This brings me great comfort and confidence in my set up. I'm always afraid I'm a little off level or a little to steep or maybe to shallow. Now I just feel better. Gold prospecting is so fun
Thanks Dan, all your testing has helped me with a troubling memory of my son & I's 1st Father's day trip to Alabama Gold Camp in 2020 with our first homemade wooden sluice. I was certain that the angle was off & lost our Gold to the tailings pile. I believe now, we were in the wrong spot. We have be back to AGC numerous times & all ways enjoy the excursions. Thanks again for,... man, for those that haven't run a Highbanker & done a full clean-up and reset, that is load of work + filming & narration. I give you a true "Thank You".
Awesome job Dan. I taught electronics and computers for nearly ten years and I have to say that nothing in my personal experience taught me more than seeing all the types of mistakes that students made. Everyone sees something that is made to look interesting thinking, hey I could do that. They just fail to realize in most cases that the person doing what they think looks easy has a lot of experience and skill. I guess that's why you make searching for GOLD look easy. Excellent video showing common problems that might be encountered.
Your videos are such an uplifting change from the negative stuff many folks post on UA-cam. Your content and personality are pure gold, you must be a great teacher to have!
Dan here is my public critical comment for all to read. You are a wonderful human being and VERY MUCH appreciated by me. Thank you for the gift of knowledge you constantly pass on to me and others. Your the type of person the World needs more of as an example of how to treat other people much different then others of a critical nature who are intimidated by your knowledge and need to self analyze critically themselves to see what kind of human being they truly are after deep, thoughtful and long, repeated and, daily self reflection.
Been watching your videos and learning for a long time now. You have the best teaching videos I have seen so far. I am studying and getting ready for some family trips out in Michigan. Not GOLD capital but it will be fun.
Plenty of gold here in the mitten! As long as you know what your looking for you can find it quite a bit of it. Good luck,pan on, and enjoy your time prospecting with the family!
I think this is one of your best videos. I learned a lot, seeing the errors, helped explain why things are set up and run like they are. I really was expecting to see a lot of gold in the bin with every run, and was amazed how little gold you were actually losing, doing everything wrong. Again, this was a great teaching video. Thanks
@@dipsomaniac124 he lives in B.C. and not too far from the border, so its not out of the question that he celebrates it. I live in the next province over and fourth of july is pretty common to celebrate around here
What I appreciate most about your videos is the educational spin you put on videos. I’m not a prospector by any means...unless you count gold panning at Knott’s Berry Farm when I was a child, but I love you videos. Thanks for keeping it so entertaining, Dan.
I LOVE how you call out the keyboard worriers. You have confidence in your knowledge and you have the now how of what is going to happen, since this is a learning experience in its own. You keep up what you do Dan! I've been around for a while and you know your stuff and you aren't afraid to show others how to get the GOLD and do it right, and to call others out who are being rude.
Thinking OUTSIDE the Gold Box... You have Single handedly dispelled the myths and monetarily motivated fear tactics of SOOOOO Many vendors in our industry... THAT, Sir, inspires Confidence in New and Seasoned prospectors. Not an excuse to be sloppy but a Huge Confidence Builder... A tip of the hat to You Sir!!! Well Done!!
Thank you so much for really going for it Dan. You were working so hard to make the gold go through that it was extra entertaining. No one can say you didn't try all the bad "possible" scenarios. I also hope that those people who think they are miners, stop rambling on at you about what they do not know. Keep up the great content.
I'm a Greenhorn Disabled Veteran a Gold-n oldie or Goldie! I love your videos and am wanting to go panning and Sluicing. Brother you make it look fun, I know the value of the gold is great, but I want the fun to be with it. Thanks again sir. I would love to see what raw gold in it's natural state would look like.
