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Posted: 3/10/2022 12:07:31 PM EDT
All you young whipper snappers get out of that 9 to 5 and stake a claim
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Quoted: this dude owns all the available tracts worth mining. https://discovery.sndimg.com/content/dam/images/discovery/editorial/Profiles/B/DSC-GR_Tony-Beets-headshot-6x4.jpg.rend.hgtvcom.616.411.suffix/1563387969525.jpeg View Quote He can't own them all . There's got to be claims you can still make money . |
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Spend a couple December weeks in Fairbanks Alaska, cold testing for GM.
Screw that... |
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Quoted: He can't own them all . There's got to be claims you can still make money . View Quote from what i understand, all plots are owned by somebody. the impression i get is you buy or lease tracts from owners and hope you can make a profit. placer mining is what you are talking about, not hard rock and almost all placer mining is being done in places where the really good nuggets were found in the last 200 years. |
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I am sitting on a very active claim as I type this. We are doing WELL. There are claims all around this area.
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I'm sure there is a market for heavy eq operators and mechanics.
If you actually wanna go up there and make some money you better have millions in equipment geo studies and land. |
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Watch some of the shows. It would seem to be far more difficult than you think. It takes time to negotiate land leases and that doesn't mean your permits go through. This doesn't account for equipment and machinery, lodging, food, fuel, etc. Tons of startup costs. Sure, you could get investors, but who's likely to give a shit-ton of capital to "All you young whipper snappers"?
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Also all the water rights and permits fuck over a lot of good intentions
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Quoted: I am sitting on a very active claim as I type this. We are doing WELL. There are claims all around this area. View Quote Come on man.. let's here some stories. Attached File |
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Probably make more money importing talent and create an entertainment based establishment or 2.
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Quoted: from what i understand, all plots are owned by somebody. the impression i get is you buy or lease tracts from owners and hope you can make a profit. placer mining is what you are talking about, not hard rock and almost all placer mining is being done in places where the really good nuggets were found in the last 200 years. View Quote Really didn't know that. I thought you could still find sections worth mining that you could stake a claim that is not privately owned . Might be hard to get any type of heavy equipment in but you could still access it with portable small sluices . You're not going to make millions but gold at 2k an ounce ? maybe you can have a good 6 months |
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Quoted: I am sitting on a very active claim as I type this. We are doing WELL. There are claims all around this area. View Quote do you have a giant bulldozer? the impression i get is you need a giant bulldozer. eta.. seems like the biz you really wanna be in is hiring out as a biz drilling potential sites to determine gold content and depth. like everything in the gold biz, you wanna sell to the miners, not be one. |
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A gold vein in west GA runs through my place, I've been meaning to buy a pan to play in the creek with. Maybe a metal detector later if I find any flakes.
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Quoted: Watch some of the shows. It would seem to be far more difficult than you think. It takes time to negotiate land leases and that doesn't mean your permits go through. This doesn't account for equipment and machinery, lodging, food, fuel, etc. Tons of startup costs. Sure, you could get investors, but who's likely to give a shit-ton of capital to "All you young whipper snappers"? View Quote Gold rush is a pretty interesting series. You can see the rookie crews from the lower 48 going up there getting wrecked season after season only continuing because they are on discovery channel and the kid that was out there mining as soon as he was out of his diaper who still got screwed by permits and competition. I imagine there are actually some more mineral rich areas but your options for extraction will rely on what can fit in a bush plane since you probably won't be able to build a road. |
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Quoted: do you have a giant bulldozer? the impression i get is you need a giant bulldozer. eta.. seems like the biz you really wanna be in is hiring out as a biz drilling potential sites to determine gold content and depth. like everything in the gold biz, you wanna sell to the miners, not be one. View Quote Yeah we have a nice Cat. Couple bucket loaders, a few muckers, several slushers, many jacklegs, 200 class excavator, 450 class excavator...list goes on. If one of you have tools and some serious heavy equipment mechanic experience I can get you up here in a flash. Had to fire our once upon a time best mechanic just a couple weeks ago. Got hooked on some nasty shit that turned him catatonic. Flights, lodging, meals included. |
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Was stuck with the Hoffmans in Nome in September/October… no thanks
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I am not from Saginaw and don't know any fishermen's daughters.
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Americans can't just show up in Canada and go to work. Gold claims are expensive, cheap claims are a false economy. Gas in Dawson is probably $15.00 a gallon today, groceries equally$$. But the Klondike gold fields are some of the best in the world. South of there, around Atlin B.C. there is good gold, but with the same associated costs.
When I was a kid; growing up there it was always said you could make wages pretty much anywhere. A pick and shovel type of claim. You could put food on the table. Backbreaking work though. |
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Quoted:the impression i get is you need a giant bulldozer. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes There are plenty of places you can pan, just by the edge of a creek (I don't know the legal portions of this, though) Quoted:A gold vein in west GA runs through my place, I've been meaning to buy a pan to play in the creek with. Maybe a metal detector later if I find any flakes. Some interesting history for you |
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Quoted: Don't take anything to Alaska you aren't willing to leave behind. https://i.ibb.co/pPCx8Ch/16107504-10155240935073455-8360985278496829445-o.jpg View Quote I'm sure everyone will never mind leaving behind poo, just like your dog in that picture |
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If I weren't married and didn't have a business I'd try to get a heavy equipment operator job up there. I've watched the shows and could 100% run circles around most of the operators they had. I'd do it for a retirement gig but I think my wife might take issue with that .
