New Strike
Fly on the Wall
Well, the reason I joined this Forum was to research and educate myself on this Platinum. I've hit all of the major websites on it and stumbled into this site. I and some friends have a Association Placer Claim in the La Panza country about 30 miles south of where I live. I'm a country boy raised in this neck of the woods and have been prospecting off and on in the La Panza country since the early 70's. We've had our placer claim for several years now, getting small flour variety of gold. Over the years I've learned alot about the Geology of this area as well as the Early Histories of which the Early Spanish Franciscans and the Mission Period were actively pursuing the Mining in these Mountains. I have found alot of the Old Trails, Carved Monuments and such, and can pretty much decipher what they convey. Then along to about 1878 another Gold rush took place after another discovery which is pretty well documented. Off and On, over the years the Placer Miners have been looking for the MotherLode, which has never been found. I believe, strongly, that it is the *GreenStone Belt that runs N/W, Parallel to the San Andreas Fault. Well, while investigating and digging this Greenstone Bedrock that is on our claim (with Assays to back it up), I hit a Greenstone Shale Deposit that has FREE PLATINUM, about the size of a ant, but loaded. It's the kind that is Flaky, Platy, terribly hard to pick out and to separate from the other minerals, but I do. I made this discovery about 3 1/2 weeks ago and I already have over a ounce of it in vials. On 5/29/14 I got a Assay just on the Cons (I run a 2 Box Sluice System, very slowly), and it came back Positive with ALL 8 NOBLE METALS, Gold, Silver, Platinum, Palladium, Osmium, Iridium, Ruthenium & Rhodium. The percentage numbers were low but that doesn't mean anything, cause to get a Good Average of the Ounces to a Ton, Takes 5 to 10 Assays and right now I don't have that money to spend on 5 to 10 assays. So, the point here is I know now that there is a mega-load of minable Platinum in these mountains. But you know, it's a funny thing, I just cannot find anyone that would buy the small amounts I'm a getting. Seems like the Major Big Boy Mining Companies have a monopoly on this stuff. Seems like when any new discovery comes out, they want their Mining Engineers to be the one's to discover it instead of some old guy like me, hee,hee...so, anyhow, I'm a interested in finding out more...Darrell