I believe everyone's favorite color on here has to be gold or we wouldn't keep watching this crazy that even with those extreme settings still capture most of the gold haters will always hate keep up the good work Dan
Good advice on how to test your sluicing before doing the search for gold. Am glad that you are exaggerating the sluice usage, what to look for and how to fix it step by step, plus making it fun to learn something new. I am still learning how to use the panning technique so this video will be favorite filed so that when I start sluicing locally in Georgia, USA I know what to avoid… hopefully
Best video ever on testing to the extreme. It builds confidence of the process and product for those of us who want to get started. You are a wonderful practical teacher.
The gold you’re experimenting with, attempting to lose and “failing” to do so, is more gold than I’ve ever been able to find in my area in my entire life🤣.
Great videos, just shows how good the gold mats are at their job. Even the worst novice in the world can have success. (Not calling Dan a novice, just a general statement.)
Nice that you show what happens when you just set your sluice up WRONG. I've spent too many years working to make sure mine was right before putting anything in it that might have any gold in it, not to mention how many times I've shown others what they were doing wrong with theirs, but I've never actually thought to show them WHY and what happened when they had been running theirs like that with good stuff going through it. Then I had to explain why I was breaking those same recommendations while using mine, however; mine is 4' long with Hungarian riffles, miners moss and ridged carpet underneath. Up front I have 1' long with a piece of half inch stainless steel punch plate that runs over the first riffle to give anything heavy a better chance of dropping out as soon as possible. I designed it to run fast and hot, with enough water running through it, I use a 2" drop from point to point, and shovel a full number 2 once a minute. I've put a large bin behind it and check pans have never shown any GOLD in the bin. I love the fishing weights on the third run where you overload the sluice, LOL. Did you move the bin during the run with the mats backwards? During the run where you show it running right after you put it in, the shot shows the bin missing from behind the sluice.
I feel showing being human making mistakes can still be an awesome golden day out slusing for gold with the gold slus. thank you for the info and I hope you are feeling much better. Been watching your videos for a while love them and I love your upbeat attitude you make it a pleasure to watch thanks again
Dan I absolutely love your videos..... I'm a metal detectorist who enjoys recreational gold panning when the opportunity is there... I've learned so much from your videos and it's NEVER about how much I find... It's the getting out, nature, the sounds, the smells, the views, the adventure of it all and the memories made.... keep'em coming!!
Dan you are a grate guy love your vids would love to win some gold thanks for this vid it helped me alot have a grate day and good luck finding lots more gold
So I didn't read all the comments there was way too many. But I'm pretty sure there's a troll in here somewhere saying the only reason why he kept getting his gold is because he had brought more with him and every time you lost some he just replaced it.. I love internet trolls they have no life and that makes me happy!
Hey Dan, I love your videos. I'm a recent subscriber from about 2 months back, found you while looking for 'how to gold pan' videos. I love your friendly and matter of fact presentations. I'm really new to gold hunting, and you've really made me consider taking it on as a regular hobby. This video and others like it provide info on the practice that I just don't get elsewhere. Thank you for this one and your others. I look forward to your next video!
New subscriber, it's really nice of you to show new comers and ones that already know it all in such a professional manner that anyone should be proud to be as decent as you. GOLD!!!
Dude I not only do I love watching your content but you are seriously inspiring me to explore my own once thought/told childish dreams of finding gold and other treasures so too speak! Thank You!
I'm only a recent subscriber, but I've been binging a few of your videos. I love the fact that you are making the videos from an educational standpoint, weather it's gemstone or gold mining :)
To be honest I'll admit I am really impressed with that sluice of yours and that mat combination....And you more than proved that you built that rig for all situations where you use it to prospect. Be it on a hard or soft sandy surface...you will get your gold with minimal losses for the volume you run in any given run period. Plus the best part is you both got that comment out of your system and proved to every one, friends and fellow prospectors and your own piece of mind as well...Your gonna bring home the good stuff. Take care 👍.
Great video. Really shows how user friendly those sluice boxes are at capturing gold. Makes me think I could even do it. You earned my subscription today.
