7
leases totalling 44 hectares and 23 sub block EPM. Group
has owned this project since May 1994 and was worked
continuously for 7 years. Average grade recovered 9.9 g/t.
this includes dump, old tailings, surface and a lot of
development work. Stoped ore grade is much better.
Ross Mining drilled 4 diamond drill holes in late 80's.
All the area drilled has been mined out and current workings
are now 30 metres below area drilled. All leases are
current and are renewed as their terms expire. Nothing due for
another 4 years. It is a very remote area and have no issues
with security.
The
mines are situated in a very rugged area. Detailed surveys of
the mine are available. The main mine Maddens has had
the majority of work completed with regards survey and
planning. The bottom level has remained the same as at the
time of Ryan's report but has been extended to the south.
We have a portal site surveyed off Taylors Creek where a 440
metre drive mostly along the line of strike gives us 67 metres
back to the current bottom of the mine.
We
haven't crushed much ore since 2002 but have put in a road to
a new section of the mine (Maddens extended) to clean out and
crush ore from old workings on the surface.
With
the ore (laminated quartz) there is not a lot of sulphides,
even at depth. Our gravity mill gives a recovery of
95/96% on assays. The small loss that we do have are in
the sulphides. (We have assayed some of the sulphides at
11,000 g/t.) The small single hutch jig before the ball mill
(on good ore 10g +) will recover half the gold. Mint assays
are generally between 93 to 95% and 3% silver.
All
partners have full time commitments to other mines or
businesses and need to rationalise our assets
BEST MINI GOLD CONCENTRATING MACHINE FOR GOLD PROSPECTING, GOLD PANNING, GOLD MINING & GEMSTONE FOSSICKING ON TODAY'S MARKET!
GOLD AT LAST!
The ROTAPAN - an AUSTRALIAN patented gold panning, gold prospecting and gemstone concentrating machine every prospector, geologist, fossicker and rockhound
will "have to have".
Apart from professional gold prospecting, everyone and in particular, families, with camping, outdoor or recreational hobbies that take them into the outback, the hills, the
desert, the camping spot or even the local creek for gold panning, should have a ROTAPAN gold concentrating machine.
You never know just where the elusive gold nuggets, fine gold or gemstones may be. You don't have to be an expert or have previous knowledge of gold panning -
the ROTAPAN makes it just so easy, and in the Australian vernacular "that's no bull".
If the gold is there, we GUARANTEE the ROTAPAN will get the fine gold as well as the gold nuggets.
Process a 5 gallon pail of gravel in less than 5 minutes, or process gravel 10 to 20 times faster than the best of the "old time panners", and get more and finer
gold.
A child can work the ROTAPAN gold machine with utter ease .
From Eric of Arizona
December 2005
I have never written to
a manufacturer to praise a product, but the Rotapan is
a blessing, Thank-you.
I am in and around the
Superstition Mountains, in Arizona, and currently
dealing with the worst kind of gold, in the worst
condition. The gold is flat grain-size fine gold,
like golden gunpowder, trapped in very heavy
clay, with a percolation rate of only 18%.
I've been working
the site with a twenty-foot sluice, using a
special aluminium classifying miner's moss, and a
whole lot of water, which is irreplaceable during
the drought we are currently experiencing. As I've
been panning the fine materials, with barely
enough success to continue working the site, I had
only dreamed of something that would save me so much
work and water.
I saw the Rota pan and
purchased one. When I first received it I tried the
first batch, following the instructions. The results
were not what I had expected. So I cleared out the pan
and started second time, and as soon as I began gently
rotate the classifier downward I began to see the
black sands bloom up through the centre. I continued
to work the materials, and when I removed the pan
there was hours of work done in a few minutes, without
wasting a drop of water. I then hand-panned out
the fine material and found more gold in that batch of
fines, having used the Rotapan just twice,
than I had found in a week of sluicing and panning.
LETTER FROM A HAPPY ALASKAN CUSTOMER
Mike Joy Jan,2000
"Hi
Don,
Now that things have slowed down in Alaska, I thought I would drop you a line about the Rotapan I ordered last May. On my first trip out with a gold prospecting buddy, I
was truly amazed. He used a sluice box and I used the Rotapan. About every other or third shovel full of gravel went to the Rotapan. To my surprise, the Rotapan recovered more
gold than the sluice box! The next outing, the creek was high and fast. It was impossible to run a sluice but the Rotapan saved the
day.
