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Help To Fulfill OzGeographics' Dream

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A few weeks ago, after months of searching, we finally discovered the location of a quartz reef that has been shedding vast amounts of gold in the nearby area. With it mostly releasing fine gold, with some chunkier pieces also being shed, albeit more rarely than the smaller and finer gold. But even though it's fine, the amount being eroded from this quartz reef is very excessive, and it's been my dream to find a high-grade gold-bearing quartz reef to mine, and I believe I've found it.

Several other outcrops exist next to the first one I found, and they are all yielding the same high amount of gold. There are still many more that I need to test, with many stringer veins existing, that so far, seem to be yielding an amount higher per weight than the surrounding, larger reefs, due to the enrichment that occassional occurs in these types of smaller stringer-type quartz veins. Some of these quartz pieces are the size of pebbles, literally.

But even though this is amazing news, the fineness of the gold, and the inability to properly process it all presents a dilemma. We've been crushing speciments by hand for 3 weeks to get a guage on the yield before making the announcement, and now that we've got a high yield we need a rock crusher first and foremost to continue testing the grade. And trust me, we've looked. Anything that's even remotely affordable is sold out or isn't suitable for what we need.

So we're hoping to either raise the funds for a rock crusher, or that someone incredibly generous might lend us or even donate one of theirs for us to use so that we can crush enough of this ore to fund the purchase of our own equipment. Alternatively, we figured it was worth asking any engineer, or engineering enthusiast if they had the motivation, and enough spare parts lying around them, to possibly help us out. We originally wanted a jaw crusher, but we will settle for anything that'll crush the ore to a fine dust.

We'd love a shaker table, but these are upwards of 10 grand. We're happy to use a chemical method to get the gold to begin with, but, if by chance, this gofundme manages to do well, a shaker table will be the greatest asset alongside the crusher. This is all we need to prosper.

Any donation of any amount is greatly appreciated. And I appreciate anyone who even just considers it, or who has taken the time out of their day to make it this far and to hear me out.

Thanks folks!


Donations 

  • Andrew Dillon
    • $50 
    • 1 yr
  • Matthew Monro
    • $50 
    • 1 yr
  • Randy Brown
    • $150 
    • 1 yr
  • Anonymous
    • $50 
    • 1 yr
  • Ana Bastias-Perez
    • $25 
    • 1 yr

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Oz Geographics
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Melbourne VIC

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