I've been collecting and salvaging aluminum, copper, and brass scrap
for years since I was a teen in high school.....I am 36 now. For the most
part I have always done it to suppliment my income for extra spending
money. But since 1999 I have been through a messy divorce and a
string of layoffs from both the Telecom and Manufacturing Industries.

Ouch!!

I learned some things in the Railcar Manufacturing Industry before falling
victim to yet another industry layoff in May of 2006 that have exposed a
silver lining to my black cloud, which has presented a very real opportunity
for me to start a new type of diversified Alternative Energy based Motor
Company on a shoe string. Much in the way Henry Ford started the
Ford Motor Company..... but not solely in the Auto Industry.

My new company will be diversified in several different fields of industry
much in the same manner as General Electric, only it will specialize in
the developement and implimentation of cutting edge technologies in
the Alternative Energy Industry. The front line in the battle between the
Petroleum Industry and an American Public that is feeling the effects of
rising Energy Prices.



Even Benjamin Franklin once said, "A penny saved, is a penny earned."

Since I started this Online Fund Raising Effort to raise the needed funds
to setup my new shop and manuevor through the patenting process for
key technologies that I have created as an inventor for the venture in
question..... I have been thinking about stepping up on the metal
recycleing as an actual business to generate the needed capital.

And then, I saw the Cash and Treasure Show last season
and it got my wheels and gears turning faster than usual.

After some research on the subject I found out that prospecting is what
made Andrew Carnegie a financial power house back in the day.

It essentially allowed him to be his own banker and side-step the
lenders in the Financial Industry when he needed capital to expand
or grow each of his core business ventures. Making him unstoppable
as an industrial capitalist and steel tycoon.

Most industrialists and historians contribute his massive wealth to
the steel industry and the Westward Expansion of the Northern Pacific
Railroad...... But they are both only partly right.

Andrew Carnegie needed to know where to place his steel mills across
the country to support the Westward Expansion of the Railroad lines so he
employed surveyors to ride the country and document sources of iron ore,
coal, copper, salt deposits, precious metals such as gold and silver,
as well as places that were rich in ruby and gem deposits.

You all get the idea.

After doing this, the steel industry became only a side-line venture for
the man. And he went on to become the wealthiest man in U.S. History
even by today's standards. Not even Bill Gates could hold a candle
to Andrew Carnegie's massive accumilation of wealth by doing what
he did during his day and age.

Keep in mind that he did this before the advent of computers when
people either traveled by horse and buggy or by steam powered
locomotives. During the peak of his wealth he was even more
wealthier than the U.S. Treasury Department. He did this by avoiding
capital gains taxes because he only sold off what he needed to
expand or grow his business and he avoided capital interest that
would have been charged by the banks and lenders in the
Financial Industry had he borrowed such capital from them.

To the best of my knowledge Andrew Carnegie never finished
high school or attended college.... but the above paragraph
illustrates that he was no dumb cookie either.

Carnegie and his men only collected a small portion of what is still out
there to be found. Meaning that such a venture could possibly be just
as, if not slightly less lucrative today because of all the burocracies in
place today that were not in place during his day and age.

But still a lucrative and worthwhile venture for someone such as myself
looking to start a new type of Alternative Energy based Motor Company
in today's economy.

As a life-long student of industry and an inventor following in the foot steps
of the likes of Thomas Alva Edison, I see the potential of embarking on
such activity, and that's precisely why I'm planning on doing it.

When I'm not working, I'll be rockhounding and metal detecting.

There is no better monetary wealth in life than that which
is pulled from the Earth with one's vary own two hands.

It's exillerating,....and far more adventurous than working for
others as a skilled Drafter / CAD Operator and or Machinist.

I hope I have inspired and enlightened all of you Treasure Hunters
on this site, and I suggest doing research on what your looking
for specifically before just going out to return empty handed.

Gem Atlasses and Rockhounding Guide books are a valuable
source of information as to geography and geology. As much of
this information has been derived from Andrew Carnegie's survey
reports which were copied and supplied to the Federal Government
by the Railroad Industry to aid in the first large scale U.S. Geological
Survey to map our nations borders and other geological features.

Reading up on how Gold Veins occure naturally in mountainous
regions so you know what to look for and where, when in the field
can be equally helpful.

I also recommend purchasing a metal detector that is used,
either from a pawn shop or out of the classified section of your
local newspaper. That way if you get burned out on Treasure
Hunting you won't be out of a small fortune. And allot of times
a used metal detector works just as good as a new one, for
a fraction of the price.

Also, I would invest in a good set of knee pads like the ones
professional construction workers wear with baseball glove
leather on the outside and a gel pad covered with material
on the inside. It makes kneeling to investigate targets so
much easier on the knees.

Happy Treasure Hunting everyone!!