Helping the neighbor

The super-concentration and handling of concentrates for the neighbor helped me understand much about the operation, the soil, the tailing and gold inside. It was not all how I have expected it. One need to see it practically, to understand what is required to handle such soil.

There are factors that are important to note:

• the type of machinery that people are using to create such tailings,

• the particle sizes that such machinery is producing,

• the particles sizes of gold that such machinery may let through, for example, even 3 grams of gold may be found as one nugget in such tailing heaps,

• the amount of actually crushed sand, and not crushed sand, and the fact that a “wet mill” or locally made hammer crusher is not even grinding such sand, it is rather helping in better sepration of gold. Very little is actually being crushed again.

• that no proper analysis is made,

• that there is so much fine gold, and that fine gold is mostly lost in these operations. Yes, we recover fine gold, but that same fine gold is lost if miners use rudimentary sluices or inadequate and inefficient equipment.