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To: hubris33 who wrote (29197)	1/9/2007 12:29:59 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78424

If you've got gold at the edge/interface with water you could suck up 3,500 gallon batches with a Vactor and have water and sediment in one load!? # u huh and what do you do with the water after? I dude this befoah. Wad you du is dig it drie and then process it with some smallish water, say 50% and then suck it dry and put it back dry. werks fer me. wad u think of is the envi regs and how best to beat em.. first. then u look at cost to do it. i think gravity is best. safest, cheapest easiest on regs. optimize that first and if not then floation, maybe. flotation has been tried and can be permitted but it gets so so recovery and the envi regs are harder. not that much harder, but way way more expensive to do. de-ox regrind etc etc.. biggie capex. gravity way cheap capex. first try gravity. I done used differ type of pumps before. Toyo impeller pumps werk gude to 70% density. But they deliver varying densities in operation at the bottom. have to smooth out density with other pumps and surge tanks for feeding to recovery equipment. So dig dry and add sand to water. process is king here. how dig tailings pond? in winter. use noggin. otherwise got all kinds of water pump effluent problems. magnify cost. Huh? No permit needed? # Not for a five ton sample. For a 20,000 tons in situ processing job, yes, all permits apply. What kind of environmental regulator will allow one to dig up some dirt or dredge sediment without a permit? Then you want to put it back in place after you have treated it? Sounds like an environmental disaster waiting to happen! # no that is the way to do it. no disturbance no effluent. our regewlaterz do not allow much diffie than CA. you don't rede me rite. <g> Just be glad you aren't in the Peoples Republic of California! # ahnold loves you.