Bernie Kreft
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Prospect Generator, turning paperclips into houses for over 25 yrs, former star of Yukon Gold TV, Gold Copper Silver
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@Fabien_Levy
@NYCMayor
For some reason I am getting a book burning vibe off of your video. Given all the shortages and people in need of money couldn't you have sold these items instead of holding a cheesy photo op?
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Pure genius, cause an epic stock market bubble via fast and furious monetary policy and then tax people on unrealized capital gains.
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As the holiday season rapidly approaches, Kreftco would like to take this time to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and happy holidays. I would also like to introduce the next wave of prospectors (the grandkids) and a big part of my personal "why" or lede. Volume up and enjoy!
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Last couple of weeks have been tough. Lost my driller, Mark Mooney, and a business associate Antonio Vespa. Friends and brothers in arms, they will be missed. Hug those u love and think good thoughts. U never know what someone is going through so be kind.
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Operation is up and running. Way earlier start than last year and likely one of the first operations to be sluicing in the Klondike.
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Merry Christmas everyone. Hoping for health and happiness for you all in 2024 and beyond. Leading a blessed life and hoping for the same for everyone. Find the silver (or golden) lining in everything.
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@ctvqp
@cafreeland
@PBO_DPB
Get your life jacket ready and try and locate the position of the nearest lifeboat. HMCS Canada is helmed by dimwits and incompetents.
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Prospecting means breaking a lot of rocks and finding stuff. In this case a 4km x 5km gossan with widespread porphyry style propylitic, sericitic and potassic alteration. Heavily leached, possible early Jurassic system, with Cu-Au in a magnetite cemented breccia with pyrite.
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High-grade gold quartz vein samples, the erosion of veins like this is typically what forms a placer gold deposit, finding veins like this should make you do your happy dance!
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picked up a new placer Au project in the Dawson area, a bit of a rarity as it hasn't been gone over by mechanized mining meaning the goldrush era workings are still intact
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@ctvqp
@JustinTrudeau
how did he go from a question on fiscal capacity to deal with a rainy day to climate change resilient infrastructure to protect us from floods
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a throwback picture to this past summer when I thought it was cold but it was actually warm, one pan from the bank yielded almost a 1/4 gram of gold
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Hopefully some of my fellow Tweeps who are unlucky enough to follow this account saw me tweet about American Eagle and the Nak project which is a Kreftco property. Up 543% today.
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Old Man Winter turning me grey and white before my time. Minus 30c with a wind chill is cold, forgetting a toque is stupid and the not often thought about problem is the eyelashes freezing together when you blink.
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Just finished up some field exploration in the Sixtymile area for Kestrel Gold. Property is accessed via the aptly named Top Of The World Highway and a series of roads that service the local placer mines. Great scenery, interesting geology, good access, lots to like.
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Out patrolling the town streets on a Saturday night and what do I see? It has been a while since a major has been in Whitehorse.
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Merry Christmas from the 2036 Kreft Crew, from left: Landon and Krystalee (Jarret), Charles (Justin) and Tyson (Jarret) - nice to know the future is set with helpers for grampa
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The goldfields in Dawson are fascinating. A trip here when I was 6 hooked me on the exploration business. I keep coming back not just for the gold but also the magic and the mystery.
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panning and sluice clean-ups can be challenging on our new property, luckily gold recovery is one of my forte's
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As per normal Kreftco was one of the first ops to start placer gold production in the Klondike. Nice to be able to produce gold at a profit while the junior exploration market stumbles along hiccuping and puking like a drunk with acid indigestion. Salud!
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Doing some late season work at our Hunker property. Putting in a settling pond/pump reservoir in preparation for sluicing to begin early May 2023. Water retention systems are critical at this site which relies heavily on spring runoff for process water.
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The contrarian in me desperately wants to buy some $gato just not sure the contrarian isn't also a masochist.
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A short video showing a gold wheel in action. Although it is spinning a bit fast it still seems to be working well.
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Although there is a lot of science involved in mineral as well as placer exploration, often times it comes down to a willingness to work, sweat and get dirty. In this instance hand trenching resulted in a hole that yielded an interesting amount of gold, bug-bites and blisters.
