Anvil Creek Mine Alaska - Mining Operation and Clean-Up.wmv
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- Mining for gold in the 1990's at Anvil Creek Mine, near Ophir, Alaska. A 6 ounce nugget is the largest recorded nugget from Anvil Creek. The gold averages between 85 and 89% fineness plus 7-10% silver and makes beautiful jewelry.
I am willing to bet that this is a family that is sitting comfortable, due to their hard work and a lot of trial and error! Gold mining is tough business. I salute you and your family!!!
Bet they looooove it too. Congrats! Sounds like a dream
Thank You! It is lots of hard work, for sure!
Thank You!
You might be right. The trommel has worked pretty well for us. We don't have rocks that are very large, but we do get into mud and clay that the trommel does a good job of breaking apart and cleaning of the rocks. We do have 20' sluices, with Clarkson riffles and expanded metal in them.
I understand what you're saying. Classification of material is definitely one of the main keys to good recovery. We are always looking for more ways to modify what we have to improve production. Thanks for your feedback.
Very cool, I am a geology student from Michigan. There are no opportunities for a clean up like that to be found anywhere here. Your video is put together very well! Thank you for sharing.
Wow , nice color ,We love nuggets 👍🏻
Well you moved into the 1970's technology at least! Trommels work, no doubt, however a good derocker onto a 2 deck wet vibrating screen with plastic non-blinding screens, onto a pair of 4' x 20' sluices, you would be classifying more and rejecting off the waste much better. I also love the look of the reverse spiral trommel, but unless you have $400,000, that is just a dream. I like the video, keep mining, I would love to see the video updates.
The instrument that the individual is using to wash away the debris from the hillside to the sluice box it’s not called a hand giant! Okay what it is truly called is a water cannon/monitor that would be the correct terminology for that piece of equipment/tool/technology!
Thanks. It's lots of work, but quite an adventure!
@alex26red
This method does not classify the material so all sizes are going through the sluice box. Also, the feed of the material and the water supply is unable to be regulated so it is steady. There are surges as it is going through the sluice box.
There are better methods now that utilize shaker screens or trommels that deal with these issues.
Thank You for your interest in our video.
Pretty cool. Like many others I know nothing about gold mining but like to see it. Thanks for the video. I'm in Oklahoma and going to gold country next summer (just for a vacation) so I'm pumped about learning all I can about all I can
Thanks for posting these precious vedio
Agreed...We are using different equipment now to recover 90-99% of the gold.
You need to watch LODoftheLake videos on here. Sifton Air/Dulac Mining
Trommels work do doubt about that, and it may be the best way of doing your required scrubbing. A good 12' derocker with a cranked-up 12" semi-trash pump can really liberate your gravels however, and doesn't take the beatings like a trommel would take. It really is a site-specific situation however. It seems to me the name of the game is to classify your material into as many sorts of reject as possible, to keep your sluice load low, which is why I like a derocker & 2 or 3 deck screen.
no problem....you can see a video of our operation 3 years ago with the large (small) trommel onto a oscillating table then to a pair of sluicelines. Search "placer mining" on my channel.
40-60 % loss wow, and you still moved it around with a shovel 👍👍
Excellent vid thanks!
A shaking grizzly with a lower screen is a 1 piece 1 generator device that does all required to produce .. it dumps into a good box = simple 98% recovery.
That is what we want to do this year. At least you don't feel like you might be getting cheated out of some of your gold when you do it yourself!
Why don't you flux and pour your own bars? We built our own melting furnance with the proper refractory cement and propane regulater for under $500. The fluxing agents cost around $300-400 per season, maybe cheaper if you can get a better supplier. We use Anachemia in Vancouver, BC. Technic Richmond, BC buys our gold, but we are shopping around now.
Is 1 ounce about the size of a 1/2 inch diameter marble?
Thanks!
The only problem is we have had to take it to a refiner and you have a big melt loss....never knowing if we are getting accurate results. We hope to smelt it ourselves and make dore' bars this year.
Are you going to update your video and show you operation with modern-day equipment
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30 miles West of McGrath Alaska, near town of Ophir alaska on the Innoko river.
Hi nice video. I read the comments and you answered my questions. Get as much as you can get with what you got. Then get some better equipment and go back and get it all. Yeah baby!
Do you have a small area that can only be hand mined that you would be interested in leasing/selling/mine on %?
Id of had a 1inch punchplate on top the first 6ft that sluice then a 3/4inch and 1/4 inch screens underneath, then a aeparate stage underneath with a single underflow riffle to create a pressure drop and try catch them fines right on the head.
I can see the sheer volume you run though its a tradeoff between acceptable loss and how much you feed per hour, you dont mess about catching tiddlers when big fish are there lol - goodluck i hope theres a vid of your new setup
WOW you lost ALOT of gold that way , I live in vancouver island and I find old working and tailing piles all the time , I only hand mine but still clean up the stuff the old timers just left .. I'd love to come up and work where you guys left ALOT of gold
ALOT
We have newer equipment now and can recover what we lost from our old tailing piles.
I this mine open to public can i come to look for gold and if you can let me know where it is thank you.
Are you still mining?
Well, hopefully around 90% with the right washplant and riffles.
nice gold
LOL! Yep, it was the old "caveman" way of mining! At least that is how we viewed it. We are now using a trommel.
What about salmon streams?
We do not get any fish up our creek, but there are regulations in place that protect salmon and other fish. You have to have 100% recycle and divert extra water around your mining area. You also have requirements as to the turbidity and settleable solids of any discharged water.
Dan I realize cyanide and mercury would kill fish but will dirty water kill fish?
They had a big to do about dredging harming the fish which was total bunk. Dredging does not harm fish. Never seen one fish killed by dredging.
Your getting lots of gold bth video, but 40-60 percent loss can't be acceptable.
for placer gold 99% impossible
40 to 60%, Loss, why did you bother mining
Terrible gold mining method. You should have retired off those values.
You think you could be losing 50% and you dont make changes..you could get a loader or excavtor etc process 1/2 the material and get the same amt of gold or run same material properly and get TWICE THE GOLD thats great coarse gold folks you dont seem to be to Bright though...sad
LOL! Thanks for the vote of confidence on our intelligence, Dell! First of all, if you look at our newer videos you will see we have upgraded our system, but you must also know that where we are located it costs as much as the machinery to get it freighted in there so it is a very expensive endeavor. Have you ever owned a gold mine?