Gold reef under an alluvial cut

[pczim]

Hi all, thought I would share this. On one of my claims we had previous workings by a mining company who were mining alluvial gold with an excavator and a wash plant. They did not work for long there, they moved off saying the grades were not so good.

A couple of years later I decided to spend some time on the ground there and bingo found a huge reef, not the best grades but around 4g per ton but thanks to the ground being opened up, it is some of the easiest mining I have done. Check the size of the reef...(some of these are before and afters, think I had better fix one of my ball mills)

 

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[SaltwaterServr]

You pulling a decent profit at 4 gpt? How many tons are you moving a day?

 

[pczim]

You pulling a decent profit at 4 gpt? How many tons are you moving a day?

At 4g per ton make around a gram per ton profit and another half gram profit or so when I treat the sands. Right now in full production im doing around 60-90 tons a day depending on the rock and breakdowns.

This is a low grade reef. I have other claims that produce, less tonnage but much higher grades. We are very small scale still.

 

[gold tramp]

At 4g per ton make around a gram per ton profit and another half gram profit or so when I treat the sands. Right now in full production im doing around 60-90 tons a day depending on the rock and breakdowns.

This is a low grade reef. I have other claims that produce, less tonnage but much higher grades. We are very small scale still.

Can you get some mill pics would like to see what a working 60 ton a day mill op looks like.
How many guys workin thats a lot of rock to mine n move n mill.
4 grm per ton paydays must be skinny for all .
Gt....

 

[pczim]

Can you get some mill pics would like to see what a working 60 ton a day mill op looks like.
How many guys workin thats a lot of rock to mine n move n mill.
4 grm per ton paydays must be skinny for all .
Gt....

Here is a picture of my main production site, I transport the ore from the working claims to be milled at this site. I have another smaller mobile milling unit also consisting of 2 diesel powered hammer mills. You can see my ball mill and Small CIP plant on the left. Richer ore goes through the ball mill and straight into the CIP plant so the sands can be treated at the same time as the ore. I’m in the process of fixing up another ball mill for this site.

 

[gold tramp]

Here is a picture of my main production site, I transport the ore from the working claims to be milled at this site. I have another smaller mobile milling unit also consisting of 2 diesel powered hammer mills. You can see my ball mill and Small CIP plant on the left. Richer ore goes through the ball mill and straight into the CIP plant so the sands can be treated at the same time as the ore. I’m in the process of fixing up another ball mill for this site.
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Is that an oldtimer mill site all the concrete remnants.
Gt...

 

[pczim]

Is that an oldtimer mill site all the concrete remnants.
Gt...

Nope I think you are looking at bits of concrete leach tanks and dump...

 

[StreamlineGold]

You using stamp mills?

 

[pczim]

You using stamp mills?

Yes and ball mill