Should ad a magnet in catch to gab iron befor it drops down, and needs top middel and bottel horizontal water inlets to creat more of a vertex to move through materal faster.
Knew a fella down in Clovis CA that had a prospecting shop and came up with a similar setup using the 'quick sand' method. Very simple. Had a ABS reducer (sizes are approx. and from old feeble mind) about 5x4. The 5"side was capped off. There was a hose connection and valve for water inlet. The coupling was filled with cotton and had a perforated screen above it. On top of this was a clear mylar tube about 18" tall. crack the water on and spoon classified material into the tube Take a rod and insert into the material. Adjust the water just enough for the rod inserts easy, thus the quicksand effect. After 20-30 minutes shut off the water, pull the clear tube off dumping the lighter material. Gold and lead will be sitting on perforated screen. Simple, pretty compact and worked pretty good. We used it on material that went thru a kitchen sieve. Did this till I got a goldhound.
Sounds like an interesting device. With the GOLDROP, there aren't any filters, screens or other mechanical actions to create the separation. It is only the vertical flow of water that performs the separation, Elutriation. The dirt tailings are "goosed" up and out of the GOLDROP while the Gold drops into the jar.
That’s fantastic! Very interesting to see and get a better idea of how it works! So neat to see the material unable to drop unless you want it to. Would this work with beach sand (Washington beach or Lake Superior)? Tiny tiny gold and lots of heavy black sand? Your third run shows it can capture the fine gold, but can it separate out the majority of the black sand? I would guess yes if you got it dialed in perfectly.
Did the southern Oregon beach test not end up happening? I know the laws regarding beaches in Oregon are a pain. I beleive the Rogue River beach deposits, compared to Washington, are higher in magnetite, chromite, and PGEs -- sometimes there's quite a lot of platinum.
waoo waoo, wonderful invention magnificent, super cool, surprising, what is the price? ,, for hard rock mining does it work too? or is it only for alluvial and black sands ?? what is its price?
This could possibly be useful to artisinal/small-scale subsistence miners in developing countries -- at least in some situations. Could possibly cut down on mercury burning. Maybe the UN or some major NGOs or the Gates Foundation, or some such, would like to help with getting this contraption to market at scale. :-)
The interest is there through an artisanal mining group I am part of on LinkedIn. With my new patent filing, I will be protected Internationally to facilitate its sale overseas. The GOLDROP will recover Gold to, so far, 400 mesh. Mercury cannot recover Gold larger than 100 mesh or smaller that 250 mesh. Check out my website, www.sluicegooseindustries.com, for more info.
Christopher Carr - The artisanal miners do receive a premium for there Gold. When they become FairMined Gold certified, Gold buyers know their mining practices are Mercury Free and they are paid more for their Gold.
I love this elutriation concept! It also gets around laws where sluicing is illegal. John, if I started with say 2mm material and the smallest gold i was trying to recover was -100mesh how many times would i need to classify and run the material through the gold drop please? In your demonstration you only classify twice but didnt mention what the smallest gold was you recovered? 95%+of my gold is in the size range -30 to -90mesh. Im curious if the gold drop would recover all the gold in a single pass in my case? Thanks, geoff
Geoff C It is legal because you can use your water you bring and leave with to GOLDROP process Paydirt even in arid conditions. I gather tailings and classify to 100 mesh to extract flour gold. You’ll see that in my next video “GOLDROP vs. Goldbay Elite Paydirt” being posted today!
Dave Kopp of Yuba Industries, North America's largest Gold operation by size and builders of Yuba bucket dredges, has conducted tests for me and has established a 99% recovery. He salted 7 grams of 100 mesh Gold into their black sand and found two specs in the tailings after processing through the GOLDROP.
@@dbuck75 all the accessories can be provided by anyone. I will be producing the 1st 100 GOLDROPs to gage costs and determine a selling price. no idea currently.
Keep me posted if you can. I’d love to get one of the first one hundred. I’m up in The Dalles so not to far from you I think. I’d love to run around and work with one especially down at Cape Disappointment.
The GOLDROP is ready to purchase at www.buythegoldrop.com. Its efficiency has been improved and can recover 400 mesh ua-cam.com/video/_cgidUQfXbE/v-deo.html
Our target is end of this month. This is the sales site which is open for info, www.buythegoldrop.com. When I have produced inventory, in progress, the site will open for sales.
@@sluicegoosegoldrop2821 does your system only work on black sand type material or does it work on larger materials (for me 30 mesh is where i find most of my gold stuff)
@@zemetrius Processing through the GOLDROP starts at 1/8" classified material, regardless of the mix to get the coarse Gold. Once that's processed, reclassify to 30 mesh and go for the fine Gold.
