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...Also keep in mind the real gold is in the production. and the ratings game. how many mcdonalds commercials can be sold, insurance adds and the best new deodorants and car...
Oh and Christopher needs to show at least a little of the replanting/remediation the miners do to clean up after themselves...I know from talking to Freddy Dodge myself that it is happening. The public needs to see that miners are not uncaring Neanderthals.
yes, I know but that's just not good enough ...I have higher standards than thatThey did cover it in an episode of The Dirt.
Totals I'd really like to see:
What parker and his buddy got after the lights went off.
They showed a shot of Fred's new hole, supposedly caving in, but it sure did look like a shot of the old glory hole. Haha.
And they never did show the hole caving in by the creek!
Tony Beets turned into bullying Parker, just because he could. That shows a lack of character.
And I was not impressed with the few tiny little diamonds Toad showed.
yes, I know but that's just not good enough ...I have higher standards than that
Exactly! That's the story we need told!I will say the guys have been begging the producers to cover the reclamation they do. They want a focus on reclamation on the show because yeah any mining operation looks like hell while its happening. freaks out people and they don't understand that after the top soil is put back on it improves the land, particularly in the yukon. So I got a personal tour of one mine int he yukon and yes. The hole of the current operation...looked like a bomb went off. However the places where the ground was reclaimed 25 years after mining was done. willow and raspberry and aspen were so thick you had to walk around except where the bears and moose pushed though. And the berries tasted really good too! Also. You have to watch out because the bears like the berries that grow in the tilled soil. the old tailing and settling ponds attract moose and a whole range of wild life and provide food and habitat. And even more after these areas are mined the local first nations people suddenly claim the areas as ancestral hunting grounds because the animals they hunt that are sacred are guess where...yeah. the old mine works because it creates habitat. So of course its ancestral hunting ground! Very inconvenient truths for those who are haters of mining. Or close there eyes to the facts. The Canadians however have figured this out. They understand you can have a balance of mining and nature and native peoples that is beneficial for everyone. Everyone wins. miners get gold. Nature gets habitat, Native peoples get to hunt and follow traditions, and government gets money and taxes...win win win.
that sluice was designed by Freddy Dodge and he knows how to catch fine gold...he makes a living on it. I think the failure was in using water that was too loaded with sediment so the fine gold didn't drop thru it into the mats. Just my theory from watching the show of course. Sad truth was that Freddy wasn't around when they were finally running the gold paydirt (so he couldn't sort it out for them) and I think they just don't know enough about mining. Sad but true.The answer is kind of obvious as to why they were not recovering much gold. You are not dealing with coarse gold but fine. Their monster high water velocity sluice washed it all away. Works just fine in the Yukon- washing all the fine gold way just to catch the coarse but Guyana was different. George
Agreed. One thing Freddy does well is catch fine gold. The biggest problem with the mud down there. like any mud in a gold operation is balls of clay will stick to and carry away gold. And the fact that Freddy was not able to be down there to double check that is a contributing factor. flow rates. Angle, water quality. Gold quality. all of these things are contributing factors. Most of what they were running was mud. clay and very little rock. They needed more fresh water in my opinion. The stones they got were big enough to be caught in the equipment. The ground is different from the experience they gained in the Yukon.that sluice was designed by Freddy Dodge and he knows how to catch fine gold...he makes a living on it. I think the failure was in using water that was too loaded with sediment so the fine gold didn't drop thru it into the mats. Just my theory from watching the show of course. Sad truth was that Freddy wasn't around when they were finally running the gold paydirt (so he couldn't sort it out for them) and I think they just don't know enough about mining. Sad but true.