I inherited a small sluice box, but haven’t tried it yet it’s good to know that if I don’t get everything set up just perfectly I won’t loose all of my GOLD, thanks for another great video
I do know that we all feel a lot better. A collective sigh of relief. Way to Go DAN!!! You absolutely rock. There is gold that is much finer. Have you ever seen it? I wonder if you classify under #100 and run the same test. Would a gram of Gold under a hundred mesh blow through? I think what that guy is saying is that there is a complete other world of microfine gold .Less than #200 ? Less than #300? A gentleman called Aussie Bloke Prospector has an interesting solution. He has a vibrator on his sluice. low angle. Your gold all looks like the gold on the back of a box that the gold pan comes in. With a picture of some course gold and some fines. I believe what your guy is saying is there is 40% microfine Gold sailing by .Get a pan a quarter full of this stuff. Then do what you are taught to do. start sloshing it around. Maybe run it through a sluice and Wa La .....you just tossed it out. I live in the most ancient mountain range. (Boston Mountains) and we have an ancient sea bed. Super fine silver, platinum and gold is the order of the day .Assay What? Call me Caliche Wan. Just don't call me late to dinner.
Well you just proved that all the people making negative comments about you losing your gold when you are sluicing were wrong. Love your videos Dan! Thank-you for sharing your prospecting experiences with us.
Love this video. Yesterday evening we set up a homemade River sluice to show the kids and as it was getting dark and we were still putting the material through it I noticed the rock shifted under the sluice and it was tipped pretty steep and to the left which made the top diverter bring in a lot more water then normal. Watching this makes me feel better that we probably didn't lose much other than maybe some micro gold.
So I'm in the California mother load and we have a local Creek that has pretty good gold in it. I've seen some decent size nuggets up to a couple of grams but most of it is usually pretty fine. One of our buddies took all the ripples and mats out of his 3 ft sluice and put the small rubber mat from top to bottom. He classified it really well and then ran the box at a very shallow angle with very little water. Maybe half an inch or so. He was the fine gold winner! It took a little while for it to actually clear the black sand that we have tons of here but when it cleared out they was lots and lots of super fine gold until about half or maybe 2/3 down the box. Just goes to show that what works is what works. Hope everybody has a bright yellow day!
Was watching Chris Vo-Gus video about how people want to try and tell you guys that you’re doing it wrong, but as Chris said you guys are out there nearly every day and Pioneering Pauly which is absolute gold,just keep those videos coming guys cheers for now from Oz
Thank you so much, from Australia, for another instructive video. You have a unique way of passing on your knowledge. I have used your videos with our scout group - wonderful. Please keep up the good work.
About time someone did this; this was most informative to watch. Now, I only have to find somewhere local to where I am which actually has more than trace amounts of gold... Seriously though, speaking with my scientific hat on (flat, tweed) I think that the manufacturers of matting are working with the wrong model of hydrodynamics in mind. They are assuming laminar flow and classical hydrodynamics. What you've just proved is that the water flow over matting is a combination of turbulent flow and boundary layer effects; the artfully-shaped flow channels in the matting are a waste of time. Effectively what is needed is what the top mat already has; sharp edges and deep grooves designed to set up turbulence over and to some extent in the grooves which washes lighter material out, and lets gold sit in the boundary layer and remain. The CleanGold magnetic matting does a similar thing to this: this is a flat plastic sheet backed by thin, parallel magnets. To use it you coat it with fine magnetite sand which produces a corduroy effect which creates micro-turbulence and also gives micro-gold somewhere to sit under the black sand. The Nome beach miners (the more perceptive ones, anyway) use this to great effect to retrieve very fine gold from sand.
I love this video Dan, I'm going to forward it to my buddies who always complain about sticking my hand in the box to clean out some big rocks, all I hear is " hey man, your gonna blow the gold outta the box when you do that!".....sheesh, ease up guys, lol. Great information as always sir!
Interesting experiment on loss of gold due to improper sluice settings!! When my sluice had no legs many times it would slide out of level, and often wondered how much was lost when this happened. Now we know its not as bad as we think... Thanks Dan for putting the time in, and proving to the know it all's that they in fact don't know it all. Folks ask me for advice here and there and then argue about the answer. Why did they ask in the first place... Ever knowing know it all's abound everywhere ya look nowadays! make em eat crow i say..
