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« Reply #100 on: September 20, 2011, 03:55:51 pm »
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Yep, it's called High Grading!   LOL!

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« Reply #101 on: September 21, 2011, 06:04:05 am »
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Yep, it's called High Grading!   LOL!


"quality control"  somebody has to do it!  Grin

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« Reply #102 on: September 23, 2011, 10:23:36 am »
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Haha

Gambol - those stories are common and I heard the same things around where I was.  The screen is called a classifier I believe, and yes, it is true that the bigger pieces of rock and debri were rejected and tossed out the back on a conveyor.  I also heard about the men watching the screens so nothing nice escaped.  The dredges were hunting placer gold in pieces that were very small but numerous....like sifting corn flakes out of a field of softballs.  They were fairly effecient because 90 % of placer gold was small.  But there was some nice big nuggies that escaped because I talked with the men who found them.

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« Reply #103 on: September 24, 2011, 03:55:56 pm »
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Hy-grading.... I heard that term one other time. Maybe on this site. The story was about hauling ore by wagon out of the mountains to the smelter and the guy driving the wagon Hy-graded the load along the way. Cheesy

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« Reply #104 on: October 24, 2011, 02:55:58 pm »
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Well I got  a message from a fellow prospector in Idaho who met a kid that just found 1/2 ounce of gold with his metal detector tucked into a quartz rock on the dredge tailings.  Not where I was at but closer to Placerville.  The last few days I hunted, I strickly hunted for quartz myself.

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« Reply #105 on: October 24, 2011, 03:49:55 pm »
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There ya go!   It's out there. Cool

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« Reply #106 on: October 24, 2011, 07:27:01 pm »
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I think I should have said the gold was tucked into a quartz rock, not his metal detector!  Anyway, its been a long time since Enflish class.

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« Reply #107 on: October 24, 2011, 07:42:21 pm »
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We Node Ya Be Edumakated!   Don't Fret!

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« Reply #108 on: October 25, 2011, 09:04:25 am »
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It's definitely out there. A lot of people have the misconception that the mining stopped because the gold ran out, but for the most part it was that the gold was priced so low that it wasn't paying for a big operation to run. If you look at those big dredges and the amount of material they moved it's not surprising how some could slip by, especially if it's still in matrix. Just like any assembly line all you gotta do is sneeze or rub your eyes or turn away for a second and something slips by...


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« Reply #109 on: October 25, 2011, 09:35:54 am »
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LOL , The tailing's the Chines came along and reworked have some slim pickings!  Shocked

Them folks put in the extra time.

Remember gold was only going for like $18.00 a Oz back then.   $18.00 was more then a Months wages to most folks back then.

A pile of factors could determine how much gold passed over the riffles.

Operators.

Equipment Used.

Company Procedures.

Materials being worked.

Equipment malfunction.

Joe had a bit to much to drink last night and really didn't give a crap!  LOL

Yep, Old tailing are a bomb because you KNOW there was gold there.



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