For the last twenty years we have been testing different leach solutions on Honduras ore. The heavy sulphides caused us some difficulties.
We have been testing Ammonium Thiosulphate (Thiosuflate) solutions. We have a process. Now we just need to finish building and testing the new process equipment. This should occur before the end of February 2012.
Placer/Gravity Consultant James Miles: james-miles@triad.rr.com
Actual Honduras Placer Operations 1. Jim Dierzen: jimmysmining@yahoo.com 2. Walter Mast: whmast@msn.com
www.inglesrud.com Feel free to contact these guys. Walter and Jim have both operated placer mining operations in Honduras, Department of Olancho. They have been there and done it. Jim Miles works gravity concentration equipment. He would be a good source on what works and doesn't work.
I was just contacted by an individual with the following question: Why don't you use Cyanide? Everybody else uses it.
Quick answer: It is slightly dangerous and sometimes doesn't work well with certain ores. We decided not to use Cyanide and just develop an alternative leach. We chose Ammonium Thiosulfate, a commercial fertilizer that farmers use on their fields. Very benign and the plants love the stuff. It has taken us a number of years to get it to work properly. We are getting closer. Please wish us luck.
Another question just came up. Will we license this process?
Answer, YES. We also plan to set up a couple of custom (toll) milling operations in Honduras. The increased efficiency and safety will increase profits for the small miner. Plus the low cost would allow for reprocessing and cleaning up of old spoil/tailings piles.
Double win situation. Clean up the environment and allow for a profit while doing same.
We would only be working with the small miners. The big operators would have their own systems.
No, we do not have an estimate on the cost of processing a ton or ore. We are working on increasing the recovery and reducing the costs involved. It will be fairly low. This is what makes reclamation using this process so interesting. You can make money reclaiming mine and mill sites.
The mines in Chaffee county have changed quite a bit over the past few years. Most have been altered significantly by the USFS. You can read part of their report here. http://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fsm9_032266.pdf
It will make any sort of reclamation of the mines or tailings more physically difficult. The USFS work there is sure to create some paperwork and authorization nightmares too.
I received a call last night asking me about Gold Rush show on the History Chanel. The question, was it for real?
Short answer is: yes. It takes a lot of work to set up a wash plant and get the right piece of ground. But there are a lot of millionaires in world who made it in placer mining. HOWEVER, for every success, there are a large number of failures. Make sure you have good ground and enough capital to make it through the learning process. We are still working on our hard rock mill twenty years later. It is tough work. However, it is a lot of fun to see the gold come out at the end.
Several people have expressed an interest in names of people interested in operating placer mines in Honduras. Please resend the requests to me. I have forgotten some promises and lost email addresses.
George Sites and Dennis Smith have purchased an 100 yard an hour bucket line dredge for Honduras. It is currently in storage, awaiting a refit to hydraulic controls. This would work well in the some of the bigger Honduras rivers. However, this would take several million dollars to get it up and going. Their email links are on our web page. They were part of the Bima(?) dredge in Nome, Alaska. It was the worlds largest ocean going gold dredge.
Mining is tough to do. Figure out how much money you need to start and triple that amount.
There is a superb property near El Bijao, Honduras. We do not have it. But it would make an excellent placer project. I will see if I can find the materials on it.
Keep in touch. It will take a couple of weeks. Those documents are in deep storage.
Hi Tom! I would like to talk to you about the property near El Bijao. And Im curious about how you established the claim on your current property? My email is martyparker1@gmail.com please feel free to contact me at any time. I'm anxious to return to Honduras when the rain stops and I would like to have new areas to explore as well as new ideas on how to go about things properly. Thanks for your help! Marty
A good general mining magazine is the California Mining Journal. They have had a name change to the International California Mining Journal. Would recommend it.
There is a new show coming to the Discovery Channel later this month, called "Bering Sea Gold." George Sites and Dennis Smith worked on the world's largest gold dredge, it was called "Bima."
