Giant GOLD DREDGES make a comeback, Mongolian Dredge Fleet disproves drills |
Giant GOLD DREDGES make a comeback, Mongolian Dredge Fleet disproves drills |
Feb 14 2007, 04:16 PM
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Diggin' In! Group: Members Posts: 26 Joined: 14-February 07 Member No.: 990 |
Hi Folks - I'm a newbie here, usually on Alaska Gold Forum but lived in Mongolia since 1995. Then there was just one working dredge in Mongolia, and only a few dry mines. I've been documenting the placer gold rush since, now with 135 placer mining companies working 200 placer mines, and the Mongolian Dredge Fleet now has SIX large bucket line gold dredges and about 20 smaller bucket line dredges. I'm posting to share knowhow and ideas. And I am hoping someone will volunteer pics of the Snowstorm Dredge (especially its riffles) for me to include in the Tech Manual I've nearly completed for publication.
First I'll try and post some pics of the gold dredges to see if you folks are interested. If you want to visit them it can be arranged! We'll see how it goes - I would like to discuss PLACER DRILLING later on, as there is a systemic error that means understimation of gold reserves beneath wet floodplains. This error seems to be ignored in the USA and Canada, but please realise that the 6 giant Gold Dredges in Mongolia exist ONLY because the systemic error was corrected by the soviets just before the command economy collapsed. Enjoy the pics and realise that - if I'm right - then large gold dredges would be profitable in USA and Canada on placers formerly written off as subeconomic grades. cheers - Steppe |
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Mar 2 2016, 08:23 AM
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Master Mucker! Group: Admin Posts: 4,149 Joined: 7-October 03 From: Colorado Member No.: 3 |
Hi Silky,
Not sure why you'd want to protest this type of machine in Colorado, it's actually a good way to extract placer gold from the alluvial deposits without chemicals. They only use water when working and the material thrown out (gravels) are in fact a viable commodity to sell for other uses such as road building (pavement making) as well as concrete mixes or river bed stones for non water/zero landscaping. A ready to use washed product as a by product of the operation, that includes all the sand and gravels. I'd love to see one start up again in Colorado and hope they'd have jobs open, I'd like to try working on one!! Tony Beets may be a little hard to work for though! -------------------- CP-Owner/Administrator
www.ColoradoProspector.com IF YOU USE IT, THE GROUND PRODUCED IT! MINERS MAKE "IT" HAPPEN!! |
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