Some Desert "Pushes" and How to work a Minelab!

[Terry Soloman]

 

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[Lanny in AB]

That really was an interesting video!

Thanks for posting it, and all the best,

Lanny

 

[Jim Hemmingway]

Hi Terry... this was a very interesting, excellent quality video. Nice to get a firsthand look at how things are done by professionals. Thanks for posting it for everyone to see.

Jim.

 

[TerryC]

Small steps... good sweep technique... but a tad too fast for me. Good video! TTC

 

[IMAUDIGGER]

I understand the reasoning for using a metal detector to capture the larger nuggets, which are difficult to separate from the pay gravel (oddly enough).

Maybe I'm not thinking about it long enough, but why detect the material for big nuggets prior to processing it? Seems like if you waited until it was processed twice and only detected the oversized material, you would have significantly less material to detect and it would have gone through enough processes to break up the cemented material. Looked like they were spreading it out afterwards anyway.

The only thing I can think of is that spreading it out is part of a weathering process.

I'm sure there is a good reason and they have already figured out the best process.

 

[Relichunter1]

Great video....nice to watch it over and over again......

 

[TerryC]

I understand the reasoning for using a metal detector to capture the larger nuggets, which are difficult to separate from the pay gravel (oddly enough).

Maybe I'm not thinking about it long enough, but why detect the material for big nuggets prior to processing it? Seems like if you waited until it was processed twice and only detected the oversized material, you would have significantly less material to detect and it would have gone through enough processes to break up the cemented material. Looked like they were spreading it out afterwards anyway.

The only thing I can think of is that spreading it out is part of a weathering process.

I'm sure there is a good reason and they have already figured out the best process.

Spreading out the material for the detectors is a common technique in large operations. Actually, he is not spreading it out as much as he is taking off top layers to detect deeper. Is it possible the guys detecting and the operation are separate entities? The operation can simply load and work the gravels. Quicker. TTC