Re: Turquoise Fever

Postby Hoser John » Sat Sep 21, 2019 10:17 am

Great show as if no gold it's good to know something about gems/minerals and relics sure help also. John
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Re: Turquoise Fever

Postby golden optimist » Sat Sep 21, 2019 4:06 pm

Good to see a post from you John. It's been a while. I'm trying to get Skype going on my "new to me" computer. It doesn't run on XP any more. The "new to me" computer has Windows 10 and that brings new challenges to me.
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Re: Turquoise Fever

Postby russau » Sat Sep 21, 2019 5:34 pm

I had windows 10 on my computer and hated it until John advised me to get a different down load which I still use without problems anymore ! Thank you John!!
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