It is truly a portable and efficient way to recover gold from areas difficult to reach with other gold
prospecting equipment. A couple of buckets, a shovel, a small finishing gold pan and a Rotapan go with me everywhere in my travels around Alaska. If you get a chance, would you
send me information on becoming a Rotapan Distributor? Thanks Mike J"
AND from two earlier prospectors
One: would not tell his friends where he bought his Rotapan
??
Two:, after buying one Rotapan and using it he backed up for a spare one. We queried why - "just in
case you go broke" strange but true.
AND from
David Varabioff of Washington
"JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT YOU HAD EVERYTHING.....
I want to introduce and offer to you a piece of equipment I truly believe to be unique and exciting. I have been a recreational prospector for
over 25 years and have almost every piece of equipment (and more) that one would expect to have. Between myself and my partner we have, 8" dredge (Volkswagen power), extra
engine and pump for it, new 5" Keene 3 stage dredge, 16 hp diesel volume (450 gpm) pump, 12 hp Honda engine and 350 gpm pump (with hookah setup), Gold Screw rotating
sluice, 2 1/2" Backpack dredge, Gold Screw Spiral Panner, Whites Goldmaster II metal detector, 3 Rokon motorcycles, not to mention bucket loads of hand tools, and gold
pans, shovel in sluice boxes, and more.
What I am most excited about however is the "ROTAPAN". I ordered my first unit with intentions to see if this was "all that it
was cracked up to be...". I have seen many different gimmicks over the past 25 years and haven't really run across anything that wasn't old technology with a new twist.
Soon to find out however that I had stumbled across something that I wish I had discovered years ago....
on the image to see the
diagram workings of the ROTAPAN gold machine, a review of the ROTAPAN in
the Popular Mining Magazine , and a VIDEO of the ROTAPAN in
action.
The inventor has combined the conventional principals of grading, agitation and gravity into one compact light weight
machine.
As can be seen from the photo, the concentrator assembly is mounted on the rim of a full 20 litre (5 gallon) pail of water.
Gravel is shovelled into the top removable bowl, then oscillated by hand, which grades the gravel through a built-in sieve. Oversize material is discarded by
lifting the bowl from the spindle and tipping out.
After grading, the gravel, gold and gemstones fall through to the lower settling pan, where it is agitated to allow the heavier gold and gemstones to settle
to the bottom of the retention pan.
The lighter waste gravel is expelled over the outer lip of lower pan, the pail is emptied and refilled with water, and the gold concentrator replaced on rim
and is ready to continue.
The gold concentrating machine and pail together weigh only 3.75kg (8.25lb) when empty and can easily be carried with one hand, but may be heavier (luck be
with you) after a day's work.
For long life and durability, the ROTAPAN is constructed from STEEL and ZINC PLATED as a rust preventative.
Precious Stones!
The prototype of the Rotapan was first developed for gold panning. We then tested it for
sapphires. Sapphires and rubies weigh four times less than gold but twice as much as average gravel. We modified and
tested the ROTAPAN a number of times, before finally settling on the current version. It was a fantastic success. Again and again sapphires and recovered nearly all of
them.
Having modified the ROTAPAN to collect lighter material than gold, the ROTAPAN was then able to recover the very finest of gold particles, requiring almost a
magnifying lens to see it.
You may wonder why we GUARANTEE the ROTAPAN. We proved the unit can recover sapphires, then it certainly can recover gold. Gold weighs four times more than
sapphire, sapphire weighs twice as much as gravel, then the order of settling in the retention pan (light to heavy) would be - gravel on top, followed by sapphire and then by a
long shot, gold. Undoubtedly, the ROTAPAN is the best gold panning invention in years, and has take us into the dawn of the third millenium.
The ROTAPAN can be used in any weather, sitting or standing, is ideal for gold loaming and won't give you a sore back and legs or strained eyes watching for
renegade specks of gold.
We are confident the ROTAPAN will give the professional amateur and novice, young or old, many hours of rewarding results and happy memories.
Operating Instructions Your ROTAPAN is a very simple but most effective machine for the recovery
of gold and gemstones, even in the hands of the inexperienced.
Proceed as
follows: 1.
