Gold Rush
PREFER is ready to follow the gold rush (almost)!
04/March/2011 13:00
This week we received a sample of a decking material that can greatly improve the performance of both our air table concentrator and our fluidized bed designs. Previous decks had to be either constructed by hand, custom built, or modified from other applications.
Our new deck material is constructed in such a way that it provides generous airflow, yet greatly decreased the potential for fine non precious metals to interfere with our fans and air pumps. Some superfine precious metals and minerals may make that journey, but they are quite welcome because they are very valuable and something no water based concentrating system can segregate.
All this means we are ready, willing, and able to begin manufacturing and marketing our equipment, consulting and refining services (almost)!
The almost is that we need to find some accredited investors that would like to help us with this adventure.
While it has been an interesting couple of years wandering the forests and mountains of Northeast Washington, the potential to develop the company in accordance with proper management arts and sciences require a move to where the people who can make PREFER happen, can live and easily visit. After numerous excursions around the area, we have decided to pursue relocation in the city of Spokane Valley or the county east to the Idaho State line.
Washington State has no personal or business income taxes. Last election, citizens soundly defeated a state income tax initiative. This was the first of such an opportunity we had to vote on this since the last time this progressive solution was tried in 1973. Hopefully it will be another 28 years before it is tried again.
Air concentration is the only economically viable process to decontaminate the nation’s largest Superfund site in the Silver Valley, which begins across the state line and along Interstate 90 towards Montana. Currently cleanup entails removal from contaminated areas and transporting it to less hazardous locations, until such time as the technology is available to recycle basically these very fine lead, zinc, and silver ores.
Once we have our newly designed equipment up and operating, that cleanup time is now!
If you are an accredited investor please use one of the many links available to contact us. We will send you a link to a specific investor website.
Our new deck material is constructed in such a way that it provides generous airflow, yet greatly decreased the potential for fine non precious metals to interfere with our fans and air pumps. Some superfine precious metals and minerals may make that journey, but they are quite welcome because they are very valuable and something no water based concentrating system can segregate.
All this means we are ready, willing, and able to begin manufacturing and marketing our equipment, consulting and refining services (almost)!
The almost is that we need to find some accredited investors that would like to help us with this adventure.
While it has been an interesting couple of years wandering the forests and mountains of Northeast Washington, the potential to develop the company in accordance with proper management arts and sciences require a move to where the people who can make PREFER happen, can live and easily visit. After numerous excursions around the area, we have decided to pursue relocation in the city of Spokane Valley or the county east to the Idaho State line.
Washington State has no personal or business income taxes. Last election, citizens soundly defeated a state income tax initiative. This was the first of such an opportunity we had to vote on this since the last time this progressive solution was tried in 1973. Hopefully it will be another 28 years before it is tried again.
Air concentration is the only economically viable process to decontaminate the nation’s largest Superfund site in the Silver Valley, which begins across the state line and along Interstate 90 towards Montana. Currently cleanup entails removal from contaminated areas and transporting it to less hazardous locations, until such time as the technology is available to recycle basically these very fine lead, zinc, and silver ores.
Once we have our newly designed equipment up and operating, that cleanup time is now!
If you are an accredited investor please use one of the many links available to contact us. We will send you a link to a specific investor website.
Gold Rush: Alaska — Discovery Channel Review (Epilogue: Full disclosure)
28/February/2011 10:50
Corrected: 28/February/2011 13:50
From the Discovery Channel program synopsis: The Hoffman crew spent five months and over quarter of a million dollars in a desperate attempt to find gold in Alaska. This special episode reveals what went wrong and how the guys plan to hit the mother lode next season.
We have come to the end of the Gold Rush: Alaska, Discovery Channel series. Next season it looks like just as what happened over a century ago, our next adventure will be Gold Rush: The Klondike. It seems that the Hoffman team has been squeezed out of the Porcupine Creek claim, which more than likely will be worked by the claim owner’s friend Dakota Fred.
From my perspective that should not provide much heartburn. They say there was $15 million in gold at the creek, but there as been no evidence that this was reality. That might have been true at one time, but reworking previous workings, it was difficult, to say the least, and virtually impossible with the equipment that the Hoffmans brought to the show.
As far as chasing the glory whole, which is well below the normal water table, will make the virtually impossible — much more difficult; with any equipment.
