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by Joe S (AK)
Sat Mar 02, 2024 1:20 pm
Forum: Gold Prospecting Forum
Topic: Properties of punch plate (or Jarvine Riffle) for improving gold capture
Replies: 16
Views: 3251

Re: Properties of punch plate (or Jarvine Riffle) for improving gold capture

All your 8 points seem solid there. I suspect that all the classified material drops down and the punch plate slows the water flow just enough that the lighter material is slowly washed out from under the plate but that the Gold (possibly even Platinum and maybe even Lead) have just too much heavine...
by Joe S (AK)
Thu Feb 29, 2024 11:50 pm
Forum: Gold Prospecting Forum
Topic: Prospecting opportunities in dry areas (but not drywashing or detecting)
Replies: 4
Views: 895

Re: Prospecting opportunities in dry areas (but not drywashing or detecting)

Now Pickaxe, something to consider: Going to very dry locations to search could well be quite rewarding in results - however - just like the puppy chasing it's own tail - What are you going to do if you catch that tail? :roll: If you do find something of certain interest remember to factor in (under...
by Joe S (AK)
Thu Feb 22, 2024 7:33 pm
Forum: Gold Prospecting Forum
Topic: Unplugging Dredge Hose
Replies: 5
Views: 1233

Re: Unplugging Dredge Hose

Me too on that rubber mallet, Gabby. I have found that sometimes a couple of smaller pebbles will also jam together to make a plug-up. Rubber hammer and light Rat, Tat, Tat will re-arrange the little pebbles to wash through. If it is a toggle situation with a single rock the jarring often frees it. ...
by Joe S (AK)
Thu Feb 22, 2024 12:10 am
Forum: Gold Prospecting Forum
Topic: Remote Prospecting?
Replies: 891
Views: 277293

Re: Remote Prospecting?

"Much of the content was redacted on the Remote Prospecting thread in response to possible overt and covert handling and/or mishandling of creative content." I will state right here and now that that is not true. If any posts were removed then there was a very real reason that they were and that re...
by Joe S (AK)
Tue Feb 20, 2024 8:11 pm
Forum: Gold Prospecting Forum
Topic: Is drift mining a practical way to mine nowadays?
Replies: 17
Views: 2813

Re: Is drift mining a practical way to mine nowadays?

And so you extend that "Safety is All" culture to one or maybe two men sinking a shaft somewhere in the puckerbrush? Today's miners are better educated than those miners from the distant past. In addition, today's miners aren't forced to choose between starvation, barely getting by with minimal safe...
by Joe S (AK)
Sun Feb 18, 2024 5:29 am
Forum: Gold Prospecting Forum
Topic: Is drift mining a practical way to mine nowadays?
Replies: 17
Views: 2813

Re: Is drift mining a practical way to mine nowadays?

No, I believe that "Nowadays" refers to the inherent danger of drifting in the current context of modern, personally acceptable levels in the dangers resulting in severe injury or death. Back into at least the last century, many, many what we now consider dangerous acts were the standard and the ris...
by Joe S (AK)
Wed Feb 14, 2024 6:53 am
Forum: Gold Prospecting Forum
Topic: Is drift mining a practical way to mine nowadays?
Replies: 17
Views: 2813

Re: Is drift mining a practical way to mine nowadays?

PRG, Hope springs eternal when it comes to drift mining. It is also true that there has been quite a bit of Gold recovered from 'em in the past - but - in the end I'm reminded of the two instances of them that I have personally been acquainted with, one in Northern California (dry country) and one i...
by Joe S (AK)
Fri Feb 02, 2024 10:04 pm
Forum: Gold Prospecting Forum
Topic: how cold is it
Replies: 5
Views: 1073

Re: how cold is it

Well, it got down to -25 in town just before I set sail from Trapper Creek, a little over 2 weeks ago. Then, at midnight in Watson Lake at -40 (F. or C.) there was a thrilling night in the truck since all the fuel pumps in town were too cold to accept 'Le Plastique'. Finally, here in Northern Idaho,...
by Joe S (AK)
Thu Jan 18, 2024 2:50 am
Forum: Gold Prospecting Forum
Topic: Starlink system
Replies: 18
Views: 3666

Re: Starlink system

HO YEAH!

That would be an excellent start for the new year.

Joe
by Joe S (AK)
Wed Dec 13, 2023 10:36 pm
Forum: Gold Prospecting Forum
Topic: New Blood
Replies: 6
Views: 1545

Re: New Blood

The good news is that, outside of regional or national laws, the techniques and equipment used in the recovering of placer Gold are understood world wide. Simply put, Gold physically acts the same everywhere. What is discovered and 'works' in one country works elsewhere and sharing techniques direct...