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My PERSONAL Montana Sapphire Success story to air Feb.28,2008
HOME MINING SAPPHIRES! ORDER INFORMATION BELOW!
I found SUCCESS!
Thanks to "Cash and Treasures" I was able to quit my job and start my own Ebay store. I will be appearing in a commercial on The Travel Channel most likely Feb.28,2008!
I have found the best place for MAIL ORDER home mining Montana Sapphires! I also have an Ebay store where it can be purchased directly from the mine.
This gravel is from the Season One EPISODE "Sapphires". The gravel comes from the same mine as the woman who was showcased last year. She even ships it personally to your door step! All gravel is from The Spokane Bar Sapphire Mine and The El Dorado, Helena Montana!
Here is the link!
http://stores.ebay.com/Gold-Fever-Rock-Shop
Happy Hunting and e-mail me anytime!
Tim Duttry
Ebay user ID is "gemsbytim"
duttry1969@hotmail.com
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Feb 19 2008, 1:13 PM EST by
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Mail Order Montana Sapphire Gravel in NJ
http://stores.ebay.com/Gold-Fever-Rock-Shop
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Mar 1 2008, 4:02 PM EST by
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Sapphires of Rock Creek
A brief film on finding sapphires in Montana.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kyv2C_yYww
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May 31 2008, 12:41 AM EDT by
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My Commercial that aired - Mail Order - Sapphire Gravel!
Here is a link to the PROMO spot that the Travel Channel made on me for "Cash and Treasures"!
It's all about Montana Sapphires and my success with Mail Order! Check out the 30 second spot made and aired by the Travel Channel. Also a link to my store where you can find information on purchasing Sapphire Gravel for Home Mining!
The Commercial:
http://www.flixster.com/servlet/embed/video/link/10863479
The store:
http://stores.ebay.com/Gold-Fever-Rock-Shop
Contact me anytime!
Tim Duttry
duttry1969@hotmail.com
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Mar 6 2008, 11:31 AM EST by
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Treasure Hunting
It seams their are a alot of places to go hunting for treasures but you keep on giving re-runs of the same shows. For example up in the mountains of Colorado next to the town of Cripple Creek their is another town called Victor. This town was burnt to the grown and rebuilt back in the cowboys and indian times. Everthing that was burt in this town was put in one area, that area is now a dump site for the town but the old area of the dump site is known only to a few including the worker at the dump site, if you get my drift. I have seen people return with the old jugs and bottles with different colores from this site. Another place to go after a storm is the treasure coast of Florida. How about the Diamond State Park in Arkansas, or safire and ruby hunting in Montana and Noth Carolina. How about gold hunting in Georgia or North Carolina, or the topaz in Texas. It seems that there are far more places to go.
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Feb 14 2008, 6:54 PM EST by
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Slab Saw Love
"More reason to move to Oregon ;)" Nah, just want to move to western S.D., where the Fairburns and all kinds of cool stuff is found. I'd also be near N.W. Nebraska, Wyoming and Montana. All great hounding territory. I brought over a ton of west coast material with me when I moved up here.
Don
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Nov 12 2009, 1:07 PM EST by
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Star garnets
We went 5 days last year (2008) most days were very good. One day we found 4 very large garnets that have nice stars in them. If you wnat to find a lot of stones you have to be willing to work for them. We have found several with very nice 6 ray stars and some with 4 rays. We are looking for people in the nw area to go rock hounding with. If you are interested please contact us. We are located just south of coeur d' alene, ID. We are members of the spokane and coeur d' alene clubs. Willing to travel throughout WA., ORE,ID, AND MONTANA, and possibly farther. We know some places to go and would like to find some more. Looking forward to hearing from you.
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Tuesday, 3:21 PM EST by
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Gold...metal detecting and gold-panning sites!!
"I live in Newport, OR.........looking for places to go gold-panning and a little metal detecting on the side. We, my sister and great-niece, are looking for somewhere in Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, California......just relatively close to or in Oregon. Hopefully, somewhere pretty profitable!!" You can always keep coming futher East to other states like Montana, Wyoming or to the Black hills of South Dakota where gold is still being found even though one of the largest and longest operating Gold Mines is now closed is located here. Nuggets are still being found here as just a little over two years ago a fella found more that a dozen nuggets with a detector with the largest being over three ounce's. We have a Gold Prospecting Club here in Rapid City with over 200 members from all over the country. You can go on line and check them out. I myself have prospected for 40 years all over the country. It was my 1st love till I started finding Fairburn Agates :) dbsagates.com Good Luck in your gold mining and may God Bless ya. db
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Feb 28 2009, 9:58 PM EST by dbsagates
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GemHunter Newsletter
I've had a few members ask about my newsletter. So forgive me for promoting my site - but here it is: <http:/GemHunter.webs.com>. The newsletter is free and discusses how to find minerals and discusses mineral and gem deposits I visited through the years. If you sign up, you simply get an e-newsletter each month about what to look for when gem hunting and prospecting.