Having said that, what was given as the forecast for the upcoming year, we will see this season’s “No Guts, No Glory” become a “Doubling Down, All In” enterprise. That sounds like what you hear in the gambling casino, and should remain there, and a position where the wise should not venture.
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From the Discovery Channel program synopsis: The Hoffman crew spent five months and over quarter of a million dollars in a desperate attempt to find gold in Alaska. This special episode reveals what went wrong and how the guys plan to hit the mother lode next season.
We have come to the end of the Gold Rush: Alaska, Discovery Channel series. Next season it looks like just as what happened over a century ago, our next adventure will be Gold Rush: The Klondike. It seems that the Hoffman team has been squeezed out of the Porcupine Creek claim, which more than likely will be worked by the claim owner’s friend Dakota Fred.
From my perspective that should not provide much heartburn. They say there was $15 million in gold at the creek, but there as been no evidence that this was reality. That might have been true at one time, but reworking previous workings, it was difficult, to say the least, and virtually impossible with the equipment that the Hoffmans brought to the show.
As far as chasing the glory whole, which is well below the normal water table, will make the virtually impossible — much more difficult; with any equipment.
Having said that, what was given as the forecast for the upcoming year, we will see this season’s “No Guts, No Glory” become a “Doubling Down, All In” enterprise. That sounds like what you hear in the gambling casino, and should remain there, and a position where the wise should not venture.
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Gold Rush: Alaska — Discovery Channel Review (Episode 10: Never Say Die)
21/February/2011 08:18
From the Discovery Channel program synopsis: With the arctic winter looming, the crew races against the clock. Rain and thawing snow flood the mine and Jack puts his life on the line as the glory hole caves in around the massive 100,000 pound excavator.
It is now early October on Porcupine Creek. The team has dug a hole in the ground about sixty feet deep; thirty-five below the level of the creek. As a consequence the water is flowing through the glacial flood deposit rocks like another small stream. The wet bank begins to sloughed off into the hole and Jack needs to rescue himself and the 400 excavator before being buried.
Clearly the intensions of the Gold Rush team was to dig to the bottom of the glory hole and get all the gold that was there, sadly it was probably their one and only significant seasonal goal. If by chance they were able to get some of the gold on the way down, that was a good deal. Get rich quick has really supplanted the old fashioned American Dream — or maybe that has always been the symptoms of gold fever.
We are now five months into this reality series, the Hoffman team, we are led to believe, began with enough capital for three months of efforts. Todd was able to borrow another $25,000 from his sister to help them get through the season. It seems that frugality has its rewards, or is this a entertainment reality show, the most popular adventure on television Friday nights with 65 million viewers?
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It is now early October on Porcupine Creek. The team has dug a hole in the ground about sixty feet deep; thirty-five below the level of the creek. As a consequence the water is flowing through the glacial flood deposit rocks like another small stream. The wet bank begins to sloughed off into the hole and Jack needs to rescue himself and the 400 excavator before being buried.
Clearly the intensions of the Gold Rush team was to dig to the bottom of the glory hole and get all the gold that was there, sadly it was probably their one and only significant seasonal goal. If by chance they were able to get some of the gold on the way down, that was a good deal. Get rich quick has really supplanted the old fashioned American Dream — or maybe that has always been the symptoms of gold fever.
We are now five months into this reality series, the Hoffman team, we are led to believe, began with enough capital for three months of efforts. Todd was able to borrow another $25,000 from his sister to help them get through the season. It seems that frugality has its rewards, or is this a entertainment reality show, the most popular adventure on television Friday nights with 65 million viewers?
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Gold Rush: Alaska — Discovery Channel Review (Episode 9: Bed Rock or Bust)
14/February/2011 10:00
From the Discovery Channel program synopsis: Desperate to get to bedrock and large quantities of gold, Todd and Jack throw caution to the wind and dig deeper than ever before. With the brutal Alaskan winter threatening, they battle floods, cave-ins and equipment breakdowns.
This week we finally get to see the Gold Rush team begin to actually retrieve some gold after all there work. Is it too little too late? More than likely.
From a processing perspective however, there is some good news. Another Oregon man, Byron Tolle, shows up with a Black Gold Magnetic Separator, that really does a decent job of separating small gold from magnetite.
One thing is a universal truth about hobby and small commercial gold mining operations. They design their processes from the front end — and end up with buckets and barrels of black sand they can do nothing with. Then they store them in their garage or a build black sand barn to store it in. When asked they say, “I’m rich, if I could just get the gold out of the black sand myself without getting ripped off.”
