a really old peace of paper

heres a peace of paper that i found in a mine a year ago its tells you how to use dynamite its really old too i put my finger on one bit of it in it just crumbled away

Wow, That piece of paper has been there awhile, Should have been called Reckarock as that's a better descriptive name for dynamite !
Cheers
Ashley

hey goldfinding, thats a great find, thanks for taking a photo of it, its great to see some things untouched. here's a photo of a gold pan.... just left, as if the old digger had moved on ..... you can see the bottom of it has rusted out and the bush begining to grow through it..... i dont know how much longer it will last, but hopfully long enough for other detectorists to enjoy it....cheers

wow thats some think isant it

Ash100456 wrote:Wow, That piece of paper has been there awhile, Should have been called Reckarock as that's a better descriptive name for dynamite !
Cheers
Ashley

whell i think its all most as old as the mine the mine was worked from the 1860's to the ealy 1900's

I would tread lightly knowing that there may be explosives in the mine....anyway, cool find.

Dannyboy wrote:I would tread lightly knowing that there may be explosives in the mine....anyway, cool find.

yeah i did find an old tnt box on a old table too but it had nothing inside i need some tnt to blast some of that reef lol

Hi All
Nice find, I love finding relics and enjoy trying to find out something about it. Thought this was interesting

The Hellgate Explosion and Rackarock
H. SPRENGEL
Abstract
THE statement in NATURE of the 15th inst. (p. 575) that rackarock is “blasting gelatine” or “nitroglycerine with compressed gun-cotton” is incorrect. Rackarock is simply powdered potassium chlorate, impregnated with an inexpensive oily combustible, such as coal-tar oil, and is one of my safety-explosives, which I discovered in 1870, patented in England, April 6 and October 5, 1871, and described more fully in the Journal of the Chemical Society for August, 1873, under the title: “On a New Class of Explosives, which are non-Explosive during their Manufacture, Storage, and Transport.”

Here are the instructions if anyone has any floating around their shed
Curley

thats allmost like my pick but thanks for the more newish lokking one