If you are interested in gold, I discuss gold on this site as well as on at another site I'm building: <http://GeologicalConsultant.webs.com>. Recently a major gold discovery was made in the Rattlesnake Hills, so, I've a section on this discovery.
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Sep 17 2009, 11:48 AM EDT by
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What is your A #1 best rock hunting place in the southwest?
"Being 73 is not all that bad. I want to go rock hunting in the western states as I have spent some time out there when working in mines and mills and on construction jobs. My parents traveled a lot and we lived in allmost every state before i was 8 years old. I owned the Deer creek \" Welcome to the Wiki!
I definitely think Western Montana might be affordable and is a great locale in terms of rocking, as it is close to Canada, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Wyoming, Nebraska. Western Washington is a beautiful place but no place to live on a fixed income.
Thanks,
Aaron
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Oct 27 2009, 11:47 PM EDT by
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Hansen creek private claim
"That's a neat link. How up to date do they keep it?" In Montana they are over three months behind on assesment and affidavit of work materials. For my area none of the data have been converted to work with the geographic interface, so I am left with the report generator. I then have to request hard copys of claim info.
Don't assume that a claim staked in the field is not valid if it is not in the database. You are legally required to respect a properly marked claim. Paperwork can stay in the pipeline for a long time especially if a policy determination is required on whether or not the material is locatable.
I am watching that closed claim list very closely. If you jump right on a claim after it is closed you might trigger an appeal from the claim owner. In my experience most appeals are allowed.
And don't claim an old mine or buy a patented claim where there are environmental issues unless you are prepared to remediate them up front before removing any material.
And after you have a claim you still have an entire alphabet soup of agencies to deal with before you can remove material for commerciial purposes. You still need to have your operations formally approved by the federal agency managing the surface rights, or a letter stating that you do not need these permits on the letterhead of the appropriate agency. And if you are in a waterway or a riparian habitat, well, plan to be patient and have deep pockets. And good lawyers because it is the policy of some environmental groups to seek injuctions on any and all significant operations that require permits.
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Oct 26 2009, 8:02 PM EDT by
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Lost TREASURE found!!!!
The story of Jack Slade is a long one and hard to put into a couple of paragraphs.
Back then Virginia Dale was waaaay out in the country... there was really no place for the bandits to spend any money that wouldn't be immediately noticed.
Jack was the "mastermind" and he moved to Montana where he died pennyless 3 years later when he was hung by vigilanties for being a horse thief. Overland stage agents watched him the whole time... never showed any of the loot... so Jack didn't have it... or the chance to go get it.
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Feb 13 2009, 7:33 PM EST by
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lucas
Some new pics too. Lucas stuff.
As i wash this stuff up I am finding some material that looks to be petrified wood. Some looks just like the limb casts from Montana which have crystal centers for the most part. Other stuff has bark, or is bark.
What say yee?
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Mar 14 2009, 12:50 AM EDT by
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I have too many proven mineral areas......
Anything in Washington, northern Oregon, northern or western Idaho or western Montana? We live in the south eastern corner of Washington but I am from Montana and make regular trips back.
Dave
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Feb 28 2009, 10:48 PM EST by
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adna report
Yeah it is just a bunch of that yucky ol' Montana Moss agate and some other stuff. ;-) Looks like a grey rock on the outside. Not much to see. ;-o What is amazing is how innocent looking rock can have so much in the middle. Gotta love those surprises. Anyway, everything is winterized right now.covered etc. It will ne a spring fling in the backyard. lol
I just heard that we are invited to go to Montana to go through a rock dump behind an old barn. Evidently the people that owned the property before the new owners whom we know, were rockhounds and may have even had a rock shop. I guess at one time the barn was full of rocks. I guess I am heading to Montana this summer. lol It could be just junk too, but one never knows... Man my mouth is watering and I am twitchin' too... lol.