True commercial mines understand that getting the gold is not mining but material handling. In either placer or lode mining operations the truly important and money making decisions relate to how are we going to remove, process and get rid of, or stockpile the 99 or 99.9 percent of the material that has a commercial value no better than gravel or sand.
Once you get rid of all that gangue or waste material, then and only then can you really begin to design a process to get your values out of what is left. In many cases especially in lode deposits, in the process of handling all that material you currently also generate a literal mountain of hazardous wastes of various compositions.
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This week we finally get to see the Gold Rush team begin to actually retrieve some gold after all there work. Is it too little too late? More than likely.
From a processing perspective however, there is some good news. Another Oregon man, Byron Tolle, shows up with a Black Gold Magnetic Separator, that really does a decent job of separating small gold from magnetite.
One thing is a universal truth about hobby and small commercial gold mining operations. They design their processes from the front end — and end up with buckets and barrels of black sand they can do nothing with. Then they store them in their garage or a build black sand barn to store it in. When asked they say, “I’m rich, if I could just get the gold out of the black sand myself without getting ripped off.”
True commercial mines understand that getting the gold is not mining but material handling. In either placer or lode mining operations the truly important and money making decisions relate to how are we going to remove, process and get rid of, or stockpile the 99 or 99.9 percent of the material that has a commercial value no better than gravel or sand.
Once you get rid of all that gangue or waste material, then and only then can you really begin to design a process to get your values out of what is left. In many cases especially in lode deposits, in the process of handling all that material you currently also generate a literal mountain of hazardous wastes of various compositions.
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Gold Rush: Alaska — Discovery Channel Review (Episode 8: Bad Blood)
07/February/2011 04:40
From the Discovery Channel program synopsis: After a hundred days in Porcupine Creek, the miners have dug themselves into a deep financial hole. The claim's owner wants to be paid and brings in a veteran outsider to turn the operation around, leading to high tension around the claim.
Watching this show is becoming very depressing. This is supposed to be a reality show about the potential of precious metals placer mining in one of the most beautiful places in the world. Instead it has become a gloomy series about human personal blindness and technical ineptitude.
It seems, at least the way the video is being edited, the only person on site that has any clue on what is going on, as it relates to the mining operation, is the team’s “mechanical genius” James Harness. The rest of them seem to think, if we just put some rocks in the front and runs some water around with it, every now and then when something breaks down, we will clean out the plant and take out the gold, and then be completely dumbfounded why there isn’t any.
We learned this week that Fred Dakota, the expert that the claim owner put on site to save the operations, doesn’t know significantly more than the Oregon team, and has an arrogant personality to make a bad situation worse.
Through Fred’s self appointed modifications of the wash plant, the crew can now increase the through put of the wash plant by washing rocks twice the size the team was previously running. That makes perfect sense, just because there were all those eight inch in diameter golden nuggets that were ending up in the boulder tailings.
Of course the wash plant breaks down, then their little excavator and the front end loader also blow some hydraulic lines. This is all because, it seems that nobody has ever operated such a sophisticated and complicated process before?
Well, the geniuses, since they have nothing better to do, clean out the plant for the second time in three or four months to see if they are getting rich. Sure enough, this time they find a real gold nugget that looks like it might run three quarters of an ounce and a total of 3.4 ounces of gold, bringing the total take for the season, according to their understanding of just $7770, on a this week reported investment of $270,000.
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Watching this show is becoming very depressing. This is supposed to be a reality show about the potential of precious metals placer mining in one of the most beautiful places in the world. Instead it has become a gloomy series about human personal blindness and technical ineptitude.
It seems, at least the way the video is being edited, the only person on site that has any clue on what is going on, as it relates to the mining operation, is the team’s “mechanical genius” James Harness. The rest of them seem to think, if we just put some rocks in the front and runs some water around with it, every now and then when something breaks down, we will clean out the plant and take out the gold, and then be completely dumbfounded why there isn’t any.
We learned this week that Fred Dakota, the expert that the claim owner put on site to save the operations, doesn’t know significantly more than the Oregon team, and has an arrogant personality to make a bad situation worse.
Through Fred’s self appointed modifications of the wash plant, the crew can now increase the through put of the wash plant by washing rocks twice the size the team was previously running. That makes perfect sense, just because there were all those eight inch in diameter golden nuggets that were ending up in the boulder tailings.
