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by Joe S (AK)
Wed Oct 01, 2025 3:30 pm
Forum: Gold Prospecting Forum
Topic: How goes the battle gents?
Replies: 15
Views: 4379

Re: How goes the battle gents?

Did you get much gold in all that "high grade" from the tracks? One year "The Queen of Our Realm" brought her boots back from one of those adventure filled summers and decided, in the middle of the winter, to pan out the "stuff" sticking to them. Yeah - she pulled them from the plastic bags they wer...
by Joe S (AK)
Wed Oct 01, 2025 3:27 am
Forum: Gold Prospecting Forum
Topic: How goes the battle gents?
Replies: 15
Views: 4379

Re: How goes the battle gents?

JEEZ Dick --- do your hands even fit a "True Temper #2" any more??? :lol:

What a great piece of equipment!
by Joe S (AK)
Sat Aug 16, 2025 3:06 pm
Forum: Gold Prospecting Forum
Topic: How goes the battle gents?
Replies: 15
Views: 4379

Re: How goes the battle gents?

Copied all that, I did. On a 'regular day' I used to shovel about 1.5 +- yards through my sluice or highbanker a day, and once in a while, when I could use the Keene 4", well, the sky was the limit. I sure do hope that I can get back into it again - time will sort it all out, I guess. As time allows...
by Joe S (AK)
Tue Aug 12, 2025 3:48 pm
Forum: Gold Prospecting Forum
Topic: How goes the battle gents?
Replies: 15
Views: 4379

Re: How goes the battle gents?

GO FOR IT !!! It's great that things are working out well for you. Here in Northern Idaho I'm still working on getting a very (!) Slow healing Diabetic foot wound to heal. 18 months so far and every time it starts looking like there's a light at the end of the tunnel it turns to ne another train com...
by Joe S (AK)
Sun Jun 01, 2025 4:31 pm
Forum: Gold Prospecting Forum
Topic: How many colors in a Pan ?
Replies: 4
Views: 7682

Re: How many colors in a Pan ?

It happens in stages. First, poke around until something gets your attention. When that happens figure out just what you stumbled upon. Is it just a random fizzle or something more solid. Then, it completely falls on your shoulders as to "Is it enough, or not?" ""Enough"" in weight, size or richness...
by Joe S (AK)
Sun May 18, 2025 7:57 am
Forum: Gold Prospecting Forum
Topic: Make your own mind up on .......................
Replies: 7
Views: 24622

Re: Make your own mind up on .......................

Fleng - My contact info just sent - somehow it never made it in my earlier long and windy PM to you.

Joe
by Joe S (AK)
Mon Apr 28, 2025 4:24 am
Forum: Gold Prospecting Forum
Topic: Make your own mind up on .......................
Replies: 7
Views: 24622

Re: Make your own mind up on .......................

Well Sir, I've been there and done that on the "...trip to Nome" thing. Beach mining or possibly GPAA? You would be well advised to bring two VERY fine mesh classifiers (at least one 40 or 60 mesh one) and search out someone when you arrive to teach you how to pan all over again. Also - bring a few ...
by Joe S (AK)
Fri Apr 04, 2025 9:51 am
Forum: Gold Prospecting Forum
Topic: Dredge Plug Removal Tool
Replies: 3
Views: 8852

Re: Dredge Plug Removal Tool

So Easy, there will be some problems … Plug ups usually come along when a piece of longish gravel, traveling through the suction hose, twists or tumbles enough that it toggles inside the hose. Following gravel and sand pack the new diagonal obstruction and continues packing it until little to nothin...
by Joe S (AK)
Sun Mar 09, 2025 3:45 pm
Forum: Gold Prospecting Forum
Topic: IYKYK is AI just GIGO for gold mining?
Replies: 4
Views: 10690

Re: IYKYK is AI just GIGO for gold mining?

One thing about "Published Material" that is sometimes overlooked has to do with the testing process and just who actually does it - and - more importantly, how it's actially done. In the great scheme of things, temporary summer help was used for decades to do much of the mind numbing, repetive test...
by Joe S (AK)
Sun Mar 09, 2025 2:00 pm
Forum: Gold Prospecting Forum
Topic: IYKYK is AI just GIGO for gold mining?
Replies: 4
Views: 10690

Re: IYKYK is AI just GIGO for gold mining?

No, not here. I guess I'm just set in my ways too much to venture off into what to me is a vast, confusing network of unintended, potentially scary possibilities. Have you eve noticed how AI generated vocal products are so 'not right'? Not just sometimes but always only a faint reflection of real sp...