more sapphires and gold from the Eldorado Bar Montana

[sapphire miner]

This is the years take for gems and gold on my sapphire and gold mine in Montana.
Check my video on youtube under thegemminer one word.

[kc10bull]

Wow! That is outstanding. How much time did you put in to recover all the material this year?

[marinedad]

that looks good.

[sapphire miner]

The time it took to process through the plant was 37 hours.
The last run was 4.5 hr and I ran 112 yards, 246,400 lbs or 123.2 tons fed into the plant.
What goes in, must come out and be dealt with, so multiply that number by 2, that shows
how much material was moved. That is in and out, not to and from, seems easy but if it
has moving parts, there will be issues!

photo's of some of last years stones cut.

[Montana Fireball]

I was just reading about Eldorado Bar in the book called Montana Pay Dirt. Just goes to show they didn't get it all.

[phantomfinder]

OH OK , I will take all of it
WTG on your mining , you did a super great job

[Bluegrassriver]

That's a great collection from your work. When you say "my mine in Montana" are you talking a privately owned underground mine? If so, that's a dream of mine to have and work one. Do you use a trommel? Did you buy the land and develop the mine?

[sapphire miner]

I am talking private, I have two. I purchased raw land, developed well, pond, and plant.
The smaller property had some old mine tailing's, from long ago. I use a trommel, see video at youtube,
under thegemminer one word. I may be interested in selling a number of undivided interests in the
small mine its 3.6 acres has easy digging, good gold and great views. This would make for great camping areas
and would come with an access to the Missouri River, though not yet developed for boat launch.
This is a placer mine, meaning material was moved here, so no underground work, it's pit and bank mining.
This is not a claim this is real property.

[Urban Grund]

Awesome finds!

[uthunter]

Do you know anyone other than the Yogo that can heat treat sapphires?

We came across a place in 2006 that had sapphires eroding out of the host rock. No claims are on the site, so we went back and collected more than a 5 gallon bucket full. Been slowly cleaning and sizing them to make necklaces for the daughters. They range in sizes of less than 1mm up to just over 1.5 cm, most are in the mid-range sizes.

A friend finally convinced me to act on our find, I want to know what they look like heat treated before I sink a while lot of money into the site. The area that is eroding out covers close to twenty acres.