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How to extract gold
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These photos were taken in 2008 as a welder Sergei and colleagues at the memory. C and its words written text, and slightly processed photos.
Artel "Drazhnik" is located at a small town asterisk Ust-Maya district of Yakutia.
Sergei was getting to the village train to Nyurengri further 1,800 km by minibus through Yakutsk.
Upon arrival labor agreement. Artel will cover shipping costs.
Artel dobyvaet- washes gold in the old riverbed Allah-Yun.
Prepared land the size of a football field:
land cleared of larch trees;
draglines shot does not contain gold top layer of fertile land; (Bucket)
T-500 bulldozers leveled land of gold-bearing rocks;
It is cold here forever merzlota- rock-like concrete: consists of silt, sand and stones.
progret- the soil to a depth of 4 meters drilled boreholes and installed pipes to which the hoses supplied hot steam;
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shifted the flow of the river and formed backwater;
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section is filled with water to a depth of 2 meters,
dredge moved to the area.
Gold dredge clean. Draga (from Eng. Drag - drag, to clean the bottom) - mechanized mining and processing unit, working on the principle Bucket Chain Excavators, mounted on a floating platform.
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It has multibucket working body for underwater construction. It is used for the development of placer deposits, extraction of valuable minerals (most often - gold, silver) and placing slag dump.
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Draga raises gold-breed, which is colloquially called skalitom
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Lots, washed and screened rock
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There are not found large nuggets like nuggets Magadan and Chukotka.
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at some sites the process ends making gold ingots
In these places, the gold mined in the mines
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The season lasts for miners from late March until November. In April dredge chained ice.
Until June are preparatory and repairs. This year was reduced 5-drag one of the farm after a winter fire: sheathed boards and iron out, replace the damaged electrical equipment, painted ...
(This repair you have the opportunity to look inside the dredge: the premises where the usual time presence is not possible for safety reasons, to assess the extent of the power equipment, etc.)
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Artel regularly produces the wall newspaper, one of the issues which reflects the recovery process and participation in the management of even the workers. Restores the entire team of!
Employees
The backbone arteli- about 20 man-these are people who have worked for about 20 years. For them artel main place of work. In winter, they live in a nearby village and, as a rule, every two years, on paid leave by the employer leave, including paid and travel expenses. Photos- below in the section competition.
Accepted workers and labor agreement for the season. So Sergey signed it.
No age restrictions, common in Russian cities: work all those willing and able to adapt to the rhythm of the mines.
In accordance with the law on guarantees of the rights of indigenous small peoples of the employer in selecting the worker, ceteris paribus prefers indigenous inhabitants.
Labor Day
Life is organized in a camp childhood Sergei! 12 hour day with a break for lunch. Besides tea breaks every 2 hours. During this time, you can rest and warm temperature in April fell to -36 in November to -23 degrees. Continental climate!
Welder is always busy repairing. It dismantled the power transformer: it will take to shut down due to low profitability of deposits.
Competitions drazhnikov.
Management is working to increase productivity and professional growth of employees. It has been a traditional contest drazhnikov farm.
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Here is the number of the newspaper with the results of the competition. Pay attention to the production, experience, power consumption, duration of working day, etc!
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Incidents
There were several emergencies. Burning taiga. Here, large forest fires is not quenched.
Dredge sank: due to a malfunction of the alarm system of the water level in the body. Pump out the water.
Long ruble prospector?
Artel was chosen on the recommendation of fellow countryman. It was known that there is not the highest income, but they are guaranteed. Do not "throw", as it happens, in other cooperatives. (Most of the earnings in the cooperatives issue at the end of the season) .Even there is a trade-union committee and published by the newspaper.
The payment system includes: oklad- about 2 thousand \ rubles per month, depending on the specialization factor allowances (highest buldozeristov- at 1, 7) and the premium on the results of production. The last and the highest point is largely dependent on God. It happened that the bed of the river changes direction, and production became negligible.
Yield of about 1 thousand rubles a day. Total: Charge for the season about 170 thousand. rubles, but subtracted about 90 thousand rubles for room and board.
(Want to know the price? For example, in the village of fake vodka bottle costs 250 rubles, vodka good quality 400-500 rubles a bottle of 0, 7l Absinthe - 1600 rub.)
Flora and fauna
Lanshaft that dream.
The hills of northern Yakutia. Same as in the Magadan region
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Colour Yellow autumn larch.
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Butterflies, which are collected at source from any particular salinity, from the crevices of rocks
Universal favorite - Chip Off to work.
Gifts of Nature
The farewell look at the mines and the village asterisk.
Sergei 47 years old, no family, no car, lives in a family apartment with her mother, a great part of his life he worked as a welder "in the north", is a pile of diplomas teaching various conditions of welding, high-class specialist, likes to work, is not an alcoholic, not a drug addict, healthy adequate normal muzhik- women love! But the savings do not! He believes that live no more than 60 years: welders in Russia do not live longer.
Today, working in the community on the company Electricity - work brings him a larger salary. About gold mine kept a good memory: it pulls the north!
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