GOLD PLACER MINING
Whelan's Mining is one of the few companies in
the world experienced in operating large scale gold placer mines using
various combinations of suction dredges, sluices (ross boxes), giants,
trommels, nelson concentrators, bucket lines, and screening plants.
Note man standing in gold!!!!!
Whelan's Mining is very experienced in drilling in remote locations where
it has built roads, drilled, and logged 100,000's of feet of surface and
underground holes using various core, straight rotary, reverse circulation,
and geotec rigs. The company has built its own hydraulic back pack rigs
and owned/lease/contracted many combinations of track, all terrain, skid,
helicopter, and truck mounted rigs.
To avoid building roads in environmentally sensitive areas, ATV and/or
Track mounted drill rigs and water trucks are used.
Whelan's Mining is highly experienced in professional surveying
services, including surface, underground, and aerial topographic, boundary,
geochemical, geophysical, geological, and claim staking surveys. Whelan's
use the latest in EDM total stations and satellite gps equipment and computer
technology.
Surveying at 19,000 feet in South America for Aerial Photo Control
Whelan's
have designed, constructed, and operated various forms of every type of
the major gold processing systems in use today. These mills have included
Cyanide Heap Leaching, Gravity Milling and Amalgamation, Flotation Milling
and Smelting and other processes.
Whelan's have operated and developed both underground and surface mines.
Whelan's are also one of the few companies in the world experienced in
permafrost mining and operated an underground gold mine located farther
north than any other mine in the U.S.
Whelan's are one of the few companies in the world highly experienced in transporting heavy freight via airplanes into self made unimproved/remote sites. The president is a commercial helicopter and fix wing pilot with several thousand hours of flight experience with instrument, sea, and crop dusting ratings.
Whelan's
are one of the few companies in the world experienced at arctic freighting
and maintaining equipment in temperatures exceeding 70 degrees below zero
across vast arctic frontiers where no one has ever driven equipment before.