{"id":17,"date":"2011-07-21T18:58:17","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T18:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/nevadacassidys\/?p=17"},"modified":"2013-01-26T23:23:51","modified_gmt":"2013-01-26T23:23:51","slug":"a-change-in-the-tides-harvesting-vs-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/nevadacassidys\/2011\/07\/21\/a-change-in-the-tides-harvesting-vs-mining\/","title":{"rendered":"A change in the tides ~ Harvesting vs Mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a few decades now my family and I have been mining turquoise in a fairly typical manner. Picks shovels, pry bars and screens, and maybe even an occasional tractor of some sort or a air hammer. Truth be told I never liked this kind of work.<br \/>\nIt seemed more like abuse to me, both to the mountain and our bodies. We tend to make more rubble than pick up stones.<\/p>\n<p>It was a good effort and we worked hard&#8230;<br \/>\nWe did ok I suppose, we found some great stones.<br \/>\nHowever in the last few years I have taken a new technique out to the desert. Harvesting. Nature seems to provide more than enough stone in one season than weeks of toil with equipment. Instead of beating up the mountain, I take a slow walk and pay keen attention to the ground. The results are amazing, I seem to find more gem grade material this way. It is as if nature left it there for me. And I would surely find it&#8230; So long as I payed attention to the subtle ways she speaks.<br \/>\nSo now we are taking a turn into a new realm of operation for us.<br \/>\nHarvesting. Every season the winter and the rain of spring do the hard rock work for us.<br \/>\nOur job now is to pay closer attention to the natural changes that constantly occur out in the desert. The rewards for this are beyond measure. Specimens with no cracks of fractures, no further reclaimation to do. And now we can span out into other areas that are not on our little claim. A walking stick and a pocketful.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy the natural beauty<br \/>\nCanyon Cassidy<\/p>\n<p>in the Nevada outback<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nevada outback\" alt=\"Nevada outback\" src=\"http:\/\/nevadacassidys.com\/images\/nevada_outback.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"263\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a few decades now my family and I have been mining turquoise in a fairly typical manner. Picks shovels, pry bars and screens, and maybe even an occasional tractor of some sort or a air hammer. Truth be told I never liked this kind of work. It seemed more like abuse to me, both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/nevadacassidys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/nevadacassidys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/nevadacassidys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/nevadacassidys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/nevadacassidys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/nevadacassidys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/nevadacassidys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/nevadacassidys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/nevadacassidys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/nevadacassidys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}