Of course the wash plant breaks down, then their little excavator and the front end loader also blow some hydraulic lines. This is all because, it seems that nobody has ever operated such a sophisticated and complicated process before?
Well, the geniuses, since they have nothing better to do, clean out the plant for the second time in three or four months to see if they are getting rich. Sure enough, this time they find a real gold nugget that looks like it might run three quarters of an ounce and a total of 3.4 ounces of gold, bringing the total take for the season, according to their understanding of just $7770, on a this week reported investment of $270,000.
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Gold Rush: Alaska — Discovery Channel Review (Episode 7: Going For Broke)
03/February/2011 05:49
From the Discovery Channel program synopsis: With winter weather closing in, a gold recovery expert comes to help the rookies. Todd discovers a major design flaw in the equipment and is forced to make huge modifications. With the credit cards maxed out, he is forced to take desperate measures.
Seven episodes into the series we are beginning to see just how poorly this operation is and has been run from the start. It does seem to make for good reality television, but any positive relationship to a true successful small commercial mining operation seems to be totally overstated.
Last week we said that it looked like the team should be able to run a better operation by just going to one of the numerous gold trade shows around the West, or reading a placer mining book from the library or purchased online. That prior education would probably have saved $150,000 and would have had a tendency to put gold fever and Christian presumption in a more real context.
This week we learn that the glory hole for which they have been searching, was worked before, giving up 400 oz. valued at $500,000, thirty years previous. The problem with that is that in 1980 spot prices for pure gold averaged $612. That would bring in gross values of about half that, not counting refining expenses. Gold did reach a previous high of over $800 in 1980 but we are still well south of that half mill of golden nuggets.
Earl Foster, the claim owner, believes that there is $15 million left on the site. At pure spot prices today that yields a little over 11 thousand oz.; scattered somewhere over 160 acres that were high graded and worked in the 1980s, earlier this century, and with no knowledge of what took place on this specific claim a century ago. Without some verification other than Earl Foster’s thoughts, this seems a huge risk. This brings us to the question if the claim is so wonderful, why hasn't Earl done the mining himself? “No guts, No glory!”
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Seven episodes into the series we are beginning to see just how poorly this operation is and has been run from the start. It does seem to make for good reality television, but any positive relationship to a true successful small commercial mining operation seems to be totally overstated.
Last week we said that it looked like the team should be able to run a better operation by just going to one of the numerous gold trade shows around the West, or reading a placer mining book from the library or purchased online. That prior education would probably have saved $150,000 and would have had a tendency to put gold fever and Christian presumption in a more real context.
This week we learn that the glory hole for which they have been searching, was worked before, giving up 400 oz. valued at $500,000, thirty years previous. The problem with that is that in 1980 spot prices for pure gold averaged $612. That would bring in gross values of about half that, not counting refining expenses. Gold did reach a previous high of over $800 in 1980 but we are still well south of that half mill of golden nuggets.
Earl Foster, the claim owner, believes that there is $15 million left on the site. At pure spot prices today that yields a little over 11 thousand oz.; scattered somewhere over 160 acres that were high graded and worked in the 1980s, earlier this century, and with no knowledge of what took place on this specific claim a century ago. Without some verification other than Earl Foster’s thoughts, this seems a huge risk. This brings us to the question if the claim is so wonderful, why hasn't Earl done the mining himself? “No guts, No glory!”
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Gold Rush: Alaska — Discovery Channel Review (Episode 6: Gold Fever)
24/January/2011 12:00
From the Discovery Channel program synopsis: After 80 days, the miners are behind schedule and out of money. They need to find $10,000 worth of gold within two days or the families will be sent home. Meanwhile, after Dorsey struggles with the wave table, tensions flare and fists fly.
The title for this week’s episode pretty much describes this whole series. Gold Fever is simply a human psychological abnormality whereby previously normal human beings forsake everything to get rich by finding the equivalent of the Mother Lode, or the Glory Hole. Gold Fever doesn’t include getting something for nothing, but rather Gold Fever causes people to endure previously impossible hardships to overcome the symptoms, but this virtually never works.
We are six episodes into the most popular television program on Friday nights, and even now we have no clue with what is truly wrong. The team has processed 1000 yards of material, collected 30 buckets of concentrates, invested $250,000, and 80 days into the operation they have recovered 2.7 ounces of raw gold.
If there truly was gold at the site, they should have been able to get that amount of gold, with two guys and one-tenth the investment in a week or two, and then things should get smoother over time. So as we begin the second half of the series, let us briefly look at present reality, sans any Gold Fever.
