It’s fun to experiment with different samples of paydirt, especially when you know for sure that every tablespoon contains SOME gold, and at $1200 an ounce, it adds up fast, but the gold is a secondary issue.
The real issue is … how asleep are you right now? Continue reading
SMALL BAGS OF GUARANTEED GOLD-BEARING PAYDIRT RUN ABOUT 12-20 GRAMS:
GUARANTEED GOLD-BEARING PAYDIRT — PROSPERITY MINE — $5/one-pan bag.
GUARANTEED GOLD-BEARING PAYDIRT — PROSPERITY ASHRAM — $5/one-pan bag.
GUARANTEED GOLD-BEARING PAYDIRT — BLUE TENT MINE — $5/one-pan bag.
LARGE BAG OF GUARANTEED GOLD-BEARING PAYDIRT — $50/bag.
The small bags come with photo & instruction insert. large bags come with a “good luck” card inside the sealed container. Big bags are a whole morning’s panning work, so be prepared.
100% unmanipulated & unsearched raw gold-bearing paydirt direct from our mining operations. You get THIS SEASON’S latest gold ore, from where we’re working NOW.
Every single bag is GOLD-BEARING, guaranteed 100%. How much gold is in there? What don’t you understand about the word “unsearched”???
We don’t add or take away anything — we don’t even look at it. What you get is what you get. If you want a guaranteed amount of gold in a bag, you can find it elsewhere. How can it be guaranteed unless it’s gimmicked??? We do not gimmick anything, period. Continue reading
We had a slowish day at the fair, but managed to squeak by with a total of $420 in sales, mostly from fellow vendors, with a few wandering shoppers here and there. Cost of the booth was $30. If you bring in ten times the booth fee, you’re doing well these days, they tell me. The beautiful display stands were hand-built by Wayne, and they fit four standard jeweler’s pads precisely. Continue reading
The IDEAL Gemstone size-range for JAL Stone Age Jewelry is 5mm up to 10mm. Lightweight stones or beads can be as large as 14mm, but it’s not recommended. Can smaller stones be used?
Smaller high-grade expensive Gemstones can be used by doubling the stones in the vertical plane, or adding them as dependents, drops or loops. Two small stones add up to more visual impact than one larger stone, even at the same carat-weight, not sure why.
The ONLY acceptable drill-hole sizes for JAL Stone Age Jewelry is what can fit on a .16 gauge or .20 gauge COPPER wire. Larger drill-holes don’t necessarily help, and very large drill-holes can make the bead or the bead arrangement unstable and wobbly.
When you work in copper, it’s your work the customer is buying. When you work in silver or gold, you get the same pay for your work, but you must also sell the precious metals, and the customer NEVER understands that they are getting back a cash rebate in the form of precious metals easily exchanged for cash at the current melt-value.
So you become a metal salesperson. Continue reading
Here are SOME of the subjects I’ll be covering in the upcoming ZOOMSHOP Workshop:
That’s only part of the list of items I MUST COVER during the ZOOMSHOP workshop.
See You At The Top!!!
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Start with a straight 6″ length of .22 gauge wire, and make a loop at the bottom, as shown. Continue reading
Start with a piece of straight .14 gauge silver or .16 gauge copper wire. With your fingers only, bend the wire into a circle with a small gap between the ends, about 6mm apart, roughly 1/4″ of space between the ends of the wire. Continue reading
Start winding your spirals at the BOTTOM of the wire, not the top. You will put a hanging loop at the top later on, but NOT NOW.
Take hold of the wire GENTLY with your needlenose pliers, and slowly and gently COAX the wire into a spiral shape by moving it SIDEWAYS to form the first spiral. Continue reading
The first choice comes when you select two stones for your Hellenistic earrings. Try the .22 gauge wire first. Gently push the wire through the drill-hole in the bead to see if it will work. If EITHER bead is reluctant to accept the .22 gauge wire, switch to the much thinner .24 gauge wire.
The Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Sumerians and Babylonians were incredible builders and engineers. This earring depends upon a bridge-engineering discovery they made many tens of thousands of years ago, that translates into bead technology as: a vertical wire will support a bead better than a horizontal wire. Continue reading
First of all, you have to have a gold mine somewhere. This is a photo of the Prosperity Mining Claim in Nevada County, California. Note that it’s a nondescript general photo of the small stream on the property. There are no identifiable reference points in the photo — that’s because I don’t intend to give away the location of the mine, because I don’t want swarms of city folks blasting away at the bedrock out of sheer greed.
If you’re taking minerals out, notably gold, lead, silver and iron pyrites, along with several of the heavier gemstones such as garnet, which is used to make carborundum polishing compounds, you have two basic choices, once you’ve located an outcropping or gold ledge — go with heavy equipment and blasting powder, or take a little at a time.
Here’s the thing — gold mining by itself never pays more than survival and a tiny bit extra for sex, booze and camp supplies.
Oh, yes, when you mine full-time, you live there, either in a tent or an expensive home built right on the claim site. Of course, if you give up the claim, you lose the house, unless the claim is patented, and that’s a whole ball of wax right there. I’ll explain: Continue reading