Thursday, December 27, 2012

Itching to prospect and a blog post


   I hope everyone had a good holiday. Mine was just swell except for the blizzard. This is kind of an odd week for the PaystreakTV blog. Jungle gold is over and this weeks episode of Gold rush Alaska looks to be one of those behind the scenes special shows.  I guess it's cool if you like to see that kind of stuff. I am just being honest when I tell you I am not one of those people. I don't really care how they record the show I am just happy they do. Hopefully they get back to business next week so I will have something to review.  On a brighter note the winter solstice (aka doomsday) was December 21 and the earth did not blow up or get hit or get galacticly  aligned with a black hole. The jury is still out on the polar shift but if it does happen I am kind of hoping Ohio will get a little closer to the equator. At least now we can start to see the sun a bit longer each day . I can't wait for spring. I don't know about you all but I am ready to prospect.
   Knox and Naz are my gold guarding dogs. I can't figure out why but when they get out in the snow they never want to come back inside. I think they would be content to stay out all day and guard the yard from all the neighborhood cats and rogue ninja birds. I wish I could leave them out but the problem is when I say they guard the yard what I really mean is they can bark for hours. I try to be considerate of the neighbors.


Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Gold rush Alaska 12/14/2012 review and thoughts. Updated gold tally


I am sorry for not posting my review this last weekend. With the tragedy in Connecticut still stinging in my brain I didn't feel much like writing. I focused on my family instead. My thoughts and prayers go out to the families who lost their loved ones. I have nothing else to say about this except, if you haven't already, hug your kids.

   I am going to start this weeks review at the Big nugget mine. Parker Schnabel finished his new access road to Smith creek. After running a bit of material he came up empty. Parker got some advice from Tony Beets. Tony is a well known and knowledgeable miner and a big supporter of the drill first mine later method. He told Parker to drill and that's what he did.  Now I was under the impression that Parker worked all winter getting Smith creek cut down to gravel. My impression was incorrect much to my dismay and much to Parker's dismay his first test hole went to like eighty feet before he hit bedrock. Not sure what he is going to do now. I would like to see a few more holes drilled before throwing the towel in on Smith creek. I guess we will wait and see but this is some rotten luck.

   Across the river at Porcupine creek the Dakota boys are in the glory hole again and it's still producing gold. They should really send Jack Hoffman a fruit basket or something as a thank you for digging it so deep for them in season 1. Fred found a hole within the glory hole. He tested the gravel and found a lot of color in it. With the test dirt looking good the Hurt's went to town. They ended up pulling out 18.7 ounces of gold when they cleaned up. That's around thirty grand if you turn the gold into green so no more nickle and dime stuff for them I hope.

   Last but not least the Hoffman crews. Todd's turbo trommel is turning out to be just a regular old trommel and it doesn't run very well. I don't know why they even call it a turbo. I can run dirt faster with my mini sluice. He tried half speed but the motor is still undersized so it still overheats. Todd had to shut it down by the end of the show and have team Turrin wipe his butt for him again. After two big weeks Indian river was in tweak mode. Adjusting, modifying, and doing maintenance so needless to say they were not running at the time. With Todd failing to produce any gold Indian river had to buck up, get their wash plant back online and get the last seven ounces. They pulled it off and then some with clean up weighing in at 21 ounces. All I have to say is it's a good thing Dave Turrin didn't fall for that turbo trommel trick in the beginning of the season. What do you think about the show or gold prospecting in general? Comments are always welcome below. If you like reading my blog pass it on and don't forget to subscribe or follow. Thanks for the visit.


Gold rush Alaska gold tally


Hoffman Indian river
115 oz= $185,000

The Big Nugget
80 oz =$131,150

Dakota Boys
27 oz =$42,571
     

 

 

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

PaystreakTV season 2 gold prospecting finale

I am sad to say that PaystreakTV season 2 is over. The cold wet Ohio winter has begun. I put together a montage of some of my favorite times over the last two seasons. I wish to thank all the viewers for viewing and all the subscribers for subscribing. You all have been great and I had a lot of fun doing the show. Watch for season 3 this spring on Youtube. We are in desperate need of some equipment repair and some rest. After that I think I want to figure out and build some kind of a dredge. Maybe I will do that in my shop and record some videos to get us all through the next 4 months. Anyways here is my PaystreakTV season 2 finale. Enjoy! Special thanks to www.soundjay.com for the royalty free music! >

Sunday, December 9, 2012

Jungle gold 12/7/2012 review and thoughts

   This was the season finale for "Jungle gold". In my opinion it didn't come quick enough.  It is no suprise that George and Scott failed and went home even further in debt. What I don't know is how much of this show was just scripted drama. I suspect a lot of it but who knows what Discovery channel was thinking with this show.  If you watched this week you got to see the guys do a large back road gold deal in a last stitch effort to save the season. You also got to see them road blocked and robbed of said gold. The stupidity, if it's real is just mind boggling. Why in the world are they doing something like this without a gun and why are they stopping for a road block? If that was me I would be in four wheel drive and going through them. Here is another safety tip. If you are in a third world country with a $70,000 dollar gold bar in your truck DON'T STOP THE VEHICLE!  I am happy Jungle gold is over. I don't know how much more I could take. George said they were coming back so investors beware. I only hope that there is not a season 2 in the works. What's your opinion on Jungle gold? Comments are welcome below. Don't forget to follow or subscribe and thanks for visiting my blog.  

