Their circuit starts with the jaw crusher hopper feeder hammer mill and
then they pump with a slurry pump onto one of these two primary tables, and then
they take the cons off the primary table and send them back to the Mount Baker
Mining shaker table, or the finishing table.
This is the finishing table, all the waste,
which actually in this case, they tell me it's lava rock, all the lava rock
has been removed by the primary table, and they're using this as a finishing table.
And so, both of the heavies, which I both believe are sulfides, come down to about halfway up the ramp into the number 3
Some of the heavier, dense materials are coming up along grooves onto the cleaning plane, and then,
every once and a while, you'll see a piece of gold come over.
And they don't have a real high flow of gold, but any of the pieces are fairly good size.
There's the tailings pile that they've got, it's probably ten foot tall
and end to end is probably 30 foot long.
Comes out this steel settling basin here.
Sam's crew augurs it up, dumps it in,
and they clean it out with the back hoe.
These are the jaw plates in this 8 by 12, and this is after about 150 tons. And
what this tells me is the material that running is really quite soft. It may be
quite abrasive, but it's it's soft and it doesn't take much for the jaw crusher to
pulverize it. The corrugations are still very prominent, there's very little work
on the jaws. The stationary jaw has a few spots where there's some erosion
starting on the peak of the corrugations with the swing jaw, but boy, from here
just looks very much intact so everything looks good up here.
These are hammers that came out of the hammer mill
after about 100 tons of ore had been run.
Some of these are clearly still useable,
but it was interesting because I believe these hammers were probably
in the middle.
These two we're closer to the edges
and these two were on the edges. And I say that because both the end and
the face of these last two are worn,
which is characteristic of the hammers on the outside next to
hammer mill hood housing. These are the cathodes right here, so what will happen
is each one of these will carry up to 30 pounds max of gold, so what happens
is you're pregnant bleach is in this container here,
he gets pumped up and then shot through and inject it into the electrowinning
tank. The rectifier is what gives the charge to these plates, it gives the
positive charge for the negative ions that are in that bleach solution. So it
goes for my negative, hits the plate, it becomes a positive the gold ion bonds
and from there becomes a semi metallic gold until you actually smelt. And what
are the cathodes material? These there's two different ones you can use for a
majority of my processes I these are kind of a copper like a copper mesh. So
once the gold plates on there how do you get it off? At that point you take the
the cathode out and then in there, dry it and then at that point you can either