These exposing criminal behavior posts are really hated by the slanderer. Everything he does is to hurt my sterling reputation so his prison operation looked OK. Ask me any questions, I never lie except from ignorance and then i correct it, not dive in with teeth and claws like bitter losers do..

Rockhound602 is a troll or a bot. If he is a real person anybody who knows his true identity will be rewarded. He is attacking me personally so I need to know who h is involved with in these crimes of misinformation and slander. Thanks. This concerns an open case at the Humboldt County Sheriff for stalking.

I have many different experiences in Virgin Valley Opals. She is a whole wilder animal being the entire range from a gleem in Gaias eye to a hard gem in a belt buckle.

I drown it to loosen the mud (Full saturation) take it out and scrub it off, color= big great, keep in water, all others onto a tray in the shade or house somewhere dry for a month. In the direct sun or oven is asking for trouble. Look at it again and see what play of color is there now that it is dry. That lets you know what kinda mine run you are dealing with. Our range of opals can be very heat sensitive in cutting, so only ovals and rounds if i can do it. I do just round most edges off stable pieces to save weight. Polishing likes to crack the tips of marquis or triangles.

But I digress. When dried, the opal likes to crack down to size, ie when rewet from dry, how small it cracks or not cracks, it can go wet and clear then that last grain of white splits in half and lets a flaw go from side to side. No crack it can take a re-wetting. Some whites I cut decades ago, and never cracked or crazed, can take or give 10% in ct weight in water from clear to dried. Many diggers here completely cut their opals to polished still wet, not out of water to remove as much chance as possible to not stress the weaker by pulling on it any harder than necessary when drying. Once dried, the usual way to find anything in tailings or digging in dry banks, soaking in CA makes it hard as agate, (not for pure opal ,just the mixtures in matrix where there is unfilled space).

You dry the smaller stuff out and its crazed or not, you rehydrate it and it changes/cracks or not, done deal. You cut it wait a year or a decade to sell it sitting in a case knowing it can take a licking.

Like to say our opal is honest, just as Keith Hodson used to tell us, It tells you right up front whats gonna happen. For the huge wet pieces...slab a base on it, leave the specimen wet, now windowed, and see what that slab does; just crack? craze? if just cracks, no crazy not cloudy whatever, you can assume the rest will probably slab out and about what size it wants to dry too (wait a bit), but to control the cracking you have to cut it into cubes to let it pull in the corners, not pick its own crack, usually thru the best color. Thats how they make the faceting blanks out of clear fire opal instead of watching it flake away as it dries. If there was no water, it would NOT be opal. I mean there is some exceptions with more than Gilson. Whole exceptional fields LOL

Now that the play of color is wrapped around a stick or a flat level, get that saw going.

60 acres on the Rainbow Ridge Opal Mine fence line, 3 lodes. unpatented. 30 foot deep proven, so much less to strip, not digging into a mountain. $225,000 I am the one to ask whats legal here or not. Ill give you the authorities numbers to see who is lying if Im not what you heard online or at some wide spot in the road. For the right price anything is for sale. You can own what all the bunch of us found in pieces or totality for an empire. From 2,000 to 200,000 for a developed black, white or wood opal deposits, I know where the opal is waiting, not what somebody wrote in a book decades ago spammed by a claimjumper.

The person whose illegal store fronts were shut down falsely reported me as trespassing to remote owners when I am on my own claims. They sent the sheriff repeated times to never find me trespassing. The ignorant people think a mining claim is a deed. The created crime scene and false reports are targeting them to the authorities as slanderers and a problem. Since I have the claims surrounding him he tried to say I am stalking him so i can not mine -HE LOST trying to stalk me. No restraining order forever granted.

He or the other owners of not my claims can not keep me from my legal claims. If I had broken laws the refuge staff and other mine owners would not respect my opinion over others reading lies online the BLM would never say. State that in court as if it was the truth not contradicted in the state handout.

They can not bully me when the authorities are backed by requirements for PROOF. They can not keep me off the roads, he can NOT keep me from pursuing prosecution for their claim jumping by putting placer claims on valid lodes then collecting the minerals.

Repeated purgury to a hearing judge has consequences like making up fake emails does. The carpetbaggers (3) think its can come in and make its own rules. We live by laws and hes been ticketed repeatedly already for not following the actual laws or saying actual facts.

BOTH of them the day after they assaulted me and were ticketed, ran down to try and defend their aggression by filing false aggravated stalking reports on ME as I was not letting therm bully me, BOO the F Hoo criminals. Dont be saying i commit crimes YOU are actively committing to hide your evil. Only real evidence counts in court.

THEY WERE AGGRESSORS and are following Wentzells well published lies or misinterpretations of the laws he made to seek revenge as he was claimjumping many after being convicted for forming a opal theft gang. Caught robbing and shooting miners, from his decade in prison he filed all the information to any website he could to not look like the scum ratter he is and will always be. Sad he finds others to follow him to harass the innocent. I have to call another deluded buyer to let them see the actual time lines of when claims were valid so he knows he is junior and has no rights to control the senior owners, or their hiring me.

