The burning question I needed answered was why didn’t the deposit ever get mined of at least one of the valuable minerals? A couple of reasons have come to light.

It is not necessary to have a PhD in geology, but you need to know the basics, so that’s what I am going to try to dig into here—the understandable basics of these gigantic gold deposits.

One of the first things we did while looking at buying the equipment was figuring out how it would dovetail into the milling process we already had in mind.

I had a chance to visit the operation in person and talk with Neal. I was very impressed and I think our readers could learn a lot about building up a commercial placer operation from scratch…

“The evidence is clear—mineral deposits alone are not enough to attract precious commodity investment dollars...”