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Showing posts with label Prospecting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Prospecting. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Whitehorse Daily Star: Departments differ on proposed mine plan
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Sunday, May 3, 2015
Gold Prospecting With a Sluice Box
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| 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) |
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| English: A sluice box used in placer mining. Category:United States mining images (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
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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Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Some Camping Thoughts For Prospectors
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| English: Gold panning at Gold Camp, near Granite, Colorado 1954 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Pick a sleeping bag which is appropriate for the season. If you're camping in the heat of summer, a sub-zero bag just isn't comfortable or appropriate. Conversely, if you bring a light-weight sleeping bag to a winter camping trip, you can be extremely uncomfortable the entire time. You may even risk hypothermia.
Did you know that a simple mirror can save your life? If you are camping and end up in a survival situation, a simple hand-held mirror can be used to signal for help many miles away. Do not buy the standard glass mirror, many camping supply stores sell mirrors made of Lexan that will float and are practically unbreakable. It is also handy for examining any gold you may pan up. Lay it on the mirror and grab your magnifying glass.
Bring a plastic garbage bag and put your dirty laundry in it. This keeps the items from mixing in with your clean clothing. It also makes things convenient for you when you return home. You can simply dump out the bag into your washing machine and crank it up.
Make sure your tent is of ample size. This will give you the room necessary for a comfortable gold panning trip.
When you reach your mine site, the first thing, you should do is to start collecting wood for your fire. You won't feel like it later on, and if you wait until dark you will have a harder time finding the kind of wood you need to keep a fire going. Do it first thing.
Saturday, January 21, 2012
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After A long Absence He Returned
Here I am! I'd like to begin by offering my apologies for such a long absence. I am going to try and maintain a little more continuity here. I suspect it'll be pretty difficult after being away for almost 12 months.
I don't have anything to offer you right now so this will be a short entry in the recreational gold panning blog. I'm hoping that my friend Zemanta will be able to help me out with this.
As I have mentioned before I have a very poor typist so I used the Dragon NaturallySpeaking program to do my typing for me. Sometimes this causes strange things to appear on the screen. I'm not too fond of editing so they generally just slipped past me. Sometimes they're good for a laugh though.
My other hobby is sports betting. Let me give you a bet for today this is January 21, 2012 the best thing I can see is in the Montréal Toronto game I would bet to win and I was also bet on under 5.5. If you take this bet let me know how you make out. I guess you don't have to be as I've been on it anyway. But if you win let me know and I will give you another bet. This time of year I only bet on NHL.
Unless you live in New Mexico or Arizona are probably not doing much gold panning anyway. But I would like to ask anyone who is to send me some pictures of your results. I'm always looking for stuff to post and things like that really helped me out.
I have run out of thoughts for now so will add a few links and call it a day.
Links.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
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.
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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.
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.
Image via WikipediaMr 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.
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Prospecting and Exploring for Gold Panning Sites
Image via WikipediaProspecting and exploration that is a search for precious metals deposits is not a simple process because big deposits were discovered a long time ago. There are several places with important content of precious metals waiting for skill prospectors. The large mining companies of the world are focused in big deposits and the small deposits are attractive for small miners and perhaps their interest for gold is the most valuable tool for exploring new deposits.Gold is a very widely disseminated throughout nature and may be found in any geological formation from the oldest rocks to the deposits that are still being formed, but in common with other metals, it is more likely to be found in the oldest rocks and in those places where the earth crust has undergone the most extensive changes such as elevations, folding, tilting, faults, fissuring and also volcanic action, with resulting changes in the composition and texture of the rocks.
The current technology is very important in development new project and exploration of new deposits begins with the selection of a target area. This is followed by reconnaissance exploration in which satellite remote sensing; geological mapping and seismic techniques are used. In turn, this is followed by detailed geophysical studies and later, a detailed drilling, sampling, assaying and mineralogical study. Gold deposits are sought with many techniques, but they are based on geochemical studies. Commonly more than one method is employed. With these methods, the geologist is looking for anomalies. Perhaps, the most important techniques are photogeology and seismic techniques.
Monday, November 8, 2010
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.
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Where Did the Gold Go?
Image via WikipediaI had a really good entry all typed out Ready to go and pressed transfer and it just disappeared.It was all about gold and how it mysteriously disappears. You know what I mean you find a really good Creek. You do a little sampling and it come out good. Now your gold pan only holds a couple of shovelful's so if you can get that much gold in two shovelful's you better go back and get your 5 gallon pails and fill them up.
Up in the morning and down to the creek, out with a shovel and fill the pails. You classify it to a quarter of an inch.
Luke where did you come from? You snuck in there all by yourself did you? You say you're going to pan this batch out? Great, get at it.
One half an hour later... how's it going with you Luke? You're ready for the final cleanup! Let's see what you've got. Lotta black sand in there that's a good sign I think. Give her the final swirl when can let's see what happens.
Excellent! As I was shoveling I was thinking this was cannot be another one of those where did the gold go? Expeditions. I'm sure glad you came along, you probably bought lock with you. Let's get that gold into the bottle. We can probably do a couple more buckets before we leave. The water will be high next week and we will be able comeback to this exact spot so let's get as much done as we can now.
Friday, November 5, 2010
Basic Gold Mining Equipment for Recreational Prospectors
Image via WikipediaGold panning and mining is a great hobby, and the good news is that the basic gold mining equipment for the weekend recreational prospector is not going to cost you a fortune.So if you are hankering to get out there and find some gold for yourself, you can round up your basic gold getting equipment quickly and cheaply.
Online stores can show you the basic gold panning tools you need, and save yourself the trouble of finding a local store that actually stocks such things. Even in gold country, it can take a bit of research to find a store.
So, what are we looking at for the basics?
Obviously, a gold pan. Can't get more basic than that. Gold pans come in different shapes and sizes and features. A real simple little black plastic pan can be had for about three and a half to five dollars, depending on the size. The larger green or blue plastic pans can range from maybe eight dollars up to over twenty, depending on the kind of built in features the pan has - and its size.
One feature that is a must for any good pan is that it have riffles formed into one or more sides of the pan. These make it much easier to retain the gold as the gravel is passed over the lip of the pan in the panning process to reduce the amount of material in the pan.
I recommend the space age durable plastic gold pans over metal pans.
Plastic is lighter, doesn't rust, and is much easier and faster to learn on than the metal pans.
You may already have some of the equipment you need. A sturdy bucket,
like a five gallon one. A digging tool, like a garden shovel or garden trowel. Some people like the small folding GI shovels.
A nifty little gold panning tool is the plastic snuffer bottle. For maybe two or three dollars, you have a little suction device to slurp up the gold that appears in the bottom of your pan.
You might want to use a gold screen, called a classifier, to reduce the size and amount of gravel you will be panning. Placed over the top of your big bucket, you screen out the larger rocks, so your panning material is more concentrated. Your panning is now more efficient and you will lose less gold out of your pan.
Finally, a gold vial in nice for showing off your gold. These can be glass or plastic. With a little water in them, your gold will have a pretty bright color, and you can tantalize your friends with your findings.
One last thing. If you are new to gold panning, it's always a good idea to get good information to help you become more knowledgeable. There are a number of good prospecting books out there that offer great tips and guidelines to make your outdoor gold adventure more fun - and productive.
And that about sums up your basic gold mining equipment needs.
Edwin Brown is a long time chaser of gold in the outdoors. To learn more about how to find gold and see some videos of people getting gold, check out his website at http://goldpanningsupplies.net/
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