I know what you are thinking.  It’s almost June?  Why aren’t we mining yet? I don’t know where this global ‘warming’ I was promised is, but I can tell you that doesn’t seem to be the case this year.  Its COLD.  Too cold, the ground is still frozen and there is still snow.  We had ..read more

First thing’s first.  I want to apologize for the lateness of this post.  We’ve been packed up for the season for sometime now, and knowing this was going to be the final post of the year, I wanted to put a positive spin on it.  I wanted something other than “well that sucked, and now ..read more

In the last post I explained that while our new spot ended up having spectacular gold, but we soon learned that we were only getting material brought down by small springs over the top of a bedrock cliff. For the last few weeks we’ve been working on finding the source of that gold on the ..read more

Last time, I kind of left you all wondering what kind of gold we were getting at our new spot.  Let me share with you what happened, and it’s nothing like I was expecting when I wrote the last post.   We started digging into the bottom of the hill at the new spot. Once ..read more

Things are moving right along.  In the last post I shared with you the challenges of opening up our new excavation.  It’s nothing but mud, broken slate, and a pain in the neck. With our new rock base, we we able to start testing the material.  It looked good, really good.  The gold is bigger ..read more