From one Dan to another, your videos are a true inspiration! Just bought myself some pans and a small sluice - so now I'm ready to head out, (hope to) find some gold and probably make a lot of mistakes along the way :D
Good one Dan. I reckon I have made all those mistakes when I wasn't even trying. Really enjoyed the tests. Now I don't feel so bad about some of the poor runs I have done!
omfg dan ...ive never even prospected anything in my life but im loving you video's. ive watched about 30 hours since stumbling across your channel and you have earnt my sub. keep doing the dan things ..i love it ...cheers from australia .. im loving the beautiful part of the world you live in and your respect for the rules or the claims you are mining .. find heaps mate
Dan, your true gift is teaching.
Accepting that failure is how we learn takes the fear of failure away. New golden rule
I agree with this..I think he does a great job of teaching
This brings me great comfort and confidence in my set up. I'm always afraid I'm a little off level or a little to steep or maybe to shallow. Now I just feel better. Gold prospecting is so fun
That makes two of us..well said
Thanks Dan, all your testing has helped me with a troubling memory of my son & I's 1st Father's day trip to Alabama Gold Camp in 2020 with our first homemade wooden sluice. I was certain that the angle was off & lost our Gold to the tailings pile. I believe now, we were in the wrong spot. We have be back to AGC numerous times & all ways enjoy the excursions. Thanks again for,... man, for those that haven't run a Highbanker & done a full clean-up and reset, that is load of work + filming & narration.
I give you a true "Thank You".
Awesome job Dan. I taught electronics and computers for nearly ten years and I have to say that nothing in my personal experience taught me more than seeing all the types of mistakes that students made. Everyone sees something that is made to look interesting thinking, hey I could do that. They just fail to realize in most cases that the person doing what they think looks easy has a lot of experience and skill. I guess that's why you make searching for GOLD look easy. Excellent video showing common problems that might be encountered.
When the sun shines through your beard it makes it glow with a hint of gold 💛
Your videos are such an uplifting change from the negative stuff many folks post on UA-cam. Your content and personality are pure gold, you must be a great teacher to have!
The one and only Dan Hurd. Love your stuff, can't wait for each new video.
I love these “what if” scenarios. Love it Dan, makes you think about the set-up, before you start panning
Dan here is my public critical comment for all to read. You are a wonderful human being and VERY MUCH appreciated by me. Thank you for the gift of knowledge you constantly pass on to me and others. Your the type of person the World needs more of as an example of how to treat other people much different then others of a critical nature who are intimidated by your knowledge and need to self analyze critically themselves to see what kind of human being they truly are after deep, thoughtful and long, repeated and, daily self reflection.
Been watching your videos and learning for a long time now. You have the best teaching videos I have seen so far. I am studying and getting ready for some family trips out in Michigan. Not GOLD capital but it will be fun.
Plenty of gold here in the mitten! As long as you know what your looking for you can find it quite a bit of it. Good luck,pan on, and enjoy your time prospecting with the family!
Great experiment with the high banker. It's great to see you healthy and back at it! Stay heart healthy and keep collecting that gold!
I think this is one of your best videos. I learned a lot, seeing the errors, helped explain why things are set up and run like they are. I really was expecting to see a lot of gold in the bin with every run, and was amazed how little gold you were actually losing, doing everything wrong. Again, this was a great teaching video. Thanks
Dan's heart is full of gold. Happy 4th everyone.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY USA!
Dan is Canadian. I don’t believe he celebrates American independence from the British....unless he really hates the British
@@dipsomaniac124 he lives in B.C. and not too far from the border, so its not out of the question that he celebrates it. I live in the next province over and fourth of july is pretty common to celebrate around here
I use a check list when setting sluces, pumps, and lines, keeps me from pulling a Hurd, and loosing miniscule amounts of GOLD.
