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Update from my mining season; I started building a new dredge last spring and got a long ways into it, boat part is done (20’x28’) and got the 4’x8’ shaker deck nearly finished I built a second deck to make it a double deck shaker, was getting it close to mounting on the boat when June 1 came along ...

Gold price went up 3.6% in the last 10 days ! If this trend continues we could see $6000 gold by next year this time…. Wishful thinking..maybe but less than 24 hours after hitting $2900 gold is at $2926 as I type.

I question my sanity at times too Ha, I’m upping the yardage some but nothing drastic, my existing floater has 3 sluices, 2 on the front screen and one on the rear screen, the new setup is going to have a 2 screen deck, with 2 sluices on each size material, the existing floater could use a 4th sluic...

Just a few days after hitting $2800 gold has gone up to $2870 ! $3000 gold might just beat us to springtime ! Dick, New projects ! I’m building my second floater, the new one will have a shaker plant, built lighter, more sluice runs and a 40 foot stacker, the new one will eventually have a house on ...

$2800 is nice ! I wouldn’t be surprised to see $3000 an oz gold by springtime. I was talking with a couple of guys today while ordering steel for a new project and they were saying that they always wanted to try gold mining / prospecting… I told them right now would be a great time to go play and of...

And also I’ll add after re reading this thread, I run about 200 yards per day and do a cleanup after 400 yards, three separate 24” by 16 foot sluice runs of expanded metal, a couple of nugget traps included yields about 10 gallons of minus 3/8” concentrates.

A few thoughts on this.. My dredge will run 25-30 yards an hour before overrunning the sluice boxs (48’ of sluice) I have a mechanical dredge, surely you are referring to a suction dredge, both types share a few of the same principals the biggest being the tailings they generate, if your current isn...

Merry Christmas and a healthy and happy New year to everyone !

Good luck to you, Be safe out there !

That looks familiar Dick, I just did the same job on my newly acquired 200-3 yours looks much easier with the help of a second excavator, I used a makeshift engine hoist in the back of my pickup, I had heard horror stories about the bolts holding the swing drive assembly in place, others back east t...