@@zemetrius In this video, I start at 1/8", reclassify to 2mm and finish reclassified again to 35 mesh. It does not matter what kind of dirt as long as it's I/8" to start. You adjust the elutriation flow , drop water, and watch the dirt drop down from the trap funnel. Stop adjusting when the dirt reaches the center of the drop tube. Bigger 1/8" matter will require a greater drop water flow to support than smaller sand particles. In general, 1/8" classified pay dirt supports in the trap funnel with the flow meter set at .4gpm +. Sand supports at .2gpm. That's less that a quart a minute vertical flow to support sand in the trap while the Gold drops into the jar.
With inflation as it is over the last 3 three years increasing prices on all materials to manufacture Goldrop, I have not raised the $2000 base price to reflect these increased costs. With Gold at $2300/oz. and climbing, less than an ounce recovered will more than pay for a Goldrop. Beyond the payoff, more gold will continue to be extracted by Goldrop from the same pay dirt putting more gold in your pocket that other devices cannot recover.
Thanks for the compliment! Rube was a genius engineer and cartoonist who reveled in creating complex inventions to accomplish mundane tasks like pouring coffee or lighting a match. Rube was inspiring and a mentor when growing up with his crazy imagination. The GOLDROP is a product of my crazy imagination to accomplish the not so-mundane task to recover gold quickly without using a pan
Should ad a magnet in catch to gab iron befor it drops down, and needs top middel and bottel horizontal water inlets to creat more of a vertex to move through materal faster.
Nice way to wash out the black sand
Knew a fella down in Clovis CA that had a prospecting shop and came up with a similar setup using the 'quick sand' method. Very simple. Had a ABS reducer (sizes are approx. and from old feeble mind) about 5x4. The 5"side was capped off. There was a hose connection and valve for water inlet. The coupling was filled with cotton and had a perforated screen above it. On top of this was a clear mylar tube about 18" tall. crack the water on and spoon classified material into the tube Take a rod and insert into the material. Adjust the water just enough for the rod inserts easy, thus the quicksand effect. After 20-30 minutes shut off the water, pull the clear tube off dumping the lighter material. Gold and lead will be sitting on perforated screen. Simple, pretty compact and worked pretty good. We used it on material that went thru a kitchen sieve. Did this till I got a goldhound.
Sounds like an interesting device. With the GOLDROP, there aren't any filters, screens or other mechanical actions to create the separation. It is only the vertical flow of water that performs the separation, Elutriation. The dirt tailings are "goosed" up and out of the GOLDROP while the Gold drops into the jar.
What I imagine a plumber and a reloader would come up with, interesting concept. But man, you weren't kidding about not knowing how to pan, lol! :)
👏👏👏
That’s fantastic! Very interesting to see and get a better idea of how it works! So neat to see the material unable to drop unless you want it to.
Would this work with beach sand (Washington beach or Lake Superior)? Tiny tiny gold and lots of heavy black sand? Your third run shows it can capture the fine gold, but can it separate out the majority of the black sand? I would guess yes if you got it dialed in perfectly.
I was at Cape Disappointment. check out my website for a video of the cleanup from there. www.sluicegooseindustries.com
Did the southern Oregon beach test not end up happening? I know the laws regarding beaches in Oregon are a pain.
I beleive the Rogue River beach deposits, compared to Washington, are higher in magnetite, chromite, and PGEs -- sometimes there's quite a lot of platinum.
@@cacogenicist I haven't gone yet. Summertime work load in my machine shop and getting production started has taken all my time.
Yeah Man ,
waoo waoo, wonderful invention magnificent, super cool, surprising, what is the price? ,, for hard rock mining does it work too? or is it only for alluvial and black sands ?? what is its price?
It's for sale at www.kellycodetectors.com. Click on Gold Concentrators under the Gold Prospecting column. The price is $2000 with the accessories.
This could possibly be useful to artisinal/small-scale subsistence miners in developing countries -- at least in some situations. Could possibly cut down on mercury burning.
Maybe the UN or some major NGOs or the Gates Foundation, or some such, would like to help with getting this contraption to market at scale. :-)
The interest is there through an artisanal mining group I am part of on LinkedIn. With my new patent filing, I will be protected Internationally to facilitate its sale overseas. The GOLDROP will recover Gold to, so far, 400 mesh. Mercury cannot recover Gold larger than 100 mesh or smaller that 250 mesh. Check out my website, www.sluicegooseindustries.com, for more info.
@@sluicegoosegoldrop2821 It would be great if ASGM people could get a premium for mercury-free gold -- with some sort of international certification.
Christopher Carr - The artisanal miners do receive a premium for there Gold. When they become FairMined Gold certified, Gold buyers know their mining practices are Mercury Free and they are paid more for their Gold.
@@sluicegoosegoldrop2821 - Ah, good idea! :-)
I love this elutriation concept!
It also gets around laws where sluicing is illegal.
