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There aren't enough economic incentives for objective third party testing of any matting, overlay or gold capture system. It's also pretty tough to make it truly scientific. Actually there is, on the commercial side. The Poling/Hamilton and the Clarkson studies are about as scientific as we have ha...

Pickaxe,
Yes, I think you should start a new thread on small scale hard rock mining. It's needed!
Jason has a gob of great videos on You Tube.

Wow.... price of gold this morning at $2,117 USD !
Looking forward to Summer and washing rocks.

Trev is a great example of a guy designing a recovery system tailored to his specific need. Nope, it sure doesn't have to be fancy or new technology. The basic principles of gravity recovery haven't changed. New technology has just made it easier to screen material, adjust water flow and adapt the p...

Pickaxe,
Welcome aboard! Thanks for posting. Fortunately for miners today there is a wealth of information on fine gold recovery at our fingertips. All we have to do is figure out the best combination for our particular operation and gold type.

Just a reminder to all of you thinking of joining the Alaska Gold Forum. We very much welcome your participation on the forum but because of all the spam requests, please send an email to one of the administrators letting us know you want to be a member. Otherwise your request will likely get delete...

Hey Kevin,
How did it go last summer? Other than plugged hose! Are you going to be banging away at it this coming season ?

As Starlink deploys more polar orbiting LEO satellites the coverage and speed for those of us in Alaska just keeps getting better. Here is my typical speed these days. https://www.chickenminer.com/images/starlink%20speed.jpg When I first got Starlink over a year ago the obstruction map on the Starli...

Pishon ... good to see you posting! I have sunk many shafts over the years during winters prospecting but my intention was never to drift mine any of them, only for prospecting. Is there still areas left ? Well I'd say there is lots of areas left to prospect but worth mining you won't know until you...

Joe...
Glad things are getting back to normal for you in ID. Didn't sound like much fun to come home to all that stuff!
Now you can get back to thinking about all those projects left undone here in Alaska