The first question should be was that $15 million in gold values anywhere near a reasonable valuation. Even if the claim owner believes that this is an honest estimate and is not out to take advantage of the greenhorns from Oregon, are the values really there, in a place that looks from the pictures we have seen — to be far from an original wilderness landscape.
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The title for this week’s episode pretty much describes this whole series. Gold Fever is simply a human psychological abnormality whereby previously normal human beings forsake everything to get rich by finding the equivalent of the Mother Lode, or the Glory Hole. Gold Fever doesn’t include getting something for nothing, but rather Gold Fever causes people to endure previously impossible hardships to overcome the symptoms, but this virtually never works.
We are six episodes into the most popular television program on Friday nights, and even now we have no clue with what is truly wrong. The team has processed 1000 yards of material, collected 30 buckets of concentrates, invested $250,000, and 80 days into the operation they have recovered 2.7 ounces of raw gold.
If there truly was gold at the site, they should have been able to get that amount of gold, with two guys and one-tenth the investment in a week or two, and then things should get smoother over time. So as we begin the second half of the series, let us briefly look at present reality, sans any Gold Fever.
The first question should be was that $15 million in gold values anywhere near a reasonable valuation. Even if the claim owner believes that this is an honest estimate and is not out to take advantage of the greenhorns from Oregon, are the values really there, in a place that looks from the pictures we have seen — to be far from an original wilderness landscape.
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Gold Rush: Alaska — Discovery Channel Review (Episode 5: The Pain Barrier)
17/January/2011 11:40
From the Discovery Channel program synopsis: The miners continue to run dirt but an equipment malfunction brings the operation to a halt. Meanwhile, James Harness collapses and Jimmy Dorsey drives a wedge between himself and the crew when he takes on an extra job to earn cash.
The interesting thing about reality television is trying to figure out how reality is cut in the video editing, to make a show, and perhaps how the money involved in the program itself actually may make its way into the production.
This week’s episode, even with Dorsey heading out to do some salmon fishing and in the process making $630, watching the team fix their shaker really doesn’t get the viewers interest. One wonders if Gold Rush: Alaska is all down the sluice and through the jig from here?
The fact that they tried to build the bottom deck of the shaker out of 1/8 inch steel and then how they tried to bolt it to the shaker frame doesn’t so much show the problem with used equipment, but more the mechanical expertise of everyone involved on the team. It also questions the unloading and set up practices from the earlier episodes.
In the little time they ran, we did see that they do use miner’s moss in their sluice, but it is really just a couple of small pieces held in place with a single piece of large hole expanded metal. Furthermore we haven’t seen so far an even flow of water across the sluice itself. Unless the flow is somewhat related to the size of gold you are trying to capture, most of the gold will just be washed into the jig and then possibly through the whole process itself.
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The interesting thing about reality television is trying to figure out how reality is cut in the video editing, to make a show, and perhaps how the money involved in the program itself actually may make its way into the production.
This week’s episode, even with Dorsey heading out to do some salmon fishing and in the process making $630, watching the team fix their shaker really doesn’t get the viewers interest. One wonders if Gold Rush: Alaska is all down the sluice and through the jig from here?
The fact that they tried to build the bottom deck of the shaker out of 1/8 inch steel and then how they tried to bolt it to the shaker frame doesn’t so much show the problem with used equipment, but more the mechanical expertise of everyone involved on the team. It also questions the unloading and set up practices from the earlier episodes.
In the little time they ran, we did see that they do use miner’s moss in their sluice, but it is really just a couple of small pieces held in place with a single piece of large hole expanded metal. Furthermore we haven’t seen so far an even flow of water across the sluice itself. Unless the flow is somewhat related to the size of gold you are trying to capture, most of the gold will just be washed into the jig and then possibly through the whole process itself.
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Gold Rush: Alaska — Discovery Channel Review (Episode 4: The Ultimate Price)
10/January/2011 14:16
From the Discovery Channel program synopsis: The team attempts to finally run dirt through the wash plant. But a visit from the Department of Fish and Game reveals a violation, jeopardizing their vital water supply to the mine. Then disaster strikes as Todd's daughter fights for her life.
So with this episode of Gold Rush: Alaska we were hoping to see the team finally get to extracting gold from their claim on Porcupine Creek in the Chilkat Valley about 30 miles from Haines, Alaska. From the program we find that they hoped that they can run about 100 yards of material per day. That translates to roughly 150 tons, or 10 to 15 loads in their dump truck.