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@TheLastDegree
Everyone always talks about their W's, rarely does anyone dissect the anatomy of a loss. Not sure you have any losses but if you do it may be of benefit to analyze a few losses and see if there are any characteristics common to them.
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Prospecting at one of our hardrock projects in the Klondike located some old shafts and pits. Qtz limonite veins assayed up to 13.5 oz/t gold and are likely the source for the rich placer gold deposits found in the area.
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short video we shot at Little Blanche earlier this fall, no politics, no outrage, just a good solid work day
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@thereds8
My dad, who is double vaxxed and 80, just cancelled his trip to Mexico because although he isn't worried about covid he sees more lockdowns and sh*t coming. At 80 the end of the runway is looming and being unable to enjoy life is disheartening at best.
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Old hand piled rocks and a horse drawn scraper found on our latest placer acquisition. Locating untouched gold-rush era hand workings in the Klondike Goldfields is extremely rare (most spots have been gone over multiple times) and speaks to the potential of the property.
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spent a couple of hours digging around the sluice a few days ago, side benefit: lots of ice for drinks
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Happy Thanksgiving to all, I give thanks for healthy grand-kids Landon and Tyson (pictured), my own boys, and a wife who loves to cook
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Not every drill program is well managed or documented and the difference between a good geo and a bad geo can make a huge difference down the line. Also have to take into consideration the neighbours and their need for plywood or firewood.
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In between some Cu and Au prospecting and a drill program we managed to put in a few days refurbishing our sluice plant. New shoes and a few other little mods in an effort to make it better-stronger-faster. Being able to produce Au is a nice feeling.
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Some 2021 prospecting at a historical showing confirmed the presence of copper, gold and palladium. Diorite to granodiorite with disseminated and fracture controlled chalcopyrite. These 4 samples average 0.8% Cu, 604 ppb Au and 1105 ppb Pd. Mineralization over a 100m x 250m area.
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An annual tradition stretching back decades is that I always buy myself something for Christmas. This year was no exception as I acquired a Cu-Au deposit with an indicated and inferred resource estimate of 150,000,000t grading 0.24% Cu, 0.008% Mo, 0.23 g/t Au and 1.0 g/t Ag.
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using a Reverse Circulation drill to explore for hardrock Au on a property I optioned to
@KestrelGold
11 g/t Au on surface, what lies below?
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Finally got to some claims we staked well over a year ago. Grassroots generative prospecting at the site located sedimentary rocks, ranging from siltstone to dolomite breccia, mineralized with up to 5% very fine disseminated arsenopyrite and scorodite. Excellent gold potential.
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I introduce to you Victor who is our newest helper at the minesite, he has a few words he wanted to say for the Spanish speaking people who may be following this account.
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good cross section of the placer gold deposit we have been sluicing the last few weeks, extremely fine gold and occasionally large amounts of barite and magnetite make Au recovery a bit of a challenge but nothing that can't be overcome with some thought
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Two Kreft properties in the top 10.
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Doing a bit of grassroots generative exploration. Rugged terrain at times but we still found numerous mineralized showings. XRF says we have located potentially interesting amounts of copper, lead, arsenic (gold potential) and now we wait for assays from the lab.
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My grandsons were at the house playing. I was supervising and talking on the phone about a copper project. The 4yr old must have been listening in as he got up, ran into my office, grabbed a large copper mineralized sample, gave it to me and went back to playing. Excellent help.
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Happy New Year to all. As 2019 winds down please take a deep breath, reflect on the past year (but DO NOT live in the past), and look forward to all the positive possibilities that 2020 holds.
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Did a bit of early season sluicing this year. As per last year Kreftco was likely one of the first (if not the first) to begin sluicing in the Klondike. I attribute the early starts the last two years to the mine managers ADHD.
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@TheLastDegree
@silvergoldbugs
There is a LOT of Cu bearing angular float all over the place, including right in the road beds. Cu occurs within multiple styles of mineralization incl qtz veins, breccias, fracture controlled, disseminated, suggesting a robust system may exist. Some pics from my last visit.
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Kyle and Jarret with their babies Finn and Landon, the 2032 crew is coming together nicely!
