Health and Life Changes and Retirement

[RealityBitesParticipant 2198]

I am on the verge of retirement. Also my health took a major downturn and I had to change my retirement plans of sailing the world to living on land and doing something else.

Recently I got into Gold Prospecting. I live in California for the time being (but I am planning on moving out of this state when I retire) and possibly going to UT, AZ, ID, or MT. I also ride motorcycles a lot.

A week ago I hiked into a very remote area of the Anza Borrego Desert and did a little prospecting on BLM land…didn’t find any nuggets with my metal detector, but I did find fine gold when I dry panned an area. This prospecting hobby gave me a lot of exercise, I had to hike into a remote area with a very heavy backpack of gear (70+ pounds), and go back to the truck for water and still more gear. No cell phone reception, saw practically no one. Saw the Milky Way at night….it was very nice. Not in it for the money, but the solitude, and exercise, and the historical value of doing something Americans used to do way back in the day….plus it is very nice to get away from people especially women and their bulls~~~. At night I sipped on a little Rye Whiskey read from my mini iPad…(recharged it via a Solar panel during the day) and worked from sun-up to almost sundown and hardly saw a single living soul. It was great!

[bladeParticipant]

We have alot of guys here in oz heading back to the old gold fields to pan because they cant get jobs .

If i rember rightly there was a big jump of prospectors flooding the old gold fields in Victoria .

Herd some good opel mining stories in my day . They like to keep it quiet .

THE PLANTATION HAS NOW TURNED INTO THE KILLING FIELDS . WOMAN ARE NOW ROLLING CAMBODIAN STYLE .

[RealityBitesParticipant 2198]

In OZ the ground is heavily mineralized…using a metal detector a lot of Aussies use a Mine Lab GPZ 7000 or GPX 4500 or other high end PI detectors (but Minelab tends to make the best Pulse Inductive Detectors)….but a lot of Gold Fields way out in West Oz.

Gold is currently around $1300 (US) per Oz. It can be challenging to make a living at it, but it can be done. I am mostly in it for the fun, exercise, and solitude. No FemNazi’s out in the bush…they like their creature comforts too much.

In Western US…average Course Gold size is about 1mm long by 1/3 mm thick for placer deposits. Sometimes a fellow will come across a good sized nugget. But most Gold is fine gold. Here in the US I use a Fisher Gold Bug 2 metal detector (it is a very sensitive but manual) VLF detector. But the area I was in didn’t have nuggets…just unusually rich in Fine Gold which I found when I dry panned a test sample.

Going to go back with the right equipment and spend about 10 days extracting it. By next spring the area should be replenished from the very violent Flash Floods it gets. Just something to do, that gets me away from society and women, and gives me an awful lot of exercise.

[Blue SkiesParticipant 15665]

Sounds like an awesome retirement plan. Getting regular exercise will hopefully improve your health.

For me, I enjoy the solitude of playing the piano and listening to the particular song that i’m playing simultaneously.

MGTOW is not a movement, it is a way of life.

[Anonymous 42]

Watch out for abandoned mind shafts in the middle of nowhere going gold seeking. Some are hidden in the bushes totally unseen. You will not survive the fall.

[OldBillParticipant]

I know men in Nevada, California, and Alaska who all either support themselves or “make a little extra” by prospecting. Many in Alaska don’t pan but instead wear drysuits and work water courses with what can best be described as “underwater vacuum cleaners” to suck up and sift likely pockets.

MGTower’s advice is also spot on. I’ve hiked Nevada, Utah, and the Sierras. You f~~~ yourself up very easily. Something as simple as a sprain can become life threatening.

Some of the really hardcore “back country” types I’ve talked with geocache supplies during down periods to support intensive prospecting. Most of them are “bone hunters” looking for pricey fossils though.

Do not date. Do not impregnate. Do not co-habitate. Above all, do not marry. Reclaim and never again surrender your personal sovereignty.

[bladeParticipant]

Anonymous wrote:

Watch out for abandoned mind shafts in the middle of nowhere going gold seeking. Some are hidden in the bushes totally unseen. You will not survive the fall.

We have or well had a chinese mine back from the days of the first people enhabiting my area .

It was just a massive hole . Hardly anyone new about it .

Its a housing estate now .

THE PLANTATION HAS NOW TURNED INTO THE KILLING FIELDS . WOMAN ARE NOW ROLLING CAMBODIAN STYLE .

[Old RottweilerParticipant 1520]

There are emergency satellite beacons. If I was in the middle of nowhere with no cell service I would want one. I would also want a GPS to give rescuers my exact position for a quick rescue and to get back to the huge gold deposit I found. The Flying Dutchman horde?

S~~~ happens.

[RealityBitesParticipant 2198]

I have a personal locator beacon (PLB) and other gear in case I get into trouble. The area I was in: I have a water cache.

OldBill wrote:

I know men in Nevada, California, and Alaska who all either support themselves or “make a little extra” by prospecting. Many in Alaska don’t pan but instead wear drysuits and work water courses with what can best be described as “underwater vacuum cleaners” to suck up and sift likely pockets.

MGTower’s advice is also spot on. I’ve hiked Nevada, Utah, and the Sierras. You f~~~ yourself up very easily. Something as simple as a sprain can become life threatening.

Some of the really hardcore “back country” types I’ve talked with geocache supplies during down periods to support intensive prospecting. Most of them are “bone hunters” looking for pricey fossils though.

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