.999 FINE Hand Poured Pure Copper Bar Ingot from the LOST DUTCHMAN MINE

Description

A little bit about the
Lost Dutchman Mine
; It was believed that Jacob Waltz discovered the Lost Dutchman Gold Mine in the Superstition Mountains a few miles East of Phoenix.
The problem was that even the Attorney General of Arizona tried unsuccessfully for years to locate the mine in the Supersititions. It seems however that old Jacob Waltz was the supervisor of the richest Gold Mine in the history of Arizona.
It was called the Vulture mine out Wickenburg way.
In the late 1860’s, the old Dutchman would go down into the mine each morning with his little lunch bucket and every evening he would come back up from the mine carrying his heavier lunch bucket.
Over 260,000 ounces of Gold, over 0,000,000 in today’s value came out of the mine not counting the Gold the old Dutchman high graded and removed clandestinely.
Now you can own a piece of history, a two pound bar of Copper from the real
Lost Dutchman Mine.
It seems that in 1865, Copper wasn’t worth much.
It cost more to process it than what they could sell it for.
Electric cable, wire and Electronics had not been discovered yet, so the copper was simply thrown on top of a tailings pile in 1865.
A hundred years later, that same tailings pile was sold to a School of Mines and their Blacksmith Department to teach students how to recover precious metal from a ore.
That is where we come in;
I always wanted a two pound bar of Gold.
When they mined the stuff back in 1865, an ounce of Gold sold for .50 per ounce.
It was regulated by the Government so the 49er’s didn’t have much to say about it. At .50 per ounce, a two pound bar would sell for about 2.
If we didn’t have inflation, I could buy a two pound bar of gold.
The problem is, Gold is now about .500 for a two pound bar of Gold.
Sorry folks, I don’t want to pay that.
Not even an ounce of the stuff at ,764 per ounce. I can afford it, but how the heck are you going to get change from an ounce of the stuff?
It was .50 a pound during the Gold Rush and now almost ,000 per ounce; that is what I call hyper-inflation.
There is no question about it, the prices of everything is skyrocketing.
Houses, cars and yes, even copper bars.
Gun sales are through the roof, ammunition if you can buy it, cost more than the old lone rangers silver bullets and gasoline is getting as hard to find as toilet paper during a pandemic.
If it does hit the fan and all you got is that shining new Gold piece and try to pull into a gas station for a few gallons
, how are you going to get change?
Cut it in half?
Probably not.
That’s when it is time to consider having some copper.
Yes, copper is the security blanket when things hit the fan.
Yet for millenniums, it was the one ingredient that gave us the Bronze age, the one thing needed to make swords and armor.
Without some
genius melting down copper, you would never have bronze or Brass
.
Remember, no brass, no bullets.
Without copper, you don’t have any of it.
Welcome to the world of inflation.
You want free stuff?
The government just turns on the printing presses and bingo, you have ,000 stimulus checks that only cost each taxpayer ,319 for every man woman and child in the United States.
The way that the Federal Reserve Bank in the past has stopped inflation is simply to raise interest rates.
Under Jimmy Carter, they raised it 20% and under Nixon, they froze raises so the only way to make more money was to switch jobs.
Under Obama, they simply turned on the Printing Presses and called it Quantitative Easing and crashed the economy.
Houses dropped fifty percent in value and things quickly went to hell in a row boat.
Those were not the good old days boys and girls and where we are headed now, remains for the plot of a cheap novel.
Here is a copper ingot that most people paid a ten bucks for a few years ago.
Now, they are selling for fifty dollars.
A couple of years from now you might not be able to buy one for a
hundred dollar bill
.
Then again, who would want a hundred dollar bill if it was only worth a few pennies.
Try buying a 1909 SVDB Penny for a hundred dollars and you might get surprise of your life when you see a penny selling for over a Thousand dollars.
It is not that they didn’t make many of them, they did; Over a million 1909 Penny’s were minted in San Francisco, right during the great earth quake.
It’s not that they are rare, there are lots of them around.
It is just no one wants to sell them.
They are hoarding them for a rainy day.
Guess what folks?, it’s raining cats and dogs.
The sky is falling and no one told Chicken Little.
So pick up one of these or even two.
You might just need it one fine day. You might be saying to yourself, “Self?
Why didn’t I buy one of these copper two pound ingots when they were only fifty Dollars?”
Skip that one Dinner and a show on a Saturday night and buy one of these. If you skipped drinks during Dinner you could buy two of these.
Long after the sweet taste of that Dinner sours, the hangover wears off and you realize the ending to that sad movie was just Hollywood and not real,
the lasting effect of knowing you got some back up when the world is going dark lingers on and on.
Copper is real; you can touch it unlike that dinner that cost a fortune and soon forgotten. What a waste of money. Copper last forever and the value keeps going up.
Quit squawking about the price.
The first time the Walking liberty coin appeared on the scene, it sold for
at any store
.
Today, they are over
,000
if you can find one.
It was designed by Augustus Saint-Gaudens and it is called Walking Liberty Gold Twenty dollar gold piece.
How’s that for inflation?
Just add up the amount of money you have wasted on Starbucks in the last year and you might get the picture.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news folks, but it is going to get worse.
So bite the bullet so to speak and buy one of these.
You might regret it someday if you don’t.
A solid copper Ingot from the Vulture mine tailings pile.
Oh, I forgot to tell you.
Copper in 1865 was not worth the cost to process it. So they kept the Gold and Silver and threw the copper on the tailings pile.
A hundred years later, the tailings pile was sold to a Blacksmith Department in a School of Mine Engineering.
John C. Lincoln owned the vulture at the time and built himself one heck of a Hospital with some of the money.
So today, we have copper that was mined in 1865 right along side of that gold bar I always wanted.
You can own a piece of history;
a two pound copper ingot from the tailings pile of the Vulture Mine.
Talk about a blast from the past, a piece of history brought to you by the same folks who turned California and Arizona into the Mecca they are today.
Well, they are probably rolling over in their graves but what the heck.
A little about the Blacksmith school;
It is all female school and it takes seven years to complete the courses to become a master craftsman. It is an apprenticeship program with one instructor for each student.
Cost a bundle to run it as no government funds or student loans are given. It is a private school. To complete one of the classes, the students must process a bar of pure copper. The student processes the ore, separates the copper from the ore,
prepares it for the foundry, heats it up to over 2,000 degree’s, pours the molten metal into a cast iron mold, the same one used in 1865 and then lets it cool.
After that, it is put on a hand spun spinning wheel to grind the edges and burrs off.
It is then hand polished to look like a shinning new penny.
All by hand;
It takes over ten hours start to finish and at minimum wage of per hour, it should sell for over 0.
The students are allowed to sell their finished copper ingot to help pay for their tuition. That’s where we come in.
We grade, assay, certify the authenticity and market what truly has become a work of art.
You wouldn’t buy an ounce of Gold without an Assay Report, why would you even consider buying a pound of copper on eBay without one either?
Thanks for helping a student get through a grueling semester of Metallurgy.