点评:I arrived late afternoon with my travel trailer. Met with Chris for a few minutes and he went and got Denise to talk to me about mining options. Denise was fantastic, walked me through the options and happily answered all of my questions. I chose the screened concentrate gravel where the pre-screen large rocks and sand out then dump the load by a screening table. Denise showed me how to screen for the sunstones and what to look for. I screened for about 2 hours then retired to my travel trailer. I screened for about 3 hours the next morning to finish my gravel pile. I had intended on digging in the pit for the 2nd half of the day, but two ladies near me said they had to leave and asked if I wanted the rest of their gravel pile, which they had only made a small dent in. I screened it for about 4 hours then asked Denise on how to grade the sunstones that I had found. She took the time to show me the different characteristics of the stones that made them more valuable. Was a great learning experience! The entire day and half was a great mining experience and I will definitely go back there next year! The other options that customers can do are pit digging (rock hammer digging in the basalt then screening the material extracted) or a belt run (basically the same processing they do to get sunstones via a front end loader dumps gravel into a large bin the washes the gravel as it slowly dumps onto a conveyor belt where customers pick out all the sunstones that run by in an hour). To folks that have never mined; screening and digging are physical activities in the elements. The belt run is not a lot of work but all other mining aspects and options are work but can be rewarding.
翻译:我下午晚些时候带着旅行拖车到达。与克里斯会面了几分钟,他去找丹尼斯和我讨论采矿选择。丹尼斯太棒了,她带我了解了所有选项,并愉快地回答了我所有的问题。我选择了筛选的精矿砾石,其中预先筛选出大块岩石和沙子,然后通过筛选台倾倒负载。丹尼斯向我展示了如何筛选日光石以及要寻找的内容。我放映了大约 2 个小时,然后回到我的旅行拖车里。第二天早上我筛选了大约 3 个小时来完成我的砾石堆。我本来打算在第二天的坑里挖,但我附近的两位女士说她们必须离开,并问我是否想要她们剩下的砾石堆,她们只在上面挖了一个小凹痕。我筛选了我花了大约 4 个小时,然后询问丹尼斯如何对我发现的日光石进行分级。她花时间向我展示了石头的不同特征,这些特征使它们更有价值。是一次很棒的学习经历!一整天半的采矿经历都是很棒的,明年我一定会回到那里!客户可以做的其他选择是挖坑(用石锤在玄武岩中挖掘,然后筛选提取的材料)或皮带运行(基本上与他们通过前端装载机获取日光石的处理相同,将砾石倾倒到一个大垃圾箱中进行清洗砾石慢慢地倾倒到传送带上,顾客在传送带上挑选出一小时内经过的所有日光石)。对于从未采矿过的人们;筛选和挖掘是元素中的体力活动。皮带运行的工作量并不大,但所有其他采矿方面和选项都是工作,但可能会有所回报。