Prospectors Forum

[Curtman]

Is there any support for a prospecting sub forum in the GIM crowd?
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[crazychicken]

It wouldn't hurt my feelings any.

Good idea, my gram of silvers-worth.

[Curtman]

You are in Nevada, do you mine or prospect there? I am coming that way this summer with my kids on another 3 month adventure.

[crazychicken]

I am in Winnemucca, about 160 miles north of Reno. When you firm up your travel dates let me know.

Are you going to be camping?

It would be great to introduce you to the high desert.

[Curtman]

The Mpeg is 26 megs, you will see it best with DSL or another high speed connection.

Gold Basin Mine (http://www.golddredgervideo.com/prospecting/goldbasin05.wmv)

A mining operation compliments of golddrerdgevideo .com

[crazychicken]

Curtman,
We manufacture our metals recovery equipment just outside of Winnemucca.

My minesite is about thirty miles out. Very remote, although a very good secondary road right to it. 8,500' elevation.

The material in my avatar came from that mine. One nugget in that pile is 9.77 grams. If you want to use a metal detector or pan you and your children are welcome. Camping the same thing. Again, very remote, NO passersby.

At night you feel like you can touch the stars.

You can keep any nuggetts you find unless you get one over two and a half pounds--That one we split.

[Shorty_Harris]

Is there any support for prospecting forum? dont know, but i still have a pan or 2 sitting around.

[Curtman]

Thanks Crazychicken, I will take you up on this some time this summer when we get through your area. I am used to remote in fact I prefer it.

[Ragnarok]

I think a prospecting forum is a good idea. I like recreational "rockhounding" but don't get to do it nearly as much as I'd like to. There is something special about finding a crystal or chunk or nugget of more than just plain rock in the wild.

I'm familiar with panning for gold where there's water, but what clues does one look for in dry areas that might indicate a likely spot? Are the principles the same? I know "thar's gold in them thar (desert) hills", but I wouldn't know where to start looking, unless in dry stream beds. :dontknow:

Ragnarok

[J.D.Rockinfeller]

All kinds of gold out in the hills by me ...especially in the Gros venture area..........the forum is a great idea,imo.

[crazychicken]

JDRock
We are starting a project in the Billings area later this year.

Lots of fine gold.

[G-khan]

Wait until gold hits 1,000 an oz - we will have another Gold rush...

[J.D.Rockinfeller]

JDRock
We are starting a project in the Billings area later this year.

Lots of fine gold.

:thumbs up :thumbs up

right you are G-K...better get ahead of the crowd:cool2: now if only I knew the first thing about prospecting......:eek:

[crazychicken]

From a mining standpoint the new gold rush is in micro-fine gold. The "float gold" that washes off the top of sluice boxes and spirals. The sub-micron material.

Lots of it out there.

The increased Au prices certainly are helping. A bunch.

[dust_bunny]

I watch that prospecting show on the outdoor channel once in a while

[Book]

Is there any support for a prospecting sub forum in the GIM crowd? -Curtman

I would encourage it. Two days ago I copied G-khan's FAQs about CS and also copied his "recommended" CS gizmo for purchase. My co-worker asked about the 9-volt scheme and GIM provided the better advice. Go for the Prospector section too!
:smile:

[Curtman]

Crazychicken, do you guys haul the ore to another location or do you have crusher pulverizer and do your own heap leach system there? I would realy like to take a tour of the process from the rock to the dore.

Admin, thanks for the sub forum.

[Ash_Williams]

There's no gold where I live, 'cept the stuff in garbage electronics. Once we're at $1000/oz I'll have a lot of Ebay auctions for scrap computer parts.

[crazychicken]

Curtman:
My operation in Nevada is a placer operation. "Mudbreaking" and screening for +1/8" values is done mechanically at the mine.

The 100% passing 8 mesh is transported offsite for batch digestion. There are very good values in what used to be called "tailings". The metals are all put into "ionic soup" and the desired metal ions are selectively recovered by solvent extraction/liquid-liquid separation methods developed by us.