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Happy Thanksgiving to all, it was a great year full of discoveries and great gardening, 610 lbs of Canadian beef, along with quality cabbage-carrots-potatoes-beets should make a great supper
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Not every day at the placer mine is all about sluicing and counting nuggets. Sometimes bad stuff happens to the machines and then there is swearing, sweating and dreams of being somewhere else... basically anywhere.
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@wmiddelkoop
Always be noisy in the forest. It keeps the animals, particularly bears, aware that you are around and thereby reduces the risk of an encounter.
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Minus 41 overnight, need a propane powered tiger torch to get the truck going, starting in 2018 fossil fuels, which are the only thing keeping a lot of us alive, will be taxed
#MerryChristmas2017
#ClimateBarbie
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In an gravity recovery circuit classification is key. Our top deck has 1 inch openings and the bottom 3/8, gravel has good wash characteristics and our spray system is killer. Gold is very fine-grained so we may change bottom screen to 5/16 or 1/4. Near 100% recycling of water.
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Need copper? I have a full suite of quality Cu-Au porphyry targets in BC ranging from grassroots to pre 43-101 reserves/resources. From juicy historical intersections through good closeology and geology to early stage concepts, I got it all. DM if interested or pls retweet if not
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Happy Canada Day, where flying the Canadian flag on Parliament Hill is outlawed, the cost of living is skyrocketing due to gov stupidity and flying around our large country is a sh*t-show due to an gov app that does nothing but scr*w things up. Feels like a descent into dystopia.
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Another Kreftco property out the door to a good home. Trailbreaker promised to drill early, and often if justified, and I always appreciate an option partner that will give a project of ours a good legit shake. Hardworking team of explorers doing honest work. Make papa proud!
Jan. 22, 2024 - Trailbreaker Resources Acquires Liberty Cu-Mo Porphyry Property Located In Central British Columbia
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Pulling up the last of the garden. It was a below average growing year due to overall cool temps. The beets exceeded expectations but they were started inside a month early. Should be enough cabbage, broccoli, carrots, potatoes and beets to last until about Christmas.
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Placer mining isn't all about sluicing and counting nuggets, there is a fair bit of lesss glamorous work. In this case we built a road through an area with a lot of permafrost which means we will need to go back and finish once it is thawed and dried out a bit. A goopy mess.
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Feed rate of 60 cubic yards per hour controlled by excavator operator who has a clear view of the screen deck. Grizzly on hopper to reject boulders that may otherwise block the throat of the hopper. Strong wash system necessary as the screen deck is only 8 feet long.
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another video shot at our newest placer project, once again the kiddies are hard at work while I document the action... this M.O. never gets old
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With the recent surge in the price of gold, I introduce to you Bob. His name is a bit of a misnomer as he sinks like a stone. He may be bi-polar as he has both a pronounced dark side as well as a bright and cheery side.
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Blood and sweat but no tears yet! Prospecting up a storm trying to end the season on a high note, discoveries are coming.
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There is always stuff to do when placer mining. At this site in Dawson, for every day spent sluicing for gold there is approx a day spent stripping dirt and doing general maintenance just like this. In this case new teeth will increase productivity and reduce wear on the bucket
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@wmiddelkoop
Careful Willem, the thought police will come for you and then you will find yourself on the run in the Yukon living in a Kreftco camp in the forest foraging for food with Novak and yours truly.
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Placer gold mining isn't simply turning dollars into gold nuggets, there is also a lot of less glamorous work involved including stripping and settling pond construction. This site is configured for near 100% water recirculation so we rely heavily on well constructed ponds.
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brecciated and micro-fractured rhyolite with vuggy quartz cement, AKA nice rock with gold and silver in it
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Looking at tailings can gives clues to the type(s) of mineralization that may be the source for the placer gold being recovered. At this site there are a LOT of limonitic quartz cobbles which suggest orogenic style quartz limonite veins may be the bedrock source for the gold.
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Steady feed by Jarret on excavator and consistent tailings removal by Justin on loader saw us process 55 cubic metres per hr. Could increase throughput as material washes well but lots of heavy minerals (barite and magnetite) mean we need to take it slow to enhance Au recovery.
