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Good to see you back goldtramp. Thanks for sharing. :thumbsup:

Been hot out there this season. What are you using for flux on your bar pours?

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Good to hear from you GT! Nice chunk!
 

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Hello
What is the weight of each of your fly wheels and what type of "Sheer point" does the fly wheels have?
Thank you for posting the pictures.
 

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Hello
Forgot to ask the shaft size, plate size, and over all weight of the crusher? Are the jaw plates "Hard faced"?
 

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Its a 4x6 burford I think from the 20s, weighs about 400 lbs two thirds of which is fly wheel.
All the other stuff I have no clue, I just throw rocks in the dadgum thing.

Thanks for the interest.
Gt

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You jaw crush smaller then 1/2 inch right? How do you sort through your ore?
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very nice and sure gives me the itch to go mining!! but nowadays so much has become off limits!! and they just keep making more land un-available!! we sure need NEW group in Dc whom are PRO little people!!
 

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I try to only bring home values, so I sample as I dig.

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Washing ore today, here is a couple more shots of the mill stones. See if I can get a couple table pics here today.

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Good plan to bring home just the values to crush. Not many people out there can say they use mill stones to fine crush there ore today. Back a number of years ago used to be common practice.
Is a normal grind section say one day or does it take longer to grind into fines?
This one remembers tumbling rocks to polish lasted weeks to get to a good shine with different grits sizes.
 

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This one is guessing that most of the rock values are to small be picked up by a metal detector except maybe a falcon type pin pointer metal detector. Do you just break open the rocks looking with your eyes for the fine values as you dig? How big are your batch samples that you crush?
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Yeah the arasstra is more of a poor mans tool, kinda slow, but I'm that way now so it works, both slow and poor.
Some pics of the run today tried to finish just got to hot.

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This should give an idea of the grind, it needs one more hour to finish. In the mornin.
doing this from a phone with nubby prospector fingers. Hope it works.

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Yeah the arasstra is more of a poor mans tool, kinda slow, but I'm that way now so it works, both slow and poor.
Some pics of the run today tried to finish just got to hot.

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This should give an idea of the grind, it needs one more hour to finish. In the mornin.


doing this from a phone with nubby prospector fingers. Hope it works.

Gt

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Looks like your batch samples may be up to about a 1/2 - 1 ton of rock. This is a very good sample size that is for sure. Thanks for the pictures.
So you will have a very good idea how much values per ton sample as you are digging around prospecting.
 

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