Monthly Archives: June 2009

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

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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

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