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My name is luke,
I'm a 22 year old paratrooper on active duty with 3 years left on my contract with the army. I'm a total greenpan. At first I was just thinking of buying a reserve of gold to hedge my savings against inflation, but after some research discovered that for a relatively modest amount of overhead I could invest in the equipment that is used to pull it out of the ground, and then simply keep what I pan. Granted, it's going to be a while before I would turn a profit, but I'm patient enough to wait for the flakes to add up... And I have a few very novel set of idea's I think might actually change the prospecting game.
The first is a patent pending concept that I'm currently building the first prototype for. Its an all-in-one backpack mounted solar/battery powered, submersible dredge and sluice system. It works by lining the inside of the 3", 4" or 6" x20' suction hose ( made of reinforced, corrugated, and transparent PVC tubing) with several layers of miners moss and expanded metal, and then winding it into several s-folds and p-traps (all folded on top of each other and mounted on an alice frame) to trap heavy minerals before flowing into a centrifugal pump chamber at the bottom of the frame; which then expels the remaining light sediment directly back into the river bed, severely reducing the amount of turbidity and risk to endangered fish populations. The biggest advantage of this design is that by putting the sluice inside the hose of the dredge it is completely self contained and no bigger or heavier than an extra large military rucksack (100-170 lbs), meaning that a two or three man team (one to carry the system, two to carry a couple day's or week's supplies) can quickly access, prospect and dredge an area at a rate of 8-16 yards per hour in extremely remote areas that normal pontoon dredges that have to be thrown in the bed of a truck just can't get too. Since the power source is a solar panel theres no gas tank or spare gas to carry, further reducing weight. only trouble so far is finding a fully submersible electric or battery powered motor that can generate 5-7 horsepower and move 300-450 gallons per minute. slurry pumps are rather expensive and I've been renting different ones to see how they work. all of which are not designed to intake through PVC. And finally, I'm playing with the idea of adjustable pump rates so it can pick up other valuable minerals with different specific gravities like gemstones, silver, platinum, palladium, tin, copper, and the like. (speaking of which how do you recognize those in their raw forms? any recommendations on reading material or identification guides? no sense in throwing out something that glitters just because it's not gold.) Any input or advice would be greatly appreciated.
The other idea is to use several of these systems (after the design has had all the bugs worked out, and I've gained several years experience) in an expedition I'm planning to takhar province, afghanistan. This area has the richest untapped placer gold deposits in the world (I think some soviet estimates in the mid 80's where at over a 100$ a sq meter, but since the area hasn't been all too safe in the past 60 years, the few number large and lumbering corporate dinosaur like ventures that managed to attempt mining there have had a dismal failure rates, but I believe a small highly mobile crew can work the richest deposits which are a short 5 mile hike on foot from the tajikistan border and stay ahead of local dangers by maneuvering mostly at night.) I'm going to use the next three years to plan the details and recruit an experienced 12-15 man crew for this expedition, merging my contacts in the airborne and special operations community to provide security, while bringing in the best geologists and dredging/mining experts I can find to help in site selection. In order to save on overhead costs I might consider letting a network like the discovery channel film the adventure on the condition they not release any footage or news about the team until after we've all left the country safely.
I know all this may sound far fetched, and overly ambitious, and very dangerous for a young man who hasn't cleaned up his first con yet, but I've been to those parts before and the uzbeck locals there are several orders of magnitude more friendly than their pushtun countrymen to the south and east. I intend to make it a successful and profitable reality (and come back safely) by 2020. Again any input or advice I can use to improve on the concept is greatly appreciated.
thank you for reading
I'm a 22 year old paratrooper on active duty with 3 years left on my contract with the army. I'm a total greenpan. At first I was just thinking of buying a reserve of gold to hedge my savings against inflation, but after some research discovered that for a relatively modest amount of overhead I could invest in the equipment that is used to pull it out of the ground, and then simply keep what I pan. Granted, it's going to be a while before I would turn a profit, but I'm patient enough to wait for the flakes to add up... And I have a few very novel set of idea's I think might actually change the prospecting game.
The first is a patent pending concept that I'm currently building the first prototype for. Its an all-in-one backpack mounted solar/battery powered, submersible dredge and sluice system. It works by lining the inside of the 3", 4" or 6" x20' suction hose ( made of reinforced, corrugated, and transparent PVC tubing) with several layers of miners moss and expanded metal, and then winding it into several s-folds and p-traps (all folded on top of each other and mounted on an alice frame) to trap heavy minerals before flowing into a centrifugal pump chamber at the bottom of the frame; which then expels the remaining light sediment directly back into the river bed, severely reducing the amount of turbidity and risk to endangered fish populations. The biggest advantage of this design is that by putting the sluice inside the hose of the dredge it is completely self contained and no bigger or heavier than an extra large military rucksack (100-170 lbs), meaning that a two or three man team (one to carry the system, two to carry a couple day's or week's supplies) can quickly access, prospect and dredge an area at a rate of 8-16 yards per hour in extremely remote areas that normal pontoon dredges that have to be thrown in the bed of a truck just can't get too. Since the power source is a solar panel theres no gas tank or spare gas to carry, further reducing weight. only trouble so far is finding a fully submersible electric or battery powered motor that can generate 5-7 horsepower and move 300-450 gallons per minute. slurry pumps are rather expensive and I've been renting different ones to see how they work. all of which are not designed to intake through PVC. And finally, I'm playing with the idea of adjustable pump rates so it can pick up other valuable minerals with different specific gravities like gemstones, silver, platinum, palladium, tin, copper, and the like. (speaking of which how do you recognize those in their raw forms? any recommendations on reading material or identification guides? no sense in throwing out something that glitters just because it's not gold.) Any input or advice would be greatly appreciated.
The other idea is to use several of these systems (after the design has had all the bugs worked out, and I've gained several years experience) in an expedition I'm planning to takhar province, afghanistan. This area has the richest untapped placer gold deposits in the world (I think some soviet estimates in the mid 80's where at over a 100$ a sq meter, but since the area hasn't been all too safe in the past 60 years, the few number large and lumbering corporate dinosaur like ventures that managed to attempt mining there have had a dismal failure rates, but I believe a small highly mobile crew can work the richest deposits which are a short 5 mile hike on foot from the tajikistan border and stay ahead of local dangers by maneuvering mostly at night.) I'm going to use the next three years to plan the details and recruit an experienced 12-15 man crew for this expedition, merging my contacts in the airborne and special operations community to provide security, while bringing in the best geologists and dredging/mining experts I can find to help in site selection. In order to save on overhead costs I might consider letting a network like the discovery channel film the adventure on the condition they not release any footage or news about the team until after we've all left the country safely.
I know all this may sound far fetched, and overly ambitious, and very dangerous for a young man who hasn't cleaned up his first con yet, but I've been to those parts before and the uzbeck locals there are several orders of magnitude more friendly than their pushtun countrymen to the south and east. I intend to make it a successful and profitable reality (and come back safely) by 2020. Again any input or advice I can use to improve on the concept is greatly appreciated.
thank you for reading
