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Post  Guest Thu Dec 06, 2012 4:40 pm

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

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Post  Ash100456 Thu Dec 06, 2012 5:15 pm

Wow, That piece of paper has been there awhile, Should have been called Reckarock as that's a better descriptive name for dynamite !
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Post  flyspecks Thu Dec 06, 2012 7:28 pm

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 Smile

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Post  Guest Fri Dec 07, 2012 1:23 pm

wow thats some think isant it cheers

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Post  Guest Fri Dec 07, 2012 1:25 pm

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

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Post  Dannyboy Wed Dec 12, 2012 3:53 am

I would tread lightly knowing that there may be explosives in the mine....anyway, cool find.
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Post  Guest Wed Dec 12, 2012 5:07 pm

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 Sad i need some tnt to blast some of that reef lol lol! lol!

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Post  kim Wed Dec 12, 2012 8:49 pm

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.”
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Post  Curley Thu Feb 07, 2013 5:13 pm

a really old peace of paper  53dd4362-8e3e-4ad7-9c92-674651e659ba
Here are the instructions if anyone has any floating around their shed cherry
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Post  Guest Sat Feb 09, 2013 1:24 am

thats allmost like my pick Very Happy Cool but thanks for the more newish lokking one Smile Laughing cheers

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