Bardo Bites: Bet You Can’t Eat Just One

Become a Seller. Start a Movement.

These aren’t ordinary candy.
They’re not “just plain old chocolate.”
They’re 72% dark single-source high-grade fair-traded family-grown rich ultra-delicious certified rainforest chocolate chips, made to melt in your mouth.

They are the perfect mini-size, ideal for trade! They melt in your mouth!

What’s the Deal?
Buy One Bag of Chips for $1
Sell It for $2
Keep the dollar profit, or donate it.

Double your order each time you run out of chips!

Or you can mark it up significantly, if you’re in the right neighborhood for swank. Try selling one piece of chocolate for a million dollars. Just a wild guess based on thousands of years of experience with the human race — I’ll bet dollars to donuts that someone buys it.

One little bite starts something.
Nobody stops at just one. Nobody.

You offer someone a single Bardo Bite…
Two days later, they’re asking for a dozen.
Then two dozen.
Then “Can I sell these too?” and that’s exactly what we want!

Carry Smart
You don’t need to wear ‘em, although they can be worn.
Just pack a couple dozen in a cool bag, pouch, or my special lunchbox on zazzle.
Glove box, lunch cooler, spirit kit — whatever keeps them cool and dry.
They’re small enough to stash.
Powerful enough to change lives.

Why Sell?
They sell themselves.
They taste divine. There’s nothing like them.
They open something, and you’ll know it when you see their faces after the first bite.

And you can store Bardo Bites pretty much forever.
Trade them. Sell them. Use them.
Gift them to make a moment that matters.

Start Now
Try one, then order a dozen.
Then sell a dozen, see how easy that was.
Now you’re ready to place a serious order of Bardo Bites.

If you work where there are a LOT of people, you can get orders every day for them, but make sure you don’t sell them too fast! Have enough handy that you don’t run out of them.

I can deliver up to six tons of chocolate chips per day. Don’t ask how. Actually, make that around 200 chips per day at the present capacity.

So store Bardo Bites the smart way.
Don’t carry ‘em in your pocket!
Keep at least several hundred bags aside for your own use, for the tough times ahead.

This is an excellent way to work yourself into entrepreneur territory!

And here’s another thing you can do:

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For Sale:

40 Acre Gold Claim on Yuba River, with two streams 1,000 feet of river, campground, lots of level camping.

🪨 What Are Your Chances of Finding Gold on That Claim?

You’re in prime historical gold country:

• Sierra Buttes nearby

• The Monumental Nugget came out of the region

• The North Yuba River is still productive today

So geologically speaking, your odds are solid. But here’s the kicker:

The gold isn’t always where it makes sense — it’s always where you find it.

📋 Why You May Not Have Found It Yet:

1. Sampling not deep enough or in the wrong zones
   If you’ve just tested top gravels, the gold may be deeper — in crevices, bedrock, or false bedrock.

2. Gold concentrated in “pockets”
   The North Yuba has lots of micro-pockets of gold. You can pan 20 feet with nothing, then suddenly hit 6 colors in one pan. Look in alluvial banks, behind large rocks, in moss, even high-bank possible gold deposit zones.

3. Missed the flood gold layer
   Recent floods may have moved new gold onto your claim. Look for fresh black sand streaks, moss beds, or exposed roots.

🧪 My Custom Sampling Plan

1. Divide the Claim into Zones

• River section

• Creek confluences

• High banks or benches

• Quartz ledge zone

• Any exposed bedrock

2. Sample Smart

• Crevices: Use a crevice tool and vacuum or snuffer bottle. Pan heavy material at bottom, leave the overburden alone!

• Moss beds: Snip moss into a tub including the root & surrounding dirt, then rinse thoroughly, and carefully pan the slurry, looking for fines.

• Behind boulders: Gold loves to hide in low-pressure zones where they can drop — they’ll go all the way to bedrock, and even get into the crevices underneath the false bedrock that typically seals off the gold into a bottom layer.

• Inside bends: Always worth sampling, especially during low flow.

3. Go Vertical

• Dig test pits 12 inches deep in at least 5 strategic locations in a small area.

• Sample each horizon layer separately — gold likes to sit right above dense clay and especially false bedrock, which is hardened clay that has seeped into the bedrock.

4. Metal Detect Dry Areas

• Use a high-frequency detector (like a Gold Bug 2)

• Focus on quartz float zones or dry gulches, only go where gold will go.