Where did the Bima work, offshore from Nome in the Bering Sea. Feel free to contact them. They have great stories.
Our favorite/best leach solution? We really liked SSN developed by the late Walter Lashley of ASAT. You saturate water with salt, then add Nitric Acid to a pH of 1.5 approximately. I will see if I can find my notes on it.
We had some success with this leach. However, we were never able to get values out of the pregnant solution. It destroyed the rock matrix and put the values into solution - fast.
If you know of a way to recover the values out of the solution, please let know. We would be very interested.
Hello everyone. My name is Marty. I recently (may/June 2012), spent a month in Honduras with a 3" dredge. My original destination was a site I read about in a book detailing the exploits of a gentleman who went there in 1963. Unfortunately, the drug cartel activity prevented me from going to this area but I did explore another river system and recovered some gold. I would like to discuss the logistics of the current projects you have going on ,as well as the El Bijao prospect.
Hello my name is Chris. I have lived here in Honduras for almost five years. I am a full time placer gold miner in Olancho. You name it, I've likely seen it.
Tom, El Bijao was a good location for placer. Rio Frio and some local creeks had minimal yields for large excavator opperation. I saw the gold there. A local in the area tore through there quite some time ago with an excavator. He is still in operation.
I have worked in Jalan running a few six inch dredges. Very much washed! Dangerous as hell! I won't return there and never recommend anyone to do so.
Treasure Hunter, William Wells ect. I've read em.
Rio Paulaya in Colon is way to hot on the drug trafficking.
I have friends all over the country. Many great places to work with dredge but I would not recommend it unless it's just for fun...seriously!
Heavy machinery opperation:
Great news! Mining law just passed three days ago.
Working with excavator is easier then ever.
Consesstions have been completely wiped clean across the country. If you want big mine exploration consesstions, now is your chance.
Defomin, the mining office in Tegus, is very helpful. I'm in great contact with the boss in the mapping department.
I have some sites in mind for myself. Once I get some consesstions, I will be interested in partnerships and investors.
This shit stain is begging you for money a few weeks after stealing money from others thinking it would not bite him in the ass. But it did. And its going to continue. Get a lawyer. Get a judge. You're fucked.
We have had five major failures in Honduras. We are about to test our latest equipment. If it works, we are brilliant. If it does not work, we try something else. Never give up. The answer is there. We are trying to find it.
Please, do not lose faith in Honduras Mining. It is the answer
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For the last twenty years we have been testing different leach solutions on Honduras ore. The heavy sulphides caused us some difficulties.
ReplyDeleteWe have been testing Ammonium Thiosulphate (Thiosuflate) solutions. We have a process. Now we just need to finish building and testing the new process equipment. This should occur before the end of February 2012.
Ammonium Thiosulfate (ATS) is a commercial fertilizer. When it breaks down, it feeds plants sulphur and nitrogen. The plants love it.
ReplyDeleteFound new method to recover gold from ATS. Running test now.
ReplyDeleteExcellent. The pregnant solution processing is the key to making this work.
ReplyDeleteJim: I hope that you are able to work it out.
There are persons interested in placer mining in Honduras. We do not do placer mining.
ReplyDeleteHowever, Jim Miles would be a good contact person. I will add his email address later this week.
Interesting Individuals:
ReplyDeletePlacer/Gravity Consultant
James Miles: james-miles@triad.rr.com
Actual Honduras Placer Operations
1. Jim Dierzen: jimmysmining@yahoo.com
2. Walter Mast: whmast@msn.com
www.inglesrud.com
Feel free to contact these guys. Walter and Jim have both operated placer mining operations in Honduras, Department of Olancho. They have been there and done it. Jim Miles works gravity concentration equipment. He would be a good source on what works and doesn't work.
/s/ Tom Milam, Jr.
I was just contacted by an individual with the following question: Why don't you use Cyanide? Everybody else uses it.
