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Date Posted: 00:00:07 10/25/02 Fri
Author: jim straight
Subject: Re: Rosebud: 50/50 JV - Newmont and Hecla
In reply to: Chris Ralph 's message, "Rosebud: 50/50 JV - Newmont and Hecla" on 21:52:51 10/24/02 Thu

Hello Chris---

You are absolutely right and reading your posting has sent an old tingle down my back. As I recall Rosebud gold was "electrum."

I was one of the original mill foreman at Eagle-Picher north of Lovelock; was there during construction and then for three years as Controlman Foreman.

Back in 1958 I got stuck in the sand with my then 1953 Dodge PU; at Poker Brown; It took me awhile to realize that much of western Nevada soft ground; eastern Nevada more gravel.

I can remember the gold buyers stopping by at "Two Stiffs" and a dollar/pennyweight for the electrum.

Lets keep it rolling: What do you know about the "Old Relief Mine" on Buffalo Mtn? One of the mine dumps; the smaller one contained considerable scheelite; overlooked.

I once did freebie consulting work for the oldtime "single blanket miners" and was listed variously as the "mine superintendent," "chief geologist," or whatever. I really learned a lot of "miner lore." And if "we" had hit it; I would have had a chance of a good job.

My wife's grandfather was Frank Bird, the mine super. at Seven Troughs back around 1910-1914 era. Wife's mother was born in Vernon, Nevada, in 1910.

Frank Bird was a mining engineer and understood epithermal type mineralization; he went to Eureka, Nevada, (Eureka Holly Extension) and lost everything in the replacement type ores associated with the limestones and spent the "golden years" as a night clerk at a hotel in San Francisco.

One quick question: Bob Arnold, Pinson, now about 65. Did you ever run across him?

My email address is jimstraig@earthlink.net

My Best to you and Yours;

"Tailgate" Jim
(I'm known as "Tailgate" in w. Nevada.)

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