Gold Rush

Steve B made me recall something.

I watched the Gold Rush series made by Discovery channel.

It was, of course, very interesting. I was shocked, though, about the following:

1) How little money they made in the end 2) How hard they had to work 3) How much risk they had to take to make so little money.

Here, I am talking about two kinds of risk, first, financial risk, and second, working with dangerous equipment in very iffy conditions, being rushed, fatigued etc. I personally think that they were lucky not to suffer any injury or worse, given how they had to work, operator fatigue, uneven terrain etc.

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I think there is a market for an ATV radar to determine the real contour of features below ground. It would be cool to bore a small hole and drop in a device capable of generating a

3D point cloud showing the density of material in the vicinity.

Working blind is rarely productive.

--Winston

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Winston

Well, in this sort of show, I would take everything they show with at least a small grain of salt. Sometimes it seems like they could make two weeks of drama about a fuel truck being 1/2 hour later than expected.

But as well, if it was easy everyone would be doing it.

You don't know that the guys 5 miles away didn't make 10 or 100 times as much.

It also (according to my Alaskan friends) isn't all that unusual to work very hard for relatively short periods in Alaska. Usually for good pay or payback though. jk

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jk

Probably takes the fun out of your day, indeed.

Just how would one do that?

All technologies I can think of would require at least two holes and would only tell you about what was between them.

jk

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Jim Wilkins

There are a variety of such techniques- and I'm involved in some ground breaking (haha) development on a method that works from fixed wing aircraft. To say there is a market is an IMMENSE understatement. Resources are white hot, and anything that helps find them is valuable almost beyond imagination.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

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Spehro Pefhany

What Jim said. :)

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--Winston

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Winston

Do tell. :)

I recall a couple conversations with friends about the use of molecular resonance to locate specific minerals. This stuff is 'way above my head.

--Winston

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Winston

I thought that airborne Ground Penetration Radar had been used in petroleum exploration for some time?

-- Cheers,

John B.

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John B.

An old fixed wing technique is to fly a veeeeery sensitive magentometer around and look for anomalies.

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Ecnerwal

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