Before they can get really started however, the Man from Alaska Fish and Wildlife closes their flume from the creek, because it might entrap the small salmon during various stages of their development. To counter this they have to install an electric pump with a small enough screen to keep out the small fish and pump the water about 250 feet to their processing pond. In the process the flow to the plant drops from about 1000 gpm to perhaps less than 500 gpm.
It is interesting that nothing was said about the water discharge from the plant, which we may meet again before we get to the end of the series. Environmental restraints, especially concerning water was the major consideration when PREFER Ltd decided to exercise the opportunity to further develop air concentrators; let me explain.
Abundant water is becoming as precious as gold in much of the world. As such, virtually any rural process generally needs a water right to use the water. In temperate North America there have been more water rights issued than there is water available. Hence an operation such as we see in this program is essentially impossible, because you can’t get the water. If you did, once you do all the washing and processing, the sediment laden water can’t be discharged back to the water source.
That means even with some degree of reuse, wastewater will have to be impounded in a lagoon, or settling pond, or other sort of wastewater containment. Any fine material discharge to the water source will foul the fish spawning beds and probably have a much more significant impact upon the fish runs than any small fish that get pumped through the system. Read More...
So with this episode of Gold Rush: Alaska we were hoping to see the team finally get to extracting gold from their claim on Porcupine Creek in the Chilkat Valley about 30 miles from Haines, Alaska. From the program we find that they hoped that they can run about 100 yards of material per day. That translates to roughly 150 tons, or 10 to 15 loads in their dump truck.
Before they can get really started however, the Man from Alaska Fish and Wildlife closes their flume from the creek, because it might entrap the small salmon during various stages of their development. To counter this they have to install an electric pump with a small enough screen to keep out the small fish and pump the water about 250 feet to their processing pond. In the process the flow to the plant drops from about 1000 gpm to perhaps less than 500 gpm.
It is interesting that nothing was said about the water discharge from the plant, which we may meet again before we get to the end of the series. Environmental restraints, especially concerning water was the major consideration when PREFER Ltd decided to exercise the opportunity to further develop air concentrators; let me explain.
Abundant water is becoming as precious as gold in much of the world. As such, virtually any rural process generally needs a water right to use the water. In temperate North America there have been more water rights issued than there is water available. Hence an operation such as we see in this program is essentially impossible, because you can’t get the water. If you did, once you do all the washing and processing, the sediment laden water can’t be discharged back to the water source.
That means even with some degree of reuse, wastewater will have to be impounded in a lagoon, or settling pond, or other sort of wastewater containment. Any fine material discharge to the water source will foul the fish spawning beds and probably have a much more significant impact upon the fish runs than any small fish that get pumped through the system. Read More...
Gold Rush: Alaska — Discovery Channel Review (Episodes 1-3)
06/January/2011 18:15
Gold Fever is probably the most destructive psychological disease known to man. When infected a once sane human’s eyes will seem to gloss over, for he can no longer properly apprehend the future. I suppose it is like a gambling addiction, or maybe the business speculator’s love for “the deal.” Maybe it is similar to snookering somebody to invest in your leveraged Ponzi scheme, like we see so often in today’s financial markets.
Truly, gold fever is worse than them all, because if you succeed, the reality is that you have won at the game of life on this earth, because you will never have to pay your dues to the man again. Gold Fever means you bet your life on a hole in the ground into which you will continually pour money.
If you never succumb to the Gold Fever disease, the funny thing about precious metals investments, especially as they relate to extraction and processing from the earth, it truly is an opportunity to achieve true wealth in a bankrupt world, and maintain that wealth without ever having to worry about the affairs of man.
On Friday the Discovery Channel airs its forth episode in “this year’s most popular cable program.” For the next seven weeks we will get to see a staged reality show, that might fulfill everyone’s dream — to be filthy rich and never have to worry about the future.
Today we will make some brief observations about the first three episodes. Next week we will go into a little more in depth as the series moves forward.
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Truly, gold fever is worse than them all, because if you succeed, the reality is that you have won at the game of life on this earth, because you will never have to pay your dues to the man again. Gold Fever means you bet your life on a hole in the ground into which you will continually pour money.
If you never succumb to the Gold Fever disease, the funny thing about precious metals investments, especially as they relate to extraction and processing from the earth, it truly is an opportunity to achieve true wealth in a bankrupt world, and maintain that wealth without ever having to worry about the affairs of man.