Val is sitting here shaking her head - mumbling oh NO more rocks!!! And she is the one that just told me about the rocks!! lol
Man I need a shop! lol
Paul
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Jan 20 2009, 12:44 AM EST by
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Mid West
Hi,
Yes I have heard form them. It was raining for the first couple of days. They went to Gem Mountian and I think they have a present for you Paul! They also stopped at Crystal Park in MT. They went to the Yellow Stone river and found some Montana Agates. They had the pet wood class today, so don't know what they have going the rest of the week. I know thqt there is one more pet wood class later in the week. They want to try and hit the Opal mine on the way back. Have to see how the money is holding out and the time too. Sounds llike they are having a fun time. They found a KOA campground to stay at and it has a pool and a hot tub. Tim has been making good use of the hot tub! Good on the back and other places. Will let you know when I hear from them again.
Sharon
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Jul 31 2009, 7:01 PM EDT by
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Lost Spanish Gold at Treasure Mountain in Colorado
Howdy All,
Here is the tip of the iceberg version of the story of Jack Slade and the stolen treasure of Virginia Dale:
Bandit gangs regularly terrorized the stage lines, several areas were well scouted to work, one is along the famous Overland Trail in Colorado. The gang felt so comfortable in the remote landscape they even went so far as to build a cabin at the top of "Robber's Roost", about a mile to the northeast of the Stage Station. The hideout was well placed, with a great 360 degree view,hard to sneak up on, and it was very difficult to climb because of the rim of shale, practically perpendicular cliffs. It was a widespread rumor that Jack Slade, the Station Master at Virginia Dale was the leader of the gang, he was known to have a close connection to some of the bandits.
A gold shipment of over 200 lbs that amounted to $60,000 in freshly minted coins $2.6 million today was being shipped by the US Government, the shipment represented several months of back pay for soldiers at the fort. Masked men ambushed the stage, and made off with the entire payroll about a mile north from the Virginia Dale station. The robbers were killed by the US Cavalry, the troopers eventually foud the iron strong box in a nearby creek, broken open and empty. The stage line suspected Slade was the mastermind, but were unable to prove it. The owners of the stage line felt they had no choice and fired him.
Everyone thought it was strange that Jack went very meekly, it may have been that he was tired of the job, maybe he simply had stollen enough money and thought it was a good time to move to Montana. Because of this suspicious behavior he remained under the watchful eye of the overland stage coach company's agents. Jack never recovered his loot because he died pennyless a few short years later when he was hanged for horse robbery in Virginia City, Montana, on March 10, 1864.
Happy Trails,
Johnny
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Jan 30 2009, 5:57 PM EST by
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CRNW
I have made arrangements with a young man I trained to do the road trips this year since the shoulder won't be in shape. So my normal trips to South Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming are not in the plans at this time. That might change some depending on what he runs into or what may be needed. How ever as it stands I am Washington border limited this year after the surgery.
Tom
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Jun 1 2008, 4:42 PM EDT by
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Where's your favorite treasure hunting vacation spot?
All depends on the state.
Washington- Saddle Mountain for peterified wood
Oregon- Harper for thunder eggs
Montana- Gem Mountain for sapphires
Still looking for a spot in Idaho But have stopped in the Selway for picture rock and Potlach area for gold.
But always still looking for any place new to try and have a great time at.
Dave
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Nov 7 2008, 9:45 PM EST by
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Winter
We have had about 36" of the white stuff fall since it started and after it settled it measures out to just below 27" on the ground now and we are still expecting more through X-Mas. The roads here suck, I think they forgot to tell the plow drivers that the blade of the truck needs to be close to the ground for it to remove the snow. LOL = )
Went back to Missoula, Montana to pick my son up for the winter break and what would normally have taken 11 hours took use nearly 18 hours. It was a beutiful but slow drive, which we saw eagles (both bald and golden) deer and elk.
We have been planning to give rocks for X-Mas for a few months but for some unknown reason things just seem not to be going our way. First the backer pad that we got with the diamond pads fell apart, the glue on the back of the velcro gave way ( hitting the big toe on my left foot OUCH). When I finally got it glued back together the grinder we bought blow the bearing and splattered grease all over. returned it and got a new one. Then this morning as I was working with the 400 grit the handle on the new grinder broke just before the backer pad decided to disinigrate (hitting the big toe on my right foot OUCH again). I bought a new backer pad from a local ranch supply today befor going to work so lets see what happens next. = } May just have to finish by hand and put everything together before giving them as gifts. We are working on pet. wood clocks and trivets and picture rock coasters and we anly have 2 days to finsh them and there stands, FUN FUN FUN love the X-Mas rush. As they say " if it wasn't for the last minute I wouldn't get anything done".
Happy Holidays To All
Dave
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