Jomsa Prospecting

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And here be the finale of the season on my primary claim at Lemmenjoki :

 

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So continuing with my prospecting at my second claim at NE Finland... not much found, but telling stories about previous gold nuggies i've found about 20 years ago.

 

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And so ends the season 2022 at NE Finland.

 

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So we built a new dryland sluicebox for my Lemmenjoki operation. Very curious contraption, not sure will it work, but... should be better than what i now have.


And of course i had to get it to the claim also, that ofc means snowmobile time. Driving thru some 30km of Finnish taiga.


I hope you find these at least a bit entertaining.

 

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Oh wow.. Season has started again. Here is extended trip to the mine during summer time. Shows all of the methods of transportation i must take to reach my claim :

 

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And we finally got into some sluicing action...

 

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So while we were digging down to have a drain for our pit, we struck some more gold :

 

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So we were after fabled clay layer above bedrock but were just not finding it. Just few random pieces of clay with some gold in it :

 

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Decided to do vid about my personal "old times".. been at this stuff quite a while so decided to make a vid where i go thru some old gold hunts of mine :

 

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While finding gold we found somewhat rare (around here parts) Quarz crystal too. Come and check what we are doing here in Finland :

 

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So we ran into bit of a trouble with ... things. Managed to do some bushfixing and revived ancient broken down pump to keep on digging and finding gold :

 

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After Dry land dredge broke hat to use the old method. Not as much fun... but still whole bunch of good times.

 

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So we kept on digging and finding some gold but a surprising thing stopped our mining. Come and check out our fooling around.

 

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Sometimes it is good idea to turn over some Quartz boulders... never gonna know what you'll find.

 

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Sometimes it is family stuff that gets in the way of mining... still managed to squeeze few more days at the mine to scrach deeper and deeper into the pit.

 

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So reviewed this Highbanker lately. Never used highbankers before in my +20 years of gold prospecting carreer. I think myself as defender of longtoms as they are so simple and straightforward. But after testing this highbanker i see why they appeal to some people, It is in Finnish but it has Eng Subtitles :

 

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So did the 100 gold pans challenge... was pain in the arse.