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by Slatco
Tue Jan 16, 2024 5:28 pm
Forum: Gold Prospecting Forum
Topic: Starlink system
Replies: 18
Views: 3496

Re: Starlink system

THanks for the feedback Chicken. I cancelled my Xplorenet and am ordering the RV package of Starlink as I have a couple minesites and I will take it from site to site to use as needed.
by Slatco
Mon Jan 08, 2024 10:49 pm
Forum: Gold Prospecting Forum
Topic: Big Nugget Gold!
Replies: 8
Views: 1704

Re: Big Nugget Gold!

Nuggets.... Biggest one I have ever found was less than 1 gram.... Just a byproduct of the ground I am mining. Guys upstream find up to 10 grammers but not where I am at....
by Slatco
Fri Dec 22, 2023 2:49 pm
Forum: Gold Prospecting Forum
Topic: Christmas Candles!
Replies: 3
Views: 762

Re: Christmas Candles!

Whoop whoop! Gold keep on motoring into 2024!
by Slatco
Wed Dec 20, 2023 2:48 pm
Forum: Gold Prospecting Forum
Topic: Trommel Rebuild Project
Replies: 11
Views: 4269

Re: Trommel Rebuild Project

Thanks! 4" or 6" pump feeding it?
by Slatco
Tue Dec 19, 2023 10:26 pm
Forum: Gold Prospecting Forum
Topic: Trommel Rebuild Project
Replies: 11
Views: 4269

Re: Trommel Rebuild Project

Hey Chickenminer what do you think the slope degrees were that you ended up with on the hopper? I am reminded of a post I saw about plumbing and if the slope is too steep the water flows too fast to move the solids....
by Slatco
Fri Dec 15, 2023 4:46 pm
Forum: Gold Prospecting Forum
Topic: Circuit Breakers and GOLD prices!
Replies: 3
Views: 866

Re: Circuit Breakers and GOLD prices!

I love these recent prices! Sold my last bit of gold for $2,777/oz CAN.... Economics for scaling up the placer mine are starting to look favorable! (Not quite enough to quit the day job steady income lol)
by Slatco
Wed Dec 13, 2023 8:46 pm
Forum: Gold Prospecting Forum
Topic: New Blood
Replies: 6
Views: 1521

Re: New Blood

Hi Joe/Chicken- Started recruiting and even though most of my contacts are BC miners and not Alaska, alot of what we talk about is universal to placer mining.
by Slatco
Mon Oct 23, 2023 1:33 pm
Forum: Gold Prospecting Forum
Topic: Home built drill for deep placer sampling
Replies: 4
Views: 1026

Re: Home built drill for deep placer sampling

Thanks Dick. I have been mulling this over for years and have not really came up with any good solutions...
by Slatco
Fri Oct 20, 2023 9:09 pm
Forum: Gold Prospecting Forum
Topic: Home built drill for deep placer sampling
Replies: 4
Views: 1026

Home built drill for deep placer sampling

My buddy has some deep placer ground (100ft) that we would like to test some day. Just wondering most economical way to do so. I see auger mounted nodwell drills, excavators or skid steers with rotary drivers but will they have the capacity to go deep? Is there something that can be built for this? ...