Gold rush Alaska 12/7/2012 review and thoughts

   I decided that I needed to get my reviews for the gold shows up quicker so I was up late last night watching them on my DVR and getting my notes together. Having done all of that here we go with my review and thoughts for the 12/7/2012 episode of "Gold rush Alaska". We will start this week with the Big Nugget. Parker pretty much finished his road to Smith creek. He only ran into one problem. That problem was a rocky outcrop right in the path of the road. He got some help from his dad and brother who have some experience with blasting. It is always cool to see big hunks of rock getting blown up with dynamite. It looks like Parker got everything worked out. Hopefully he will be mining for next weeks episode.

   Across the river at the Porcupine creek claim the Dakota boys have finally decided to drain the glory hole. The material they had been running was producing small amounts of gold but Dustin convinced his dad that they were running out of time. They had just got their pump running when disaster nearly struck. MSHA decided to do a supprise visit.  I understand that regulators like MSHA do an important job keeping people safe in a potentially dangerous work places. They also have the stroke to shut you down if they want. I figured after last seasons experience with MSHA Fred most likely had all of his paperwork in order this time. They made out good with only one citation for a broken window in the excavator. They should be running glory hole gravel soon so I am excited to finally see that.

   We end this weeks review with the Hoffman's.  Todd has managed to get his turbo trommel installed. The initial run didn't go so well though. The crew at Quartz creek soon found the trommel to be a bit slow. Their material was building up in the drum and they started to smoke a motor. The turbo trommel creator Ray Brosseuk said he didn't like the horse power of the motor. Am I wrong in thinking that as the machine builder YOU are responsible for for sizing your motors correctly. All I have to say is Quartz creek is a disaster so it it's a good thing Indian river is saving their butts. Indian river is the only claim to show some gold this time. Dave Turrin and co pulled out a whopping 63.4 ounces of gold out of the ground. Add that to the 30 they got last week and they are only 7 ounces away from the investor requirement. That's a bit over $100,000 in their last clean out. Nice job Indian river. Well that's all I got. Comments are welcome below. Don't forget to follow or subscribe and thanks for reading my blog.

Gold rush Alaska gold tally


Hoffman Indian river
94.27 oz= $151,500

The Big Nugget
80 oz =$131,150

Dakota Boys
8.6 oz =$12,571

Thursday, December 6, 2012

Jungle gold 11/30/2012 review and thoughts

   Here is my review and thoughts about last weeks episode of jungle gold. Scott Lomu and George Wright are officially a train wreck in the jungle. If such a thing is possible. They are spending their investors forty grand right now and all they have to show for it are two rock crushers and a couple of grams of gold. Adding to the drama the boys have been basically pushed out at the ramosa claim by Singh and Chandler inc. They even sent Scott and George a bill which I thought was pretty funny. On top of that they are holding their equipment hostage until the bill is paid.  My suggestion would be to take their rock crushers and hook up with their original trommel go find a gold spot and mine. The last of their money will run out quick so they need to quit screwing around and get on some gold. The lack of direction is astounding with these guys. Do they want to crush rocks? Do they want to trommel dirt? They need to make a decision and get it done because I don't know about you but I have had just about enough of this show.  I guess we wait to see what happens in the next episode. Thanks for reading. Comments are encouraged below. Don't forget to follow or subscribe.

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Gold rush Alaska 11/30/2012 review and thoughts

   This weeks episode of Gold rush Alaska was pretty freaking good. Everyone found gold and the drama was kept to a minimum. I am starting with the Dakota boys this time. I am glad that once again Dustin had to eat humble pie made of crap dirt. Fred was right on this one. If your going to move the dirt anyhow you might as well see what's in it. While we are on the Hurts there is another blog I read now and then that said the cabin that the Hurts destroyed to get at the "crap dirt" was actually kind of a historical building.  Click the following link to read about it.http://hainesalaskatourguide.blogspot.com/.  It is a shame how quick we are to knock stuff down with out finding out about the history first. Bad karma is coming for the Dakota boys. On the bright side they did get 7.1 ounces out of that "crap dirt".

  Up north in the Klondike Todd has finally taken possession of his turbo trommel. It is not installed and running yet but it is there and that's a big deal. I am curious as all heck to see that thing run. It's time to make fun of Dave Turrin now. Last week was pretty much a bust for Indian river. We all can agree that he was not deep enough yet. This week he gave it another shot digging another 2 or so feet. They ran all that material but at cleanout time their mining expert was away on business. Here comes some drama. Watching these guys stand there scratching their heads and try to figure out how to finish cleaning out their sluice box dumbfounded me. This is season 3 right? How many years does it take to learn this?  They must have figured it out because at the end they had 30 ounces of gold. So finally some significant gold from Indian river. Nice to see that.

