Thank you very much for the high praise. Just trying ot help others while I help myself. It's fun too.

Got the results from that location we went to: below detection limit. Had a fun trip anyway. Thanks.

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Thank you very much. Helping people to become successful or avoid unnecessary losses is the major thrust of this effort. I have seem millions of dollars wasted because of poor decisions that could be easily avoided. It really sucks when a normal person loses years of savings for easily preventable reasons. I think I am getting better at making them as time goes on. It is an interesting challenge to try and balance the educational and recreational content. I appreciate it when I get feedback like yours, it lets me know I am accomplishing my goals. Keith

I am happy to provide lessons cheap TO YOU :-) The education and adventure are satisfaction to me.

Oh yeah! We are working at it all the time. We are up in Montana now and do a live stream every Monday evening at 6PM Montana time. If you ever have any questions, just make a comment on a video like you just did, or jump on the live stream and ask then. Right now water is a solid so it limits what we can do, so we have been mainly working in the lab, but in a month and a half we should be back in the field three to five days per week. We have two serious projects lined up for thsi summer. Our last video was like lesson 322.

Thanks Jason, I was wondering what to do with the modest amount of video I had on the property, and then the idea od segueing to assay variability and unreliability came to me, and voila! I was pleased how it turned out.

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You're most welcome. Where do you live? There is gold in a lot of places.

The mine owner had it. He was REALLY cautious and had that as an alternate exfil route. He was very un-knowledgeable about hard rock, but smart and therefore used an abundance of caution. Wish everyone was that careful. Keith

It would depend on the situation. In this case they assisted me instead of hoisted me. Under the right conditions you can certainly be hoisted. I once was lowered down a 100 foot shaft in Mexico by winch and then climbed the safety rope using prussick knots just to try it out while I had a backup. I was in better shape back then. :-)

Having issues, this is a test.

Interesting, it gets difficult for some reason when I put specifics in. Try emailing me from my web site and I will get you the details. Sorry for the e-troubles, keith

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I don't have anything formal, however we are happy to have people tag along and help out when schedules permit. We are also on the lookout for good joint ventures. What part of hard rock prospecting are you most interested in? Keith

Depending on the throughput and difficulty of the extraction. I worked at an open pit/heap leach where the rock was profitable at .02 Oz/T. On the series Gold Rush they talk grades of about .01 Oz/T. It is a balancing act. For a micro scale operation with substantial reserves accessible by surface mining you could easily dig several tons per hour with one person. Add another to haul it and one for the mill and a desired payout of $200 per person per day with labor being half total costs you could accomplish that with 1 Oz/day recovered. At 1/4 Oz/T grade that would mean a throughput of 1000 lbs per hour. MBMMMLLC sells a 1 TPH turnkey plant for example. I am trying to achieve a 400 Lb/hr system and 1000 lb per hour system that are both relatively inexpensive inexpensive and portable to fit just this niche.

@@hardrockuniversity7283 Keep us updated on your equipment !

@@MannyScoot I definitely will. If I succeed, I want to sell them. :-)

Yes, they were following a vein down.

I actually developed a quantitative wet chemical assay for gold years ago that worked OK for about 80% of the ore sampled. The rest gave results of about 20% of actual. I think the hand panning is most useful as it is very fast if you have some way to easily pulverize a sample. Currently I am too crowded in time and available space to worry about doing my own assaying, so I haven't even thought about it. I like inventing more. I would carefully research any classes in 'home assaying' -as to do a good job requires a fair amount of equipment (crusher, pulverizer, splitter, furnace, precision balance, plus miscellaneous small lab ware and reagents). If you WANT to have your own capability, I would encourage you to research classes carefully and then take one. My buddy Jason has taken two- and we still send them out to get results we are confident in. If you want something quick and high precision isn't necessary, the panning seems to work well (at least it has so far for me). Once you find something interesting, then lab assays confirm it and define the numbers to insert into the Economics Estimator. Keith

I have never been in them. I've driven by them several times. Would be great to find it. :-)

It would require an approved Mine Plan, and the known reserves do not justify it at the moment. The owner is continuing exploration activities. Keith

So Cal eh? Tough for permits. Exactly the situation we set up for. By keeping it under the triggers for a POR or NOI you can get a lot done if you have the grade. Probably the easiest way to start is to go to my website HardRockU.com and start with what appears most immediately relevant. The first four lessons are probably the best place to start, but you DEFINITELY want to watch lesson 4- How to Hand Pan Micro-Fine gold. It is the key to rapid and inexpensive exploration for free milling gold. Keith