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Moorpark man finds gold nugget worth $10,000[CA]
Ventura County Star ^
| 28 Mar 2009
| Karen Hibdon
Posted on 05/29/2009 12:28:04 PM PDT by BGHater
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Pretty cool. Nice find.
Bahog Bump.
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posted on
05/29/2009 12:28:06 PM PDT
by
BGHater
To: BGHater
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posted on
05/29/2009 12:29:29 PM PDT
by
Paul46360
To: BGHater
Hourly pay (including equipment depreciation and investment carrying costs) = ?
Fun is good.
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posted on
05/29/2009 12:31:19 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
To: Paul46360
Like A’node, Patrick Keene will be saying “I’ll be back”.
Only I hope there won’t be a million others too, or some mining company.
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posted on
05/29/2009 12:32:24 PM PDT
by
Beowulf9
To: BGHater
I would have never made this public. Barack the Kenyan’s gestapo is going to be all over this poor guy.
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posted on
05/29/2009 12:32:32 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(You can't build a "wind farm" without "Big Oil's" petroleum products.)
To: BGHater
Moorpark man finds gold nugget worth $10,000That's a buck twenty-seven after taxes.
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posted on
05/29/2009 12:32:37 PM PDT
by
P8riot
(I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
To: BGHater
Excellent find...
Although, the dag-gum thing looks like a potato
To: P8riot
.....although he can lose it just as easily as he found it.
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posted on
05/29/2009 12:34:17 PM PDT
by
Red in Blue PA
(http://ccwsaveslives.blogspot.com/)
To: BGHater
Since when is gold “bringing more than $1000.00 an ounce”?
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posted on
05/29/2009 12:36:25 PM PDT
by
zeebee
To: BGHater
7 years for a $10,000 payoff?
That's something like 69 cents per hour.
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posted on
05/29/2009 12:36:27 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Islam is a religion of peace, and Muslims reserve the right to kill anyone who says otherwise.)
To: zeebee
In placer form, sure, $1000 easy. However, it’s trading around $970 oz now.
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posted on
05/29/2009 12:37:52 PM PDT
by
BGHater
(It's easy to be a Conservative now.)
To: BGHater
I hope he brought the preacher with him.
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posted on
05/29/2009 12:38:16 PM PDT
by
JZelle
To: zeebee
It was at $988.00/oz around 11pm today.
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posted on
05/29/2009 12:38:31 PM PDT
by
P8riot
(I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
To: BGHater
He should have kept it quiet, I would assume the IRS will want a cut.
To: JZelle
This preacher?
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posted on
05/29/2009 12:40:39 PM PDT
by
P8riot
(I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
To: zeebee
There is a certain “collector’s” premium for a raw nugget over the spot rate per ounce.
I’ve been a member of GPAA for a couple years now. Never found anything big, but it’s a great hobby and pastime, getting out into the country, wading through a pleasant stream, panning through some dirt and occasionally, very occasionally, finding a few small pieces of gold.
http://www.goldprospectors.org/
To: BGHater
Some Nest Egg!
It wouldn’t apply to this nugget, but for a lot of the smaller ones as well as flakes, you can usually get more for gold like that in the form of jewelry. Doesn’t even have to be smelted. I’ve seen clear pendants with a pinch of gold dust
go for $300-$400, etc.
I saw something neat for the prospector on one of those gold shows. They called it a “poop chute”. They took a plastic ribbed black sewer pipe, about 10’ long and 6” in diameter, cut it in half lengthwise, and voila! - had themselves a riffle board to pick up the gold flakes, etc.
Yankee inginuity at its best.
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posted on
05/29/2009 12:54:07 PM PDT
by
Oatka
("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
To: BGHater
What's the big deal? They have a whole bin of these at Krogers
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posted on
05/29/2009 12:54:26 PM PDT
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, then writes again.)
To: BGHater
Its not the money value; its the treasure value, he said.
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Wa’na bet that the IRS will get right on it?
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posted on
05/29/2009 12:56:14 PM PDT
by
wintertime
(Good ideas win! Why? Because people are NOT stupid)
To: BGHater
When you get your first gold, it gives you the gold fever,
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Intermittent positive reinforcement is powerfully addictive. Ask anyone with a gambling problem ( or avid fisherman).
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posted on
05/29/2009 12:59:30 PM PDT
by
wintertime
(Good ideas win! Why? Because people are NOT stupid)
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