Au is directly recovered as metal and PGMs recovered as appropriate.

The privately owned metals recovery plants of my design have an instantaneous market for the recovered values.

[crazychicken]

Cousi:
Our computer demanufacturing plant in Ohio deals exclusively in computers and e-scrap. It does no ore or concentrates.

It is a quite profitable stand-alone. Doing computers and other e-scrap is sort of like being Jesse James without having to use a gun.

I had started a thread some time ago about alternative methods of accumulating PMs.

[Ardent Listener]

Cousi:
Our computer demanufacturing plant in Ohio deals exclusively in computers and e-scrap. It does no ore or concentrates.

It is a quite profitable stand-alone. Doing computers and other e-scrap is sort of like being Jesse James without having to use a gun.

I had started a thread some time ago about alternative methods of accumulating PMs.

Alternative methods of accumulating PMs really is modern prospecting. And we can even do it here in Ohio.:smile:

I heard there is silver in old washing machines. If true, where?

[crazychicken]

The amount of silver in washing machines would be relatively minimal. Newer ones possibly circuit boards, all of them in the electrical contacts. But not any home run in our experience.

[MoonChakka]

I mine my local banks for little one cent nuggets of copper. That's sort of like prospecting.

Ok, not really. :Sorry:

:cheerful:

There are no hills around here, but sometimes I borrow my wife's metal detector and head to the beach or a local park. Could metal detecting be included in a prospecting forum?

[loomanite]

I live in the Sierra foothills, about 30 miles from the gold discovery location that resulted in the California gold rush. I'm guessing as the price increases we will see a lot more activity along the banks of our local rivers and streams. I may have to get some exercise this summer, seeing if I can "strike it rich" or at least get a pretty good workout........

[goldminer]

I'd sure be interested in a gold prospecting forum....also gemstones if anyone's interested. Have been at the weekend Au "chase" for nearly 40 years. There's a lot of it out there. It's scattered but VERY easy to find. The challenge is finding colors in concentrations that make it economicaly viable to separate out.

Folks would be surprised at how widely gold is distributed. In the U.S. I believe it's been found in all but 2 states: Kentucky and Hawaii....and I may be wrong about KY....it may have some "trace" colors? I predominently dredge: no shovel! But also power and hand-suice and pan...but mostly use a pan for sampling and clean-ups.

In dry country a guy can either use a good metal detector, something called a "dry washer", dry-pan, tote in water, or tote what are believed to be good materials to water. In dry country the ole'-timers used to "winnow". This is a process where two or more prospectors classify (screen out rocks and gravels) materials and put 'em on a blanked or other cloth. They then each grab a corner and on a windy day, use the blanket to toss the materials up into the wind that blows off the lighter stuff and leaves the heavies (including Au) to fall down on the blanket where the colors can more easily recovered from any far lessor amount of what "light"'s remain.

[satori85]

At night you feel like you can touch the stars.


THATS AWESOME! Im an "amature" astronomer (hate that word) and i have to deal with light polution here. I have thought about moving to nevada or arizona to deal with this, and i have always thought about mining for gold lol, a dream i guess.

[goldminer]

I call it "the great chase". For me it's like letting the "kid" come out and play in the dirt, the mud, and the water...and hunt Easter eggs, all at the same time. Great exercise, fresh air, camaraderie, teaching and learning, and enjoying the great outdoors. Ah....the great chase!

[Curtman]

I got my detector today from UPS. I wll post a picture of it after supper.

[Curtman]

I been out in the yard trying to figure it out but no gold in my yard it seems.
:character It's kind of dark in my woods this time of day, sorry for the dark pictures. I will take more tomorrow.

[silverwood]

Hey Curtman, good luck nugget hunting, dry stream beds that show color would be where the action is. I never found a gold nugget with my old Compass metal detector(1980s vintage) but I did find a beautiful 1861 US $1 gold coin. :proud: