This is a man who came up from the underground with a sack of ore
and this is there jaw crusher in Kenya
He is crushing it down, you see the gravel size he is crushing it down to
and this will go directly into the ball mill
and this is all by hand with a hammer
and than he will take it over here
to the ball mill, she is putting her ore in
couple two or three sacks go into the ball mill
over here this is where,
the ore comes up damp
and they dry the ore on these tarps
because it needs to be dry to go into the ball mill
This women over here I think is drying her ore
They may wait two or three days to run there material
and the women have a little pit over here
this women is carrying a small child on her back
these women are not allowed to go underground
So, they haft to scavenge the dump piles
on the surface and they are working together
and they have put it in these sacks
than they will take it over to the ball mill to crush it and than sluice it
The women really
scavenge what they can from the surface
This guy just started up his ball mill
Here is his clutch
tightens up the belt and engages the ball mill
That's how they start and stop the ball mill with that stick as there clutch
Hot I bet, yeah
he wants it finer
we are going to run more
I see, he is putting his screen on so that the balls stay in
He has a wedge
and this guy is his ore
The guy in the green shirt is the operator
He is going engage and disengage the clutch so it drops ore out of the bottom
That's how they empty the ball mill
This is the material that comes out
the bottom of the ball mill
it does a pretty good job at crushing, maybe 20mesh 20 mesh minus
with a little few bigger pieces
Currently what they do after it comes out of the ball mill
they take it over to one of there locally made sluices
like this women is using right here
and they wash the material with a bucket
down the sluice. The sluice looks like it has nothing other than some carpet
no ripples, no expanded metals
They are loosing a lot of gold, you can see the tailing piles all around them
We are going to re-run all the tailings on the shaker table and recover more gold