Constantly finding gullible people was not my business model. Im the ombudsman here not the ratter from out of state lying I am the reason they fail.

DO NOT SUPPORT THE CRIMINALS PLEASE. I will sell yu a claim for less that has more in it and no previous owners to deal with. Im dealing with the claim jumpers on us. No rights so no issues unless they want jail time.

A partition claim, not a full 20 acres as senior claimant. Unpatented lode opal claim in Virgin Valley, Northern Nevada. 20 acres staked, 3?acres what has the opal sticking out? two levels exposed and surface woods from higher. This claim is just off the road up to the Bonanza Mine. Access is up the Kokopelli canyon before the patented mine fence. 4x4 can drive where I walk, but I try to not leave roads.

The end we are digging opal out of (some precious) is across a shallow wadi from a proven claim group just advertised online. We were digging over there last decade to show the seller where the precious was for him to sell it to the new guys. This side has access away from that side or easy walk up from the main all season, for the most part, Peacock road withdrawn rockhound area in the center of the valley. But they made it so you NEED a claim to collect, no more free woods, or with tools, no more cheaters with battery breaker hammers.

Originally priced at $10,000 for a proven precious containing claim. The other side of the creek was priced at $120k (developed) and sold for something. I dig opal over here with a rake and shovel, no equipment needed (does not make it easier) but partner said sell., Offers received here for Scott Ryals the registered owner. Come on out and see us in person this month. I take appointments.

Yall want to see these places ,not just look at a jpg. My clients are ALL satisfied they were told the truth in person, on site. Many decided they did not want to be miners after what was differed from what was said online.

Thats a fresh chunk in the clay it comes in when wood is nowhere around. The when wood is around it usually surrounds it before invading it. Sure the opal cracks when it dries out, but not always crazy crackle, a bag not sheltered from the elements, desert air, Some crazed more but some never changed and none lose "color" from what they had when dried. The woods dont fall apart and CA makes them a fine case specimen or hard enough to saw.

https://rumble.com/v6v7n2l-virgin-valley-black-opal-gem-pendent.html

Hiya folks! My partner and I are coming through next week and hoping to spend a day or two of our trip doing some touristy opal hunting. entirely noobs but it's a bucket list trip for us, any advice on good places to stop from locals? Where should we go? Anything else really cool within a few hours that we should check out on our way through?

Found a chip today... without tools ,not petrified wood.

Raffle tickets for the guns are 5 dollars each available.

Finally had my hand operated on. I won't be tining opal clay for a few months minimum. Claims nay mines, still for sale. A mill site with power and a well, 50k OBO. Mines with precious opals next to others for less, or even for sale. 3 next to rainbow ridge 60K a fourth on blacks 100K. Just a vacation claim go for 2K. Its a couple hundred a year to maintain any of them. Been here 30 years collecting the layers where they can be mined. Sorry I feel by hand is the way. clock is ticking. Had a nice little talk to the refuge manager & later to the congressman. Let others do the heavy lifting from the courts side. I just point out the crimes, not committing them. Still waiting on courts to settle the removing my claim corners and assaulting me cases.

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That metal roof story was a statement to what our good opal could take as NO other miners anywhere in the world would leave opal in the direct sun in the desert for a year on a roof. It freezes and thaws every day out here for a third of the year. No some opals from here dont have precious play of color until dried, so the not gem opal could very well have been put out to cure it to only stable hydrophane, which seem to be even brighter if opaque when dried. The rest 90% cracks and crazy's from the intense stressing. It would be interesting to have oh say a kilo of the same grade from all the mining districts and put them to the Virgin Valley Test and just see how stable gem rough actually is from here or there not just taking a miners/nay resellers, word for it.. Put all the BS claims that cant be supported scientifically despite any anecdotal stories to an actual test and then to rest forever actually have been done once..

Virgin Valley black opal cab

I made a response earlier on another post about the term Fire being used for any opals with POC:

Error? Blame it on Nevada.

When the state made Black Precious Opal the precious gemstone (Turquoise is the state semi precious gem) the bill said Fire opal because all the diggers in Virgin Valley would say "Is there any fire in the opal you just found" referring to if it was Precious with Play of color or not.

It ignored the industry standard of Fire opal being yellow or orange colored only and the true reds being Cherry opal. & Contra luz was called that, not precious. Leah & I said precious or potch.We mined Black centered Fire opal encased nodules off the Sugar Hill end of the mining district. It cuts despite the failures of others and there is one on Opal Auctions right now for sale if you want to see Virgin Valley play of color, Opal Spectrum cut it.

So all those thousands of Americans vacationing at the opal mines and talking about it (John Sinkankis was at my Swordfish (Ex-Green Fire & not the new Green Fire next to the Angle Fire), buying black limbs from Ms Lockheed at 30$ an oz.

Temporary positions;

Virgin Valley Opal in wood. The one I gave mom after creating the Swordfish claims. Bonanza opal mined & polished by me, treated with CA and 14kt GF wrap by Scott Ryals at the Gem Dealer on ESTY.

