Hard rock busting at weak points

[Timmy Tom]

I am wandering if you bust up rock with a commercial rock plant. Would the rock break anywhere in the rock or break in the vein material spots? Assuming these spots are weaker? I have 3 gallons of rock dust to pan through tomorrow and just curious about the fracture area.

TT

 

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[Timmy Tom]

Fat fingers.

 

[Reed Lukens]

Yes & usually it also explodes or shatters. Rock plant? You mean just for crushed like ¾ and not powdered right?

 

[Timmy Tom]

Well, this quarry is in a side of a hill and have a deep pit. They sell wheel barrow rock down to crusher dust which has a few 1/4 inch pieces in it. My friend works there and has told me about different things he has found. Iron pyrite, fossils of trees, a copper looking specimen and a few other odd things. I am not in a gold producing area. I have been told of a man that started a portable rock crushing operation in Kansas. He realized that there was micro gold in rock so he put carpet in his rig to catch some of the gold. He went to Texas a few years later and found micro gold there as well. He was getting enough gold to pay for the electricity to run his plant. I ran half a gallon so far and found iron pyrite and some heavy micro sands but its super tiny. Thank you.

TT