Miners Moss - Page 2

Not every cloud has a silver lining, no gold what we have is pt and pd.



The good news is that we'll have enough material that will get JM's interest.

he may of meant way instead of wide although somethings come to mind when you hear wide and 49 in the same sentence(like say, waist size or inseam length).

NA,

"wide of 49" is a typo....should be "your side of 49..." is talking about the 49th parallel or the border between Canada and the US. "Princess Auto" is a Canadian chain store kinda like the US Harbor Freight.

I'm assuming Don is a friend who lent Alloy a battery-powered vacuum that turned out to be kinda worn out and wouldn't suck up the sand.

By the way, we haven't heard much from you in the past month or so...we need an update on your scrapyard life!!! Whats the latest adventures?

Jon.

Alloy,

I could be wrong here, but chasing flour gold in the Fraser river, at least in my understanding, is a tough go. You are getting gold particles so small that they weigh less than the sand grains around them and therefore are hard to separate.

Centrifugation is simply increasing gravity on the sand/gold mix, but if the gold particles weigh less than the surrounding (larger) sand grains then putting everything under increased gravity doesn't change much.

It seems to me that pretty much all you can expect is separation into "black sand", which you have already established contains platinum and palladium. (and whatever gold is there, too.) Not sure of the processes necessary to extract beyond that...presumably chemical or heat. And I don't know the economics.

It is probably why not much gold mining is done on the Fraser.

There still seems to be some interest in the Barkerville area, though, where gold still can be found in larger chunks. I'm working in Quesnel for a bit and a guy on the contractor's crew here just quit for the summer to go work his placer lease up towards Barkerville. I had talked to him a bit about it and definitely the gold size is better than the Fraser.

Good luck!! and keep us posted!! As always, your posts are very interesting.

Jon.

Originally Posted by newattitude

Good grief. Can you please decipher this for the tired addled brain? Don who? What?



''Your wide of 49?''

????????? No clue??

Typo, should have read, your side of 49th, that is the International boundary that separates the USA from Canada. In Canada our catch all junk store is Princess Auto, I believe you folks in the US favour ( HF ) Harbour Freight.

I'm told we Canadians talk funny.

Originally Posted by sawmilleng

Alloy,

I could be wrong here, but chasing flour gold in the Fraser river, at least in my understanding, is a tough go. You are getting gold particles so small that they weigh less than the sand grains around them and therefore are hard to separate.

Centrifugation is simply increasing gravity on the sand/gold mix, but if the gold particles weigh less than the surrounding (larger) sand grains then putting everything under increased gravity doesn't change much.

It seems to me that pretty much all you can expect is separation into "black sand", which you have already established contains platinum and palladium. (and whatever gold is there, too.) Not sure of the processes necessary to extract beyond that...presumably chemical or heat. And I don't know the economics.

It is probably why not much gold mining is done on the Fraser.

There still seems to be some interest in the Barkerville area, though, where gold still can be found in larger chunks. I'm working in Quesnel for a bit and a guy on the contractor's crew here just quit for the summer to go work his placer lease up towards Barkerville. I had talked to him a bit about it and definitely the gold size is better than the Fraser.

Good luck!! and keep us posted!! As always, your posts are very interesting.

Jon.

Thanks for the heads up on centrifuges, I have the technical drawings for the HY-G from the small 7 inches baby up to the large 38 inch 40 horse power monster that consumes a whopping 330 gallons of water per minute.

Centrifuges do have their limitations.

I don't mind river sand the Jar on the left is brown mud is gold, I have yet to be filter this out and melt it into a button that I've giving to my daughter on Friday she wants to buy a mac laptop. I don't think the button will cover the full purchase price but that's why girls have dads to pick up the slack.

A few pictures from my Penticton trip, some wild flowers for our female members and some cars for the guys.
Penticton Photos by gelmgren | Photobucket

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Originally Posted by BRASSCATCHER

I see the photography hobby is going well. Nice pics.

Thanks Brasscatcher, as you know I gave all my photography equipment to my daughter. All I had left was my 20 year old Kodak that I use for my occasional ebay listings to take photo's with and I had lost it the other day so I replaced it with a new Samsung Galaxy 2 pocket type camera.

The Samsung camera is a rather impressive little camera, I think it takes better pictures that that Sony A900 my daughter now owns.

Flour gold is doable especially if you head into the flood plain where flour and fine gold get caught up in the grass and tree roots.

About two feet under thé root mass is where your going to find your gold.

Flour canbe carried over to another wetbox with riffles built in to slow the water flow and help settle the flour.

After removing the flour run the dreggs through the centrifuge.

I do not yet have an equipment permit so I have to pack bucketa home