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Doug, I hope you had a great, productive summer. The weather was good most of the season. I have a question. What do you use to drive the trommel? I see a gas motor in the pictures, what I am wondering what is the gear on the barrel and what sort of take off or engagement system do you use?
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Can Someone Tell Me What Kind Of Rock Is This
Bear replied to rayen's topic in Rocks, Minerals, Gems & Geology
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Memorial Weekend Contest, Win A Minelab GPX 6000 Dream
Bear replied to Gerry in Idaho's topic in Detector Prospector Forum
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Memorial Weekend Contest, Win A Minelab GPX 6000 Dream
Bear replied to Gerry in Idaho's topic in Detector Prospector Forum
Circa October 2005, Mosul Iraq. The man on the far right died over there after I was MEDEVACed. I got him into prospecting in AK.- 93 replies
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Memorial Weekend Contest, Win A Minelab GPX 6000 Dream
Bear replied to Gerry in Idaho's topic in Detector Prospector Forum
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Wyoming Gold At Its Best - Nice Nuggets
Bear replied to Gerry in Idaho's topic in Detector Prospector Forum
Wow, congrats to your customer. Back in the 90s and early 2000 I saw many nuggets from WY found with SDs and GP Extremes. For the most part it was a small group of guys I knew who found all of the gold. I found these two few years ago in WY with an SDC. Pretty rough with bits of quartz attached. -
Cleaning The Environment One Tack At A Time
Bear replied to brogansown's topic in Detector Prospector Forum
Great post. The large square nail is pretty cool. I have a few good ones that I found mostly in WY. In AK I find a lot of small tacks. -
So cool!!
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Thank you for the info. Where I dredge there are not to many boulders either They are mostly quartz slicks or quartzite. The bedrock is a quartz schist so it doesn’t break off into anything to big. All the frost shattering leave a layer of clay with broke pieces of the bedrock. Almost all of the gold is in the clay.
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Mineit, This is a great post. I have been meaning to comment and ask a couple of questions if you don’t mind because I also have a claim up the Steese. Your operation looks awesome and a lot of fun. We are looking to do some light exploration this summer. I think my claim is closer to Fairbanks but the geology is similar. How much muck is on top of gravels? How deep is the pay/ bedrock? Historic info says the main valley below my claim the bedrock was 10-12 feet. Looking around mine I think it is shallower because it is in a side valley. I dredge up in that same area but don’t run into frozen ground. I am pretty sure on my claim the ground is frozen based on the vegetation. Any info would be appreciated.
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XP Gold Sluice
Bear replied to Steve Herschbach's topic in Gold Panning, Sluicing, Dredging, Drywashing, Etc
It looks like it would work good when screened. Light and portable. I like plastic sluices from Europe. I learned about these molded blue sluices from Sweden when I was a kid. I know they haven’t been made for a while but they work great for fine gold. -
Not to compact but the best fire pits. It is two washing machine drums with legs that screw on welded to the bottom.
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7 total, still own 4. GP Extreme EQ 800 SDC Falcon It’s been a while but I would like to find a nugget with the GP. I found some back in the day with it including some moderately small pieces but nothing like the SDC. I still use the Falcon still for pieces of quartz. Right now I am really more of a dredger than anything else.
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I always have the freeze dried food on hand and eat a lot in Alaska. They are light, don’t necessarily don’t have to be heated ( little crunchy), or don’t use a whole lot of water. I mostly eat mountain house but there are other brands. I use jet boil to heat the water. I always keep a water purifier in my side by side, there is always water around in AK.
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Thank you for the info
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Glad to see Simon is back. I know there are previous posts about SDC battery compartment seal, I had problems with mine this summer. Here is the background that I have posted about before. I dredge in an old cut that wasn’t cleaned that good into the bedrock. The bedrock is a quartz muscovite schist that through frost shattering and dissolution is deeply weathered making it easy to dredge into for a couple of feet. Because it is a cut the water is always murky and work is done by feel. A couple of years ago I dug a big section that I thought was cleaned up. Previously I seen a guy use an Excalibur to check where he had dredged so I took the SDC in. There was targets so dredged deeper and recovered a couple more nuggets. Now this has become standard practice. This summer while changing the batteries there was water in the battery compartment. I cleaned and dried the compartment. Also cleaned the seal and the machine worked fine but I would like to change it. Through a search nobody sells replacements?
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Last night I tried to get the last of some crushed quartz out of my le trap. I gave a good smack on the bottom with my palm and cracked it. It was a good run. That pan was about 25 years old. Even worse no gold in the quartz. I will defiantly get another one, I just need to figure out where.
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Here is the link to the article in the ICMJ. https://www.icmj.com/resources/news-and-events/miners-news/man-finds-9-carat-diamond-at-arkansas-crater-of-diamonds-445/?fbclid=IwAR37Lty5iQRGc7xl9Q4ECJSKwpc3v7K8IRIi-5NMbZz6xr7leHpYQzI4js0
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I have always wanted to visit this park. Large diamond was found this month. When I was younger I prospected for diamonds in SW Wyoming. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/man-finds-9-07-carat-diamond-arkansas-state-park/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab6i&linkId=100453663
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Snowing in Fairbanks too
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Yes the frame is removable. If you take the frame off it makes it more like an assault pack. I liked that medium ruck when I had one in the Army. There have been issues with the full sized polymer MOLLE frame but I never heard of any with that one.
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Hopefully all the snow insulates the creeks from freezing to deep. As Mineit said Fairbanks has been cold. Not the extreme temperatures but constantly cold.
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Keene 6” Mini Floats
Bear replied to Bear's topic in Gold Panning, Sluicing, Dredging, Drywashing, Etc
Thank you for the info. Really I am just feeling it out if I need additional flotation. I bought the dredge with the bigger motors and pumps to either place the dredge farther away while in the cut because tailings become a problem or work in deeper water. The plan this summer is to go to a spot along a river where I know the bedrock is deep. I another thread about anchoring I explained how I use cable and a haven grip tied up high. This does keep the front of the dredge up. -
I purchased a newer Keene 6” mini dredge last year with GX270 motors and PHP 500 pumps. I used it quite a bit last summer but it was all in the old mine cuts that we dredge in. Not once in a river. The suction is unbelievable. My question does anyone have experience with the bigger motors needing more floats because of the weight? The motors themselves are 20 lbs more a piece and not to mention all of the weight from the water volume and hoses being bigger. Keene makes the outriggers with floats for them. I was going to make something similar uses two 30 gallon poly drums.