sweathog1

Perhaps I shouldn't be posting here on this medium,don't have the education, Why do you want to make things more complicated than they are? Some history, Africa Corps under Rommel fought very cleanly, the English reciprocated in kind. Germans in Russia came across an entire company of dead Germans (150 men), tied with bob wire, tortured to death early in that campaign, after that it was fought very dirty. Simply tit for tat. Canadians prosecuted Kurt Meyers for executing Canadian prisoners, however found guilty , sentence was not carried out. Why.... is not hard to think it through.

Wrote a response on the cbc, where it was linked to, I had steam coming out of both ears, censored by them once again. They are getting extremely heavy handed these days.

Saw some of your country, Oregon, Washington, Montana,Dakota, Nevada, Alaska,Hawaii most of the European countries, liked Italy the best, drove by car down the Mediterranean coast up the Adriatic coast, Rome and all the wild cats, Switzerland, Cypress un stuff, France, trained with the French commandos. English stout beer in the pub , Belgium,Holland, stationed in Lahr Germany Just not the east bloc. All across Canada . Army some real good people but also some real assholes. Mostly good people still communicate with a couple of them. Did the traveling both while serving and afterwards. You guys ask to many questions and I've said enough about myself. Nope, but have used one in streams.

for your pleasure, finally a statement by Canadian feminists on these attacks: http://www.feministcurrent.com/2016/01/07/its-time-to-consider-a-curfew-for-men/

Used to think some thought nationalism was bad while patriotism was good, with regard to the American empire. Then we got globalism.

Yes, the Klondike River flows into the Yukon River, this is where the town of Dawson is located. The famed gold creeks flowed into the Klondike River within 10 miles of the mouth where these two rivers meet. Perma frost. the old timers when digging prospecting holes would build fires in their pits overnight ....advance 6 inches downwards each night. Building fires is useless unless prospecting. Generally you must strip 2 to 3 years in advance before mining and let the sun do the work. If you have very deep pockets and are inexperienced, some wear out several pallets of bucket teeth and cutting edges. (They paint them yellow for a reason) Dredging with high pressure pumps only works good in sand. In coarse gravel they tend to plug up.

It comes down to the amount of clay content in the gravels, how much clay is on top of the pay streak, alot in heavily glaciated areas, how much room you have for settling pond facilities, what the settling standards are(suspended solids as well) salmoniod stream classifications are much stricter, how much water is available for hydraulic mining. Know one fellow that has an entire mile of settling ponds below him Btw entire gold production in the Yukon was roughly 60,000 ounces, 50,000 ounces came from the Dawson area. (last years figures) Didn't know discovery channel grossed that much, had heard 3 times as much.

It surely doesn't look good. Yes I have grandchildren, I find it surprising to see them jump up and down all excited to see you as you pull into their yard. I wonder how they know your on the same side? They must be hard wired for it. I didn't have that, my grandparents were dead when I was at that young age. From what I've read, these discussions give me hope for the future...thinking people are rare what ever their opinion and worldview. From my own experience I know some professors have a captive audience and your papers had better reflect their viewpoint in the soft subjects if you want to advance. So I'm very interested with logic. Gold mining... sold some claims to one fellow, very rich property but deep, I couldn't get it with my machinery and knew it, he scoffed at me spent 7 million got back 1 million. Was just trying to be trufthful.

Well, I see what is written will not be deleted, from the first post that you have made. I did respond, been shot before serving my country and have several children who graduated with more than a 3.5 average. Don't know if they will post this, if not It is not surprising.

Well, I 'believe' in the "Golden Rule" do unto others as you would like then to do unto you....... think this is a major tenant in most civilized religions, and even Atheist organizations. I also believe Science is the new universal religion,(please don't shoot me for using this word) it also has major tenants, applies the scientific method, must be repeatable, observable, freely subject to peer review/change and scepticism is most highly valued with regard to hypotheses/ theory. However it also requires some faith first in the process, but also some assumptions in that all things can be measured,observable and weighed. Mathematical imaginary numbers although not real are useful in electronic applications for example. Anyways believe I've bitten off more than I can chew, with reading and writing. am being lazy in my chores, -35 C and haven't filled up the wood bins. I blame Stefan with his youtubes and site. (;