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Optimism and hope will be the pillars of a stellar 2021. To this end I have unfollowed several accounts that fear-monger about things. The negative scenarios propagated invariably do little other than stress people out. I couldn't imagine living in a constant state of fear/worry.
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When an oil guy starts talking copper it is either a sign of the top or the start of an inexorable drive higher.
Chinese optimism = fantastic week for copper, which is knocking on the $4/lb door for the first time since June.
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the latest exploration project certainly has a nice view, and gold... never forget the gold!
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Not every day at the minesite is spent sluicing gold. Sometimes a person has to stop for maintenance on the equipment such as changing the loader bucket cutting edge. A simple change like this makes a bit of a difference on productivity and a LOT on longevity of the bucket.
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Between bugs, pollen and black bears mineral exploration can be a bit of a chore at times. Of the three it is the bugs that are the worst. Please note the blood on the sleeve at the end of the video.
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One thing I really wanted to see was indications of potential for a higher grade core that could potentially be the starter pit for a mine. Nice to see the team and project deliver... albeit a bit late for Christmas...
American Eagle Intersects 302 Metres of 1.09% Copper Equivalent within 606 Metres of 0.74% Copper Equivalent $AE.V
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some late season sluicing on lower Hunker Creek, another well set up Marty K operation
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2017 field crew heading out for the next trip, the rookie is super-eager!
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Yukon placer mining often uncovers the remains of animals from long ago (Woolly Mammoth etc), who's extinction was likely caused by climate change. Just the other day I found ground-breaking proof that cold weather was also responsible for the end of the Dinosaur age.
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One of our 2017 placer prospecting ventures, testing along the edge of old dredge workings
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grassroots placer exploration involves a lot of hand labour and sweating, luckily slave labour is still a thing
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preliminary metallurgical work completed on a 0.9m wide qtz-py-galena vein by Bureau Veritas shows recoveries of 71% Au via basic gravity concentration with a further 28% Au recovery via both cyanidation and floatation (easy to process), ore averages 72 g/t Au with significant Ag
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nice iron and manganese stained gravel starting to show up in the side of the cut, hope its gold bearing... and rich
http://t.co/2rDytAE5d5
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With hardrock exploration at a bit of a standstill due to increasing wait times at the assay lab, we have decided to spend the last few days hand trenching at one of our placer projects. Blisters and backs attest to the hard packed nature of the material we are excavating.
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It was a long wait but results for the 2021 RC drill program are finally here. Nice to see there was a happy conclusion to this portion of the saga. Big thick intersections bottoming in gold is always a good sign.
Super excited, stoked, pumped... to finally have results to release for the drill program we completed last fall at QCM. Potential for a good sized resource plus potential for a higher grade core within the resource.
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A cold winter in Dawson continues unabated, -6 and snowing. Apparently global warming has been cancelled due to the Coronavirus.
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quartz-pyrite-galena vein from the Klondike, 50cm wide averaging 104 g/t Au and 645 g/t Ag, one tonne (12.5 cubic feet) is worth about $5840
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Just to clarify, you own most but not all of the district. Between myself and Kestrel Gold we control the bulk of the most prospective part of the east side of the Klondike, total ground position of approx 5,400 hectares covering 6 of the 9 main showings in this area.
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Have been prospecting through central BC and came across this gem: Manson Creek historical site, an old placer camp
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We are always acquiring projects either via purchase or staking. Our most recent acquisition is an orogenic quartz vein system with up to 13.5 oz/ton gold in grab samples. Might be time to consider small scale hardrock mining, milling and gold recovery.
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crew is getting a bit hairy but we are still managing to find some interesting rocks, hope there is some gold as there is a lot of this stuff
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At times it feels as if we are heading towards an Orwellian 1984 destination, and this may be how we get there.
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bearing mounted, support frame built, and shaker deck speed test completed, now finally onto finding some gold to pay for all this... hopefully we remember how to dig the yellow stuff up
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Happy Easter to those who celebrate. And to everyone, I hope you have a great weekend full of food, family and fun.
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first placer prospecting trip of the year, interesting property terrible area, probably a very bad idea
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latest project: manganese and iron stained gravel on bedrock, 1 cubic yard run through a long tom, results weighed
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