Video Of Large Scale Placer Mining Operation

[Steve Herschbach]

Published on Dec 22, 2017 - Glenn Wadstein mined Sterling Creek Mine from 1986-2001 and found pounds and pounds of gold. He built his own equipment and treated the job as a sand and gravel operation. Here's the equipment he built, the way he moved overburden to reveal the ore and how he processed the ore to filter out the gold. Wadstein took this video in 1986 at the outset of the mining operation, edited it into a clear and descriptive narrative and then converted the video to digital format in 2017. Wadstein narrated the video on October 22, 2017 at the Ashland Literary Arts Festival held Hannon Library, Southern Oregon University.

 

[2Valen]

Thanks for the video, it was very interesting.

[Dig It]

Great Video !!!

[gambler]

very interesting

[MSC]

Very knowledgeable responsible mining now-a-days, I wish the West coast politicians would reconsider their viewpoint how mining has changed to to the sophisticated mentality adapted by modern Prospectors. The past is the past.