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The Gold Panning Booklet
GoldPanning A Guide to recreational goldpanning on the Kenai Peninsula, Chugach National Forest, Alaska GoldPANNING A guide to recreational gold panning on the Kenai Peninsula, Chugach National Forest, Alaska Written by Carol Huber Chugach national Forest, anchorage, alaska & Joseph Kurtak Bureau of Land Management, anchorage, alaska Technical assistance by nathan Rathbun Bureau of Land Management, anchorage, alaska (formerly with the U.S. Bureau of Mines) graphic design and editing by David L. allen & Charles Lindemuth Chugach national Forest, anchorage, alaska graphic art by Kathy Sarns Chugach national Forest, anchorage, alaska Contents Welcome . 2 gold – Significance and Use . 3 Kenai Peninsula Mining – a History . 5 Mining Right & guidelines . 7 geology of the northern Kenai Peninsula . 9 Equipment you will need . 10 For your safety . 10 Where to look for gold . 12 How to pan . 13 Kenai Peninsula gold panning areas . 16 map1: Panning sites on the Kenai Peninsula . 17 Bertha Creek panning area . 18 map 2: Bertha Creek . 19 Six Mile Creek panning area . 20 map 3: Sixmile Creek . 21 Resurrection Creek panning area . 22 map 4: Resurrection Creek . 23 Crescent Creek panning area . 24 map 5: Crescent Creek . 25 How much gold have you found? . 26 A glossary of mining terms . 27 Further Reading… . 28 More information… . 29 Welcome Striking it rich! Finding the mother lode! ‘Tis the stuff of miners’ dreams. Unlike professional gold seekers, recreational gold pan- ners benefit mostly from the adventure. The entire family can share in the fun of prospecting and gold panning. in this booklet, we explain basic gold panning techniques, how to find gold, discuss mining rights and guidelines, and identify areas available for recreational panning on the Chugach national Forest portion of alaska’s Kenai Peninsula. -
Heart of Gold Lesson Plan Year 7
Heart of Gold Lesson Plan Year 7 Lesson 1 Separation of Gold Curriculum Links: (ACSSU112) / Year 7 / Science / Science Understanding / Chemical Sciences (ACSSU222) / Year 7 / Science / Science Understanding / Earth and Space Sciences (ACSHE119) / Year 7 / Science / Science as a Human Endeavour / Nature and Development of Science (ACSHE121) / Year 7 / Science / Science as a Human Endeavour / Use and Influence of Science Background Information: It is actually quite unusual to find large nuggets of gold and most gold prospectors actually need to separate gold out from lots of other material. Depending on where the gold is found, this may be done by panning or through dry blowing. Each of these methods relies on the property of density. As gold has a very high density compared to the rock, soil and sediments it is contained in, it can be separated out by exploiting this property as it will fall to the bottom of mixtures that are allowed to settle out. The process of panning is used when small pieces of gold are found in creeks and rivers. It involves using a large shallow dish (pan) to scoop out some of the sediments in the riverbed and a small amount of water. You use a swirling motion with the pan tipped away from you and allow small amounts of the sediments and water to spill over the edge of the pan. When you have only a small amount of the sediments remaining in the pan, you will be able to see any gold particles that remain at the bottom of the pan. During the West Australian gold rush, most of the gold was being found in dry areas and water was a scarce commodity. -
Fine Tuning Your GOLD BUDDY Drywasher. Drywashers Are an Excellent Tool to Recover Gold from Dry Material
Drywasher Components Hopper: This is where you place the raw material. A classifier screen separates the material by size allow- ing the smaller material to enter the hopper and discarding the material that is too large to pass through the machine. Angle Adjustment: Changes the angle of the Recovery Box by adjusting the chain length. Flow Gate: This is a slide gate that controls the size of Recovery Box: This is the the opening at the bottom of lower box that is pressurized the hopper which regulates by the blower and collects how fast the material in the values in the riffle system. hopper enters the recovery box. Rear Leg: Frame: This is the steel structure that holds the components in place. For illustration purposes we are calling the leg where the fine material exits the drywasher the “Front Leg” and the leg where the larger material falls off the drywasher Front Leg: the “Rear Leg”. Setting up the Hopper / Frame Step 1: Your drywasher may have slightly different frame components than the illustration but the easiest way to as- semble a drywasher is usually to place the Hopper on the ground upside down. The upper part of the front and rear legs are at- tached to the hopper and need to be lifted so that the point where they intersect can be bolted together making the frame rigid. Step 2: Attach the bottom portions of the legs and secure them with the hardware provided. The bottom portions are differ- ent widths so you cannot get them mixed up. Step 3: Flip the assembled unit right side up and it should look like this. -
S Ndlovu (PDF)
