Opposite the deep lead Heron channel, on the west side of the 1875 13f private property claim are some shallow low grade benches that were mined by the chinese miners during the 1860's goldrush.
In 2010 Hard Up LTD made an attempt to mine these workings, trucking the paygravells to the large plant set up for the Grouse creek operations on the East side of crown grant 13F.
The trucking costs were to high and the grades to low to make the operation economical, we ran 800 cu yards in 4 different tests and locations,but closed down operations due to low grades and trucking distance from the gravels to our washplant.
In 2011 Hard up signed a royality agreement to lease the benches to a contractor so as some revenue would be produced form these low grade workings,The Contractor is a local gravel sales and construction firm that has taken on a 10% of gross gold produced property lease.
Gold production from these benches has been in the 1-2 ozs a day range so nothing spectacular, but for a 1.5-2 man operation and low cost portable plant this operation appears to be paying for itself, the machines are making a Blue book hourly rate so this is satisfactory to the contractor.
Prescreening pay gravel and rocks with portable grizzly screener using Contractors larger excavator,brought in by lowbed once a week for grubbing and pay preparation.This machine is used for looking after Diamond drill pads,roads and sumps for Hard rock mining companies in the Cariboo Goldfields.
Hopper wet wash box ,The Brand New plant is a fully portable unit set up in 30 minutes, and producing gravel, this is the first plant of this type and it has been an expensive undertaking, the cost of this small portable pump,plant,lines ,sluices, hyd riffles, and hoses etc are in the 100k range.
The pay seam, the Orange oxidized boulder gravels above are pay but the yellow seams of gravel on bedrock are quite rich in fine gold! Total depth is 2 meters.
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