There is enough gold out here to support mining for decades. You just have to find it. The easy stuff is gone, but there's more. This is hard on a guy. It's a lot of stress.
Costs keep rising and gold prices are barely adequate.
This season, to get at the precious metal, Djukastein will mine an area about 100 metres by 150 metres. He has already stripped away a good chunk of the overburden, which is the silt, clay and gravels that hide the gold. When he finishes with the overburden, about 30 centimetres of gravel and silt and about a metre of bedrock will be trucked down to the valley to be sluiced. There, the rock and gravel will be washed with a stream of water. The process will separate the gold from the rock and mud.