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Willy said:Yup, if your setup is self contained and recirculating there's no problem save for: 1) To run any significant amount of material, you'll need some honkin' holding tanks and somewhere to dispose of the tailings/muddy water.
2) you gotta watch out for that riparian zone (crock of $h**) which extends 30 horizontal meters from the high water mark.. can't mine it. Another thing to be wary of is that there are often conflicting regs between the ministry of mines and DFO. In such cases, DFO comes out the winner and ignorance of this fact is no excuse in their eyes. I don't want to sound like a puling ninny, but I can't afford to lose my truck, mining equipment, or money (big fines possible).
I know that a person can just walk up to a stream an plunk in a sluice and probably get away with it (many do).. until they get caught. Considering the amount of gold most people end up getting (and all the hard work involved), it's kinda like trying to make a living by ripping off 7 Elevens. ..Willy.
Willy said:You can save yourself a lot of grief by getting a couple or 3 classifier screens (1/2", 1/4", 1/8") and classify a 5 gal buckets worth.. then pan it out. Throw the tailings to the side and run a detector over it later on.. just in case there's a big 'ol nugget resting within. That and using something like a Garrett supersluice pan can result in quite good production. ..Willy.
Willy said:What are the detectors? I've got an old X-100 (1980's) that can still beat the pants off many a newer detector.. some high dollar indeed. A lot of people think you need the newest and shiniest detector on the block to do well; I pulled out around $6000 in gold (when it was going for $285 oz) with a Fisher CZ6a a few years ago.. beating out 2 minelab SD2200d's, a Goldmaster 4b, AU52, GB1, and a gold Stinger. Found all of this in less than a week of searching. ..Willy.
Willy said:If you go for Tesoro, try to get one with ED 180 disc. I have a feeling that the ED 90, 120, 160 disc. can probably changed over to ED 180, but getting hold of the info is rather difficult. Yet again, I'll get on my hobbyhorse and tout some of the benefits of getting an older detector; the main one being price. I picked up my X-100 for abt $150 US (after shipping and taxes) and it has the performance of a $1000 detector. The big thing is, it's HOT on gold. I think that that is one of the reasons you don't see many of those old Compass detectors for sale. Operating at 13.6 KHz (somewhere around there) makes them good on gold. Same with the older Tesoros which operate at 12KHz. Look at the MXT (abt 14 KHz) and the new Fisher F75 (abt.13 KHz) or the Tesoro Vaquero (13 or 14KHz). . all hot on gold. In regards to test nuggets and such, peel off a tiny bit of lead. Make it really small, 1 or 2 grains, and if your detectorcan see it.. you'll have a whizz-bang nuggetshooter. just make sure that, if you're testing in AM mode, it's in the motion AM mode. ...Willy.
Willy said:Yup, if your setup is self contained and recirculating there's no problem save for: 1) To run any significant amount of material, you'll need some honkin' holding tanks and somewhere to dispose of the tailings/muddy water. 2) you gotta watch out for that riparian zone (crock of $h**) which extends 30 horizontal meters from the high water mark.. can't mine it. Another thing to be wary of is that there are often conflicting regs between the ministry of mines and DFO. In such cases, DFO comes out the winner and ignorance of this fact is no excuse in their eyes. I don't want to sound like a puling ninny, but I can't afford to lose my truck, mining equipment, or money (big fines possible). I know that a person can just walk up to a stream an plunk in a sluice and probably get away with it (many do).. until they get caught. Considering the amount of gold most people end up getting (and all the hard work involved), it's kinda like trying to make a living by ripping off 7 Elevens. ..Willy.