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lucky strike
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 16, 2015 11:20 am Reply with quoteBack to top

New to the forum. A little background about me. I have been chasing the gold for 56 years. Wes invited me to the forum, so here I am. The reason that I joined the forum, is to help other miners in any way that I can. I live between Columbia and Greenville. S. C. We have 3 active claims in 3 different parts of the state. We also do small open pit mining. We are here to help members in anyway that we can. Thank you Wes for the invitation. Ed

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loki258
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 16, 2015 11:30 am Reply with quoteBack to top

Welcome Ed. It's great to get new members that are willing to help others. I would like to hear more of your experiences, sounds like you are having a blast. Very Happy
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lucky strike
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 16, 2015 12:53 pm Reply with quoteBack to top

Thanks for the welcome loki258. You said, it seems like that I'm having a blast. I am, I am living the miners dream. We are recovering quite a bit of gold from the 9 months of back breaking work. Most of the miners that I know, want to get their gold the same day, we prefer to get more cons every day, and get the gold later. Again thanks for the welcome. Ed

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 16, 2015 2:45 pm Reply with quoteBack to top

Welcome aboard.

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 16, 2015 5:24 pm Reply with quoteBack to top

It's great to see you here Ed.
Looking forward to having lunch with You in the near future.

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 16, 2015 6:41 pm Reply with quoteBack to top

Welcome to the forum

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 16, 2015 7:51 pm Reply with quoteBack to top

Welcome to the site Ed....Always good to have a member with miles on there boots...I've been around a few years and always shared info with anyone that wanted it...Hope you enjoy the people here...

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 16, 2015 8:11 pm Reply with quoteBack to top

Welcome Ed, great to have a miner with your experience on the forum, I will be looking forward to your input and advice given to forum members!!! Cool Very Happy
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 16, 2015 11:47 pm Reply with quoteBack to top

Greetings Ed and welcome to the forum

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 17, 2015 8:50 am Reply with quoteBack to top

Welcome Ed

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 17, 2015 10:54 am Reply with quoteBack to top

Welcome Ed

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 17, 2015 11:07 am Reply with quoteBack to top

Thanks for the welcome everyone. I will read the threads , and if I can be of any help, I will jump right in. I don't know everything, never have, never will. I just know what has worked for me all these years. Wes, we can do lunch or breakfast, whenever you can. I can meet at any time. Thanks. Ed

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SamBurgin
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 17, 2015 1:44 pm Reply with quoteBack to top

Welcome aboard Ed.

Hows about a little run down of your equipment, and types of mining you do. If you are in western SC, and open pit mining, I assume you are within the Greenwood plate with pegmatites and lots of tiny gold. We just finished a lease up on Parsons Mountain near the fire tower, above the Confederate Gold Mine, and on the same trend. Most of the gold was -320, but lots of it.

We finally had to get a Knelson centrifuge to capture the tiny gold, as cascading finish tables (200 sq. feet) wouldn't touch the small stuff.

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 18, 2015 10:00 am Reply with quoteBack to top

Thanks for the welcome Sam. I am sorry if I mislead you into thinking that we do open pit mining in sc. We are in poor man Alaska. Poor man is suppose to be one word, my iPad says it not. It has never been there, so what does it know. Anyway, they are no road to get you to poor man, you have to fly in from Fairbanks. You fly into Ruby, then take a dirt hi way to the mine. They are nothing in poor man, you have to go to Ruby. They have one store, no bars, no motels. You have to have real deep pockets to visit the store. If you smoke, 16 dollars a pack, a gallon of milk 22 dollars, one orange 7 dollars. They do sell liquor, not beer. Your equipment has to brought in by barge. It makes it a little harder to mine up there, but the payoff is well worth it. I have 3 partners, 2 of the partners are in Alaska. We have 20 employees, 10 day shift, 10 night shift. The mine is run 24 hours a day, until something breaks. I spent 6 months up there in 2013. We looked at 20 different claims, was going tostart a second mine. I decided not to move to Alaska. If I was 25 years younger, I would jump on it. My health is starting to go south on me, so I need to stay around here. The biggest piece of gold ever found in Alaska was in Ruby on swiftcreek. It weighed right at 240 ounces. It was found by a miner in 1998. The gold up there is real chunky, Bill has found some nuggets around an ounce, not many but a few. Anyway, I will post the equipment a little later today, and how we mine here at ho e. Ed

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ProspectorAl
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 18, 2015 9:38 pm Reply with quoteBack to top

Welcome to the forum Ed. I would also love to see some photos of the operation if you can post them.

