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    A little miner humour bld

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    Quote Originally Posted by beerlaodrinker View Post
    Drilling for gold with a Diamond Tipped Bit
    Excellent thread but might be better to start drilling an escape tunnel first.

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    Thank you. I am a little hasty with my posts sometimes.

    I would be interested in knowing more of your mining activities in Sudan. You mentioned using a great deal of water. Is the water used to flush the drilled rock chips to the surface? Presumably, depending what the rock bed is, most of the water is lost down the hole. Do you undertake seismic investigations or were they done previously?
    A tray full of GOLD is not worth a moment in time.

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    In case BLD is on the turps:

    1. Water is used for hole flushing and bit cooling.
    2. I noticed a sack of bentonite in one of the pictures which may mean there were some problems with water loss downhole.
    3. Seismic very seldom used for gold exploration in hard rock. It is usually limited to sedimentary formations, which would usually be the case for minerals such oil, coal or potash.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hick View Post
    A little miner humour bld
    oh, my bad

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shy Guava View Post
    In case BLD is on the turps:

    1. Water is used for hole flushing and bit cooling.
    2. I noticed a sack of bentonite in one of the pictures which may mean there were some problems with water loss downhole.
    3. Seismic very seldom used for gold exploration in hard rock. It is usually limited to sedimentary formations, which would usually be the case for minerals such oil, coal or potash.
    No water = Burnt Bit = Pull the rods and change it

    The life of the Bit is dependant on the formation being drilled Bits can be either a soft or hard Matrix and its up to the Driller to work out the best bit to run .

    Beer o clock. more later

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    The company i found myself working for for were 100% sudanese owned and the largest company in sudan owned by the richest guy in sudan.They were mostly into dairy , milk, yoghurt etc but had decided to give the mining/drilling a crack it was pretty fucking disjointed organisation but im happy to say i got paid at the end of the swing.

    They did however put a lot of money into there kit, bought some nice rigs and some not so nice. heres a few of them



    Given how arid sudan is i reckon theres a huge demand for waterwell drilling



    One of there clients (canadian company) had been poking holes in sudan for years and have a sizeable deposit, But how to mine the fucker with no water for the process plant. a bit before my time but we found em some water


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    The Green Machine. gonna be a headfuck dragging that behomath through the sand


    I sure as fuck wouldnt like to tamper with this thing but they tell me its good for 1000m ?

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    Heres our crew house in Khartoum, gotta hang around here until the Travel documents get done prrocessing, This burbs called Garden City although i have no idea why.



    The view from the crew house. everday i would see people picking through the garbage and they would all seem to find something to leave with, Amazing. and quite shocking.

    Could be worse though wouldnt like to be a sudanese bin man




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    Was thinking about going downtown but a duststorm came in , fuck it stuck in the house.






    This ones for you OH OH.



    just kidding buddy.its all good
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    well theres no fucking beer, gotta keep a vice or 2 so i went shopping for smokes to last me 8 weeks, no shops out there

    Ghastly fucking things they were but WTF gotta have em. ( footnote been of them now for 10 days 4 hours and 17 minutes)


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    Keep them coming.

    So there is water under the desert? Enough to support more agriculture, minerals processing? How do they locates the aquifers? Any chance of a similar size/linking up to the Libya find? I note Sudan is adjacent Libya

    "Researchers from the British Geological Survey and University College London have for the first time mapped the aquifers, or groundwater, across the continent and the amount they hold.‘The largest groundwater volumes are found in the large sedimentary aquifers in the North African countries Libya, Algeria, Egypt and Sudan,’ the scientists said in their paper."


    SUDAN anyone been?-article-2133339-12b4e711000005dc-739_634x657-jpg

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...er-Africa.html
    Attached Thumbnails Attached Thumbnails SUDAN anyone been?-article-2133339-12b4e711000005dc-739_634x657-jpg  

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    Brutal!

    gotta say tho, (I know you mentioned that the locals were fine) worked with a handful of Sudanese in Saudi and ALWAYS found every one of them to be extremely polite, generous and considerate.

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    Quote Originally Posted by OhOh View Post
    Keep them coming.

    So there is water under the desert? Enough to support more agriculture, minerals processing? How do they locates the aquifers? Any chance of a similar size/linking up to the Libya find? I note Sudan is adjacent Libya

    "Researchers from the British Geological Survey and University College London have for the first time mapped the aquifers, or groundwater, across the continent and the amount they hold.‘The largest groundwater volumes are found in the large sedimentary aquifers in the North African countries Libya, Algeria, Egypt and Sudan,’ the scientists said in their paper."


    SUDAN anyone been?-article-2133339-12b4e711000005dc-739_634x657-jpg

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...er-Africa.html
    I sure hope so, water in that part of the world is like gold, most agriculture is centred around the Nile, vegatables and fruit away from those nile regions are non existant and expensive. they might get there shit together 1 day but its pretty bumfuck

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    Khartoums battered Taxi fleet




    Or Grab a Tuk Tuk, either way its gonna be hot and uncomfortable





    Or jam yourself into an old minibus



    Or do as the Locals do



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    Gotta beware of Ninjas on the mean streets of Khartoum


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    Originally Posted by OhOh I note Sudan is adjacent Libya

    They were pretty tight with Gaddafi, And were also hiding Bin Lden in country for a while, Hence the Sanctions placed on them, The Americans have since lifted the sanctions but there is still a chronic USD $ Shortage and fuel Shortage

    The Best Hotel in Khartoum Built by Gaddafi



    Not unusual to see cars etc queing up for days to get some fuel


    https://allafrica.com/stories/201807270390.html
    Jul 26, 2018 - Sudan — The crisis of bread and fuel, particularly diesel, has escalated to the highest levels in the capital, Khartoum and the states amid surge .


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    Outside the crew house, A treasure trove for scavengers


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    Quote Originally Posted by beerlaodrinker View Post
    I sure hope so, water in that part of the world is like gold, most agriculture is centred around the Nile, vegatables and fruit away from those nile regions are non existant and expensive. they might get there shit together 1 day but its pretty bumfuck
    They could do with following Israel's agricultural model.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Luigi View Post
    They could do with following Israel's agricultural model.
    Do you mean kick out the native inhabitants at the point of a gun and take over their land wherever there is an aquifer, and pipe the water to their own gardens and swimming pools?

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    The River Nile, Khartoum


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    Dates are cheap and make a good snack to go with the sudanese coffee





    Sudanese Starbucks

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    Theres a lot of Illegal Miners poking around out there to





    Looks like a hard way to make some of these


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    Time to revisit, Mods I think it deserves a bump.

    As the Sudan tragedy unfolds there are some excellent pictures and comments from BLD

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    Ive been in touch with a couple of sudanese geos that i worked with in sudan , they are saying its very fucked up, when i posted this thread crackerjack ( rip) mentioned the legendary hotel in khartoum called the acrapole run by a greek family for over 80 years continuously even during other conflicts . Today i read that the greek owner and family had to flee with only a few possesions leaving behind the hotel. To an unsure future, the guy is 80 and still hopes to return.

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