On Friday the Discovery Channel airs its forth episode in “this year’s most popular cable program.” For the next seven weeks we will get to see a staged reality show, that might fulfill everyone’s dream — to be filthy rich and never have to worry about the future.
Today we will make some brief observations about the first three episodes. Next week we will go into a little more in depth as the series moves forward.
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Wouldn't you like to join the gold rush?
05/January/2011 09:52
Wouldn’t you like to cut your strings with the rat race? How about paying off all your debts and spend your summers out in nature making a fortune? Then I have good news for you it is possible, but it is not going to be easy!
So by limiting the hype and the hyperbola, over the holiday season I was blessed to have a number of great conversations about gold and gold mining. I also had the opportunity to walk away from one in particular where the expert, had read a couple of mining adventure tales, looked through a Keene catalog, and was now a mining expert, at least in the context of how nothing was ever going to work out, so you might just as well take your bear protection gun and blow out your brains!
Well, I guess I’m exaggerating a bit, but the reality is, in no other “legal” industry does spin, fraud, and outright lies, construct such a fascinating background. So welcome to a new place where we might not have all the answers, but the whole PREFER business model is forged around the concept of doing things differently than what has been done before. That concept focuses upon individuals and small commercial mining operations, that generally are not considered economically feasible.
When you look at mining, especially in precious metals, all that has changed is essentially economies of scale, bigger is all there is. But the reality is just as with all the gold rushes in the past, the opportunity for the little guy to do all right has never been greater, and you must be able to make it work on a pay as you go basis.
When God made the world, he put virtually all of it in small deposits, that by rat race standards can make you rich and provide you the opportunity to do the things you always wanted to do. If that Mother Lode dream seems too risky to you, you can help us develop the modern shovels and larger equipment to help others achieve that opportunity.
One way not to do any of this, is to follow the example of the folks who are the principals in The Discovery Channel’s “Gold Rush Alaska.” To use the term miners is a gross disservice to real miners, and even the bears seem to wonder why these people are there. According to the marketing hype, this is the most popular cable show of the season and since the first three episodes provide an excellent backdrop on how stupid a bunch of tenderfeet can be, I thought it would be a good idea to watch the next seven episodes give some insights that might help you dazzle your friends with your vast placer mining knowledge.
So check back here before you watch the Friday adventure (hopefully by sometime Thursday) to bring you briefly up to date. After that we will begin to make regular postings in the Gold Rush category to provide technical mining and refining tips.
So by limiting the hype and the hyperbola, over the holiday season I was blessed to have a number of great conversations about gold and gold mining. I also had the opportunity to walk away from one in particular where the expert, had read a couple of mining adventure tales, looked through a Keene catalog, and was now a mining expert, at least in the context of how nothing was ever going to work out, so you might just as well take your bear protection gun and blow out your brains!
Well, I guess I’m exaggerating a bit, but the reality is, in no other “legal” industry does spin, fraud, and outright lies, construct such a fascinating background. So welcome to a new place where we might not have all the answers, but the whole PREFER business model is forged around the concept of doing things differently than what has been done before. That concept focuses upon individuals and small commercial mining operations, that generally are not considered economically feasible.
When you look at mining, especially in precious metals, all that has changed is essentially economies of scale, bigger is all there is. But the reality is just as with all the gold rushes in the past, the opportunity for the little guy to do all right has never been greater, and you must be able to make it work on a pay as you go basis.
When God made the world, he put virtually all of it in small deposits, that by rat race standards can make you rich and provide you the opportunity to do the things you always wanted to do. If that Mother Lode dream seems too risky to you, you can help us develop the modern shovels and larger equipment to help others achieve that opportunity.
One way not to do any of this, is to follow the example of the folks who are the principals in The Discovery Channel’s “Gold Rush Alaska.” To use the term miners is a gross disservice to real miners, and even the bears seem to wonder why these people are there. According to the marketing hype, this is the most popular cable show of the season and since the first three episodes provide an excellent backdrop on how stupid a bunch of tenderfeet can be, I thought it would be a good idea to watch the next seven episodes give some insights that might help you dazzle your friends with your vast placer mining knowledge.
So check back here before you watch the Friday adventure (hopefully by sometime Thursday) to bring you briefly up to date. After that we will begin to make regular postings in the Gold Rush category to provide technical mining and refining tips.