   Back down south at Porcupine creek Parker is finishing up the Emerson trench paystreak he leased from Earl Foster. His plan is to get 50 ounces in a week and take that money to build a new access road to Smith creek. He ran his wash plant harder than it has ever been run before. He did manage to blow out a bearing but I can say from experience those are easy to fix. At the end of the week Parker Schnabel is the man- kid with a cool 55 ounce clean up. Nice job Parker and crew. Hurry up and get back to Smith creek now. Thanks for reading and don't forget to follow or subscribe if you enjoy my blog.


Gold rush Alaska gold tally

The Big Nugget
80 oz =$131,150


Hoffman Indian river
30.86 oz= $51,500


Dakota Boys
8.6 oz =$12,571


Sunday, December 2, 2012

My gold from the last time out prospecting.

  Here is the gold I found the last time I got out prospecting. I only had about 5 hours that day but I did get to hook up with prospector Gary one last time for the season. Nothing real big but it's gold. 






 


The picture to the right is all of my operation. I try to  travel as light as possible. Fewer trips to the truck.


Jungle gold 11/23/2012 review and thoughts

   I am in the same predicament a lot of you are in right now. Jungle gold makes me want to scream at the tv like I do for a bad football game. But it is a show about gold and if you are a prospector you are almost compelled to watch. This week I am not going to blog a lot about the show drama because I hate it. They lost their main investor but managed a cash influx from another one who was willing to risk a bit more. The ramosa claim still is not producing and its day to day operations been taken over by Singh and Chandler inc. I hope I spelled his name right. Scott and George cashed out the minimal amount of gold they had paid some bills and started sneaking around looking for yet another claim to run this time with out Singh and Chandler inc. At the end of the show this week with Scott in the states trying to find money George was prospecting a new spot. They dug the deepest test hole I have ever seen and still did not reach gravel. Over on the open side of the pit some villagers had set up camp and were mining. George did not go incredible hulk this time. Instead he went down and watched them. With their wooden sluice boards and a half a dozen people they pulled more gold out in six hours than George and Scott could get all day running a trommel. I think after seeing that I would have hired me a bunch of the villagers to mine for me. The Jungle gold guys are so far in the red I see no point in doing a gold tally for them. So we will end the post here. Thanks for reading. I know it is painful. Don't forget to subscribe and or follow my blog. As always comments are encouraged and welcome.

Gold rush Alaska 11/23/2012 review and thoughts

   Real quick I have some PaystreakTV news I need to get out of the way.  I am sad to say that my season 2 of PaystreakTV has pretty much ended. I am in the process of editing a special moment montage video for a finale. That will be uploaded this week so watch for it on my Bliptv and Youtube channels. I will probably post it here as well. Season 3 of PaystreakTV will start when spring returns to Ohio. Thanks for all the support every one and for watching my show. I had almost 17000 views in five months so I couldn't be happier.

   Now for the review and thoughts for Gold rush Alaska episode 11/23/2012. I know I am a week behind but to be honest I record the gold shows on my DRV and it takes me a week to watch and re-watch them and then decide what I want to say about them. The reason I take my time is simple. I don't want to post a bunch of garbage. I want to post entertaining original gold content. That being said we will start with The Big Nugget this week. Parker is building bridges so no gold for him this week. He did manage to get it finished even with the squabbles within his crew. I am so tired of the drama and I hope Parker gets back to business next week.

   Todd Hoffman had just returned from Canada. He was getting his turbo trommel back on schedule. It looks like it is finally going to get on the truck. Okay here we go again with more drama. The investors rep showed up with an ultimatum. The mines need to produce 100 ounces in the next month or they pull the plug. To add to the drama Indian river with the only running wash plant had its first clean out and it was less than an ounce. I am not sure if Dave Turrin's wash plant isn't tuned right or if the top layers of pay gravel are just lighter colored and the bigger stuff is deeper. I guess we hope to find out in this next episode.

   The Dakota boys had a mechanical problem with their excavator. A tensioner bracket for the track busted all to heck. I was pretty impressed with Fred Hurts metal fabrication skills. To build from scratch a part you need out in the middle of nowhere is something else so nice job Fred. I think your son was suprised too.
The dirt they have been moving is top layer stuff from the other side of the Porcupine creek claim. Dustin was crying a bit because he thought it was crap dirt and they were wasting time. He ate humble pie later when the cleanup was 1.5 ounces. Yes Dustin you are the construction worker your dad is the miner.

    I need to take some Tylenol and get ready to do the Jungle gold review so in the meantime don't forget to follow or subscribe to my blog. I love reading your comments so feel free to tell us what you think. Just keep things on topic and PG-13.


Gold rush Alaska gold tally

The Big Nugget
25 oz =$43,150

Dakota Boys
1.5 oz =$2571.00

Hoffman Indian river
.89 oz= about $1500