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 19, 2015 11:44 am Reply with quoteBack to top

Sorry about the delay, the gran-kids came over and wanted to go panning behind the house. The gran-daughter did a whole lot better than the gran-son. She got about sixty colors, he got twenty five or so. Now, back to the topic. Sam, I had heard that you were in sumpter doing a large mine. Glad you were able to get the fine gold out. The gold seems to be getting smaller than it was back in the 70's. Anyway, we mine like most other members. We sluice, dredge, run high bankers. We also search for accident creeks and rivers. When we locate one, we try to locate the owner and work out some sort of deal. If we can work something out, we take the trackhoe, pans, high bankers and start running test. If the test comes back good, we sign a contract with the owner. We then bring in red dirt to fill the creek back in with. We take and dig off the over burden, we then haul the paydirt to the trommel. The claim that we are on now, the owner will not let us dredge or run the trommel . So we have been bringing the paydirt to the shop and running the Rommel that way. It cost a lot more to do it this way but we have to do what the contract says. We are also working the active creek. We located the source from where the gold is coming from. This is my first time ever of finding the source, and it is the richest creek that I have ever been on. In a nut shell, that how we mine. We have a 6 inch dredge, 4 high bankers, 3 gold cubes, 4 a52 sluices, 2 spiral machines, 2 blue bowls, 4 miller tables, 1 jig table, 1 22 ton dump truck, 1 jd 790 trackhoe, 1 cat 416 backhoe, 1 bobcat 973, 1 kentworth tractor trailer. That's the equipment that we use here at home. The list is real big for the mine, so I will list some of it. 1 cat d10, 1 cat d8, 1 cat 990k loader, 2 cat 374 trackhoes, 3 Euclid rock trucks 65 ton, 2 pioneer 8 inch pumps, 1 Cummings 120 kVa generator,1 200 yard per hour was plant, 1 mack tractor trailer fuel tanker, 10 campers. They are a lot more smaller things, just to much to list. Hope this helps. Ed

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 19, 2015 12:23 pm Reply with quoteBack to top

Thanks for welcome prospector al I don't have any pictures. I don't go to the mine often. The only time that I get to go is when there is a problem. I am the lower 48 guy, I have to order and ship whatever they need plus run this end of the mining. The next time up, whenever that is I will do some vidios if I can remember. We can't start mining until around June, maybe the very end of may. The thaw has to happen to be able to dig and run the plant. Then you have to run all you can, because come the 3rd week of August, here comes the snow flakes, seven days later, the freeze. I loved the summer when I was up there for 6 months. It never got above 60 degrees, for the most part it stays mid 50's all summer long. The bad, it stays cloudy for about a third of the time. Anyway, thanks for the welcome.

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Tim
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 20, 2015 8:15 am Reply with quoteBack to top

I looked up Poorman AK on MapQuest and it gave 4 Poorman creek locations.
The town of Ruby you mentioned seems like it's near McGrath.
Is that right?
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 21, 2015 1:17 pm Reply with quoteBack to top

Tim, you are right, it is near mcgrath. The state has started building a road from Fairbanks to somewhere around McGrath. I am not really sure where it is. I am not up there much. The next big gold rush will be in the Ruby area. When they get the road in, lookout, here comes all of the big mining co. From the airport in Fairbanks to Ruby is about 300 miles. When they get the road in, it may be 500 miles to Ruby. You know they never can go straight, going around mountains or whatever else they need to get around. They have over a million trees to cut down, the grading, bridges, then the pavement, whatever they go with on the table. I sure hope it's not dirt like the poor man/ruby hwy. When it rains real hard, it takes out the road. So, the miners that need that road take their equipment and fix the road at no cost to the state. I would also say this, if they have to work on the road like we mine, it may take a hundred years to get the road open. I would also say this to the younger miners that are members, if you have the money and the passion to buy your own claim, you need to get moving, when the road opens, the price of the claims are going to be in the millions. The claims that I looked at in 2013, have been sold. You can still find some between 250.& 500 thousand. They are some upwards 6 million dollars. If you do buy one, spend up to 100 thousand to make sure you don't get took. If you bought one next week say for 500 thousand, when the road is complete, you never mine it, put it up for sell for 1.5 million to 2.5 million and it will sell. You would have made a huge profit. I was going to buy another one in 2013, then I received the news about my health. With no medical help for 700 miles round trip, all the gold in the world is not worth your life. Ed

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 02, 2015 11:30 pm Reply with quoteBack to top

Hello Everyone,
Thanks for having me. Live in NC. Thinking about getting into
Gold Dredging. Hoping to learn a lot from here.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 03, 2015 3:53 am Reply with quoteBack to top

Welcome to our forum!

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