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Recirculating your process water in a tub could be the only way to work a piece of ground in the future. This enormous fear by environmentalists that the miners are polluting the waterways is getting way out of hand. They say the dredgers are killing the fish....NO, FISHERMAN KILL FISH!
They say that the silty discharge from your dredge is burying the fish eggs and killing the fry.
NEWS FLASH...has any of these enviro-wackos ever witnessed SPRING RUNOFF?
How do they propose to control what Mother Nature dishes out each spring? Seems the fish do just fine when Mother Nature rears her ugly head but somehow, a short plume behind a dredge is instant death for anything living downstream.
Now a reasonable person would have to wonder why the "Powers That Be" aren't concerned with the huge amount of silt during spring runoff, but are proposing to enact more rules and restrictions on the dredge miners. Could it be they fear what they don't understand? I'd like to know how many of these "Rule-Makers" have ever held a gold pan in their hand? Have they ever been on the end of a 5" dredge hose, let alone see one in action.? It's like the old saying..."Those Who Can, Do. Those Who Can't, Teach" or in this case, Regulate.
Ok, I'll get off my soapbox now and show you my lineup of recirculating sluices that I plan on using this year...without permits !!!
The first one on the left is my Keene A52 with the felt flare. This will be used for handling the raw material once classified to ½".
Next one over is my new Warm & Fuzzy. 100% felt and described further in the post below. This could be used to process the cons from the Keene.
On the right is my DK Nugget Mini-Highbanker. Again, a real good cleanup sluice or running raw material classified to 3/16". They all run just fine on a 1250 GPH 12 volt pump. My water tub is a 54 gallon plastic tub purchased from Home Depot. The power supply is a DieHard 950 Power Pack.
Should the DieHard get low, I can plug in to my ATV.
If you're getting tired of all the additional rules and restrictions being proposed, give a little thought to recirculating sluices. It could just be the wave of the future.
They say that the silty discharge from your dredge is burying the fish eggs and killing the fry.
NEWS FLASH...has any of these enviro-wackos ever witnessed SPRING RUNOFF?
How do they propose to control what Mother Nature dishes out each spring? Seems the fish do just fine when Mother Nature rears her ugly head but somehow, a short plume behind a dredge is instant death for anything living downstream.
Now a reasonable person would have to wonder why the "Powers That Be" aren't concerned with the huge amount of silt during spring runoff, but are proposing to enact more rules and restrictions on the dredge miners. Could it be they fear what they don't understand? I'd like to know how many of these "Rule-Makers" have ever held a gold pan in their hand? Have they ever been on the end of a 5" dredge hose, let alone see one in action.? It's like the old saying..."Those Who Can, Do. Those Who Can't, Teach" or in this case, Regulate.
Ok, I'll get off my soapbox now and show you my lineup of recirculating sluices that I plan on using this year...without permits !!!
The first one on the left is my Keene A52 with the felt flare. This will be used for handling the raw material once classified to ½".Next one over is my new Warm & Fuzzy. 100% felt and described further in the post below. This could be used to process the cons from the Keene.
On the right is my DK Nugget Mini-Highbanker. Again, a real good cleanup sluice or running raw material classified to 3/16". They all run just fine on a 1250 GPH 12 volt pump. My water tub is a 54 gallon plastic tub purchased from Home Depot. The power supply is a DieHard 950 Power Pack.
Should the DieHard get low, I can plug in to my ATV.
If you're getting tired of all the additional rules and restrictions being proposed, give a little thought to recirculating sluices. It could just be the wave of the future.
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