Sunday, December 21, 2008

2nd Trip to Searchlight Nv.

I headed down to Searchlight to work last Tuesday just right after the snow storm and I was stranded on the freeway about 20 miles from Las Vegas. I later learned that a fatal accident occured from black ice on an overpass on the freeway. I made it to Searchlight around 11 pm Utah time which Nevada is 1 hour behind us, and started working right when I got there. On Wednesday it snowed from 8 am to 6 pm all day long. The wind blew also so it was hard to determine how much snow fell on the ground, we estimated between 8 to 12 inches of snow and some places were 3 to 36 inches around bends and between places. Las Vegas even got about 3 inches of snow from what I heard and that was pretty good for a place that has a low elevation.
I mostly worked on covering water lines up and re-organizing the tool sheds and trying to get familiarized with the area. In between those jobs I would go and help out another guy with the Assay and Precipting the metals. I asked lots of questions and even pitched in and helped on some of the samples, that were being processed for evaluation. I really enjoyed doing that part of the work around this place, and when the snow melts the owner is going to start setting his equipment up to start mass producing this ore. The ore we are working is Copper and Zinc, and the left over sludge is going to be re-processed for the precious metals that may be in it. With the snow and partly the cold weather and some funding we are having a hard time getting the go for this operation and hoping for a break in the new year. I haven't had time to play around with my hobbies lately and with the process of moving and the holidays I don't expect to get to any of my hobbies for awhile. I will post some of my past hobbies later when I think and ponder about them and share them with you until I get to some of the new stuff down the road.

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