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How do I "read" old mine tailings?

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	Re: How do I "read" old mine tailings? « Reply #10 on: March 26, 2011, 02:22:22 pm »

Excellent idea Homefire! I think I will try that next time I'm crawling the piles. Great

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	Re: How do I "read" old mine tailings? « Reply #11 on: March 26, 2011, 05:29:34 pm »

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Dal, You could build yourself a recirculating sluice system where you supply the water so if the creek dries up it's no big deal. The biggest problem with these systems is keeping the water clear enough that it doesn't ruin your pump. My thought is to put a drain up near the top of a lagre tub, put about 10 gals. of water in your tub to mark the position of drain, and have it drain into a smaller tub. make a partitioning frame for the large tub and cover it with some old tee shirt material and put this about 3 inches from the drain. Put the battery operated 12V sump pump in the small tub and pipe the water up to a spray bar at the mouth of the sluice, adjust flow and start shoveling those tailings. Y'all be careful out there, Gramps

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	Re: How do I "read" old mine tailings? « Reply #12 on: March 30, 2011, 07:03:05 pm »

I have found some pieces of gold ore with visible gold by just looking and removing some surface material with a rake. It was just mixed in with the waste rock

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	Re: How do I "read" old mine tailings? « Reply #13 on: March 30, 2011, 07:05:50 pm »

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I have found some pieces of gold ore with visible gold by just looking and removing some surface material with a rake. It was just mixed in with the waste rock

Then you better get back there dude and dig that stuff

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	Re: How do I "read" old mine tailings? « Reply #14 on: April 26, 2011, 12:56:02 pm »

Tailing Piles are best worked with a metal detector. Any quality gold machine will do.

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	Re: How do I "read" old mine tailings? « Reply #15 on: April 28, 2011, 09:25:47 pm »

Dal:

Check out the following site about mines all over the world:

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	Re: How do I "read" old mine tailings? « Reply #16 on: April 28, 2011, 11:34:42 pm »

home fire
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	Re: How do I "read" old mine tailings? « Reply #17 on: April 29, 2011, 06:42:56 am »

OK Let's try this again. Tailing piles yield good gold, and big gold.

The reason is most gold is small, and prospectors knew it. The occasional big nugget was nice, but would not pay the bills. So they dug and crushed the ore, and classified down to a size for their sluice setup,or to go to a stamp mill. For you to set up a sluice with a recirculating pump would be a waste of time, because you would get some fine gold missed, but not the big stuff they left.

Look up Cane Creek, and they have the same situation. Mine is long gone, but they rework tailing piles with a metal detector, and a grader, removing one layer at a time. You said you raked and found gold. You need a Gold Bug 2 with the small coil to work the surface and crevices of tailing piles.What part of the country are you in?

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	Re: How do I "read" old mine tailings? « Reply #18 on: May 23, 2011, 12:41:51 pm »

Sean, thank you for that video. It does help a lot for knowing what to look for when detecting. Do you know of any more of those type of videos?

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	Re: How do I "read" old mine tailings? « Reply #19 on: May 24, 2011, 11:29:31 am »

Gold Bug 2 is the ticket, working tailings in my area with the same geographical footprint.
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