You're welcome Glenn. It will be at least a week before we continue north. Interesting mine to help evaluate. Having to get out my climbing gear...

You're welcome. GOOD LUCK!

Very well said and the philosophy we are trying to live now. It's going well so far.

You're welcome.

Absolutely. However, there was a spanish name Brent used only a few days before that I forgot. Do you know any specifications, like the throughput?

A Chilean Mill is a ''secondary'' Crusher / Amalgamator ( the ore would have to be run through a Jaw Crusher or other ''primary'' Crusher , first ) . Capacity would be no more than 200 to 300 pounds per hour .

That's not too bad a throughput for something that compact and low tech. Thank you.

That arrastra wasn't used lately it was left for nostalgia.... Probably used gas powered equipment to crush since the 1930s

I usually do

I use jet dry when panning and Dawn when using gravity separation equipment. However, the gold at Montana B is 80%

Very true

It certainly can.

Thank you

Cool. Let me know how it turns out.

You are most welcome Grasshopper. Keith

You're welcome.

How strange. People are...

Thank you.

Could be, but they eventually found it after i l left. :-)

Very cool.

I am not sure. In general mines shut down when they become uneconomic or the external situation such as an owner dying, a lawsuit, or a regulatory change. The price of the commodity can drop and eliminate profits or the ore body can change character or play out.

Block copy from a previous E-mail: "That company in Reno was ALS Global. Their phone is775-356-5395. There is a $30 per batch paperwork fee, a gold/silver fire assay is $25, and a 50 element analysis is about $40 if I remember rightly. You will also have to pay about $8-10 per sample for a sample prep fee and the turn around time is about a month. For faster assays I usually use Lawrence Hittle in Colorado. His phone number is 303-442-7157. He usually gets results in a week and charges $45 each, no minimum. Payment in advance (usually by check with the samples in my case)." ALS has a lab in Tucson also I believe.

You're welcome

Is it silver white or milky quartz white?

Hard Rock University en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenopyrite

Thank you

It said 'silver white' which I take to mean 'white (reflects all colors equally)with a metallic luster'. This was more like milky quartz.

Basically any US Bureau of Land management Land that has not been withdrawn is open to mineral entry, but you cannot collect minerals, when on someone else's claim without their permission. You can also prospect on National forest Service land subject to the same restrictions. Are you looking to prospect? Keith

@Achaeos Salisbury I see your confusion now.. STATE land in Arizona is now fairly restricted due to radical environmentalists wanting to 'save nature'. FEDERAL land is entirely different. However much of the known placer grounds in AZ are already claimed. An easy way to avoid conflict is to join a gold prospecting club and thereby get access and information on all their claims. Aside from that, all claims are required to have monuments and if you don't see any it should be open. However a 2 x 2 post can be hard to spot. If someone says you are on their claim it is best just to politely leave. There is lots of open ground here. Not as much GOOD open ground.

@Achaeos Salisbury It would be very difficult to keep a map current as thousands of claims are files, transferred, or closed every year. There is the LR2000 database kept by the BLM of their records which are usually very current, but it is very difficult to use. If you just stay on BLM land, look for claim stakes, and leave if asked, you should have little difficulties with recreational scale prospecting. Also look for little yellow signs next to the dirt roads and trails that are posted to mark claim boundaries.

Yes. Probably have to wait till next year though. Winter is coming. Keith

If we had one- certainly.

Where are you located?

@@hardrockuniversity7283 North phoenix.

@@brianh5609 There should be a number of prospecting clubs up there. You might check some out. WRT me, why don't you email me at hardrocku@outlook.com and tell me some more details and I can put you on the list of possible helpers for local field trips. Keith

Nope. That has large rocks being drug in a track. A Chilean told me "Trapiche". Good try though.

Nope, an arrastre drags stones on a hard stone base. It is called something else. Any help here Brent?