Placer Mining In The Yukon

This is the first of a seven part series.I'm hoping you will find it interesting.

I'm going to try to remember to place a link every day.  Thanks for your interest.

Placer Mining Remains Strong In The Yukon – Mining Series | Kitco News:



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Gold Prospecting With a Sluice Box

I got a chance to go see the Yankee Fork gold dredge this fall when I was working in Idaho. It was powered by two 350 horse Ingersoll-Rand, 7 cylinder diesel engines, burning 400 to 500 gallons of fuel a day. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: A sluice box used in placer mining. Category:United States mining images (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The picture of the old gold dredge is there because I like it.
There is a sort of sluice box inside it.
Blame renewed interest in gold prospecting on the sluice box - Idaho Press-Tribune: Elizabeth:



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Have You Tried Crevicing for Gold?

Gold panning at Bonanza Creek (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

You need to know about crevicing if you are going to be doing any serious recreational gold panning.

Whether you are on your own claim or a public one if you get down to bedrock it is time to haul out your crevicing gear.

There is gold in those cracks and you are going to get it.

Here is a good instructional article and a video.
Getting Out • Placer mining - crevicing for gold:
A well done crevicing video - Here



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Obama Kisses Ass

Hello all you faithful readers. I am back ( since Jan 16th ) and will be adding material here as time goes on.


You can understand why today's item is a little short - I don't want to write to you about my great holiday and how I wish I was still away.

I did not do any gold prospecting or Forex trading while I was gone and have no news for you regarding those 2 subjects. Or any other subject that you would be interested in.

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Mr Obama has spent the day kissing ass (sorry hands) and planning the downfall of the USD. His sucking up has had the result of bringing down the price of gold by a big chunk. I am sure that Chinese President Hu Jintao or whatever his name is is buying all his country can on this arranged drop n price. I wonder if the US bullion banks are afraid he may want delivery so he can load it up and haul it back to China with him?

Silver has had the same price drop as gold and it looks good for the guys who said that both metals where over priced.

I am running on here and will leave you with this for now. Thanks for reading my blog and be sure to come back.

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Some Prospecting Definitions

Image by Oregon State University Archives via Flickr I don't have much to say today except gold has gone up and looking at my charts now it's 1407.75.

What I am going to do today is put up a few definitions that prospectors and placer miners use when they're talking about their claims.

Flour gold. This is also called Gold dust.    It is defined as gold that is so fine that it looks and feels like flour or dust.

Hard rock mine. This isn't something you will be too concerned about during your recreational gold panning but I thought we might as well throw it in anyway. A hard rock mine is a tunnel was dug into solid rock for the purpose of finding minerals particularly gold and silver.

Placer mining. This is the type of mining you will be doing with your pan hopefully finding a few nuggets which we will define later. It involves mining gold that's been washed away from its source and deposited in sandbars and small cracks  in bedrock. Generally this involves rivers and streams but if you can find an old riverbed that is now dry and figure out where it used to run it is a very good place to find gold.

Your tools will be not in any particular order a rocker box, dredge, shaker table,  sluice box, drywasher, and of course your trusty gold pan. You will also need some water. However you don't necessarily need it at the place where you're doing your work. You can sort your material and carry it home and do your final cleanup and processing in your garage  or garden. This is the way most people do it because you can classify air or at the  site and do the sitdown work-at-home.

By the way - prospectors have a word for this classified material, you will hear them refer to "cons". This is short for concentrates.

You can learn more about recreational gold panning HERE.   hope you found this useful and watch this space please.

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Okay Here's the Gold Panning Book Excerpt for You

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Gold Gold Gold Gold!

Bright and yellow card and cold
Molton, grave, hammered, rolled,
heavy to get, and light to hold
stolen, borrowed, squandered, doled.
Some lines from a poem from somewhere. They kind of ring true.
This is true today.
An interesting fact the yield of precious metal in California since 1847 up to 1888 amounted to 256,000,000 pounds.
Every prospector should understand elementary geology so far as general knowledge of the history of the structure of the Earth's crust and of the several actions that have taken place in the past, or are now in operation, modifying its conditions.
He may go a few steps further and learn to classify the various formations into systems, groups, and series.
It is advisable to learn something about the occurrence and appearance of the valuable minerals and the formations in which they are found. I recommend Cox and Rashid's "Mines and Minerals" which deals largely with the subject and is therefore particularly valuable.
If you're all alone don't forget your gold pan and shovel. I also advised you to visit this website. HERE

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