Remote Prospecting

[geowizard]

Hi Guys and gals, fellow prospectors,

Gold prices are at history setting high levels! Now is the time to get out and get going! Right?

Get going where, Geowizard?

There are thousands of NEW GOLD discoveries that have been revealed over the recent past several decades in Alaska! The State of Alaska has been surveying every mining district with an airborne metal detector known as DIGHEM. Search the Forum for DIGHEM to get more details. I have been involved for twelve years seeking NEW Gold and Silver deposits that have never been discovered. They are in many cases REMOTE. Having never been discovered, there was no reason to build a road! There are many challenges for a Remote Prospector!

I would like to open discussion on the topic!

- Geowizard

 

[Mine Shaft]

Yes test sample I can do bring the gravel home and process it.

 

[Assembler]

Good idea Assembler maybe dig a good 1-3 feet under it that sucker ain't going no where lol. I guess now is a good time seance the Water is not flowing in the River just got to stock pile it on the bank and wait for winter storms to come.

Outside of fire season in the dead of winter perhaps you can drag a gas-powered pressure washer in next to the boulder and jet some test holes under the boulder to look for colors. A wet suit could be useful for the operation.

 

[Mine Shaft]

No gas power alloyed.

 

[Mine Shaft]

Well don't want to tread on the OP's page to much. Thanks for your info

 

[geowizard]

"Bolder" solution:

We need to be bolder than the Boulders! Using light weight to hefty cargo straps, Block and Tackle, chains, rope, and winches will provide a no gas needed solution. A Cargo net can work wonders combined with multiplication of force. Tie off points may be trees or larger boulders.

An ordinary cable come-along even with a short cable will do a lot of low cost heavy lifting, dragging and rolling.

- Geowizard

 

[Assembler]

"Bolder" solution:

We need to be bolder than the Boulders! Using light weight to hefty cargo straps, Block and Tackle, chains, rope, and winches will provide a no gas needed solution. A Cargo net can work wonders combined with multiplication of force. Tie off points may be trees or larger boulders.

An ordinary cable come-along even with a short cable will do a lot of low cost heavy lifting, dragging and rolling.

- Geowizard

The use of winches out in remote areas is critical to help move boulders to find out what is under it.
Block and tackle, chains, rope are needed for the process for a safe move.

 

[signal_line]

Outside of fire season in the dead of winter perhaps you can drag a gas-powered pressure washer in next to the boulder and jet some test holes under the boulder to look for colors. A wet suit could be useful for the operation.

Maybe a steam boiler. Years ago they injected steam into the ground to thaw it so they could work. I saw some photo there many of the steam pipes in rows.

 

[Assembler]

Maybe a steam boiler. Years ago they injected steam into the ground to thaw it so they could work. I saw some photo there many of the steam pipes in rows.

Working unfrozen ground is important. So injected steam will work.

 

[Mine Shaft]

"Bolder" solution:

We need to be bolder than the Boulders! Using light weight to hefty cargo straps, Block and Tackle, chains, rope, and winches will provide a no gas needed solution. A Cargo net can work wonders combined with multiplication of force. Tie off points may be trees or larger boulders.

An ordinary cable come-along even with a short cable will do a lot of low cost heavy lifting, dragging and rolling.

- Geowizard

Thank you for the info. I might try the come-along I can manage that.

 

[geowizard]

I have moved heaven and earth with come-alongs! Takes patience and getting the act of switching the latch on the winch synchronized with the desired direction. Combined with straps and cargo nets a come-along is a beginning to "bigger and better" boulder movers!

"If it weren't for physics, I could do anything!"

- Geowizard

 

[geowizard]

Snatch blocks are handier than a shirt pocket!

They're getting harder to find but multiple pulley snatch blocks and tackle can multiply force at the cost of multiple cable runs around multiple pulley blocks.

Tripods:

Tripods can be used to work in lifting applications. Thinking ginpoles on old school wrecker trucks, etc. A ginpole mounted on a pickup front or rear is synonymous with pockets on cargo pants!

Gin pole - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Ed note: Added link.

- Geowizard

 

[geowizard]

Hydraulic jacks;

From small bottle jacks that can lift 4 tons to beefy 40 ton jacks, these can become the "coup de grace" in the life (or death) of a Remote Prospector!

Safety tip:

I avoid becoming a victim by using jack stands or other rocks to "support the load"!

Nothing worse than getting an arm, hand, leg, etc caught in a mouse trap and not being able to self-rescue! Then having to offer a visiting bear your last ham sandwich!

Ed note: Revised wording "coup de grace" means the end...

- Geowizard

 

[signal_line]

Working unfrozen ground is important. So injected steam will work.

I did some reading on it and they used up all the wood to heat the boilers in a couple years so they figured out just injecting air was warm enough to thaw the ground.

 

[geowizard]

Interesting;

Signal_line could you, please share "where" you found that info?

- Geowizard

 

[signal_line]

 

[geowizard]

signal line,

I have seen "steam points" used in the Arctic on the surface. It should have been obvious that they would be used underground too!

Steam and steam power are remarkable forms of energy in frigid, frozen areas with frigid, frozen ground! Thanks for sharing!

- Geowizard