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Hi MJB, It was a fairly big sized one, or at least in the prospecting world it would be considered big and it was installed up at another mine and required to be uninstalled with an oxy set and lifted onto a truck with a hiab and once I found out it had broken toggles not worth the effort so she...

Not entirely sure about the RPM, by the sound of the engine and being similar to a generator engine it'd be running around 2000-3500rpm. The engine has a throttle lever so it can be varied easily is governed so it'll hold that RPM under load. No it was a built jaw crusher, found out that the...

Hi Gabi, Another Northern Tasmanian here, sounds like you've got your foot in the door with a lease. That's the hardest part and you're past that so all the best luck for you and your son. I'm going to try for a lease up in the pipers river area but I'm waiting until I get a few more bits of...

Hi Varts, I haven't melted gold myself however I can tell you that you will struggle to get a air propane torch get hot enough to melt gold. You would be better off with a oxy propane torch or oxy acetylene torch, since gold will not oxidise it may be better off to use a slightly oxidising flame...

I have seen them and also swinging hammer types but opted for this because the "reeds crusher" also uses it so I just assumed this will do the trick. There's a big swinging hammer type out the front of the workshop, one day I'll get that going as well. She'll be right for now anyway, if she...

Thanks guys. Crusher finished and ready to be mounted The housing apart, bottom half showing the perfo outlet. Top half of crusher with the rotor in. I havent hardfaced the fins yet. The fins are 8 x 40mm flatbar. The shaft is 20mm with two 20mm self aligning bearings. The fins were tacked...

Hi everyone, I thought i'd share my petrol driven rock crusher. It's a 11hp Honda driving the crusher and the crusher chamber is about 250mm in diameter. I got my ideas from the "Reeds rock crusher" that is found on the reeds prospecting shop website. Crusher mounted in a roll cage. I should...

G'day everyone, Has anyone had any experience using cement mixers to break down clay and do rough separation? I was thinking of using one/multiple so it'd break down clay and perhaps use a wetting agent to aid the clay breakdown and stop gold from floating. I'm thinking about building a slide on...

Thanks mate, I've been going through all his old assays from the 1970's and its a very promising mine thats for sure. In one spot in the shaft an assay recorded 250g/per tonne. We're all keen to get back down the shaft but it's too sketchy and illegal without a lease. But anyway i'll just have...

G'day everyone, I'm from Launceston, Tasmania and at the moment i'm doing a little bit of scratching around up in the old Lefroy goldfeild up in the north. I'm hanging around one site in particular in the area but cant say too much about it right now. What I can say is that my workshop manager...