Placer Mining in Alaska with IHC Jigs

• Placer mining
• Jig operation
• Radial Jig performance results
• Plant design
• Fine gold
• Low water use
• Transportable

Gold Dust Creek is located near 100 Mile Steese Highway in the Circle Mining District. Like many other placer mining operations, we have had a number of problems with fine gold recovery. For years we had attempted to resolve these problems through various modifications to our sluice boxes.

However, a couple of years ago, after examining our tailings and actually performing some screening and other tests we found that significant losses of fine gold were occurring, especially in certain size ranges. Sixty mesh was the most notable range where large losses were suffered. This was especially true when we recycled the water. In addition, the losses appeared to be directly related to particle shape, size and cementing problems within our sluicing system.

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