Hey guys, need help for a beginner

[camoga]

I have some questions if you guys don't mind.

For those that are hard rock mining:

When you crush your ore how fine do you get it?
Which methods do you use? (jaw crusher, mortar and pestle, rod mill, or rock crusher like rjcrusher)
If you know about the Gold Cube do you believe it can handle finely crushed ore to form my concentrate?
I posted some sample ore from my site, was wondering if you could tell me anything about them

The process I am interested in using is Jaw Crusher, rod mill, followed by the Gold Cube.

If anybody knows of where I could get plans on building a jaw crusher and rod mill I would be great full. I would like to process 2 tons a day.

Thanks once again
Sam

 

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I have some questions if you guys don't mind.

For those that are hard rock mining: View attachment 762652View attachment 762653View attachment 762654

When you crush your ore how fine do you get it?
Which methods do you use? (jaw crusher, mortar and pestle, rod mill, or rock crusher like rjcrusher)
If you know about the Gold Cube do you believe it can handle finely crushed ore to form my concentrate?
I posted some sample ore from my site, was wondering if you could tell me anything about them

The process I am interested in using is Jaw Crusher, rod mill, followed by the Gold Cube.

If anybody knows of where I could get plans on building a jaw crusher and rod mill I would be great full. I would like to process 2 tons a day.

Thanks once again
Sam

If you got 2 tons a day to run you better get something better than a home built jaw crush, crushing tons of rock all day is not childs play.
2 tons a day thats a lot work even for a pilot mill to handle, i dont know what a gold cube is but i doubt it would handle 2 tons of hardrock cons, thats a lot of slurry,
heres an idea of our pilot mill.
Three phase diesl genarator, 2 15 hp elec motors plus the 4 small motors wich required a step down transformer,
8 inch jaw crushed material to 1/8, material drop down into a double set of rolls weighing about 200lbs each wich pulverized down give or take 1/16, droping to an elevator feed that filled the rod hopper, then was screw fed into a rod pickup hopper where water is introduced into the system.

rod mill is 3' x 8' has aprox 25 1 1/2 in solid steel rods 8' long, ground 1/16 to slurry and gravity takes over, it flows from the tailpipe into a mixing tube where water is added again, next it feeds an 4' monel steel spiral where the course heavys are scalped,
from there it fed a rp4 wave table then out to a 60' x 20' tail pond.

Im not even going to get into the finishing process.
thats basically what youll need for 2 ton a day run, and a crew to run your machine.
we were rarely ever able to run more than a ton a day with this size machine you see in the pictures i dont have close ups but you can get an idea of the size of things

dont have plans but you get the basics i hope
goodluck

 

[camoga]

Thank you for your time in answering my questions. I hope I did not sound too much like a beginner but I guess I am, have been trying to read as much as I can
When I mentioned the Jaw crusher I did not plan on building it myself, one of my neighbors has a shop and he made himself one and was going to me make one too but I wanted to see what other people had. Manual labor here is cheap so most small miners break down the rock by hand until it is around 1 inch then use this medieval style of set up which has four huge rocks rotating in a small pit crushing the rocks. I just wanted a quicker process.

So I went to the mine where I am going to get my material and it did not look like I imagined. It is a small open pit mine. At the bottom it was filling with water and the material was small and loose. One of the workers scoped up some material from a vein that looked like course salt and it broke apart just as easily. He panned a small part and found gold. So now I am thinking that maybe I should use a sluice. Weird thing is we are about 14 meters above sea level and the nearest river is about 20 km away.
here are pictures. If you have any ideas Of how I should proceed let me know.
Thanks once again.

 

[AlwaysBusyJ]

Don't know much about rock crushing, but I do have a Gold cube. It will work with material up to 1/8" but the smaller the better. I've heard of people running well over a ton of material through it with no problems. But I would imagine if you plan on running two tons or more everyday you could probably find something thats a little more suited for the job. Don't have much advice for you since I usually only deal with 2-3 five gallon buckets worth of material. The Cube could probably work for you, but I'd look for other options.

Now if you want to work down in the pit, you could simply classify the loose material and dump it right into the gold cube, and that might work pretty well. Plus you would be left with just a tiny amount of cons to carry out of the pit to pan out. I heard gold cube also started offering a "gold banker" unit that you don't have to classify with at all just shovel directly into it. If you have enough small material, might be worth a try.

 

[camoga]

Thanks I will look into it.