When mill operators have no ore.

My friday project was building this workbench for the shop boys. Sad to report that the mine is having trouble bringing us ore so we have to find additional projects

Raindrops

I took this photo a while back. Was out hiking when a small rainstorm rolled through. I thought the raindrops caught in the leaves were kinda cool

You can find more than gold when yer mining

This little guy was wandering around on the floor inside the mill.i bet he enjoyed it in there as the floor is usually covered in water. I thought he might like it outside as the floor is covered in chemicals as well.

Yeah tomatoes.....

I never thought that I would be one to get excited over a bowl of fresh tomatoes. After a month of eating right, fresh, and healthy a bowl of sweet fresh tomatoes is quite the treat.

Yes mom its me eating tomatoes, turns out that they don't give you cancer.........huh who knew!!!

Gold can float.

This is one of the float cells that are used to strip away the gold from the fine materials after it's ground in the ball mill. This is one of the last float cells before the con gets sent to the filters so it's nice and dark, full of gold. The filters then pull all of the water out of the con (concentrate) and the solids get sluffed off into a transport bag for the smelter.

Philipsburgs Drumlummon Gold Mill, the current job adventure.

Shift work,    currently working swing shift 4 to midnight, but the rumor is that we will go to 12 hour shifts in october at some point.

Picture of the picture taker

Yeah, I know but I found the irony kinda funny

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