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Yeah if you had that dumping strait into a hammer mill of equal size then into a sluicing system you would have your own mobile processing plant and with good ore you could cover hire cost by smoko :-)

Haha nice bit of kit although the output size at the smallest is 10mm so only good as a 1st stage crusher still need to get that out down to around 1mm depending on how you are processing your ore.

its seems you have been beaten to it these guys have had this type of crusher out for some time http://cobracrusher.com

its pyrite for sure not galena

Hey mate did you end up crushing some of that quartz. because the only way really to tell if a lode has gold in it is to crush it. I found similar looking stuff and its worth just on 1g per tonne but not rich enough for me to take to it with hammer and chisel. If you with in 50km of Ballarat you...

Hey mate i am not to certain i understand what you mean but that one would think that the bigger the rocks the better the gold. and if its quartz even better.

Altama's are great boots real comfortable :-) don't have to worry about snakes mate they are a good high boot and think enough to stop a snake

Snake first aid is rather simple but must be applied correctly from my time in the army this was drilled into us every year as snakes can bite trough most clothing I certainly would not trust jeans or overalls to stop a snake bite, as the fangs on the Taipan can reach 12mm and only need to cut...

One advantage of a long sluice is you can feed it harder and wont loose gold because you give the gold enough time to settle out. My latest build is 1800mm x 300mm and i have almost no losses. though mine does break down into 2 halves for transport.

Yeah mate sluice is 1800mm x 300mm x 200mm and the hoppers is 800mm x 285mm x 200mm very strait forward and i just used a piece of cable tray in the top hopper i had grizzlies at first but didn't quite make em right so went with cable tray until i can get a new set made up. and if you run...

Hey mate I can tell you this if you are going to get serious about gold you will soon become frustrated with the labor intensive walbanker, a hopper takes all the mucking about out of the picture take a look at my latest build its the same size as the walbanker with no taper in the sluice and...

looking good mate. I have almost got my box working a treat and gone through many design changes I would suggest changing the bread create for expanded metal I use the alloy one that has diamonds of about 30mm across and it works a treat on fine gold it has great exchange!!! also run the ribbed...

Yeah i use the basic mix of salt pepper and coriander and i mix malt vinegar and Worcestershire source sometimes i use paprika or some other chili to spice it up abit. I take a large flat dish and layer spice meat spice ect and giving it a squirt of the vinegar mix as i go along then let it sit...

Hey Willo I been making Biltong for years, being south african its in my blood haha. Looks you are on the right track I have a similar size unit and make around 7kg per run though my dad and i build one that can handle 3-4 times that. what is your spice mix looking like and do you pre salt or...

yeah the flow can very but you box should be in the same league as the viper and that is recommended to have no less than 6500gph or 21000lph. but the main thing to get rite is that the water in you box is deep enough with enough velocity to allow proper transfer of material. so you could just...

Hey Mate sounds like a good sized highbanker I like gold hog mats and am planning to add them into my new high banker one day just made with a 1800x300x200 bottom box for that purpose. What is the water flow on the pump you looking at because that could be the only thing it might not have the...

hey i am in ballarat and know a few mines that would like to check out if you keen

Try this out turn you phone into a microscope using a laser pointer lens http://kottke.org/13/10/turn-your-iphone-into-a-microscope I will build one as soon as i find my old laser pointer haha

It just means that the mineral you are looking at is reflecting light that is a consistent in its wave length to yellow light and so its negative is blue. Though it looks very cool and is a interesting find

I recently read that there is a push to refer to all pink sapphires as ruby's as the chemical formulas are identical Al2O3, ruby and pinks get the color from from the addition of chromium and iron and the both should glow under UV light so literally they are the same stone with 2 names.