MORE MATERIAL FROM THE MINE

[ghostminer]

Besides gold & platinum we have many interesting finds yet to be identified from our mine. I showed one of them in the previous post. Here is a collection of more material. I think the black stone may be obsidian?

 

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[ghostminer]

The view looking west while standing on top of that facing.

 

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[IMAUDIGGER]

We have a 155 ft deep well/shaft & 4000 ft of creeks. They stopped hydraulicking because of Sawyer Decision of 1884 which pretty much put a stop to any big scale mining. The historical averages there are about 50-60 yds to the ounce. We've got 2 permits on two sides of that facing & one for where that shovel sits in the whole. We are permitted for 35,000 GPH of water.

Sounds like an adventure (especially for California).

 

[oldbones]

Rotated it for you.

The view looking west while standing on top of that facing.View attachment 1535013

 

[Reed Lukens]

Have you found out how many GPM the old well puts out? Your going to need a well pump to get the water out but without knowing the gpm, you could empty it in just a few days...

 

[ghostminer]

The well is a 5ft X 4ft X 155 ft deep shaft flooded out into a large pond. We have calculated the water volume to be well over 50,000 gal. We haven't formally tested the recovery rate as our permits just came in recently. The water would be pumped to our large holding pond near the operation & a secondary pump would feed it to the washplant where it would be recirculated from settling ponds. The holding pond would be replenished from the shaft/well & also creeks could be used as needed. The California Water Quality Control Board has been out there & approved all that.

 

[IMAUDIGGER]

The well is a 5ft X 4ft X 155 ft deep shaft flooded out into a large pond. We have calculated the water volume to be well over 50,000 gal. We haven't formally tested the recovery rate as our permits just came in recently. The water would be pumped to our large holding pond near the operation & a secondary pump would feed it to the washplant where it would be recirculated from settling ponds. The holding pond would be replenished from the shaft/well & also creeks could be used as needed. The California Water Quality Control Board has been out there & approved all that.

If your ponds are fairly sealed up, you will probably not need an awful lot of water other than initially filling them up.
A solar pump in the shaft might just be enough to maintain the water levels.

We have a small house yard pond that isn't sealed. It swallows up a 2" pipe @ 50psi as fast as it runs in.
That would be a pump running 24 hours a day just to keep up. You don't realize how beneficial sealed ponds are until you have to try and keep a leaking pond full.

I'm curious, do your permits allow the use of flocculants?

 

[ghostminer]

Probably, didn't ask. We didn't even need a discharge permit because of our location in relation to creeks. I only want to run about 100 yds a day for now & 10,000 yds the first yr.

 

[Medina Joe]

be careful, Rock collecting can become an addiction, pretty soon you'll have piles of rocks everywhere.

I don’t have a rock problem, I swear!!!

looks like these people can help, Rock Collectors Anonymous

Ya, I put them in my rock garden & my son pulls them out and smashes them looking for gold.