Gold Mining with the trommel.wmv

Some more winter fun. This video was taken in November 2009. I just finally got around to putting it together. Fitst we came in with a backhoe and set the trommel in place. Then since they say you find gold in your own back yard we dug down. We found bedrock at 12 feet and it was covered with visable fine gold. I scraped some of the bottom material into a gold pan and it covered the bottom of the pan with 60 to 100mesh gold. This sample hole assayed out at 1.6ozt per ton on bedrock. Definitely profitable. We estimate that there is well over 100 oz down there with a varying depth from 14ft on the North to 3 ft of overburden up on the South side. We also panned directly outside of the door on bedrock is 3" below the surface and found gold in every sample hole. Lots of fun and it has been keeping us busy.

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[ReedLukens]

Thanks 8°) we actually have removeable bars now & the conveyer is still in the works. This video was of our first test run when we were starting the learning curve in 2009, there is more to come. It is now mounted on a trailer, it has been modified a lot more, there is a Mackirk Long Tom sluice box that scalps the heavies as the first part of the recovery. We are setting up to run all of the -20 straight from the sluoce into a small falcon consentrater. This winters little project is ausom, hehe

[ReedLukens]

Actually we are not using that centrifuge anymore. We have the sluice set up with more water and then eventually we will add in or Falcon consentrator. It is still in the finishing process but the sluice works excellent.

[scatts38]

put grizzly bars ontop of the feed chute to seperate the oversize rock .

[tausenti]

This looks great, nice little setup

[wardbros]

Great video Reed...are you still using the centrifuge or have you moved to a sluice?



[wildirishman21]

Very interesting set up. I need something like that when I get into gold country. I live in Michigan...

[Redpaw2011]

Excellent, would like to see more.

[OutsideTheEdge]

Very nice video and info. I need to look into the centrifuge more and it was nice you took some time to show and explain how it works. Thanks and wish you lots of luck :)