How will Constitution Minings floating dredgers move through the Gold Sands?
Constitution Mining will exploit the ease with which ponds can be created in the water-rich environment of the Peruvian Gold Sands. The Gold Sands are in a flood zone. The water table is very close to the surface, so all it takes to build a pond is to dig. And ponds aren’t just easy to build, they’re easy to move. A pond can gradually be relocated by continuing to dig at one end and filling in at the opposite end. Mobile ponds. Each dredger in Constitution’s mining program described at Question 19 will remove sand and gravel from the front of a pond, thus advancing the pond, and pump the slurry through a large floating pipeline to a floating plant at the rear of the pond. There the valuable gold content is separated from the bulk of the material. Then the processed sand and gravel will be re-deposit in the mined-out area near the rear of the pond (where the land will be re-contoured and planted for full restoration). The pond moves, always advancing toward fresh, gold-rich material.