Extraction of Gold Then, Now and the Future Prof Sehliselo Ndlovu DST/NRF SARChI: Hydrometallurgy and Sustainable Development University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Building a Robust Minerals Industry 3 – 4 July 2017, Cresta Lodge, Harare University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg Founded Oct. 1896: School of Mines Approx. 37 000 Students 5 Faculties, 33 Schools, 3610 Courses >160 000 Degrees Conferred since 1922 55% Female Students 10 National Centres of Excellence Home to the Bidvest Football Club( Current PSL league Champions) Evolution in Gold Processing Past Technologies • Amalgamation • Panning Current Technologies • Cyanide leaching • Processing of Emerging and Future refractory ores Technologies • Bio-oxidation • Ionic liquids • Alternative leaching • Ultrasonic leaching reagents • Corn starch?? Past Technologies Used in Ancient Times History of gold extends back at least 6,000 years. Egypt and Mesopotamia around 4000 BC. Gravity Separation: Gold Panning Gold concentrated by washing lighter river sands with water Leaves dense gold particles Alternative- wash gold-bearing sand and gravel over a woollen fleece Traps heavier gold dust that would sink into the wool fibres. Advantages • Simplicity Disadvantages • Labour intensive Gravity Separation: Sluicing • Water is channelled to flow through a sluice-box. • Sluice-box is essentially a man-made channel with riffles (barriers) at the bottom. • Riffles create dead-zones in the water current which allows gold to drop out of suspension. Sluicing and panning results in the direct recovery of small gold nuggets and flakes. Gold Parting: Salt Cementation Process • Invented to remove Ag from Au-Ag mixtures around 6th century BC. Mix: argentiferous gold foil, common salt, brick dust or burnt clay and urine in a sealed container. -
Public Comments
Revised Willamette Mercury TMDL and Water Quality Management Plan Public Comments Watershed Management 700 NE Multnomah St. Suite 600 Portland, OR 97232 Phone: 503-229-5696 800-452-4011 www.oregon.gov/DEQ DEQ is a leader in restoring, maintaining and enhancing the quality of Oregon’s air, land and water. State of Oregon Department of Environmental Quality 1 This report prepared by: Oregon Department of Environmental Quality 700 NE Multnomah Street, Suite 600 Portland, OR 97232 1-800-452-4011 www.oregon.gov/deq Contact: Kevin Brannan Alex Liverman Andrea Matzke Priscilla Woolverton 503-229-6629 503-229-5080 503-229-5350 541-687-7347 DEQ can provide documents in an alternate format or in a language other than English upon request. Call DEQ at 800-452-4011 or email [email protected]. Table of Contents Introduction ................................................................................................................................................. 1 Comments .................................................................................................................................................... 1 1. Steven Wright, Texas ................................................................................................................... 1 2. Craig & Linda Olson, Oregon ...................................................................................................... 1 3. Tom Quintal, Oregon .................................................................................................................... 6 4. Craig -
The Pharaohs' Gold: Ancient Egyptian Metallurgy
THE PHARAOHS' GOLD: ANCIENT EGYPTIAN METALLURGY TI n an age when mining is conducted on an lode country increased in size and scale, the clam industrial scale through the use of explosives, or for more efficient means of processing ores huge draglines, and enormous ore-carriers, there grew ever more strident and in response to this is a tendency to forget that mining was, and is, an demand milling processes grew increasingly activity involving the concerted efforts of human sophisticated. Greever notes that California's beings. In his depiction of mining activities in hardrock miners first relied on arrastras and California's nineteenth-century gold fields, Chilean mills to reduce their ores. When these William S. Greever in The Bonanza West: The Story devices failed to provide satisfactory returns of the Western Mining Frontier, 1848-1900 calls to California's argonauts then began to employ mind the human factor involved in the extraction stamp mills to process their gold ores.3 of ore from beneath the earth's surface: The processes underlying the operation of a stamp mill had changed little in the centuries [T)he deepest shafts in California leading up to the California gold rush.4 Greever quartz mining went down ... about compares the basic function of a stamp to that of a three hundred feet; often a deposit was pharmacist's mortar and pestle. In its simplest worked by a tunnel into a hillside or application, a stamp was dropped repeatedly on a even an open cut. The men used hand piece of metallic ore until the ore was reduced to drills, sledges, and a little black pow powder. -
The Automobile Gold Rush in 1930S Arizona
Chapter 10 THE AUTOMOBILE GOLD RUSH IN 1930S ARIZONA ©1998 Charles Wallace Miller Today the foremost image of the 1930s that remains years m such manner that the most appropriate in our national consciousness is undoubtedly the name is unquestionably "The Automobile Gold "down and out" lifestyle. Even those far too young Rush," while many participants can only be to remember the times have this image from school described as "amateurs." California naturally led textbooks, from documentary films patched from the movement, yet Arizona saw similar activity old newsreels, and from stories of grandparents. through much of its extent. Scenes of bread lines, of makeshift shanty towns called "Hoovervilles," of "Okies" crossing the By August of 1930 an even more significant news country in broken down trucks, symbolize the era. story appeared which was indicative of the early stages of the overall movement. Near Globe, Surprisingly, many individuals who might have oth Arizona, a local youth, Jess Wolf, recovered erwise been in similar circumstances found a nom nuggets in a gulch. He exhibited his find, totalling inal job and a place to live through mining. The two ounces, in the town of Globe where copper smallest operations accounted for less than 3% of miners were just then being discharged by the total gold production. Nevertheless, they certainly major mining firms. A local rush ensued. enhanced the psychological state of their workers Significantly, Jess Wolf was age seven, and did not who could feel much more productive than many use any equipment at all. The story went out on other victims of the Depression. -
How to Find GOLD