5. Keep Records

• Record GPS, depth, color counts, and material type.

• After 30–40 pans, you’ll begin to see a pattern.

💡 Bonus Tip: Look for Old Workings

If you spot:

• Piles of river rock (stacked by hand)

• Shallow trenches or pits

• Rusted iron

• Old claim markers

That’s a big clue you’re near or on a productive spot from the past. Old-timers didn’t get everything — and they rarely worked crevices or deep benches like we can now. There was so much gold that they ignored the small stuff that fell on the ground where they worked.

Nearby Gold Discoveries:

🏔️ Mines Above Your Claim

Yes, there are several historic gold mines upstream of your claim near Sierra City:

• Sierra Buttes Mine: Located on the south face of the Sierra Buttes, this was a massive operation with nine tunnels ranging from 700 to 5,000 feet in length and depths up to 1,700 feet. It operated for over 80 years and produced more than $17 million in gold.

• Monumental Mine: Situated above Sierra City, it’s famous for yielding the 106-pound “Monumental Nugget” in 1869, one of the largest gold nuggets ever found in California.

• Other Notable Mines: The area also hosted the Colombo, Independence, Keystone, and William Tell mines, all contributing to the region’s rich mining history.

🧭 Implications for Your Claim

Given that your claim is downstream from these significant mining operations, it’s plausible that gold-bearing materials could have been transported via the river. Additionally, old tailings or overlooked deposits might exist in your area.

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🧱 Underground Deposit Possibility

Our claim is just above a quartz ledge in a historically rich district. That suggests:

• A lode system (quartz vein) may be nearby or running right beneath you.

• Gold-bearing fluids often moved up through faults and fractures, leaving gold in quartz and decomposed country rock.

• If that ledge has iron staining (rust red, yellow-brown) or “rotten rock”, there may be a vertical or dipping vein worth tracking.

What to do:

• Use a metal detector or mag tool to sweep along and above the ledge.

• Look for signs of float quartz, fractured rock, or quartz with little sulfides or dark streaks.

• Take a few chip samples across the ledge and send ’em for assay (or crush and pan for a quick read).

⛏️ Old Tailings: Ghost Gold

If there was ever a small underground operation nearby — even a 2-man tunnel or a short adit — they would have dumped tailings near the stream or flat zone. These tailings can be gold-rich, because:

• Old-timers were only interested in visible gold and might’ve easily missed or ignored any micron gold, fines, or even nugget gold if it was locked in matrix.

• They often threw away material we can now recover with sluices, high-bankers, or even chemical leaching.

• Gold in matrix is very good for slicing and polishing to make jewelry. It is easily marketed in Germany, where there is a definite public taste for slabbed quartz gold.

How to check for tailings:

• Look for unnaturally stacked cobbles, especially rounded river rocks placed in rows or piles.

• Watch for piles of grayish gravel or sandy-looking material away from the current stream — often the “worked” tailings.

• Some tailings have vegetation growing differently (shorter trees or nothing growing at all).

• Old hand-stacked retaining walls or rock berms can also mark processing areas.

Quick test:

• Grab a bucket of tailings, classify it, and pan it slowly.

• If you’re seeing consistent black sand, you’re in a good layer.

• Even 0.1 g per pan adds up real fast in old tailings.

🔥 Suggestion: Run a Focused Exploration Day

Here’s a field plan you can do with a workshop group, and a few basic tools:

1. Map the terrain above and around the ledge — look for quartz float, staining, or clay seams.

2. Sweep the whole area with a detector, especially exposed slopes, flat benches, and just above the creek.

3. Sample old piles or stacked rock zones — use buckets, classifiers, and a sluice or pan.

4. Flag any gold-bearing spots for return, and log GPS or visual markers.

5. Take photos and field notes — you may want to overlay them on a topo or satellite image later.

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🟡 Final Thought

If you haven’t yet found gold on our claim, it’s simply because the right gold hasn’t been shown where to be found. With a clear sampling plan, the odds are better than average in this region, and there’s gold pretty much everywhere in the area.

Using BBs as “gold nuggets”, you can determine who is likely to keep the most gold when panning, and the potential for a camp/workshop space is incredible! Panning BBs and awarding prizes of high-grade gold nuggets mounted in beautiful gold-filled lockets means everybody wins all the time, and there’s always real solid gold at the end of the rainbow!

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Hey! Wow! Time to board the Bardo bus for our daily magical mystery video tour!

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See You At The Top!!!

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