Before winter claim trip Options

[johnnybravo300]

We have the car packed up and making a trip to the claim again tomorrow. I really don't know how much time we will get there before it snows.
We have about 8 more buckets we can fill for a boring winter day later on....never know where the next corn flake may be hiding! I'd like to run some material too so I'll post if there's anything good.
I've been working in that area all week and I can feel the claim calling me. It's been torture I tell ya!
I have an idea for the biggest hole yet. The area we plugged up for the dredge earlier this summer has been over flowing for months onto the area I first opened up and it's soggy and saturated now. I might try to divert the creek on around further to dry it up and take advantage of that to open a huge hole right across the main channel. Seems like a decent plan and I was getting good gold there before anyway. Whoohoo!

[johnnybravo300]

Mike, do you mean the silver values? I was reading about processing silver from black sands and I think I could do that. There are also companies out there that will process bags #5-#50 of cons or bigger. They pull out all the metals and anything of value and ship it all to the proper places. Seems like something worth checking in to if we have good values. I know one guy that sells his black sands for aquariums and another that sells his magnatite to a welder.
They are just selling the waste and that's pretty good!

[MikeS]

Mike, do you mean the silver values? I was reading about processing silver from black sands and I think I could do that. There are also companies out there that will process bags #5-#50 of cons or bigger. They pull out all the metals and anything of value and ship it all to the proper places. Seems like something worth checking in to if we have good values. I know one guy that sells his black sands for aquariums and another that sells his magnatite to a welder.
They are just selling the waste and that's pretty good!

I was meaning the black sand itself may be valuable. You may have noticed that the black sand there seems extra heavy and it can be hard to get the gold to settle to the bottom. I am convinced that a good portion of our black sand there is columbite-tantilite. This mineral is more heavy than the magnatite. It is also more valuable. Current spot price for tantalite ore is about $123 kg ($56 lb.) If the sands there are more concentrated than typical ore then those sands may be worth more than spot price. We may be throwing out $100 worth of black sand for every $20 worth of gold we are getting.


I need to do more testing to find out more about it.