Ok! I know that there are some pretty smart people here, so here is my problem. I have access to an old private pistol and rifle range, where people had been shooting for 30 years or more. The range is closing down (being sold), old shooters tell me that every weekend for those past 30 years, they had been putting between 1000 and 5000 rounds down range (not including 22lr). If you do the math thats tons of lead. I guess that the front of the hill containing the lead would fill about 10 to 15 dump trucks. The problem is how to seperate the dirt and trash (sticks, stones, wood target pieces) from the lead. its a one shot (no pun intended) deal. I have a backhoe loader and dump truck avaliable, and have seperated a couple of buckets of lead by screening, thats very time consuming considering I,m looking at maybe 150 tons of dirt. Any mining engineers out there? Anyone got any Ideas? By the way I have a time limit of doing this by Jan 1,2009. Please try to keep it simple, I don't want to spend $10,000. on equipment.