John, if I started with say 2mm material and the smallest gold i was trying to recover was -100mesh how many times would i need to classify and run the material through the gold drop please? In your demonstration you only classify twice but didnt mention what the smallest gold was you recovered?
95%+of my gold is in the size range -30 to -90mesh. Im curious if the gold drop would recover all the gold in a single pass in my case?
Thanks,
geoff
Geoff C It is legal because you can use your water you bring and leave with to GOLDROP process Paydirt even in arid conditions. I gather tailings and classify to 100 mesh to extract flour gold. You’ll see that in my next video “GOLDROP vs. Goldbay Elite Paydirt” being posted today!
@@sluicegoosegoldrop2821 Thanks for the reply. Il watch that new video when you post it, cheers
geoff
Buena idea ... Saludos
Hi from northern Alberta, I have not seen what your tailings look like and have you tested them for losses.
Dave Kopp of Yuba Industries, North America's largest Gold operation by size and builders of Yuba bucket dredges, has conducted tests for me and has established a 99% recovery. He salted 7 grams of 100 mesh Gold into their black sand and found two specs in the tailings after processing through the GOLDROP.
CAN YOU SEND ME WHAT'S IN THE JAR SO I CAN INSPECT IT
Hı frend. Gold drop price?
www.kellycodetectors.com/catalog/sluice-goose-industries-goldrop-paydirt-separator.
👀 I'd like to try this out
I'll have them for sale this year, no timeline yet.
@@dbuck75 all the accessories can be provided by anyone. I will be producing the 1st 100 GOLDROPs to gage costs and determine a selling price. no idea currently.
Keep me posted if you can. I’d love to get one of the first one hundred. I’m up in The Dalles so not to far from you I think. I’d love to run around and work with one especially down at Cape Disappointment.
If you need any help manufacturing your first units to I’d love to come help if you need any extra hands. I think I’m within a couple of hours of you.
The GOLDROP is ready to purchase at www.buythegoldrop.com. Its efficiency has been improved and can recover 400 mesh ua-cam.com/video/_cgidUQfXbE/v-deo.html
Anyone in georgia area, or close by, own one of these ?? I have 5 gallon bucket of blacks and and gold!
If anyone has this unit..I have the fines! Pm me..
Would that be good for 100 mesh gold?
GOLDROP was tested by Dave Kopp, owner of Yuba Industries. Using 100 mesh Gold, he established a 99%+ recovery rate.
Here's a video showing 400 mesh recovery ua-cam.com/video/DrBBPRP1FXg/v-deo.html.
@@sluicegoosegoldrop2821 wow very nice! I'll be buying one soon.
@@sluicegoosegoldrop2821 Thank you. How would Do I know when the process is completed and there is no more gold in that batch ?
@@lucky-gh5ox www.buythegoldrop.com
is this out for sale yet? love to get one.
Our target is end of this month. This is the sales site which is open for info, www.buythegoldrop.com. When I have produced inventory, in progress, the site will open for sales.
@@sluicegoosegoldrop2821 does your system only work on black sand type material or does it work on larger materials (for me 30 mesh is where i find most of my gold stuff)
@@zemetrius Processing through the GOLDROP starts at 1/8" classified material, regardless of the mix to get the coarse Gold. Once that's processed, reclassify to 30 mesh and go for the fine Gold.
@@zemetrius In this video, I start at 1/8", reclassify to 2mm and finish reclassified again to 35 mesh. It does not matter what kind of dirt as long as it's I/8" to start. You adjust the elutriation flow , drop water, and watch the dirt drop down from the trap funnel. Stop adjusting when the dirt reaches the center of the drop tube. Bigger 1/8" matter will require a greater drop water flow to support than smaller sand particles. In general, 1/8" classified pay dirt supports in the trap funnel with the flow meter set at .4gpm +. Sand supports at .2gpm. That's less that a quart a minute vertical flow to support sand in the trap while the Gold drops into the jar.
@@sluicegoosegoldrop2821 excellent, you have me sold. or at least you will if i can afford to get one of your amazing systems.
Drop your price to 1k and I will buy one... 2k is ridiculous my friend
With inflation as it is over the last 3 three years increasing prices on all materials to manufacture Goldrop, I have not raised the $2000 base price to reflect these increased costs. With Gold at $2300/oz. and climbing, less than an ounce recovered will more than pay for a Goldrop. Beyond the payoff, more gold will continue to be extracted by Goldrop from the same pay dirt putting more gold in your pocket that other devices cannot recover.
Why does the name Rube Goldberg come to mind?
Thanks for the compliment! Rube was a genius engineer and cartoonist who reveled in creating complex inventions to accomplish mundane tasks like pouring coffee or lighting a match. Rube was inspiring and a mentor when growing up with his crazy imagination. The GOLDROP is a product of my crazy imagination to accomplish the not so-mundane task to recover gold quickly without using a pan
Neat idea but a waste of time.