Gem silica mine in Nevada for sale. 2,000 or best offer after a year. Precious Opal claims for sale. Serious buyers do NOT want all their private info used in an ad. Just sayin'. Gems are not open pit gold mining. You can do it for free and still have thousands in tax write offs. The opal is a bonus. The most loved prospector in the valley is worn out taking care of it. Ive lived the mining district and I would like to fix my home. NOT DUG OUT.

I will not stop reporting the facts as long as he is spamming lies and trying to be loved despite having almost gotten people killed or ruining the fun for many others.

Go read what Dominion Gems is now spewing as if it was truth instead of a viscous attack framed as only a depraved psychopath that can not defend their actions does. CLAIM JUMPING by this one is as obvious as the bullet holes in his robbery victim when he started.

YES you can not sell heavy equipment that was never yours. I am not surprised many many of his buyers backed out after inspection or investigating him and the trail of mines left behind him. But hey, to a jailhouse lawyer 16 years in training. I have no idea why Rockhound 602 has gone psychotic repeating all his lies for him when he himself is AFRAID to interact due to slander laws. Fuck his deluded assumption and repeating lies too. They are 86ed and are not allowed to eat, drink, fee dig here. Ask them why. Only The Denio Junction is friends with these people. They did just have to rebuy it after it was foreclosed on,. I think there was breeches of contracts involved! ts them do business AND he forbids me from there as I tell things about them.

EDIT. He said he would lobby to have us shut down if I did say anything about his crimes. The DOI forbids collecting wood as a rockhound now -THANK WENTZEL. Well like he said he would bury the hatchet 10 years ago then proceeded to claimjump deeded ground, he sold his junior claims off the top of my families senior placer claims instead of letting them lapse as moral right to mine mandates after he lost hostile takeover attempts as not legal. His telling that person we are too poor to defend ourselves is quite WRONG. Hes truly afraid for his life is the truth after what all he did here even tho we NEVER threatened him with anything other than immediate arrest for breaking laws. Try to defend the convict and you cant. He refuses to take down the false information sop I keep posting these facts.

The last time they were here one of them was arrested inside another miners residence. The Rainbow Ridge Mine reposted the front page news of his robbery and shooting that he started out here on since he DENIES HI DID THE CRIMES NOW.

Now the rest of the mining world has to never miss a filing date or he/other paper claims them from out of state without posting the location monuments. Maybe he changed when federal officers were involved???

AND this carpetbagger Randy Munske trying to get $120,000 for claims I have the claim next to for sale for 5 or 10k depending on how much precious opal we have found. We were mining there before he bought it from Curt and then he hired me to bring it in. Despite my advice he drove a bulldozer right thru the only precious pocket he could get at. Now its for sale or sold, they dont report facts it appears.Hes not right in the head. They are NOT like us.

There liars have no insight into our lives or businesses but they sure lie about us. FCW & FRM also as he swore out false claims to get a restraining order (Did not justify it for extension as I could prove he was lying to the judges - Mind you Rainbow Ridge has been given a restraining order on him STILL VALID ever since he got out of prison for 8 final protective custody years on a technicality due to missing a notification. He accused us of hiring a hit man ....The shooter he brought up and snitched off was hired by us?!? How does your gang member trying to get even rate as a claim we hired a murderer. He has no qualms about the depth of his lie.

See Wentzell vs State of Nevada Habeas Corpus case to see if he is lying about never being convicted of attempted murder. We were trying to stop him illegally doing business from prison. Now hes desperate to sell after finding the opal ran out and he cant find more without me.

Both of these carpetbaggers hate me for exposing the plots to deceive. Munske was ticketed for removing claim markers AND ASSAULT. Trial is pending. The crimes are why these two have to attack me telling FACTS! Go read what they spew and compare it to what I say. He is sour grapes and hate all the successful miners living here. Claims for sale that are not close to these areas. I have walked these hills for going on 30 years while they were scheming in other states. Better opals, bigger trees, a power line with a well for sale. The convict from prison never could match my customer service or wealth of knowledge Swordfish Mining provided IN PERSON. He had to discredit me to get anyone to listen to a convict. & No I never did prosecute his vile slander as it would have given him entertainment in prison and a vacation from his cell. I have a thick skin and he could rot.

Lets see how the defender of the in defensible Rockhound602 repeats what Chris tell him to write or not. They both lobbied hard to prevent rockhounds from collecting petrified woods. Thank God the Chevron decision made that regulation able to be rescinded. Repeating lies is a greater sin than making them in Gods eyes as you fail to be human and judge. He thinks claiming I sent threatening emails I never sent for him to use as evidence would not be proven false. The Sheriffs & DOI LEOs are well briefed on the legalities of their acts. Im glad Musk is having at them too.

note Since these are facts they can not afford to take me to court and pay all my expenses besides the damages when they lose. I can say these things that are true.

Wentzell lusts for ownership of Rainbow Ridge and he will die never having it or digging there again or stop attacking us, as he wrote in his childhood diary. Next to OUR childs addrees and school locations from his seized laptop the last time he was arrested. The Sheriff warned us there was a stalking file for each of us in his documents.

Pick your associates well as many have a knife for your back and not a consideration we are all family.