800 Tons of Washed (DG) Sand from Gold Mine

[droekle]

I am in Southern California and I have approximately 800 tons of "Washed (DG) Sand from a gold mining operation For Sale.

According to the mine owner, this sand has lots of gold in it, but his process at the present time is not capturing all of it.

I am looking for either a partner to help extract the gold out of this sand or sell the sand to someone other than a construction company to be used for "road bed".

The owner knows there is quite a bit of gold in this sand, but he is content to pull what he can out and leave the rest for someone else.

Let me know if you are interested in doing some type of partnership agreement and have the necessary expertise and equipment to process this amount of sand.

Thanks,

Dave

 

[Fournines]

"According to the owner...."

Be careful. Many fortunes have been lost with those words.

How do you know the sand has anything? Have you had it assayed?

If he knows there is quite a bit of gold in it...guaranteed he'd be trying to get the material out.

What defines, "Quite a bit?"

1 gram per ton
5 grams per ton?
0.25 grams per ton?

 

[Reno Chris]

but he is content to pull what he can out and leave the rest for someone else.

That kind of statement just doesn't make any sense.

Its sort of like saying:
"I dropped a wad of $100 bills on the ground, but I'd had a busy day and didn't want to bend over, so I just walked away."

Gold is not hard to recover from sand. Why would you leave it behind unless we are talking about leaving behind trace amounts.

If I said:
"I dropped a penny on the ground, but I'd had a busy day and didn't want to bend over, so I just walked away."

With that version of my statement, you might believe it.

 

[Militoy]

I know of several Southern California sand and gravel operators that successfully added gold separation to their processing plants many years ago. It seems to me a gold mining operation ought to be able to figure out how to do the same thing - since gold is the primary object of their operation. Perhaps they should just offer to run their gold-laden washed sand through a sand plant like the ones in Azuza Canyon or Santa Clarita. If the values are less than they are able to economically collect in a commercial operation, maybe the material is worth more as building material, than for any PM values it contains. The streets of California truly are paved with gold!

 

[rocksrule]

Hi Dave! What you say is true! You'd be amazed at the amount of gold found throughout sand and gravel properties. But shhhhh....let's not tell anyone else! Regarding your proposal....if we can pare it down to a slightly smaller dose, then heck yea....sign us up! Now what do we do? What's the protocol for sharing contact information? Anyone know? Well, assuming we're all grown-ups and fairly intelligent, we'll get it figured out. In the meantime dust off your gold pan and start washing, swooshing, sloshing and digging! But most importantly, have some fun! Hope to hear back soon, Lil' Chipmunk and The Greek!

 

[Anonymous]

Hi Dave! What you say is true! You'd be amazed at the amount of gold found throughout sand and gravel properties.

Does anyone else smell fish?

But shhhhh....let's not tell anyone else!

Yeh.....let's do something intelligent, like post it on a public forum for the entire planet to read.I may be wrong,but I doubt it.
You wrote your respone in such a manner,that it sounds like you are trying to sell US on the idea.
Just doesn't add up.

 

[patnor1011]

Ya, ya.... Mainly if member with one post referring to super-business of another member with one post. Both of them joined and posted their first post in a matter of few hours.

 

[eddie0737]

Con Con Con. Next they will be saying it is in West Africa not Cali

 

[overdriv]

Ok. There is still gold coming out of Azusa Canyon. I have seen a documentary on a guy that lives up in that area and goes around collecting black sand from sewers and such and then processes it in his back yard. With some success. This whole thing about "washed gravel" (what was washed out of it - any gold that was there) does seem too good to be true. I am glad you are the proud owner and not me. Good luck. Try Action Mining, maybe they will process it for you.