Lima, Peru, March 28, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Graystone Company (OTCQB: GYST) announced today that the Company's mining crew has completed setting up the new equipment and has begun using it for the company's mining operations. The Company has uploaded photos on its Facebook page of the new equipment.
Previously, the Company used a 12-foot sluice box that did not contain riffles. The Company now is using a 30-foot sluice box with Hungarian riffles. The Company's CEO, while in Peru last week, tested the tailings from our mining operations and found fine gold in the tailings. Even though the Company has only been using the new equipment for few days, the new tailings contain a significant less amount of fine gold. Therefore, the Company expects the amount of gold recovered will significantly increase now that the new equipment has been set up and is in use.
The company will be adding additional photos from Peru along with videos on its Facebook page.
We have received questions on how a sluice box works in gold
mining. Essentially a sluice box is like a long tray which is
open at both ends. Most will have riffles, spaced evenly along the
length of the sluice perpendicular to the length of the sluice.
Riffles cause small barriers to the water flow which creates eddies
in the water, giving the heavier material (black sand and gold) a
chance to drop to the bottom, behind the riffles. The longer the
box is and the better the quality of riffles correlates to the
amount of gold that will be recovered.
The reason that riffles work is twofold. First, there is an eddy
created behind each riffle, causing a temporary lull in the water
flow. The material that is flowing is in a liquid state. This
causes the heavier material (a/k/a heavies) to be at the very
bottom of the flow. As the flow passes over a riffle, the heavies
will fall to the bottom behind a riffle. Second, the riffles
are spaced a couple of inches apart, and act as a series of small
dams, stopping the creep of the heavy material down the sluice.
Without them, there would be a slow, but sure creep of gold out the
end of the sluice.
Normally most of the trapped gold will be behind the first couple
of riffles. This is because the heavies fall fast. Small flour gold
may extend several riffles further, and, hopefully, the last few
riffles have zero gold. The longer the sluice box is the more gold
the Company can capture. Typically there will be a 3/16th
inch layer of material called miner's moss or carpet laying on the
surface of the sluice. It is a loose weave matt with lots of air
space. It traps and holds the smallest gold particles. On top of
that can be a layer of expanded metal. This creates a criss-cross
pattern of spaces, each with their own eddies. Then the riffles,
that resemble a ladder, with each riffle a rung, when swung up, is
lowered into place and latched down.
Each time you clean up, you raise the riffles, and remove the moss.
You then wash down the sluice, wash out the moss, and put it back
together.
About The Graystone Company. The Graystone Company, Inc. is a U.S.-based mining and exploration company focused on acquiring and developing gold and other mineral properties. The Company's strategy is to build value for shareholders by the identification, acquisition and exploration of early-stage properties that show significant potential for the discovery of gold. The Company sells gold and silver to retail buyers via www.graystonegold.com.
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