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Pickaxe, You come across as being more intellectual than the average placer GOLD miner. Welcome! :) All too often in placer operations, the weakness is in being haphazard. Success is found as in other endeavors, in what would on the surface appear to be a simple process and the process becomes more ...

Doing the fine GOLD math; Given a 12 inch sluice with a water pump running at 2 gallons per minute... Randy Clarkson recommended a 30 percent slurry. That's 30 percent solids in the sluice. At 2 gallons per minute = 120 gallons per hour, the sluice should run 40 gallons of solids per hour. One cubic...

The voice of experience: I went out on a limb during the 2007-2008 financial crisis to prove a placer miner could mine enough GOLD in Alaska to feed his or her family. I designed and fabricated three wash plants and shipped 'em up to Alaska. The Maxi Bankers; The Maxi Bankers were constructed of an ...

The balancing act; Prevention is the best solution... Suction dredging requires a balance between "flow rate" and the "weight/volume" of the material being dredged. It's a trade-off. Often times, a dredger will throttle back the pump to reduce the flow in the sluice box. On the other extreme, I have...

Easy goer, Unless you are expecting a GOLD nugget larger than say two or more inches, use a guard on the nozzle to prevent large rocks from getting into the hose. A guard can be fabricated using several different methods. Weld it yourself from appropriate size bar stock or have a welder fabricate a ...

We are surrounded; We are surrounded by a potentially deadly force known as "gravity". Gravity can lead to our early demise most frequently when we venture above the surface of the earth or below the surface of the earth. Even on the surface of the earth, we must beware! We may become a victim from ...

Howdy Guys and Gals, It's probably about time for discussion on the subject of underground mining. Because it is by virtue of the nature of mining that excavation of the earth is a necessity, a "hole" in some fashion becomes a part of what we do. The objective in prospecting is to make a discovery a...

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Practicality and safety; Back in the old days, miners had a hard time keeping any help because people were getting hurt and killed in the mines. It wasn't practical to have to keep retraining replacements! Nowadays, there is a culture of Safety. Current thinking in Drift mining and mining in general...

I made a major GOLD discovery; This discovery popped up on the radar beween twelve and fourteen years ago depending on who gets credit for discovering what and when. Read about it here: https://www.usgoldmining.us/project/whistler-gold-project/ Mining in Alaska; https://www.usgoldmining.us/project/m...