I'd say 300 yards per hour sounds good when your mining the investors or fooling yourself. (; Yes when your sluicing, and processing gold bearing gravels. But what about perma frost, stripping off 25~ 150 feet of overburden on the pay gravels, building settling ponds, digging them back out (when over the settable solid standard). repairs to machines. someone tells you 300 yards an hour, is really saying 600 yards an hour. The waste rock has to be put somewhere AFTER it's processed. Yes there are a few large enough to do that and pockets deep enough, but not many. Discovery Channel tv profits are 3 times the amount of the entire placer industry. Imagine a breakdown in equipment shown on the show, say a final drive failure, they will film it at least 3 times, taking it in an out, from 4 or 5 angles and take the best shots. Heard some of these guys DEPEND on this film industry, for equipment and o & m. No private self-sufficient operation could do that. Ref. regulations, For the last hundred years, meagre gold paying gravels were ground sluiced first before been moved. This is no longer possible if the gravels contain a lot of clay. Where there was once 50 mom and pop enterprises in particular areas there are now one or two left if any.

Thanks, but you do realize that is a reality show. They once wanted to film some barging of heavy equipment across a lake. Several of us refused. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, imagine what a video would do. 5000 bureaucrats,25 departments,10 to 20 site inspectors would descent upon you including the coastguard with a magnifying glass. Anyways you don't get paid by the hour but by the yard, 16 hours a day sluicing to make up for the winter months when the creeks are froze. A lot of suffering too. Breaking through ice at -30 below, etc. Be careful what your jealous of, when you've done well for a few seasons you walk on water, if you've done bad for a few seasons your the dumbest thing that walks the earth.

I'm an agnostic, with great trepidation I write this, was once in a debate (Is there really a God?) that lasted over two years. (heard all the arguments) Conclusion was that there is no proof either way. Least of all proving a negative. However there are those that have had direct experiences such as a few who claim so in history, and those who do claim they are Gods themselves, beyond the crazies. (lessor and greater Gods) gnostics. However using your definitions I am an agnostic.

surprising what you learn somedays. AckNak "Just to be clear - these people are terrorists according to Canadian law. (not sure in US law). They fit the description: In Canada, section 83.01 of the Criminal Code[1] defines terrorism as an act committed "in whole or in part for a political, religious or ideological purpose, objective or cause" with the intention of intimidating the public "…with regard to its security, including its economic security, or compelling a person, a government or a domestic or an international organization to do or to refrain from doing any act." They are acting on ideological purposes with the intent of intimidating the public to compel the government. Very much the definition of terrorist in Canada. The original issue (the arson) had no intent to intimidate but was meant to change the government's mind so it would not be classified the same way" Off of the cbc site

Thanks, amazing how quickly and comprehensively you guys put that up. Wish I'd found this site much sooner. Keep up the good work.

Thank you. I was very disappointed that Ron Paul didn't win the presidency down south. In our neck of the woods I do not see many differences between our political parties, be it liberals,conservatives or ndp. The differences are minute and all are engaged in vote buying in exchange for votes. As an old miner I believe we are extremely over regulated and that the majority of citizens are dependant on the government teat. The money has to come from somewhere and there are less an less of us producing and are gainfully employed. In short even the squirrels, bluejays and mice know enough to gather and produce during the summers to survive the winters. I feel sorry for our young people.

easy money, old saying easy come easy go.

Would like to add my 2 cents worth if I may. Music is a series of notes with intervals of silence between them, so I always look for what is missing. What I have not heard anywhere is that when Germany invited the Turks into Germany to work, they became very integrated with it's people. The young learned marketable skills, the Germans had boom times, everyone won. Not much difference than N. America in the 50's and the 60's with the European immigrants. I believe our current troubles have to do with the lack of accelerated returns for the amount of work done, the economy is all about diminishing returns for the amount of work done nowadays globally. Our young both old and new stock have very little work period. I do not believe religion is the root cause

Terrorists? Seems to me, it would be in order to examine organizations such as the World Wildlife Fund and the United Nations Agenda 21. Requires little effort to google maps, of existing/planned parks, wildlife management areas, sanctuaries for endangered species, game/waterfowl preserves, areas withdrawn from industry and so on. It is no secret, that there is a goal of having wildlife corridors stretching from Mexico to Alaska, so species such as Grizzly bears can walk unmolested from north to south or vice versa.

I live close to the Arctic circle, am semi-retired, was once a communications technician in the army at the height of the cold war, travelled alot, then went mining both (placer gold, and underground) Was self-employed most of my life and pay my own way. Made some money and lost some money 3 or 4 times. Been reading, and listening to the podcasts and youtubes, the body gets old and wore out, the memory is not what it used to be, so forgive me if I'm not as quick as the educated spring chickens on this media.