Place 20 LITRE bucket on a level surface and fill with water. 2. Locate the collection tray in the bucket and secure with a
tight octopus strap round the three hangers.
3. Place sieve on the centre spindle.
4. Half fill the sieve with wash and break up any lumps by hand.
5. Raise the sieve about 20 mm up the spindle and work the sieve
with a firm,reciprocating
motion (back & forth). This will agitate the wash and sink
the fines into the collection tray.
6. Gently return the sieve to its original position and continue
reciprocation.
7. Occasionally completely rotate the sieve twice in a clockwise
direction.8. Raise the sieve about 40 mm up the spindle and repeat
operations 5, 6, & 7.
9 Lift sieve off the spindle and inspect its contents for
nuggets, gemstones etc.
Discard the residue. Note: A half turn of the sieve keeps
the sieving even.
twenty seconds is ample
time to put through a half load.
10. Add more wash and proceed as above.
11. To recover the gold, remove the collection tray and transfer
the concentrates to a gold pan. 12. Replace the collection tray and pan off the concentrates. Note: If
you pan off
over the bucket, any gold lost in panning will fall into the
collection tray
to be recovered at the next clean-up.
13. The bucket will need to be emptied when the waste has built up to
just below the collection tray
HAPPY PROSPECTING – “THERE IS GOLD IN THEM THAR
HILLS
JUST
WHEN
YOU
THOUGHT
YOU
HAD
EVERYTHING.....ALSO
BE
CERTAIN
TO
READ
THE
UPDATED
TESTIMONIALS
AT
THE
BOTTOM
OF
THE
PAGE,
THEY
ARE
FROM
ACTUAL
CUSTOMERS
AND
USERS!!
I
want
to
introduce
and
offer
to
you
a
piece
of
equipment
I
truly
believe
to
be
unique
and
exciting.
I
have
been
a
recreational
prospector
for
over
25
years
and
have
almost
every
piece
of
equipment
(and
more)
that
one
would
expect
to
have.
Between
myself
and
my
partner
we
have,
8"
dredge
(Volkswagen
power),
extra
engine
and
pump
for
it,
new
5"
Keene
3
stage
dredge,
16
hp
diesel
volume
(450
gpm)
pump,
12
hp
Honda
engine
and
350
gpm
pump
(with
hookah
setup),
Gold
Screw
rotating
sluice,
2
1/2"
Backpack
dredge,
Gold
Screw
Spiral
Panner,
Whites
Goldmaster
II
metal
detector,
3
Rokon
motorcycles,
not
to
mention
bucket
loads
of
hand
tools,
and
gold
pans,
shovel
in
sluice
boxes,
and
more.
What
I
am
most
excited
about
however
is
the
"ROTAPAN".
I
ordered
my
first
unit
with
intentions
to
see
if
this
was
"all
that
it
was
cracked
up
to
be...".
I
have
seen
many
different
gimmicks
over
the
past
25
years
and
haven't
really
run
across
anything
that
wasn't
old
technology
with
a
new
twist.
Soon
to
find
out
however
that
I
had
stumbled
across
something
that
I
wish
I
had
discovered
years
ago....
AND
BEST
OF
ALL
IT
HAS
NO
RESTRICTIONS!!
B.L.M
CONSIDERS
IT
AS
A
PAN.
NO
PERMITS
ARE
REQUIRED!!
Dave
TESTIMONIALS
SENT
TO
ONE
OF
OUR
AGENTS
TESTIMONIAL
REPRINTED
WITH
PERMISSION
Dear
Dave,
My
Rotapan
arrived
Friday
and
I
spent
quite
a
bit
of
time
over
the
weekend
trying
it
out.
I
did
some
testing
with
some
gravel
that
I
"salted"
with
a
known
quantity
of
fines
and
coarse
gold
and
I
was
amazed.
The
Rotapan
is
all
that
you
claimed
it
to
be
and
more!
A
great
invention!
Probably
the
most
efficient
method
of
processing
material
short
of
a
motorized
trommel
or
highbanker.
The
other
thing
I
like
is
that
the
Rotapan
is
substantially
made
of
steel.
It
is
thick
and
heavy
enough
so
that
if
I
had
to
repair
it,
I
could
do
so
with
brazing,
light
welding,
or
even
rivits.
