agreed, i looked, it seems to be image artifacts of some kind and id herad that was levy that had done prospecting. goes to show you cant trust the news. Very cool R.C. thanks for the info. i may give that a try for fun myself sometimes. id look more for more dissolvable minerals known to be with gold, myself. sulfates and silicates of certain kinds.
On Dec 27, 2007 11:06 AM, Horace Heffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 27, 2007, at 7:16 AM, R.C.Macaulay wrote: > > > Howdy Vorts, > > > > Interesting to Google Earth view of Nondalton Alaska, the town > > near the location of a huge new gold and copper mining site. A > > closeup view of the bay adjacent to the town indicates some barely > > discernible rectangular lines in the shallows can be seen. The > > geology and the shape of Alaska is fascinating considering the > > supposed history of the migration of Siberians to the new world > > across a land bridge now named the Aleutians. Could it be that > > certain earth land shapes could be used to locate potential > > minerals near the surface? > > That could well be, and certainly is the case when spectroscopic > images are used, but I think the pattern you see on google earth is > the google background copyright protection pattern that becomes > visible when superimposed over still water surfaces. > > > We have a resident ole time gold prospector sitting at the bar at > > the Dime Box that is just hankering to know. > > > > Richard > > An old acquaintance of mine had an interesting scheme for hunting > minerals. He sniffed out trace metals from flowing water, and worked > his way back upstream. The instrumentation of the day wasn't good > enough for it to work well, certainly with gold, but maybe it would > work today. You may have heard of him in another light. Some of > his remains are now at rest on the moon. His name is Gene Shoemaker. > > Horace Heffner > http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/<http://www.mtaonline.net/%7Ehheffner/> > > > > -- That which yields isn't always weak.
