Dave Taylor said:
Lets add this to the list …
40# of gravel er ballast ROCKS! I say thats about 3 scoops in a bucket @ the local gravel pit. I pay about $12 a yard for 1/4 -
Go figure!
I saw that, Dave.
I live in Denver. I’m thinking I could drive up to Central City and collect a couple hundred lbs of mine tailings fer nuthin’ and sell them on ebay as REAL, RARE, HARD TO FIND, AUTHENTIC (pehaps even ANTIQUE) Colorado mining loads for, say, I don’t know, $60 a pound?
$26.50 is expensive for 40 pounds of genuine Michigan ballast but it includes Worldwide Free shipping. Are there any members in Antarctica or some equally remote location who need some ballast
According to the listing postage to Australia is US$125.00. I think the free only applies to the US and probaly the lower 48 states.
Mick
I love this one
This guy has been trying to sell this for over a year now at the same price. When will he get the hint and realise its garbadge.
John Passaro said:
I live in Denver. I’m thinking I could drive up to Central City and collect a couple hundred lbs of mine tailings fer nuthin’ and sell them on ebay as REAL, RARE, HARD TO FIND, AUTHENTIC (pehaps even ANTIQUE) Colorado mining loads for, say, I don’t know, $60 a pound?
I could do the same…although in the Southwest portion of the state.
In fact I have collected real tailings for my layout from a long abandoned mine called Tuckerville.
However if I tried to sell it on eBay I bet the Forest Service would find out somehow and fine me big time.
Matt…et all… The Forest Service and the BLM will sell you Real Live legal permits to go into the woods or wilderness and collect rocks and stuff for only a few $ a ton. It’s part of the “Joint Use, and Management” mission of managing the Public Lands. BUT they do get really PO’ed if you don’t ask first, or if you’r on or in an area of ancient ruins or “Protected Lands”
BTW. Tribal lands are generally off limits, unless you wade thru tons of Paper work. I get one of my Navajo friends to go with me when I go out into the Navajo wilderness areas. They never say anything as long as he’s along…
Matt have you checked them for radioactivity? Are you sure what they were mining at that site?
Dave Taylor said:
Matt…et all… The Forest Service and the BLM will sell you Real Live legal permits to go into the woods or wilderness and collect rocks and stuff for only a few $ a ton. It’s part of the “Joint Use, and Management” mission of managing the Public Lands. BUT they do get really PO’ed if you don’t ask first, or if you’r on or in an area of ancient ruins or “Protected Lands”
BTW. Tribal lands are generally off limits, unless you wade thru tons of Paper work. I get one of my Navajo friends to go with me when I go out into the Navajo wilderness areas. They never say anything as long as he’s along…
Matt have you checked them for radioactivity? Are you sure what they were mining at that site?
Dave thanks for the info on the permits.
I know that the San Juan National Forest (where I got the tailings from) allow what they call “Rockhounding” without a permit if the rocks are for personal hobby use and less then 60lbs a year. But I didn’t know they would issue permits for commercial use.
Oh and no worries on what I got. It was all spoil from a long abandoned copper mine. My metal detector lists radioactivity levels on it and the only radioactivity I ever pick up is barely detectable background levels. Never have found anything with high levels, so I guess all the uranium is somewhere else. As I know the general 4 corners region was mined for uranium.
Quite interesting collection of metal and minerals in the tailings though. Mostly granite, but some quartz veins and a minor amount of copper and iron. I have even found a few pieces with minor flakes of silver and gold. So small to not be worth anything, but nice to have real silver and gold ore on my train.
Matt Doti said:
Dave Taylor said:
Matt…et all… The Forest Service and the BLM will sell you Real Live legal permits to go into the woods or wilderness and collect rocks and stuff for only a few $ a ton. It’s part of the “Joint Use, and Management” mission of managing the Public Lands. BUT they do get really PO’ed if you don’t ask first, or if you’r on or in an area of ancient ruins or “Protected Lands”
BTW. Tribal lands are generally off limits, unless you wade thru tons of Paper work. I get one of my Navajo friends to go with me when I go out into the Navajo wilderness areas. They never say anything as long as he’s along…
Matt have you checked them for radioactivity? Are you sure what they were mining at that site?
Dave thanks for the info on the permits.
I know that the San Juan National Forest (where I got the tailings from) allow what they call “Rockhounding” without a permit if the rocks are for personal hobby use and less then 60lbs a year. But I didn’t know they would issue permits for commercial use.
Oh and no worries on what I got. It was all spoil from a long abandoned copper mine. My metal detector lists radioactivity levels on it and the only radioactivity I ever pick up is barely detectable background levels. Never have found anything with high levels, so I guess all the uranium is somewhere else. As I know the general 4 corners region was mined for uranium.
Quite interesting collection of metal and minerals in the tailings though. Mostly granite, but some quartz veins and a minor amount of copper and iron. I have even found a few pieces with minor flakes of silver and gold. So small to not be worth anything, but nice to have real silver and gold ore on my train.
National Forest were set up to use the natural resources, from timber, mining, rock collecting etc. Now National Park is another ball game. Take a twig and they will own you lol… They are set up for protection every resource.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/321114068432?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649
Here is another wacky price, granted it is slightly “rarer” than your standard starter set.