VoyForums
[ Show ]
Support VoyForums
[ Shrink ]
VoyForums Announcement: Programming and providing support for this service has been a labor of love since 1997. We are one of the few services online who values our users' privacy, and have never sold your information. We have even fought hard to defend your privacy in legal cases; however, we've done it with almost no financial support -- paying out of pocket to continue providing the service. Due to the issues imposed on us by advertisers, we also stopped hosting most ads on the forums many years ago. We hope you appreciate our efforts.

Show your support by donating any amount. (Note: We are still technically a for-profit company, so your contribution is not tax-deductible.) PayPal Acct: Feedback:

Donate to VoyForums (PayPal):

[ Login ] [ Contact Forum Admin ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: 1, 2, 3, [4], 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 ]

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Date Posted: 01:02:11 05/11/03 Sun
Author: Chris Ralph
Subject: For Jim Straight & others: On sweeping tailings, old Nevada gold mines, Etc.

In thinking about sweeping mill tailings, maybe the surface of the mill tailings gets enriched by wind action. Lord knows there is enough wind in Nevada. Gold and sulfides are heavier than quartz for same sized particles. Kind of like the process that forms desert pavement. Although it is true that many mill tailings have been treated or buried by heap leach projects, not all have suffered this fate. I know of at least 3 small ones in the Majuba Mtn. area that were never cyanided, have their primary values in gold, and still exist. All 3 are from ores mined at Scossa. Since I'm going to the Majuba area next weekend, I think I'll sweep some samples off the surface and treat them in my blue bowl. I'll turn the water speed down real slow so as to do my best not to loose any fine gold. I'll let you know the results.

On the 7T high grade "table decoration" rocks, I am not surprised. 7T produced some small amounts of very high grade ore. I know of a report where one early day lease was sacking rock grading $100,000 per ton. I doubt they produced a whole lot of it, but that rock was worth $50 per pound - mostly in electrum. Maybe grandma's rocks were well worth her $50 share. I'll bet the stuff outside in the garden wasn't nearly as high a grade, but it still might be pretty good stuff.

Jim, I am interested in what you know about the little gold district of Scossa. I assume Mr. Chandler lived in the lone house that still stands there at the townsite of Scossa (where in the world did he get drinking water to live out there). I think the house is pictured somewhere in your most recent volume of the "Follow the Drywashers" book. By the way, I went to Darryl Nelson's prospectors shop here in Reno, and he is all out of copies of "Follow the Drywashers" - he sold his last one. So you might call him and offer to sell him some. I wanted to buy a copy and he was all out. Are you working on a new version?

I am also interested in what you might know about the old Arizona Mine - another silver mine in Pershing County which carries significant tungsten values. I am not so much interested in the newer southern workings of the mine which were opened in the 1920's and were worked to the late 50's by Mr. Ernst, but I am interested in the older, northern part of the mine, above Unionville, which was worked in the late 1860's to 1880's. This part of the mine had an aerial tramway that carried ore down the hill. I took some assays of spilled ore at the foot of that tramway a few years ago and got 53 oz / ton silver and 0.05 oz / ton gold.

Chris Ralph

PS - Decided to consolidate other discussions here, is that OK?

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Replies:

[ Contact Forum Admin ]

Forum timezone: GMT-6
VF Version: 3.00b, ConfDB:
Before posting please read our privacy policy.
VoyForums(tm) is a Free Service from Voyager Info-Systems.
Copyright © 1998-2019 Voyager Info-Systems. All Rights Reserved.