@@dipsomaniac124 No, Dan Celebrates Canada Day on July 1
Dan Hurd didn’t loose his GOLD even though he tried very hard. Your beard is sure coming back full.
What I appreciate most about your videos is the educational spin you put on videos. I’m not a prospector by any means...unless you count gold panning at Knott’s Berry Farm when I was a child, but I love you videos. Thanks for keeping it so entertaining, Dan.
GOLD!!!! that's nuts that sluice preformed that well
I LOVE how you call out the keyboard worriers. You have confidence in your knowledge and you have the now how of what is going to happen, since this is a learning experience in its own. You keep up what you do Dan! I've been around for a while and you know your stuff and you aren't afraid to show others how to get the GOLD and do it right, and to call others out who are being rude.
Thinking OUTSIDE the Gold Box...
You have Single handedly dispelled the myths and monetarily motivated fear tactics of SOOOOO Many vendors in our industry...
THAT, Sir, inspires Confidence in New and Seasoned prospectors.
Not an excuse to be sloppy but a Huge Confidence Builder...
A tip of the hat to You Sir!!!
Well Done!!
To all the gold "experts," show us how you do. Don't tell, show.
alternative title: Man with beard failing to loose gold for half an hour
This title is better
Thank you so much for really going for it Dan. You were working so hard to make the gold go through that it was extra entertaining. No one can say you didn't try all the bad "possible" scenarios. I also hope that those people who think they are miners, stop rambling on at you about what they do not know. Keep up the great content.
i love how he straight up just says "here's what trolls do!" it's pure gold.
"Dan Hurd never makes mistakes while sluicing." - Goldie Hawn
No joke I was gonna put her name
I'm a Greenhorn Disabled Veteran a Gold-n oldie or Goldie! I love your videos and am wanting to go panning and Sluicing. Brother you make it look fun, I know the value of the gold is great, but I want the fun to be with it. Thanks again sir. I would love to see what raw gold in it's natural state would look like.
I believe everyone's favorite color on here has to be gold or we wouldn't keep watching this crazy that even with those extreme settings still capture most of the gold haters will always hate keep up the good work Dan
Leave the "losing my Gold" to Pauly. 😁
Good advice on how to test your sluicing before doing the search for gold. Am glad that you are exaggerating the sluice usage, what to look for and how to fix it step by step, plus making it fun to learn something new.
I am still learning how to use the panning technique so this video will be favorite filed so that when I start sluicing locally in Georgia, USA I know what to avoid… hopefully
It would be absolutely hilarious if you ended up with like 1.5 g of GOLD after all of that.
Keep proving the “UA-cam experts” wrong about sluicing gold!
Best video ever on testing to the extreme. It builds confidence of the process and product for those of us who want to get started. You are a wonderful practical teacher.
Trolls: there is nothing more he could do to enrage us!!
Dan: Hang on....Hold my beer...
You get gold no matter how you do it. Lol
The guy lost 100% credibility with his 40% armchair comment. Dan you’re GOLDen! I hope he Hurd that.
“Did you know that 72% of all statistics are made-up on the spot.”
GOLDen quote
I believe 83% of that statistic😁
sluicing and gold panning is 50% skill and 62% black magic
This video is solid GOLD. I really enjoy watching you. Your enthusiasm is spectacular. Thank you for all this teaching.
The gold you’re experimenting with, attempting to lose and “failing” to do so, is more gold than I’ve ever been able to find in my area in my entire life🤣.
Haha very funny that you still kept all of your gold. You might even kept it without the mats. Crazy
Crazy Gold
That would be hilarious.
How is this a test?! He never weighed it after!!
@@TheEdub. the results were so obvious that they didn’t require being weighed to find out the results
Excellent video Dan on demonstrating the effect on how to properly setting up your high banker to save your GOLD...
This was absolute gold my mind is blown looks like it doesn’t matter what we’ve heard thanks Dan 👍🏻👊🏻
Your gold video was enjoyed.
Great videos, just shows how good the gold mats are at their job. Even the worst novice in the world can have success. (Not calling Dan a novice, just a general statement.)
