David was an amazingly kind and intelligent person, whom knew so much about mining in the silver valley and around the USA, than anyone I had the pleasure of coming across. He will be forever missed.
The mines montanore. There are potentials yes in the SV. Also looking in mining friendly states, WA, NV, AZ, ID, MT, in the boondocks, extremely isolated off grid, where man rarely passes by. I’m going to smartly, inexpensively rehab my own gold/silver mine operation. Reframe timber if required. Lay down a new steel track with mine cart, old school, powerful generator to provide lights that will be strung up, and provide electrical power to operate tools, and also to get air into a shaft. Build a safe heavy strength vertical mine pulley, to hoist ore vertically by hand, or with an electrical motor from a generator, up a horizontal level to unload into a old school mining cart.
Once the ore, is loaded into mining cart and made its way to daylight, start crushing ore with a portable crusher, from there process it off site. That way, there’s no need for a large gas burning 10 ton dump with hydraulic bed, having to drive deep into isolated areas and back out to main paved roads. It’s just load my pickup, put generator back into bed, my camping equipment, mining equipment, put steel gate back into adit entrance- lock it up, reset surveillance cameras. Head back and process.
Goal is to mine 2/3 tons per 2/3 days. If not more, perhaps 5/7.
I already own a smelting furnace, that in the past, have retrieved gold/silver and made my own bars with %, in the 90’s and 00’s.
It is time. It is time to create my own private bullion. That I will not sell to any large outfits that public can buy bars from online. However, I will take privately to gold/silver & coin shops, from time to time, people that have known me for decades. They keep quiet, confidentiality. I then sell directly to whom I select. Cash.
I’ll be able to old school produce 1-5-10 Oz gold bars, from my own discreet process out of my own concentrate.
Not one trace of whom I am, or where I’m located at.
In case anyone doesn’t realize, there’s been a another form of banking/money transfer in this country for decades. Gold/silver/coin shops.
It is 100% doable, because I have done it many times. So yes, those old abandoned gold mines, everybody has passed on by, absolutely produce. People just don’t want to put the work in, non interested, or feel it’s too rugged, or impossible, or too dangerous, no experience, not driven, or can not be executed. Bull crap is what I always said.
Bullpucky. You do not need millions of capital to execute this way. That’s a fallacy. Some mining companies I know, they get a kick when I showed them a bar back in the day. There like what....?
So if I produce 1 Oz bars, out of 1-2 tons ore, and extricate out 5/7 tons every 2/3 days. You can pretty much figure approx. the net and its potential. I have over the decades learned to smelt and purify. I don’t have to work with a mining outfit. My grandfather was a blacksmith and worked before that in mining in the silver valley and later in life Montana. I learned. He struck his own bars starting back in the 30’s.
I’m been known to take a tiny very remote, the more remote the better, away from any properties where people can not see me come and go, but cloaked deep into early mornings of entrance and exits under the Milky Way, and enlarge that dangerous adit, out in the boonies. It’s like riding a bicycle, you never forget old friend. I use modern equipment, powered by generators, large ones. Straight into mining walls and ceilings above, chasing veins that others found and abandoned. I pick up where they left off. I enjoy what I do and have done over the decades and have passed my knowledge onto family. It’ll go past my lifetime.
I’m in search of my next mine or mines. Goal will be to produce in house, 4 bars per 2/3 days mining hard core physical like old miners had too. Mine 12 days a month. Produce 16 bars monthly. That’s on the minimal size, I can increase by working, putting scheduling more time in. I’m a very strong and physical person, non stop 12 hours a day, and I have pulled out as much as 8 -10 tons in tight situations. Depends. But I do everything, including black powder, and operating a jack/roto powered by generators, straight into rock, respirators occasionally. I don’t F around.
It’s a lost art and practice, but I’ve never been lost.
Mav