I
will
be
showing
it
around
and
see
if
I
can
drum
up
some
sales
for
you.
Thank
you
for
the
great
service
and
prompt
shipping.
Feel
free
to
use
my
name
as
a
reference.
I
am
very
impressed.
Sincerely,
Roy
C.
Gutfinski
Gardiner,
Maine
AND
YET
ANOTHER
HAPPY
CUSTOMER
Dear
Dave,
It
came
in
today
in
perfect
condition
and
has
already
been
fitted
to
a
5-gallon
stepladder
(what
we
call
a
pail
in
this
part
of
the
country).
Ever
notice
how
well
it
nests
in
the
pail
if
you
take
the
tray
out
and
put
it
in
first,
then
the
trap
on
top
of
it
in
the
slots
so
that
the
lid
can
go
down
over
it?
It's
one
damn-well-made
piece
of
machinery.
I've
manufactured
steel
products
before,
and
I
know
what
went
into
forming
it,
welding
it
up,
and
getting
the
anodising
done
on
it.
You
won't
be
selling
millions
of
them,
and
so
no
economies
of
scale
are
likely;
but
what
a
magnificent
design!
I'm
glad
that
someone
took
the
time
to
make
the
dies
and
go
to
all
the
trouble
that
making
something
like
this
entails.
I
ran
some
limonite
fragments
mixed
with
sand
through
it
this
afternoon,
and
I'm
amazed
at
the
efficiency
of
the
Rotapan.
I
got
back
better
than
99%
of
the
weight
of
the
limonite.
I've
got
a
nice
old
Mettler
balance
that
measures
down
to
a
ten
thousandth
of
a
gram,
and
I
figure
that
what
I
lost
was
mostly
soluble
portions
of
the
original
sample.
I
bet
I'd
get
at
least
that
percentage
of
gold
out
of
my
secret
lode
once
the
weather
starts
getting
warm
again.
I
may
even
go
while
it's
cold.
You're
welcome
to
publish
this
letter,
or
any
part
of
it,
as
a
testimonial
if
you
want.
I've
left
very
positive
feedback
on
eBay.
Best
Wishes,
and
Happy
Hunting!
--
Haywood
AN
UPDATE
FROM
JUDGE
HAYWOOD
Dear
Dave,
A
quick
progress
report,
which
you
may
edit
and
publish
as
part
of
the
testimonial
if
you
wish.
I
counted
out
the
six
smallest
flakes
of
gold
from
a
supply
I
"recently
obtained" and stirred them in with about a half-pound of gravel and sand.
I filled the plastic bucket to the top with water, put the concentrate pan
in and the screen pan on its post, letting it settle slowly, and then
dumped the gravel with the six known flakes into the screen pan, as per
directions 1 thru 4 of the manual. I then followed the other directions
and ended up with about a half-ounce of gravel and sand in the concentrate
pan once I had spun the screen pan to throw out the lighter stuff.
In the concentrate pan were a number of pieces of iron and a few other
heavy, black items, and ALL SIX FLAKES OF GOLD.
One of the black items had a silver metallic sheen in spots and was
nonmagnetic, and I have saved it to analyse as it is quite heavy and came
out of my backyard. I hope there's more of whatever it is.
I poured off the water, mixed the gold flakes back in with the gravel,
and repeated the process for a total of twelve recoveries, so as to be sure
that my first run was not a fluke. On each occasion I recovered 100% of
the gold. Not a single time did even one of the flakes get spun out into
the bucket with the lighter sand and gravel. I also found a couple more of
the interesting pieces of heavy metal.
The purpose of this exercise was first to practice the technique of using
the Rotapan so I could make using it second nature, without having to
consult the manual. The second was to determine the degree of confidence I
could place in this method, as I had never once even heard of it before
ordering from you. Needless to say, I can now carry it up to the
gold-bearing creeks north of here with the serene certainty that I won't be
losing any appreciable gold that goes into the Rotapan. It's like that
pest-control product they advertise on TV: "The gold checks in... it
DOESN'T check out."
It take no time at all to master the technique, and the procedure is so
straightforward that anyone can do it. Thanks for the best gold
concentrator I have ever seen! -- Haywood
Stamper Mill relic - Francis Hill Mine, Nerriga
New South Wales - AUSTRALIA contact