Nice that you show what happens when you just set your sluice up WRONG. I've spent too many years working to make sure mine was right before putting anything in it that might have any gold in it, not to mention how many times I've shown others what they were doing wrong with theirs, but I've never actually thought to show them WHY and what happened when they had been running theirs like that with good stuff going through it. Then I had to explain why I was breaking those same recommendations while using mine, however; mine is 4' long with Hungarian riffles, miners moss and ridged carpet underneath. Up front I have 1' long with a piece of half inch stainless steel punch plate that runs over the first riffle to give anything heavy a better chance of dropping out as soon as possible. I designed it to run fast and hot, with enough water running through it, I use a 2" drop from point to point, and shovel a full number 2 once a minute. I've put a large bin behind it and check pans have never shown any GOLD in the bin. I love the fishing weights on the third run where you overload the sluice, LOL.
Did you move the bin during the run with the mats backwards? During the run where you show it running right after you put it in, the shot shows the bin missing from behind the sluice.
It’s crazy that despite trying to do things wrong, you still recover the gold. Hopefully this will stop some of the “you are doing it wrong” comments
Unfortunately, that will not stop the trolls.
Dan you’re a gold magnet. Can’t even screw up when you try. My thought is it’s the beard 🧔♂️
same el beard gotta go essay
Who needs dream mat when you have Hurd hair
Hurd Beard = Orange Miner’s Moss!
Using the heart of an educator to illustrate how well this machine captures the gold!! Nice job!! 💛.
Doesn’t matter how hard he tries Dan just can’t lose his Gold!
I feel showing being human making mistakes can still be an awesome golden day out slusing for gold with the gold slus. thank you for the info and I hope you are feeling much better. Been watching your videos for a while love them and I love your upbeat attitude you make it a pleasure to watch thanks again
Love your channel! My husband and I happened upon it recently and we watch it every night now with dinner. Ty for your positivity 😊
I have always wanted to mine for gold but I’m stuck in a nursing home in West Virginia where there’s pretty much no good at all.
Maybe try some paydirt you can do in the comfort of your home?
@@tattoedmat agreed I purchased paydirt before I hit the creeks. Here in VA the gold is micro flour gold.
This is gonna be a great stream! Let's get some gold!
Dan I absolutely love your videos..... I'm a metal detectorist who enjoys recreational gold panning when the opportunity is there... I've learned so much from your videos and it's NEVER about how much I find... It's the getting out, nature, the sounds, the smells, the views, the adventure of it all and the memories made.... keep'em coming!!
I think 5 "GOLD" Stars is in place for this videos thank Dan
Dan you are a grate guy love your vids would love to win some gold thanks for this vid it helped me alot have a grate day and good luck finding lots more gold
If the armchair gold prospectors can take something away from this, I hope is that it's to let the professional do his thing and teach us.
I enjoyed your demonstration on not loosing gold and plan on mounting line levels on my sluice and using a digital angle gauge to set my sluice.
I've lost every piece of gold I have ever owned. Now, I know where it all went. 🤣 Thanks and stay well up there, Dan.
Next time blow up your sluice so to loose your gold if you want to loose your sluice as well as lol
I think the 40% gold loss guy was just jelly.
Thanks for that. This video is a real confidence booster. And your teaching style is pure GOLD.
Love watching Dan try to lose his gold, and shutting up the trolls.
Dan was getting bold trying to lose his gold. The story told, his sluice will hold the gold. :-)
Glad to see you doing great from the surgery. Been watching your videos since you started. Keep it up. Thank you for your time.
Gold
You’ve definitely earned my subscription. I hope to earn your gold.
So I didn't read all the comments there was way too many. But I'm pretty sure there's a troll in here somewhere saying the only reason why he kept getting his gold is because he had brought more with him and every time you lost some he just replaced it.. I love internet trolls they have no life and that makes me happy!
