GOLD Totals, Lessons Learned, Restoring Mother Nature.

We are far from done here at Trout Creek Gold mine. But this first test pit is closing down. Check out what we got for gold in the first pit, what we learned along the way, and how we repair the damage done and help Mother Nature take back over the forest.

OK, Lets address some recurring questions:
1) Yes we will be reclaiming the site and replanting the area.
2) Andy is mining this site and in charge of the mine. I just come to help sometimes and film.
3) The miner (Andy) will get 85% of the gold and the claim owner (Me) will get 15% Andy has all the expenses I just give him permission to use my land
4) Andy figures about $80 in fuel. Per 100 yards. Now we did have to rent an excavator for this project because Andy's was broke down. But that expense is not necessarily needed for an operation like this if we used our own. But typically to process 100 yards cost under $100 in operating expenses. Time and Capital expenses that is another story.
5) This was never planned to be a profitable mining endeavor. This is still testing to see if this site could hold a profitable mine. We are doing this small scale machine test to see if spending $100,000+ in putting a full scale mine on this site will be worth while. Any value we recover in gold is icing on the cake, but not calculated into our budgeted expenses.
6) yes we test our tailings
7) Andy's channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/ANDYTHRAXX


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