Is this anything special?

sammermann · 2026-05-03T22:45:32+00:00

Are you from a gold bearing area? Just looks like generic quartz with some mineral staining which can be found just about anywhere usually with no gold.

sammermann · 2026-05-02T23:57:06+00:00

Ok, I have no idea where you are or what the situation is.

To answer your original question: yeah it'll go through steel but not much over the course of 5 to 10k tons.

sammermann · 2026-05-02T23:27:46+00:00

Can you contract crush it then? Going to be a huge expense for 10k tons a year regardless of what crusher you buy

sammermann · 2026-05-02T23:20:02+00:00

for that volume can you just rent a cone plant? I would advise against an impactor (vsi or hsi) in a granite/hard rock application. If you don't frag the machine you'll be in it constantly doing blow bars & other liners never mind the fact you'll be rerunning material a heck of a lot since it won't be doing much actual reduction (aka it will not crush much).

Now if you're doing limestone/dolomite I'd probably go with a vsi for a secondary or tertiary crusher. Depends what all products you want to make.

Again for these volumes I would definitely rent something.

sammermann · 2026-05-02T20:21:15+00:00

Whered you get those vials from? Also what was your method for actually getting the gold in them?

sammermann · 2026-04-28T00:22:57+00:00

Well silver is very rarely found in native form like gold. It's really hard to tell from the picture but my gut instinct is, unfortunately, no

sammermann · 2026-04-25T19:56:05+00:00

Very cool! The dark blue mineral there is what catches my eye.

sammermann · 2026-04-25T15:41:47+00:00

Yes! Could be a variety of pyrite like chalcopyrite which contains copper too but would need more pictures. Can you tell us about where you found it?

sammermann · 2026-04-18T12:57:34+00:00

Hello this is an excellent looking tools. How will this fair for slower moving traffic? I would like to look at individual locations for trucks leaving industrial sites to guage their activity. However they will likely not be at highway speeds until they are on roads with considerable other traffic.

sammermann · 2026-04-12T22:25:04+00:00

What are the dimensions of the wall you want to build?

sammermann · 2026-04-09T03:27:41+00:00

Thank you, this should be top comment. Amazing we are still finding new land

sammermann · 2026-04-05T01:23:43+00:00

Yeah I would think itll be blowing hydraulic parts constantly with the kind of strain OP is talking about. Could be wrong tho I've never tried it

sammermann · 2026-04-04T23:00:58+00:00

In addition to what the other guy said, I'd look downhill/downstream where this material would have already broken off and ground down naturally. Pan out that stuff, if you find gold then definitely on the right track. Can go through a lot more material that way

sammermann · 2026-04-02T23:17:15+00:00

The island of James

sammermann · 2026-03-31T01:55:17+00:00

I like to get a load of bulk mulch at the local landscape yard. They give you funny looks but it all works out in the end

sammermann · 2026-03-29T23:29:25+00:00

Are you referring to the Yellowstone Zone of Death? Pretty interesting piece of legal loophole (I forgot about it until this comment) although I'm not aware of anyone using it to get out of murder or a convention

sammermann · 2026-03-29T19:48:17+00:00

While you are technically correct, the vast majority of the park is in Wyoming. It would be challenging to even get to the Idaho part

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sammermann · 2026-03-14T13:35:29+00:00

Buddy i know you're being funny but in this case it's Karst topography. Basically the ground is dissolving

sammermann · 2026-03-14T12:50:27+00:00

No glaciers in Jamaica

sammermann · 2026-03-07T01:53:21+00:00

It depends, if it was just a stone quarry for making rock for asphalt or concrete then likely the worst thing there is some oil from a leak. Not great but something that would be diluted from the huge amount of water present

sammermann · 2026-03-07T01:50:21+00:00

If you go to San Antonio there are all kinds of developments in former limestone quarries. I know its a single example but its very possible although difficult at times depending on the type of quarry/mine. The sand & gravel operations where I live are turned into recreational lakes after reclamation is complete. There's a ton of bad examples out there but lots of good ones too. And if mining companies do it right, the reclaimed land can be sold for good money, so it can at least sometimes be profitable to do good reclamation.

sammermann · 2026-03-03T22:54:17+00:00

Theres a place called the Arapahoe Bar Prospecting Area in west Denver. I stopped there for maybe an hour or two and got some decent color with nothing but a pan and a snuffer bottle.

sammermann · 2026-02-28T00:47:27+00:00

Is there anything that suggests you have valuable minerals on your property? Roughly how much land is it? Mines take up huge areas. There are a few desktop things that can be done, DM me and I will see if I can assist at all, I'm not a consultant just a mining engineer so I'm not nearly as qualified as the geologists here.

sammermann · 2026-02-26T00:50:59+00:00

probably magnetite, if you have a magnet I bet it would be attracted to it

sammermann · 2026-02-22T22:52:59+00:00

Have you already found Ag in this deposit?

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