My hunting partner Laszlo just got back from a Saturday hunt at the 24K Gold Hunters Claims on Rich Hill. He was lucky enough to score a couple of nice smaller nuggets in an area where they are doing some nice pushes. (A push is when they scrape off a layer of dirt to expose deeper targets).

Luckier than Laszlo was a gent just 50 ft away that scored a 1 and a 1/2 to 2 ounce placer nugget.

It just goes to show that Rich Hill continues to produce large placer nuggets again and again and with the pushes that the 24K Club is doing, it may well be worth it to join the club.

I know that this is a little off beat from the norm for me but this involves family. The letter below is from a Mother who has to face the death of her oldest Son(19) who lost his life in Iraq. I’m not going to get into the right/wrong of the war. What I hope this letter does is wake up some of us oldtimers and help us see that a whole new generation is willing to fight for freedom. This young man was family to us. His mother and Grandparents have been friends for 40 years or more. Any death is hard to take, but for me this was like losing a Son.

Thanks for the rant

Hi…I can’t remember if I wrote back to you or not…everything is a huge, horrible blur…

Well things have been busy and down right hectic for me. Friends lose their Grandson in Iraq, wife’s Aunt died and one of her cousin’s is on life support in the hospital, add to that our kids and grandkids are on the east coast. So Christmas this year was a bit different. We went to Fullerton, Ca., to spend Christmas with my wife’s other cousin who just got a cancer free report on the 22nd. To all the friends and workers at the Slide Bar, thanks for making Christmas eve a time to reflect.

Now to the good stuff. Doc and I went out Thurs. the 21st to the mine to make sure it was still there. We opened up 2 new areas and both look promising. It was cold and the wind was blowing, but just getting back out there and digging was what I needed.

These first 2 pictures are of Doc and the OK faultline. One shows him sitting on it and the other is a somewhat closeup.

The next 3 pictures are of the new bedrock ares that we started working on. One is Doc’s new diggins and two are of my new start.

Well my body healed enough for me to make the Franconia Outting. I finally got to meet alot of people that I talk with on the net. The outting was great, the food was outstanding and as always Rick’s Chili was a hit. Had to sleep in the back of my truck which is usually no problem but my ribs were not happy with me.

I Didn’t get a chance to go out and do any hunting in the morning. All those young bucks, there ready to go at sunrise. Me, it takes 2 hours to convince the old bones that I should be out of bed.

It was good staying in camp for me. It gave me the time to collect my thoughts and rethink my work habits on the claim. I was able to go beeping out from camp aways, and that allowed me to see how my GB2 handles AZ soil. Not much different then here in 29. It seemed a little hotter but the GB2 handled well.

I left late Saturday afternoon, due to very bad weather here at home. All in all I had a ball at the outting.

No gold was found but alot of meteorites. Rick(azdigger) from Kingman got his first one, 102 grams.