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Opening My Gold Mine! Part 14: End Of The Gold Mining
Opening My Gold Mine! Part 14: End Of The Gold Mining Season
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Join Jason and the dedicated crew of @mineoperator in the grand finale, “Opening My Gold Mine Part 14: Wrapping Up the Gold Mining Season.”
In this conclusive episode, the team works tirelessly to complete the mucking of the last gold ore, marking the official end of Jason’s gold mining season….
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That's a helluva lot of physical work. Glad to see plenty of good suggestions in the comments that could possibly be implemented next year.
You need some ironwork, a simple post crane and pulley so you can hoist a bag, and swing it over the truck and drop it onto the bed. The details is how to grasp and release the bag. Best of luck, Jason.
Screw a Cleat into the wood up there so that when you've pulled the buoy up, you can tie it off to hold it while loading the buoy, and then you can also use the cleat as a brake while lowering the buoy with the bag down.
Da gum that's alot of work . I'm an underground miner keep up the hard work fellas
You guys are rockin' it! Sorry for the loss of your friend and mentor.
What about using an auto belay
I keep thinking of a cable/pulley system to take advantage of the weight dropping 100' to be used to pull weight horizontally, but I think a decline on the track will reduce the effort, be less costly, and reduce complexity. Need to be able to drop one bag from the old rail system and have it slide all the way to the bottom of the 100' drop. Might require a little digging? Do you know some who is able to do that? LOL
Essentially, every time you push a full cart of ore, it should be on a slight decline. Yes, there will be times when you bring supplies back but the will be less often and lighter.
I don't comment often. Just wanted say sorry for you loss.
It seems to me that the old rails (or is it the casters that are being used?) do not provide as easy (LOL) of a glide? That aside, pull up the old rail and make a new wooden rail that has a slight decline. That should make the process much easier. If you pick up too much speed then add an incline at the end section. Do the same for the current wood section and on the curves, raise the outside track. Spending a day on that will pay huge dividends in time and effort. It's just too bad that you couldn't take advantage of the 100' drop and go from a vertical rail to a horizontal rail and avoid the double handling of one bag at a time. Another thought… line the drop shoot with large PVC pipe (cut in half to double your length or reduce the quantity needed $), then as the previous person suggested, incline the end to slow it down to a height above the cart so you are not bending down and picking bags off the floor, but rather dropping them onto the cart. Love your videos. Work smarter not harder. I'm very curious what your final gold count is at the end of the season. Also man hours, expenses and ultimate profit. Best of Luck!! P.S. Sorry for your loss.
Why dont you have two bottles, one goes up ,, the other goes down?
ditch the bouy and lower the rail height on the side and use longboard trucks with a set of heavy bushings and make a skip large enough to run 2-3 bags at a time and add a mooring post at the top that you can run the line around it and control the descent better
Could on your buoy, you have 2? Like the old mine trains where the one drops down and raises the other?
0:00: ⛏️ Jason is back in his 125-year-old gold mine, working on mucking and getting ore out to extract gold.
3:36: ⚙️ The video shows the process of using a Fender buoy as a skip bucket for sending sandbags underground.
7:30: 🎒 Workers discussing the process of moving bags down the shoot in a warehouse.
11:34: 🏋️ The video shows the process of pushing and loading heavy bags at a gold mining site.
16:10: 😅 Three miners are exhausted after a long day of hauling bags at the mine.
19:40: ⛏️ The video discusses the sale of core and Run of Mind stuff from a gold mine, as well as the process of extracting and finding gold.
23:35: ⛏️ The speaker is preparing to process a large amount of material from a mine and is eager to slab up some specimens to sell.
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Motorized wheelchairs are cheap and free if you look. One could easily be modified to run on the track. Even the small ones move much more weight than advertised.
They could be automated if you have a little electrical expertise. Those motors could be made into winches, conveyor belt drives, motorized wheelbarrows.
Might be more trouble than it’s worth but you are in the off season and a failure would still make interesting winter content.
Mybe you could name one of the tunnels or the hole mine after your good friend so he will be remembered in some way and maybe can still have his dream come true. Wish you all the best.
Can't you use one of those things you use for rappel and climbing to let it go softly? Might aswell generate energy with it on the way down :)) . I like you don't have to carry them upwards to exit the mine. If you could get a platform that held itself and stayed straight (i guess a V or U shaped container will do it you could get quite a few more bags at the same time but a bit more complex, might need iron. It is up for you to asses how much ore you expect and if it is worth it.
