https://www.artminers.org/projects-1 daily 0.75 2023-06-07 https://www.artminers.org/projects-1/blog-post-title-one-tjdwp monthly 0.5 2023-06-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62bc9938b5aec654d6909c64/9c7a73ce-0b10-4ef4-9682-603fd4eecae5/march-april202006-filtered.jpg Projects - Suriname Spring 2006 - Make it stand out A little fish from the Loricariidae family, who joined us for a swim in the Tapanahony river. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62bc9938b5aec654d6909c64/ea8742a7-f8bb-42ea-ada3-112ae4e0afd6/220Robbie20artminers20cleangold20trainer.jpg Projects - Suriname Spring 2006 - Make it stand out Meeting with gold miner Robbie Kwasi in Paramaribo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62bc9938b5aec654d6909c64/05be127c-28aa-4711-a358-c89d01265cb0/420artminers20cleangold20wkshp20GO20walk20to20river.jpg Projects - Suriname Spring 2006 - Make it stand out Walking to the river for our first ever women’s workshop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62bc9938b5aec654d6909c64/b73f660e-284e-4c57-8d61-c0df78021fcd/620cleangold20ladies20wkshp20particle202.jpg Projects - Suriname Spring 2006 - Make it stand out David isolates a large particle from the magnetite; caught quickly by a woman with her new Prospector’s sluice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62bc9938b5aec654d6909c64/51ebbfbc-cde7-42ea-bee7-141e22ae9a95/720gerda20artminers2020sift20magnetite20.jpg Projects - Suriname Spring 2006 - Make it stand out Gerda Kwasi demonstrates her skills in collecting podocaca. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62bc9938b5aec654d6909c64/4a0b6e5f-f154-4d6f-a090-946a0ea658e3/920artminers20cleangold20women20hp.jpg Projects - Suriname Spring 2006 - Make it stand out The ladies are quite comfortable with their new sluices. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62bc9938b5aec654d6909c64/63aa77d9-4277-4e18-8aa4-85ad10c4e0cc/1020Cleangold20hammer20mill20adapation.jpg Projects - Suriname Spring 2006 - Make it stand out David installs Cleangold plates at a soft rock hammer mill mine in Benzdorp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62bc9938b5aec654d6909c64/38b1fbc6-499d-4dbb-bd8c-6afee3befb40/shapeimage_2.png Projects - Suriname Spring 2006 - Make it stand out Photomicrograph of gold, amalgam and free mercury recovered by Cleangold from the test shown above, Note the oxide coatings on most of the gold particles which resist amalgamation, resulting in significant losses from the mercury coated copper plates used at this site. (nominal magnification 100X https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62bc9938b5aec654d6909c64/9e12c821-920f-4403-95e3-a8aba489fce6/1220Braz20cleanup20Gios20cleangold20prep.jpg Projects - Suriname Spring 2006 - Make it stand out Brazilian mine workers doing a cleanup on Gio’s sluice box, in preparation for a mercury-free Cleangold test. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62bc9938b5aec654d6909c64/0fc9ba50-77f4-4e49-825b-baeb5f3a98e1/1320cleangold20workshop20benzdorp.jpg Projects - Suriname Spring 2006 - Make it stand out Benzdorp workshop at Gio’s site where a Cleangold adaptation to a conventional sluice box was installed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62bc9938b5aec654d6909c64/10cc7f69-f8a2-48d5-8edc-a57032124318/1420benzdorp20wkshp20artminers20cleangold20PS201.jpg Projects - Suriname Spring 2006 - Make it stand out Pictured above, a sample of David’s cleanup from the alluvial test. Below, a close up of fine gold, amalgam and free mercury recovered. Although no mercury was used during our tests, Cleangold recovered mercury left in the pit from previous mining. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62bc9938b5aec654d6909c64/6f65ac52-0281-4f6f-9f8e-d510f2480326/shapeimage_3.png Projects - Suriname Spring 2006 - Make it stand out All the children adored Erick Lobo, our guide and translator for the Tapanahony trips. Eric now conducts workshops in our absence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62bc9938b5aec654d6909c64/0f5eaa0f-28e6-4964-8343-8b835e7529fa/1820Gio20at20artminers20cleangold20workshop.jpg Projects - Suriname Spring 2006 - Make it stand out Gio (rhymes with hero), who allowed us to test at his site. