Gold mining 2.
The new year's gold rush season arrives again, and Dave and his team gather in Montana. During the last gold rush season, the makeshift team harvested 80 ounces of gold, but it was only a break-even. Captain Dave decided that this year could not be too high, so he simply set a goal of 400 ounces and $600,000, but can they really achieve it?
Montana has 3,500 abandoned gold mines, and it took Dave months to finalize the two old mines that were most likely to hold large amounts of gold. His first target was the old mine on the banks of the Missouri River, where sapphires were abundant, but Dave and Jason had a monopoly on gold. Led by landowner Neil, they went to the bottom of the pit to take enough soil samples and routinely began soil gold testing.
Looking at the dense gold grains in the gold pannings, he felt that this place was very promising to become a place of wealth this year, but he could only put it on hold for the time being, because there was another waste mine that could have a large amount of gold.
Because of the bird's eye socket, one of the largest gold mining sites ever in Montana, looking at the old mine in front of him, Dave selected three locations by the creek for gold content testing based on his years of mining experience, and the test results were completed beyond his expectations, the gold content of the three test points exceeded ten dollars per yard, and the second test point reached an astonishing fifteen dollars a yard, and they finally determined that this would be the place of this year's fortune.
At the same time, the rest of the team also began preparations before the gold panning, and all equipment was fully repaired and maintained. When it was determined that the bird's eye mine was the destination, they also appeared in the field of vision with the equipment. The members of the squad were full of confidence in this gold panning, but they did not expect that it directly led to Le Ji and sadness.
Casey, a rookie who has never been good at driving, directly broke the power pile and had to pay for the repair. On the one hand, the team could not continue to move forward, and before the work began, Dave was nameless, and the helpless squad could only detour, but for them, this was the beginning of trouble.
When the equipment was assembled, mechanic Nate found the problem, the guide ring made during maintenance was not very round, which was very likely to cause the drum to wear out the four bearings underneath due to uneven pressure, resulting in the complete collapse of the entire equipment. To solve this problem, you must return to the manufacturing plant to repair it again, and the repair time is at least more than a week. For this group of people who can't wait to get rich, this is an unbearable loss, and Nate, who knows his loss, can only modify the bearing on the spot, and finally achieved good results.
The new gold rush season officially begins, Jason is still responsible for digging the soil, the rookie Casey is in charge of transportation, Chris drives the loader to carry the soil onto the conveyor belt, and the mechanic Nate is still responsible for the control of the washing equipment. Big Brother Jesse extracts the gold in the golden room, and everyone divides the labor to make sure that every piece of equipment is working normally, which seems to be a good start.
By the end of the first day, they had already sifted 850 tons of soil. The squad gathered around the sluice, and the gold particles in the concentrate gave them the hope of becoming rich. Big brother Jesse immediately began his work, in front of everyone, the gold collected on the first day was put on the scale, this statement made everyone almost drool with excitement, and the harvest of this day was far beyond their imagination.
There were various surprises at the beginning, but the gold rush team finally opened smoothly, and they harvested a full 5.3 ounces of gold on the first day, worth more than eight thousand dollars. Such results made them forget all the previous unhappiness, and the team members were looking forward to this gold rush season, but the washing equipment was abnormal again.
When Mechanic Nate found that the sluice was covered in thick sludge and the gold was being lost in large quantities, Dave suspected that it was a problem with the water pressure, and the pump was not clogged when it was picked up to check it. When they looked at the pipe, they found that the joints of the pipe were blocked, but when everything was repaired and the washing equipment continued to work, Nate found that the sluice was deposited with thick sludge again, and they had to pause all work until they could figure out why.
Since it wasn't a problem with the equipment, Dave focused his suspicions on the soil. When he came to the stockyard to check out, he found the problem, there was a lot of cohesive soil in the soil, and it was they who caused the blockage of the sluices. The clay was located exactly on both sides of the soil, and in order to remove the gold in the crack, Dave had to replace the excavator with a small bucket, which could ensure that Jason avoided the clay on both sides more precisely.
With everything ready, the washing plant is operational again, without the disturbing of cohesive soil. Everything went smoothly again, and Dave left the camp with confidence.
Do preliminary exploration work for next year's gold rush season. According to Dave's prediction, the third plot that the team is mining has at least three acres of soil, and according to previous tests, each acre contains at least 30 ounces of gold. When he returned again, there should have been at least 90 ounces of gold on the table, and Dave had only been gone for a day, but the washing equipment was once again picking the pick.
Because the bearings at the bottom of the drum had been worn out for a long time, they had to stop work and repair them again, but because they had no spare bolts on hand, Cay had to return to the city to buy them. The device was repaired again, and they have lost a full eight hours. With two acres to go before the three-acre target, everything is just getting back to normal. Jason, the bored excavator, is constantly complaining about Casey's driving skills.
Before that, Casey knew that he was a rookie and chose to endure in silence in the face of his constant accusations, but this time he no longer endured. From the initial argument to the later argument, Casey stopped working directly, determined to discuss the issue with Nathan, because Casey felt that he was targeting himself from beginning to end.