FIND GOLD TO HOW “Whether you hunt for gold How to Find in the field and stream or in old mines, mine dumps or dredge piles, this book will guide you on your quest to GOLD recover more gold.” Metal Detecting and Panning GARRETT/L Learn effective use of a metal detector and gold pan for: AGAL • Dry panning • Wet panning • Nugget hunting • Field searching Ram Publishing Company A subsidiary of Garrett Metal Detectors ISBN-13: 978-0-915920-98-3 ISBN-10: 0-915920-98-0 $3.95 R 1881 West State Street 50395 Garland, TX 75042 AM PN 1509400 ISBN 0-915920-98-0 9 780915 920983 Charles Garrett / Roy Lagal How to Find GOLD Metal Detecting and Panning Charles Garrett/Roy Lagal HOW TO FIND GOLD © Charles L. Garrett/Roy Lagal 2007 Manufactured in the United States of America. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage or retrieval system, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information, address all inquiries to Editor, Ram Publishing Company. First printing: July 2007 2 www.garrett.com CONTENTS About the Author ...................................................5 Introduction ............................................................9 Basic Tools.............................................................11 Additional Tools ...............................................12 Using a Pan to Find Gold ....................................13 Wet Panning .....................................................14 -
Recreational Placer Mining in the Oregon Scenic Waterways System
RECREATIONAL PLACER MINING IN THE OREGON SCENIC WATERWAYS SYSTEM DAVID BERNELL JEFF BEHAN BO SHELBY AN ASSESSMENT FOR THE OREGON PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT JANUARY 2003 INR POLICY PAPER 2003-01 I n s t i t u t e f o r N a t u r a l R e s o u r c e s TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY..................................................................................................1 INTRODUCTION.............................................................................................................7 BACKGROUND...............................................................................................................7 AT ISSUE ..................................................................................................................... 11 METHODS ................................................................................................................... 14 RECREATIONAL MINING ON SCENIC WATERWAYS – THE CASES FOR AND AGAINST ....................................................................... 15 WHAT THE STAKEHOLDERS SAY................................................................................ 16 Recreational Miners....................................................................................... 16 Resource Conservation/Environmental Organizations................................ 22 Boaters............................................................................................................ 29 Sportfishing Groups ..................................................................................... -
Granite Area Mining Projects
Granite Creek Watershed Mining DEIS Appendix 8 Appendix 8 Plan Summaries and Maps (1) (Note: the complete Plans of Operations are found in the project file) A8-1 Appendix 8 Granite Creek Watershed Mining DEIS Altona Claim Description The Altona plan consists of only one placer claim. It is located in Quartz Gulch approximately one mile west of its confluence with Olive Creek. Access is from the west by the unimproved forest road 1042-970. The legal description for the claim is T.10 S., R.35 E., Section 03, W.M. Existing Condition In the past, the area was hydraulically mined along Quartz Gulch and up a draw leading to the 970 road. Both sides of the creek are lined with old tailings and overgrown with willows and small trees. The stream and most of the riparian area is located on private land. The hydro-mined draw to the north of the creek, lacks the brush but is covered with 20 foot tall Douglas Fir and Ponderosa pine. The Pete Man Ditch crosses the western edge of the claim, and private land (owned by the claimant) abuts the south and east end of the claim. The National Forest boundary is well marked along the creek and the adjacent private land. Access to the claim is by the 1042 -970 road which is classified as a level one road and is not maintained. A two track (old skid trail) takes off from the 970 road and ends at a 30 ft drop off on the edge of the previously hydro-mined draw. -
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Mining & Milling
Mining & Milling The Story of Park City 8TH GRADE SCIENCE CURRICULUM © Park City Historical Society & Museum All Rights Reserved These materials and the photographs are copyrighted by the Park City Historical Society & Museum. Permission is granted to make photocopies and transparencies of the handouts as directed in the lesson plans. Please contact the Park City Historical Society & Museum for permission to use materials for any other purpose. This program was developed by Johanna Fassbender, Curator of Education With special thanks to Richard Pick Keith J. Droste Thanks also to Courtney Cochley Josephine Janger David Hedderly-Smith James L. Hewitson Tom Barber Sydney Reed Park City Rotary Çlub Summit County Recreation, Arts and Parks Program The Underdog Foundation Dear Teachers, We hope that you will enjoy the 8th grade science curriculum and use it with your students to teach major physical and chemical con- cepts. Each lesson is keyed to the Utah Science Core Curriculum to help you deliver science instructions. Our curriculum includes history sections to provide the students with the appropriate background knowledge and get them excited about their hometown of Park City which was the unique setting for the science of mining and mineralo- gy. This goes along with our belief in an interdisciplinary approach which provides students with a more holistic knowledge and will empower them in future research projects. Almost all of the lesson plans allow for adjustments and provide you with different options, depending on the progress of your class. You can teach the entire curriculum within three weeks, or you can extend it to six weeks by slowing down the pace and reducing the workload.