ReplyDeleteQuick answer: It is slightly dangerous and sometimes doesn't work well with certain ores. We decided not to use Cyanide and just develop an alternative leach. We chose Ammonium Thiosulfate, a commercial fertilizer that farmers use on their fields. Very benign and the plants love the stuff. It has taken us a number of years to get it to work properly. We are getting closer. Please wish us luck.
Another question just came up. Will we license this process?
ReplyDeleteAnswer, YES. We also plan to set up a couple of custom (toll) milling operations in Honduras. The increased efficiency and safety will increase profits for the small miner. Plus the low cost would allow for reprocessing and cleaning up of old spoil/tailings piles.
Double win situation. Clean up the environment and allow for a profit while doing same.
We would only be working with the small miners. The big operators would have their own systems.
No, we do not have an estimate on the cost of processing a ton or ore. We are working on increasing the recovery and reducing the costs involved. It will be fairly low. This is what makes reclamation using this process so interesting. You can make money reclaiming mine and mill sites.
ReplyDeleteThe mines in Chaffee county have changed quite a bit over the past few years. Most have been altered significantly by the USFS. You can read part of their report here. http://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fsm9_032266.pdf
ReplyDeleteIt will make any sort of reclamation of the mines or tailings more physically difficult. The USFS work there is sure to create some paperwork and authorization nightmares too.
I received a call last night asking me about Gold Rush show on the History Chanel. The question, was it for real?
ReplyDeleteShort answer is: yes. It takes a lot of work to set up a wash plant and get the right piece of ground. But there are a lot of millionaires in world who made it in placer mining. HOWEVER, for every success, there are a large number of failures. Make sure you have good ground and enough capital to make it through the learning process. We are still working on our hard rock mill twenty years later. It is tough work. However, it is a lot of fun to see the gold come out at the end.
I have lost some email addresses of persons interested in contacting other like minded people placer people in Honduras.
ReplyDeletePlease forgive me and send me you addresses again. I will try not to lose them this time.
Also, feel free to place your email address on this blog. hopefully, this will allow people to get in touch with like minded people directly.
Tom
Several people have expressed an interest in names of people interested in operating placer mines in Honduras. Please resend the requests to me. I have forgotten some promises and lost email addresses.
ReplyDeleteTom Milam
milam@inglesrud.com
Or feel free to just blog the information here.
Who is John Galt?
ReplyDeleteGeorge Sites and Dennis Smith have purchased an 100 yard an hour bucket line dredge for Honduras. It is currently in storage, awaiting a refit to hydraulic controls. This would work well in the some of the bigger Honduras rivers. However, this would take several million dollars to get it up and going. Their email links are on our web page. They were part of the Bima(?) dredge in Nome, Alaska. It was the worlds largest ocean going gold dredge.
ReplyDeleteTom Milam, Jr.
ReplyDeletemilam@inglesrud.com
www.inglesrud.com
Telephone: (405) 429-7928
Facsimile: (405) 429-7930
P.O. Box 18759
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73154
Is Honduras a good place to make money in mining?
ReplyDeleteI have been watching Gold Rush Alaska. I would like to learn how to placer mine.
Can anyone help?
Thanks,
John Wolf
TO John Wolf:
ReplyDeleteMining is tough to do. Figure out how much money you need to start and triple that amount.
There is a superb property near El Bijao, Honduras. We do not have it. But it would make an excellent placer project. I will see if I can find the materials on it.
Keep in touch. It will take a couple of weeks. Those documents are in deep storage.
Tom
Hi Tom! I would like to talk to you about the property near El Bijao. And Im curious about how you established the claim on your current property? My email is martyparker1@gmail.com please feel free to contact me at any time. I'm anxious to return to Honduras when the rain stops and I would like to have new areas to explore as well as new ideas on how to go about things properly. Thanks for your help!