Hey Dan, I love your videos. I'm a recent subscriber from about 2 months back, found you while looking for 'how to gold pan' videos. I love your friendly and matter of fact presentations. I'm really new to gold hunting, and you've really made me consider taking it on as a regular hobby. This video and others like it provide info on the practice that I just don't get elsewhere. Thank you for this one and your others. I look forward to your next video!
Wise man say: "Every mistake is an opportunity for improvement." (gold n rule)
I know exactly how you can loose your gold, give it to Australia Post to deliver. 🤣
Canada post is no slouch either
🤣🤣🤣🤣
This what I really like about Dans videos, he shows and explains what happens when things are good AND when things have gone sideways.
That was a golden opportunity to shut up the naysayers!
A bad operator like me still has a chance to save his gold. ?!?!
New subscriber, it's really nice of you to show new comers and ones that already know it all in such a professional manner that anyone should be proud to be as decent as you. GOLD!!!
Forgot to add the word gold just for that chance. Good show once again.
Might be the only gold miner who wants to lose his gold!!!!
Just focus on your gold mine and don't feed the UA-cam trolls.
Dude I not only do I love watching your content but you are seriously inspiring me to explore my own once thought/told childish dreams of finding gold and other treasures so too speak! Thank You!
Dan, Wouldn't it be something if you ended up with more gold then when you started. :)
Lol. That literally had me laughing 😂😂😂
So the take home message is "sluicing for gold, so simple even a cave man can do it "
Dan always coming in clutch with this GOLD content. One of my favorite channels on UA-cam!
Love watching your GOLD videos! Always look forward to watching your positive attitude and learning so much.
I'm only a recent subscriber, but I've been binging a few of your videos. I love the fact that you are making the videos from an educational standpoint, weather it's gemstone or gold mining :)
your videos are so honest and informing. I have learned so much on gold panning from your videos . I like that you show your failures too.
To be honest I'll admit I am really impressed with that sluice of yours and that mat combination....And you more than proved that you built that rig for all situations where you use it to prospect. Be it on a hard or soft sandy surface...you will get your gold with minimal losses for the volume you run in any given run period. Plus the best part is you both got that comment out of your system and proved to every one, friends and fellow prospectors and your own piece of mind as well...Your gonna bring home the good stuff. Take care 👍.
Awesome teaching techniques Dan! I hope we can all learn from your deliberate mistake making! Exceptional teaching skills! Super Well Done Dude!
Great video. Really shows how user friendly those sluice boxes are at capturing gold. Makes me think I could even do it. You earned my subscription today.
I inherited a small sluice box, but haven’t tried it yet it’s good to know that if I don’t get everything set up just perfectly I won’t loose all of my GOLD, thanks for another great video
I do know that we all feel a lot better. A collective sigh of relief. Way to Go DAN!!! You absolutely rock. There is gold that is much finer. Have you ever seen it? I wonder if you classify under #100 and run the same test. Would a gram of Gold under a hundred mesh blow through? I think what that guy is saying is that there is a complete other world of microfine gold .Less than #200 ? Less than #300? A gentleman called Aussie Bloke Prospector has an interesting solution. He has a vibrator on his sluice. low angle.
Your gold all looks like the gold on the back of a box that the gold pan comes in. With a picture of some course gold and some fines. I believe what your guy is saying is there is 40% microfine Gold sailing by .Get a pan a quarter full of this stuff. Then do what you are taught to do. start sloshing it around. Maybe run it through a sluice and Wa La .....you just tossed it out. I live in the most ancient mountain range. (Boston Mountains) and we have an ancient sea bed. Super fine silver, platinum and gold is the order of the day .Assay What? Call me Caliche Wan. Just don't call me late to dinner.
Probably the most informative and entertaining video you have done. Lotsa smiles here.
love your methodology, like when you did the pan comparison series. no bias , just do the test as described, pure gold!! thanks for the education.
Well you just proved that all the people making negative comments about you losing your gold when you are sluicing were wrong. Love your videos Dan! Thank-you for sharing your prospecting experiences with us.