How that Tony Beets guy hasn't been disappeared by someone after all these years of being an asshole is beyond me. Everytime he'd come on the show I was hoping someone would break his jaw. |
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Quoted: If I weren't married and didn't have a business I'd try to get a heavy equipment operator job up there. I've watched the shows and could 100% run circles around most of the operators they had. I'd do it for a retirement gig but I think my wife might take issue with that . How that Tony Beets guy hasn't been disappeared by someone after all these years of being an asshole is beyond me. Everytime he'd come on the show I was hoping someone would break his jaw. View Quote I watch the show and he seems to spend money like water with all his projects that seem to never work out |
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Because I don't know shit about mining and can make more doing what I currently do?
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Quoted: Don't take anything to Alaska you aren't willing to leave behind. https://i.ibb.co/pPCx8Ch/16107504-10155240935073455-8360985278496829445-o.jpg View Quote ENHANCE Attached File |
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Quoted: Don't take anything to Alaska you aren't willing to leave behind. https://i.ibb.co/pPCx8Ch/16107504-10155240935073455-8360985278496829445-o.jpg View Quote That's why. |
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Did Canuckistan remove the vax mandate to enter the country?
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Hoffmans/Jason’s big wash plant, they had other smaller ones. Attached File See how fake the shows are. Attached File Nodwell that Todd paid $100k for and blew up first day. Attached File |
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Quoted: There are plenty of places you can pan, just by the edge of a creek (I don't know the legal portions of this, though) Some interesting history for you View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted:the impression i get is you need a giant bulldozer. There are plenty of places you can pan, just by the edge of a creek (I don't know the legal portions of this, though) Quoted:A gold vein in west GA runs through my place, I've been meaning to buy a pan to play in the creek with. Maybe a metal detector later if I find any flakes. Some interesting history for you I'm near a town named for the wealth that gold brought to the area, Villa Rica - "City of Riches". There is a gold mining museum there now, when I was a kid I went in one mine but they are all closed off now. The mining in my area predates the larger rush in Dahlonega, GA - the saying, "There's gold in them thar hills" originated here after more gold was discovered in North GA. Actually the discovery of gold well into the Cherokee nation was one of the reasons the Indians were driven off their land. |
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I've been. Underground Mined for a company .
Drill load blast. |
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I am a third owner of a active claim up there. It's easier to be in the Army, so I do that instead.
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Quoted: Yeah we have a nice Cat. Couple bucket loaders, a few muckers, several slushers, many jacklegs, 200 class excavator, 450 class excavator...list goes on. If one of you have tools and some serious heavy equipment mechanic experience I can get you up here in a flash. Had to fire our once upon a time best mechanic just a couple weeks ago. Got hooked on some nasty shit that turned him catatonic. Flights, lodging, meals included. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: do you have a giant bulldozer? the impression i get is you need a giant bulldozer. eta.. seems like the biz you really wanna be in is hiring out as a biz drilling potential sites to determine gold content and depth. like everything in the gold biz, you wanna sell to the miners, not be one. Yeah we have a nice Cat. Couple bucket loaders, a few muckers, several slushers, many jacklegs, 200 class excavator, 450 class excavator...list goes on. If one of you have tools and some serious heavy equipment mechanic experience I can get you up here in a flash. Had to fire our once upon a time best mechanic just a couple weeks ago. Got hooked on some nasty shit that turned him catatonic. Flights, lodging, meals included. Jackleg savage checking in. |
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Quoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/523616/3D4212B3-DD08-40F0-BC39-3843A85A5460_jpe-2308451.JPG Hoffmans/Jason’s big wash plant, they had other smaller ones. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/523616/371C1C0A-28A3-4EF7-A012-0EDE653D62A1_jpe-2308452.JPG See how fake the shows are. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/523616/7C4AC805-04A8-40DE-89BD-A401155E6EDD_jpe-2308453.JPG Nodwell that Todd paid $100k for and blew up first day. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/523616/F531D22A-3CA0-49F7-AB9B-86055B09CDD4_jpe-2308456.JPG View Quote Reality TV isn't reality. Say it ain't so |
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I was offered a job as a prospector in Yukon and northern BC. I really wanted to do it but didn't think it was fair to have three children and never be home.
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a) its cold
b) I watched the shows and apparently you have to do nothing but get into arguments and have a life full of day time soap opera drama ..nope. |
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Quoted: A gold vein in west GA runs through my place, I've been meaning to buy a pan to play in the creek with. Maybe a metal detector later if I find any flakes. View Quote |
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Quoted: ENHANCE https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/123862/8A865978-09CC-4C00-9C5E-CA57503A9181_jpe-2308447.JPG View Quote God that cold weather to squat outside. |
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