Would be good if you could somehow incorporate a counterweight with the buoy so it could lift itself back to the top, but still fall when loaded with rock
rope and pulley or overhead rail with rollers and hooks like in a meat packing plant. focus on the handling spots, use large rollers instead of small casters.
Slusher. Or, if you have enough flow:
Run a pipe in the ditch and shovel ore/waste in it and flush it down.
Depending on the big bags you have you could feed that drain right in to a big bag and have the water drain out the big bag straight in to a sluice/on to a shaker table and then you can save a few % of the total mass (fines settled on-site, discard the tailings on-site) and win on-site.
I‘d probably want to try à flushing system as with the thick black PE water main pipe and a small ogre (prevent blockages by oversize and over-feeding) and also sufficient water supply for wetting it down and keeping it moving down the pipe.
As soon as you can break out to the surface:
Hoist and cable tramway.
@lorenzmani123 knows his stuff on tramways and their military use in the Swiss Alps.
I am really enjoying this series. Thank you 🙂
At the end of the chute, you could use more and bigger tyres. Don't lay them flat on the ground but put them in upside position as you would roll them up the chute. Put a rope or two through the tyres to fix them in position. Pull them down to the ground so that the can give way, at the impact. Easy solution and much better dampening as the bags are stopped over a longer distance than in your solution.
Thanks for your videos and good luck from Switzerland!
if you had another bouy on the other end of the rope you could load the sencond one to bring up the first one and repeat.
Jason this might be a silly question by why don't you run electricity into the mine for like lights and fans? I know electricity isn't free, but if you were running just string lights or something a little honda generator would do the trick.
Line the wood with plastic sheeting and put a foam pad at the base to catch and absorb impact.
How can i apply to be a worker in ur mine?
How about having a wheelbarrow up at the working face? To haul around bags from muck to stack. I am worried about your backs 😂
From the blacksmith shop to the truck, how about extending the rail like you have talked about and reconstruct the deck so that you can come really close with the truck bed. Put some temporary timbers as slides between the cart and the bed and just slide the bags down. Would that be possible?
You could use those self retracting lifelines to slow down your buoy. Battery powered wheelbarrow could be also modified to assist your cart for last section.
Here’s my half baked idea; how about a series of buoys set up like dredge buckets in a loop. Hang the buoys from a dowel and a cable on each side.
A dual flywheel on top and on bottom, and a mechanism to advance one buoy at a time . Weight of the sandbags would advance the buoys with no effort.
May take a little work and some engineering…and extra cost, but it might be doable.
Have you considered extending the buey slide to lower the speed a bit? And maybe let them fall straight on the cart, trying to eliminate all the lifting moments. Thanks for a crazy season
What I don’t understand is why you don’t build a simple almost level landing chute on the bottom.
I am thinking of those garbage tubes on construction scaffolding. That would allow you to make curves and maybe a longer slide that ends straight on the cart?
use plastic for the shoot
Is it possible to use one of those huge vacuum setups like they do in opal mining?
Everyone in the comments has great duggestions. This is mostly temporary, in my opinion.
Once he tunnels through 70ft of payable ore, he then has acess to an easier to route to the entrance of the mine, cutting off several hundred ft.
You should cover the long drop chute with something with more resistance to break the falling speed of the sandbag. Some type of grippy rubber mat?
So exciting. I would make a wooden slde down to the back of the truck. less passing betweem people., less steps. faster packing on the truck.
22:48 As a Millwright, I have installed and serviced millions of feet of conveyors of ALL types. It's a fairly simple matter to setup narrow belt variable speed conveyors to move those bags out of the mine.
Figure just ball park $70 to $100 a foot maybe half that if you scrounge used stuff. Put a drive motor every 10 to 20 feet and a BIG generator!!
Probably 2 electric wheelbarrows may work. Eliminate the tracks though. Hindsight, could have saved days of track work with this type of product and time is money and saving your backs is priceless. Good luck to you guys!
So much work Jason, cant wait to see the gold come out of the ore! such a shame your friend didn't get to see your dream come to fruition, may he rest in peace
Best I can come up with is…..PAY SOMEONE ELSE to do it😊 your system works just needs bigger wheels and maybe a battery winch to lift up the bouy. Cheers and G'day from Tasmania
Single axel dump truck that can do the same volume as your large flat bed , make a staging over the top of your road out side so you can park directly underneath it run your tracks out side the rail carts go to the end and a trap door drops them straight in the back of it then just use a mini excavator when you get down to processing plant takes all the storage by the entrance out of the way and the triple handling of that area