Boondog Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 Hi guys and gals . I have a small dozer #7000 with 7 foot blade just the right size fora small scrap and detect operation. I have a full time job on our claim next summer here in CAbut nothing doing this winter, so I thought I see if anyone in the southwest might want to team up.You got a claim with POO or may be a patented claim. Just thought I'd throw it out there and see what happens.You can check me out if you like at http://mineralexpeditions.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xt18000 Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 Why not make a run through the local BLM or NF parking lot then hand them a Plan of Operation, be sure to have your camera ready !!!! Or maybe the Gov.s front yard. I think that would be a blast !You could tell them you want to do reserch on some darn rat and that is the best and most ECO. way of doing it . Better yet tell them your going to transplant them very rare yellow minerals that have eroded out of there native habitat and you are afraid they will become extinct and will transplant them to a safer location before they are. Good Luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goldfinger Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 Browsed through your website and found it very interesting. Thanks for posting the link.Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlakMagnet Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 What a great website,very well set out and super interesting.When I used to dredge, Slate Creek was one of the spots I wanted to go most of all.it was right on top of my list of "if I could go anywhere to dredge."What a beautiful area.It looks as though you are highly experienced and I am sure anyonewho needs some scrapping done would find your dozer the perfect way to go.Best of luck with it...Flak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boondog Posted November 29, 2011 Author Share Posted November 29, 2011 Thanks guys for the feed back on my web site!!Slate creek was a great place to cut my teeth on prospecting, I still have a claim in the La Porte district but its upoff slate creek in a old hydraulic pit. I just can't get the La Porte district out of my blood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goldfinger Posted November 29, 2011 Share Posted November 29, 2011 By the way, being a lifelong rock hound- I was particularly interested in the petrified wood from Blue Forest. I visited the Green River formation a few years ago and dug for fish ossils. Had I known about that site- I would have stopped there also. Beautiful looking material.Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boondog Posted November 30, 2011 Author Share Posted November 30, 2011 Steve the Blue forest is a fascinating dig I highly recommend it. You can expect to dig deep 3-4 feet for the prized wood but there are plenty ofholes others have left, they have already done a lot of the digging for you. And to see the heard of wild horses is way cool. The soil is not hard to dig in.TG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nugget Shooter Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 I know some places I would like to do a push, but trouble would follow sadly..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red_desert Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 I can remember an old Fisher Gold Bug ad from back in the 1990s. There was a mining operation out somewhere in Nevada. Two guys, each running the gold detectors while 3rd person scraped the surface. They all got paid in raw gold. Showed 1 lb of gold nuggets, must be what was recovered in a month. Pay your help by the month, in raw gold split up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Dorado Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 I know some places I would like to do a push, but trouble would follow sadly.....X2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garimpo Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 I can remember an old Fisher Gold Bug ad from back in the 1990s. There was a mining operation out somewhere in Nevada. Two guys, each running the gold detectors while 3rd person scraped the surface. They all got paid in raw gold. Showed 1 lb of gold nuggets, must be what was recovered in a month. Pay your help by the month, in raw gold split up.That's how we do it here on a push....the norm is 10% to the land owner and 50% to the tractor owner... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red_desert Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 That's how we do it here on a push....the norm is 10% to the land owner and 50% to the tractor owner...Yeah garimpo, you know there has to be more productive ways of gold prospecting these dry areas. I've been to a claim where the old timers blasted away the gravel, from a low quartz/gravel hillside with dynamite. Plenty of room left on the rest of it for a dozer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boondog Posted December 2, 2011 Author Share Posted December 2, 2011 There's a good article in the Dec 2007 issue of ICMJ on Small- Scale Mining With a Dozer and Metal Detectors by Chris Ralph.Seem three or four guy pooled their funds and set up a operation. They were on patented property so it made things easier as far as PoO and such.It can't be imposable to get something going ,may not be a walk in the park but hay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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