DeleteMarty
A good general mining magazine is the California Mining Journal. They have had a name change to the International California Mining Journal. Would recommend it.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.icmj.com/
There is a new show coming to the Discovery Channel later this month, called "Bering Sea Gold." George Sites and Dennis Smith worked on the world's largest gold dredge, it was called "Bima."
ReplyDeleteWhere did the Bima work, offshore from Nome in the Bering Sea. Feel free to contact them. They have great stories.
The new equipment and process should be finished by the end of February 2012. If it works, we will ship same to Honduras and test it there.
ReplyDeleteGary, the Alaskan Shows are fairly accurate. Mining is difficult, but rewarding. Or at least I have been told.
ReplyDeleteOur favorite/best leach solution? We really liked SSN developed by the late Walter Lashley of ASAT. You saturate water with salt, then add Nitric Acid to a pH of 1.5 approximately. I will see if I can find my notes on it.
ReplyDeleteWe had some success with this leach. However, we were never able to get values out of the pregnant solution. It destroyed the rock matrix and put the values into solution - fast.
If you know of a way to recover the values out of the solution, please let know. We would be very interested.
Hello everyone. My name is Marty. I recently (may/June 2012), spent a month in Honduras with a 3" dredge. My original destination was a site I read about in a book detailing the exploits of a gentleman who went there in 1963. Unfortunately, the drug cartel activity prevented me from going to this area but I did explore another river system and recovered some gold. I would like to discuss the logistics of the current projects you have going on ,as well as the El Bijao prospect.
ReplyDeleteHello my name is Chris.
ReplyDeleteI have lived here in Honduras for almost five years.
I am a full time placer gold miner in Olancho.
You name it, I've likely seen it.
Tom,
El Bijao was a good location for placer.
Rio Frio and some local creeks had minimal yields for large excavator opperation.
I saw the gold there.
A local in the area tore through there quite some time ago with an excavator.
He is still in operation.
I have worked in Jalan running a few six inch dredges.
Very much washed!
Dangerous as hell!
I won't return there and never recommend anyone to do so.
Treasure Hunter, William Wells ect. I've read em.
Rio Paulaya in Colon is way to hot on the drug trafficking.
I have friends all over the country.
Many great places to work with dredge but I would not recommend it unless it's just for fun...seriously!
Heavy machinery opperation:
Great news!
Mining law just passed three days ago.
Working with excavator is easier then ever.
Consesstions have been completely wiped clean across the country.
If you want big mine exploration consesstions, now is your chance.
Defomin, the mining office in Tegus, is very helpful.
I'm in great contact with the boss in the mapping department.
I have some sites in mind for myself.
Once I get some consesstions, I will be interested in partnerships and investors.
I can be contacted by email.
Chrisdheye@gmail.com
Yeah, give money to Chris Heye. You will NEVER see it again.
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DeleteThis shit stain is begging you for money a few weeks after stealing money from others thinking it would not bite him in the ass. But it did. And its going to continue. Get a lawyer. Get a judge. You're fucked.
DeleteWill someone please send this loser some money. Do it for charity.
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ReplyDeleteSouth Bronx: How much did you lose investing in Honduras?
ReplyDeleteSouth Bronx: Yes, you can make money in Honduras. But it is challenging. Hopefully, we will soon. If you will relax a bit, I will make you whole.
ReplyDeleteTom Milam
We have had five major failures in Honduras. We are about to test our latest equipment. If it works, we are brilliant. If it does not work, we try something else. Never give up. The answer is there. We are trying to find it.
ReplyDeletePlease, do not lose faith in Honduras Mining. It is the answer
I want to share with you all here on how I get my loan from Mr Benjamin who help me with loan of 400,000.00 Euro to improve my business, It was easy and swift when i apply for the loan when things was getting rough with my business Mr Benjamin grant me loan without delay. here is Mr Benjamin email/whatsapp contact: +1 989-394-3740, lfdsloans@outlook.com /
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