Category Archives: Mining
2013 Spring Tripp Mine Update
Working the Tripp Mine 9/01/09
Well just when I thought the new location of the Wayne/Lee pit road was set it changed. The plan was to move the road from the pit side to the wall side of the W/L pit and then drop the … Continue reading
Working the Tripp Mine, benching the pit side of the Wayne / Lee cut.
A miner must learn to eat a lot of humble pie. As posted in the last blog we were into a lot of very poor quality feldspar and there was a good large pod of good quartz with feldspar crystals. … Continue reading
Working the Tripp mine
We finished the mine clean up at the end of May. It’s surprising how much waste rock we stored in the mine working area. In retrospect last year’s fuel cost made us very creative in storing the waste rock. The … Continue reading
Mine clean up almost done.
With last years high fuel cost we didn’t remove all the waste rock from the mine working area. So now with the cost down we started removing all the waste rock from the working areas. As all ways this task … Continue reading
A new mining season starts.
The mining hat gets put on and the gem cutting hat is almost on the hook. This past week and half we have been getting the Tripp mine ready for production. Every year is different depending on what the winter … Continue reading