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62bc9938b5aec654d6909c64/2943e63b-dbce-4e85-bb01-cc3cb6d8ccc4/1920David20towel20kids20godo20olo.jpg Projects - Suriname Spring 2006 - Make it stand out David demonstrates to the children of Godo Olo the proper technique for changing into a wet suit in public. https://www.artminers.org/projects-1/blog-post-title-two-8rpxg monthly 0.5 2023-06-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62bc9938b5aec654d6909c64/c35a4f5d-a850-4431-af96-6f4499b04556/image001.jpg Projects - Suriname Winter 2006 - Make it stand out Rickford Vieira of WWF-Guianas with Brazilian miners at Cleangold workshop in the Benzdorp region near the border of French Guiana. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62bc9938b5aec654d6909c64/5344b4a9-d576-47d0-8197-c9ba10b3a90c/image002.jpg Projects - Suriname Winter 2006 - Make it stand out Cleangold demonstration at a Brazilian woman’s mine site. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62bc9938b5aec654d6909c64/c0a62d18-0699-4f5f-8135-1aaa0d730845/image004.jpg Projects - Suriname Winter 2006 - Make it stand out David Plath of Cleangold training miners with children observing in a schoolyard in Godo Olo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62bc9938b5aec654d6909c64/75b5e8c3-d506-4db2-baff-f65353d5fe73/image005.jpg Projects - Suriname Winter 2006 - Make it stand out Training workshop in the Sella Creek area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62bc9938b5aec654d6909c64/774a9552-1394-43e6-b323-8f456d007067/image006.jpg Projects - Suriname Winter 2006 - Make it stand out his was an area that had been worked for just a couple of days and was deemed “unprofitable.” The following photomicrograph shows what they missed by not using Cleangold. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62bc9938b5aec654d6909c64/931708f4-2f39-4b80-a548-592cc5774046/image001_1.jpg Projects - Suriname Winter 2006 - Make it stand out Gold, amalgam and free mercury sample from an “unprofitable area” near Sella Creek. The free mercury is as small as 5 microns in diameter. Gold and amalgamated gold ranges from 20 to 200 microns at longest dimension. Nominal magnification 100X. Mercury is lost to the tailings when amalgamation is performed on the sluice box concentrates to recover the gold. Soil components react with the surface of the fine mercury droplets and prevent them from recombining easily; making fine gold recovery difficult by traditional methods. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62bc9938b5aec654d6909c64/5ef7918a-4222-4c7e-9bc1-0a49c57d72ed/image002_1.jpg Projects - Suriname Winter 2006 - Make it stand out Dugout canoes hand carved and customized by Maroon craftsmen, parked on the shore for the night on the Tapanahony river, at beautiful Godo Olo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62bc9938b5aec654d6909c64/2021348a-7728-4b0f-988f-185dacfc0248/image003_1.jpg Projects - Suriname Winter 2006 - Make it stand out Our highly skilled boatman, who, with his scout at the front, expertly navigated through perilously low rapids on the Tapanahony. Strange: the mossy river rocks aren’t slippery to step on under water (like in Oregon)! https://www.artminers.org/projects-1/blog-post-title-three-mcfmr monthly 0.5 2023-06-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62bc9938b5aec654d6909c64/0e25cee7-97c3-4965-9211-51f36c791a8e/droppedImage.png Projects - Madre De Dios, Peru 2008 - Make it stand out Typical beach operation on the Madre de Dios River. These sluiceboxes are probably too small to get the good recovery noted in the balsas and the chuparera where our testing took place. However, given the large number of operations such as these seen on our trip upriver, they are undoubtedly producing well enough. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62bc9938b5aec654d6909c64/2d28ae39-9961-4340-88e0-76c55844c124/droppedImage_1.png Projects - Madre De Dios, Peru 2008 - Make it stand out Dredging unit of the chuparera showing the engine, pump, and suction pipe. Plastic piping is used due to the remote location of the operation. 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That silvery material at the rim of the pan is free mercury and amalgam captured with Cleangold technology from one batel's worth (approx. 4lbs) of tailings from an abandoned mine area. 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