Welcome, Gollom!

Please keep the Californian stories and piccies coming! I love your part of the world and have visited several times. My g.grandfather mined out West (CA, NV) as well as MI, as did many Cornishmen in the C19th and C20th and I have visited many of the places he lived and worked in. Never mind what some people might think about Americans, those of us who have been there know better 😉

The Spanish mining era is fascinating - I did my PhD on Cornish mineworkers in Latin America. The sites in Chile are amazing.

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Thanks Cornie 😉 ,

You're absolutely right. When news of the great gold find in California spread, gold miners and prospectors came from around the world to get in on the rush. The smartest ones though, were the ones that realized most people wouldn't strike it rich. They sold the shovels and supplies to the miners. Many more Store Owners/Bar Owners/Brothel Owners became wealthy than did all the miners/panners/prospectors. HAHAHA I have to admit though, that I probably would have been a miner not a store owner.

I've got thousands of pics of deserts and mountains. For those that want to see more stuff than I post here, you are all welcome to visit my website www.1oro1.com

Lots of pics of everything in the references section, plus lots of free to download books, maps, and military field manuals.

I will also post a lot of things here as well.

Thanks again-Mike

I'll give you Cornie, you cheeky b****r!!!

Look forward to the piccies. :thumbsup:

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"Cheeky B****R is one of the nicer epithets that have been tossed at me. THANK YOU! 😉

GWYN,

Thank you very much again for the info. I have just read the entire book "Observations on Mineral Veins" by Robert Ware Fox. The effects of heat and electricity/electromagnetism on different types of minerals and ore bodies. Until reading that, the only possible electrical cause I had seen was external via reaction to lightning strikes.

While I don't think that gold/silver/mercury/etc would emit any gasses/respirations, I do think it possible that the introduction of heat and electricity could cause an outgassing from various minerals associated with different metals (arsenic is usually in abundance in gold veins, etc).

Now, how that outgassing would turn from a vaporous state to a light is yet another hurdle. HAHAHA

Thanks again-Mike

There is one phenomenon which does occur under the right atmospheric conditions, which is the formation of mist over the line of a vein. Agricola and some of the other early German authors referred to this as "witterung", while the old Derbyshire miners referred to it as "blue mist" as it was supposed to take on the colour of the lead ore in the vein. I've seen this happen on one occasion, sadly without a camera to hand, but it is very obvious - mist lies over the lines of veins, even where the hillocks on them had been levelled.

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Thanks are also due to Spitfire who jogged my memory regarding R.W.Fox. :thumbup:

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Thank you as well Spitfire. Am I to understand that level of helpfulness is more indicative of a REAL Cornish Man? HAHAHA

Thanks again-Mike

Well gully, it has been 3 days since you posted, get to cracking or else.

Incidentally I was raised in Grass Valley Calif. My father and his brother workrd at the Idaho Maryland mine. the area was, and still is , loaded with cornishmen & (pretty Cornish Gals, sigh ). Me, I am predominently Irish, French, with a bit of Scot, Wales, and some Injun - Mohican.

Unlike Gully, and you gentlemen, I do not get my jollies crawing around underground, eeeeek, scary, will explain why later, but from looking and finding lost mines and rediscovering history.

I have successfully relocated several, and now own 4.

In the process I discovered the international plot by the Jesuit Society, in colaboration with the Dutch, to take North America away from Spain, the actual reason they were finally expelled fron the Americas.

Another Interesting, alied story is how they clandestinly transported the Gold & Silver from the mines across norhtern Mexico to a port just below Matamorros for trans shipment to Rome.

As for the fires and lights on veins and trreasures, I have posted quite a bit on that in another forum, Gully is privy to all of this.

Want to talk ? (We have to get Gully primed, he is loaded with prime data of various types)

Don Jose de La Mancha

Raised in Grass Valley? How long ago was that? Before the mountains rose up? I'm not saying that Tayopa is old, but the Rocky Mountains were mere pimples at the time! HAHAHA

My heritage is Scottish (Pictish), French, American Indian. My branch came over in the mid 1600s to Virginia from Scotland.

I'll get some more pics up when I get the chance. At work now. Some of us aren't sitting on top of hidden treasure and have to go to work every day! HAHA

Best-Mike