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** Lost Gold At The Dead Man's Mine ** A Miners Journal **


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10 hours ago, Jim_Alaska said:

340 buckets makes me wonder if he actually had that many buckets, or if they took what they had down to John at the Tom and dumped them on the ground. They certainly couldn't take 340 buckets of material all in one load.

When Jed started the mining operation he said the truck could only haul 20 buckets at a time due ro poor springs. That makes me think the buckets weren't completely full.A 5 gal bucket full of gravel weighs 60 - 70 lbs. So 1200 - 1400 lbs for 20 full buckets. Or the buckets were smaller than 5 gallon. They rotated rhe empties back up to the dig area. The pay gravels were dumped in some kind of large container if they ran out of buckets. I'm guessing they had 50 - 100 of them but he never mentioned that in the journal.

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It was mentioned to use GPR, which may be in the right direction, but yes expensive. another ought would be LIDAR, which can be attached to drones and used to find bedrock deposits. Priced range from $250 and up to (beyond my price range).

Auto makers are starting to install in vehicles for crash protection, apple has an app, the US gov has a web page that already has many areas surveyed (free)

https://www.lidarusa.com/products.html

https://www.microdrones.com/en/content/drone-lidar-in-mining-go-with-the-workflow

https://spectrum.ieee.org/sweep-lidar-for-robots-and-drones

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1 hour ago, BobC said:

It was mentioned to use GPR, which may be in the right direction, but yes expensive. another ought would be LIDAR, which can be attached to drones and used to find bedrock deposits. Priced range from $250 and up to (beyond my price range).

Auto makers are starting to install in vehicles for crash protection, apple has an app, the US gov has a web page that already has many areas surveyed (free)

https://www.lidarusa.com/products.html

https://www.microdrones.com/en/content/drone-lidar-in-mining-go-with-the-workflow

https://spectrum.ieee.org/sweep-lidar-for-robots-and-drones

Thanks for the info. I think LIDAR can be layed on the ground as well? Yes. all very expensive. That's why the saying : What's the best way to make a million dollars in gold mining? Start with 2 million.

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To Jed and his crew. Make sure you watch it to the end. Cheers!

 

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22 hours ago, GhostMiner said:

That place is permanently closed according to their website.

Sorry, see below!
 
Pine Environmental Services, LLC
CA - Oakland
2375 Lincoln Ave.
Building 7
Hayward, CA 94545 US
Phone: (510) 732-6591
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11 hours ago, DOOGY-MD said:
Sorry, see below!
 
Pine Environmental Services, LLC
CA - Oakland
2375 Lincoln Ave.
Building 7
Hayward, CA 94545 US
Phone: (510) 732-6591

OK & thank you.

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It's really quite amazing to read of their successes, we are vicariously living our dreams through this timeless journal.

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