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Date Posted: 18:33:18 06/12/02 Wed
Author: Matt
Subject: Re: dynamite caps
In reply to: jim straight 's message, "dynamite caps" on 01:13:43 06/12/02 Wed

Hi Jim and everyone else. Reading you story on blasting caps reminded me of a little incident that happened to me when i was prospecting. My partner and I were working an area south of Sandstone, (A little place in the Murchison in Western Australia) we had been getting a few specimens around this old mine and decided to go down and detect the walls of the shaft (the old boys often left a bit behind if they were getting specimen stone from their mine). Any way I was detecting on the face and got a good signal in the rock, I was happily chipping away at the rock (It could only be gold in rock no trash in a vertical rock face) wondering how big the lump was when I saw some thing odd where my pick was hitting. I put the torch on it and saw that it was an old fuse. The old boys had either drilled and loaded the hole but never fired it or they had had a misfire, here I was slaming my pick into old gelignite and blasting cap. Some times you are just plain lucky hu?
Matt

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