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another video! yay 
I have trees that big and bigger in our yard.. they sway like crazy.. took out a dozen or so to make our property a bit safer =x Having a crane come in to remove huge chunks was .... expensive as hell.. and cool to watch
knives... the tanto run.. some have one hole some have 2 holes... why
tumbled with mirrored grind O_O
scales instead of wrap.. blue white glow? hmmm yes please ;]
nice job on keeping on updating us
I have trees that big and bigger in our yard.. they sway like crazy.. took out a dozen or so to make our property a bit safer =x Having a crane come in to remove huge chunks was .... expensive as hell.. and cool to watch knives... the tanto run.. some have one hole some have 2 holes... why
tumbled with mirrored grind O_O
scales instead of wrap.. blue white glow? hmmm yes please ;]
nice job on keeping on updating us
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Cool update. Maybe on the next one we can see that teak in the sun to really show its chatoyance! Which style tanto are you sending me? One hole or two?
If you want, I know there are some cinnabar deposits nearby, I can send you some for processing that rhodenite. Is it legal to ship cinnabar?!
-Xander
If you want, I know there are some cinnabar deposits nearby, I can send you some for processing that rhodenite. Is it legal to ship cinnabar?!
-Xander
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another video! yay
knives... the tanto run.. some have one hole some have 2 holes... why
tumbled with mirrored grind O_O
scales instead of wrap.. blue white glow? hmmm yes please ;]
nice job on keeping on updating us
One hole - cord wrap
Two Holes - scales
Thanks!
Yes it is!
I'm really happy with the progress! They will be signed soon, after that handle time!
Much appreciated!
Great idea on the teak, I tried to film it once and the lighting wasn't right. One hole... (talk to me on this if needed)
Cinnabar, I only want it if it is the bright red cool looking stuff! You can find a lot of it here.
I know what you'r talking about though, you can refine it for mercury. It is possible to crush and process most of the ore I have in that manner, it isn't economically feasible though with the stuff I have. (even with big machinery, lol a 3# sledge won't touch the stuff) I live in an unusual area as far as rock goes, we have some ultra tough rock holding the metals in here.
You can crush that purple rock I have, royalite and get the chalcopyrite out, it looks like fools gold. You then refine it in a jig, basically a machine run pan to get the platinum. My friend who owns the mine actually did this once for kicks, he told me it was a lot easier working with catalytic converters! lol he processed 20 of them once when he had his processing plant and got a lot of platinum!
He actually weathers the rock in the desert to make it easier to process. I was at his ranch in NM once and he showed me a drum of high grade he found buried in a wall of his mine back in the 1800's! Obviously the workers had been stashing the stuff but they couldn't get the barrel out undetected!
Once he was mining and had some people come in with guns, they wanted to rob him! They actually said "where are the gold bars!" he explained you had to process the rock first and sure, they could take all they could carry!
that's a true story (he probably had three guns on his person but thought it was funny to jack with them, lol the guy knows no fear, he is Jicarilla Apache)The same guy once owned a jeep tour place. He was actually doing a tour of the mine and ran out of gas on the way back. The mine is 15 miles back in the middle of nowhere but there is a gas station at the canyon entrance only a few miles. He decided to do the 2 hour round trip walk to get some gas. He told the tourists they could light a fire if they were cold, it was summer though so it only gets down in the 50's at night. He forgot to mention the nearby campsites with bbq's and firepits. When he came back the tourists had started a fire on the floor of his jeep! Lol he said they told him they were trying to stay warm, survival style!!! lol there are houses right down the road
I showed those gold mine pics, that mine has lots of Sylvanite reserves. It is a tellerium gold. A good piece looks like black ice, occasionally you see a piece with no tellerium in the gold so it really looks obvious under a loupe. The stuff is so hard to process the owner sells the ore as specimens. He could use cyanide leeching but that's not going to happen.
They closed the mine where that Rhodonite comes from in 1994. At the time they were pulling $100,000 worth of gold out of it per day and paying $90,000 worth of fees to to mine it, they decided to close it after 125 years of nearly 24/7 mining because of that. This year or next they are going to bulldoze all the rhodonite under, it is a gangue from mining and removing it is part of the lands restoration.
They stope mine here, meaning they blast a tunnel then blast the whole ceiling, You set your charges, get out then come back to a tunnel with a bunch of ore on the floor. Scrape that junk up with a cart and plywood until the ceiling height is higher then blast again. You keep repeating this process until you run out of gold.
At the mine I speak of they cleared the stopes, meaning the tunnels are 100 foot high in a lot of places, that's how my buddies mine was. It was wild! Since the stopes are cleared they really can't mine those tunnels...
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Hey, a one hole tanto is fine. Just thought I should ask since there weren't many details involved in our conversation! There is actually an active mining operation fo cinnabar in San Jose area (I believe it is on a major fault line too) but I can find it in the square miles of mine tailing that are piled up all over the area starting just 30 minutes east. Crazy that a pile of rocks has just sat there since the mid 1800's, virtually untouched. They did a lot of hydraulic mining in the foot hills here, talk about devastating.
All this talk about Geology, I really should brush up on it and take my son on trail walks to collect specimens. Hell, he coms home from the park with pockets full of rocks anyways, might as well mke it somethin interesting!
Anyways, cool video. Always a treat to see your little slice of heaven up there on the side of the hill.
-Xander
All this talk about Geology, I really should brush up on it and take my son on trail walks to collect specimens. Hell, he coms home from the park with pockets full of rocks anyways, might as well mke it somethin interesting!
Anyways, cool video. Always a treat to see your little slice of heaven up there on the side of the hill.
-Xander
