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Those "Old guys"; "We all started out hearing the mantra "to get the small Gold go flat, long and slow" from the old guys (who had heard that from the really, really, really old guys) but it turns out that unless you want to catch ALL the black sand for some convoluted reason that goal is just chasi...

Ice Cold Gold: Why not? "Momma" won't let you. That's why! Mother nature is not only unforgiving but also "unwilling" to release her riches in the winter. The desperate, the uninitiated, the unprepared and the uninhibited unfortunately fall victims to a cruel, harsh reality. I know of many stories w...

A desert rat; I don't have to "go" to the desert. I "live" in the desert! I live in an organized community on the grid. I'm surrounded by GOLD. GOLD, GOLD, in all directions! The GOLD is all staked up. I wasn't the FIRST one here. I was the LAST one here! :o Folks from out of town come here looking ...

PickaxeCA, Nice photo and well composed! It doesn't get much prettier than that! The image takes us back a few years. The days of kiwigold and all of the stories of NZ beach gold, interesting places on the beach with kids and folks and fun and GOLD. Nope... the Cube had not been invented yet. With a...

Dan, Thank you for touching on a very important question! From the beginning of time and the first prospectors, the need to go out to the prospect and return with the proceeds has been what sets us apart from others. The decisions made and the plan we have in all cases involves packing ourselves, ou...

Social Governance; Mining in the 21st century involves social responsibility to others including the environment. Drift mining is the most socially and environmentally friendly method of mining! No fish are harmed. No waterways are involved in underground mining. The mining is out of sight, out of v...

It's a necessity; Drift mining is not only practical, it's an absolute necessity! Veins, shear zone hosted, intrusive Gold Related (IRG) deposits dominate the scene so far as gold deposits are concerned. These deposits are by necessity exclusively mined economically using drift mining methods. Only ...

Laminar flow; The common method of recovering fine gold using a sluice box includes riffles and a variety of means and methods of lifting and rolling the flow of water in an attempt to get fine GOLD to settle in place. A more subtle approach involves taking a view of the concepts used in recovery me...

Frog's Fur; There are well known methods used to recover fine GOLD that have been around for quite awhile. One rarely seen method is the "cleangold" method. http://www.cleangold.com The challenge for gold miners and prospectors comes not from fine gold but the new world order that is driven by a pro...

An Oxymoron; Fine Gold recovery is an oxymoron. The terms are incompatible. In the real world where GOLD recovery by means of GRAVITY separation takes place, the force of gravity becomes insignificant as particle sizes become smaller. That's just the simple reality of physics. In our small minded wo...