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I think we need to define terminology better. Lode is NOT placer and placer is NOT lode. Two entirely different terms and deposits.

Great prices...but only if you are allowed to mine.

That's a good start on this subject Chuck.

Good advice Dick, that sounds like the way to go.

Thanks for this Dick. I sent a link to your post to my friend down here that lives on a remote mining claim. He is also off grid and has internet and internet phone access, but he is always complaining about how slow it is.

Thanks for the blow-by-blow description of your early trip to the mine. For miners and some others, life in the north can, and usually is an adventure. The work, difficulties, mistakes and accidents all go with the territory. The discouraging part is with all the work involved, there is no payday cl...

Yeah, but did you have fun?

When following this thread I got to wondering about the temperatures listed. I am not sure where these temps came from, but I do know one thing. The official all time low temp. was recorded at Prospect Creek Alaska in 1971. Here is what I found online about that record. "Alaska is famously freezing....

Although at times I miss Alaska, I sure don't miss those temperatures Dick.

I make it a point to stay logged in. The forum hardly ever drops me, maybe once a year, so I just didn't notice I was logged out.