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Meltdown, Favourite prospector
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Social media, following a favourite prospector, he posts good shit. Gemmy spessartine garnets, rubies, etc, etc, he's off in the high country living the dream...
Only, of course, if you read between the lines he's not, I mean, he is, but his perspective is a little off...
His posts, up and down, now he's on some tirade about a claim he sold, feels he's due some residuals, he should be rich, should never have sold it (true, true, but he needed the money and didn't want to do the work), the residuals he's calculating based off of a popular YouTuber Channel wherein a particular YouTube Celebrity ("") claims to have extracted a million dollars worth of material from a claim he sold.
He's like this, I've heard rumours, his own private Idaho, his non-prospecting posts are a little "weird" for want of better word, partnering with him - in any capacity - is impossible, he's perfectly suited to the finding of treasure and little else.
The treasure, "1 Million Dollars worth of ..." doesn't speak to the raw material, it's click-bait, bollocks, every little bit of the find needs to be cabbed, polished, faceted, turned into money, which is in itself no small expense, no small investment of time, Our Favourite Prospector doesn't get that, then there's the cost of recovery, helicopters, men to be paid, inventory to be held, this claim, like most claims, is utterly worthless, a liability even, if you don't do the work...
Anyways, favourite prospector is melting down all over Social Media about how he's been taken advantage of, an unsympathetic point of view for an adult, but still I have to follow him, if only to live the dream vicariously...
1 September 2024
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This morning, the first of September, noticing the leaves have begun to turn and are falling from the trees.
Time to go and try and start my car.
Last night, work, slow, after work head down to the liquor store.
A bad habit, I know.
And from the alley behind the Hume there's a group of maybe 8 high school students, - slight, of slender build and height, coming out of ???
One of them recognizes me, says "hi", they've just been spelunking in the tunnels under Nelson. And I try and get details - what did they see, find, the only answer is "puddles", it sounds like no discoveries worth mentioning, merely the thrill of discovery.
This morning, coffee, this evening, work, between now and then I have to learn how to paint with watercolors. And that outlines the day...
KAOS
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This, a new series that contemporizes Greek Mythology (sets it in a current-day parallel universe), starring Jeff Goldblum as Zeus and narrated by Prometheus (Stephen Dillane).
Amusing, very well done, not the "10 Stars" the reviews have been giving it - It kind of is impossible to contemporize ancient beliefs and Gods, but it presents it in a way that is probably more accessible to a less classical audience.
AN episode and a half in, I'm not sure I'll stick out the whole series but we'll see.
A Scraper and a busted arrowhead
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Thursday evening, the boy having repossessed his car, I take the bus out the Balfour and spend an hour or so scouring the beach.
Not unproductive, although it's getting rather picked.
Left, a well knapped scraper, right-centre (brown) a broken arrowhead, top right a peculiarly broken piece of quartzite, which may or may not have been a scraper or tool, and under the loonie a tiny quartz point (close up it shows sign of being worked, although it just may be the grain of the quartz).
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Adding these to the box of arrowheads I've already collected - some, museum quality, others, well, a little ruder, but it's becoming quite the collection.
The next trip, probably after the fall rains, late October when the ferry's had a chance to churn up some new rocks.
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