Love this video. Yesterday evening we set up a homemade River sluice to show the kids and as it was getting dark and we were still putting the material through it I noticed the rock shifted under the sluice and it was tipped pretty steep and to the left which made the top diverter bring in a lot more water then normal. Watching this makes me feel better that we probably didn't lose much other than maybe some micro gold.
So I'm in the California mother load and we have a local Creek that has pretty good gold in it. I've seen some decent size nuggets up to a couple of grams but most of it is usually pretty fine. One of our buddies took all the ripples and mats out of his 3 ft sluice and put the small rubber mat from top to bottom. He classified it really well and then ran the box at a very shallow angle with very little water. Maybe half an inch or so. He was the fine gold winner! It took a little while for it to actually clear the black sand that we have tons of here but when it cleared out they was lots and lots of super fine gold until about half or maybe 2/3 down the box. Just goes to show that what works is what works. Hope everybody has a bright yellow day!
Was watching Chris Vo-Gus video about how people want to try and tell you guys that you’re doing it wrong, but as Chris said you guys are out there nearly every day and Pioneering Pauly which is absolute gold,just keep those videos coming guys cheers for now from Oz
Thank you so much, from Australia, for another instructive video. You have a unique way of passing on your knowledge. I have used your videos with our scout group - wonderful. Please keep up the good work.
About time someone did this; this was most informative to watch. Now, I only have to find somewhere local to where I am which actually has more than trace amounts of gold...
Seriously though, speaking with my scientific hat on (flat, tweed) I think that the manufacturers of matting are working with the wrong model of hydrodynamics in mind. They are assuming laminar flow and classical hydrodynamics. What you've just proved is that the water flow over matting is a combination of turbulent flow and boundary layer effects; the artfully-shaped flow channels in the matting are a waste of time. Effectively what is needed is what the top mat already has; sharp edges and deep grooves designed to set up turbulence over and to some extent in the grooves which washes lighter material out, and lets gold sit in the boundary layer and remain.
The CleanGold magnetic matting does a similar thing to this: this is a flat plastic sheet backed by thin, parallel magnets. To use it you coat it with fine magnetite sand which produces a corduroy effect which creates micro-turbulence and also gives micro-gold somewhere to sit under the black sand. The Nome beach miners (the more perceptive ones, anyway) use this to great effect to retrieve very fine gold from sand.
Awesome Gold there Dan. I remember reading that fellow's 40% comment. He was a bit harsh.
Cheers buddy. Keep up the good gold recovery
I love this video Dan, I'm going to forward it to my buddies who always complain about sticking my hand in the box to clean out some big rocks, all I hear is " hey man, your gonna blow the gold outta the box when you do that!".....sheesh, ease up guys, lol. Great information as always sir!
I'm glad that you are such an upbeat person. Thank you.
Dan, love your channel! Best gold prospecting channel I've found!
I love your style of presentations about processing gold as well as finding gold. I just found your site!
Thanks you for doing these tests and sharing the results. Very helpful to see what works, and how it works
Interesting experiment on loss of gold due to improper sluice settings!! When my sluice had no legs many times it would slide out of level, and often wondered how much was lost when this happened.
Now we know its not as bad as we think...
Thanks Dan for putting the time in, and proving to the know it all's that they in fact don't know it all.
Folks ask me for advice here and there and then argue about the answer. Why did they ask in the first place... Ever knowing know it all's abound everywhere ya look nowadays!
make em eat crow i say..
From one Dan to another, your videos are a true inspiration! Just bought myself some pans and a small sluice - so now I'm ready to head out, (hope to) find some gold and probably make a lot of mistakes along the way :D
Hi Dan good to see you doing good since surgery
Mate you have a heart of gold.
Good one Dan. I reckon I have made all those mistakes when I wasn't even trying. Really enjoyed the tests. Now I don't feel so bad about some of the poor runs I have done!
Your videos are GOLD! Thank you for sharing from from Terrace BC. I hope this season is plentiful for you this year, you deserve it.
omfg dan ...ive never even prospected anything in my life but im loving you video's. ive watched about 30 hours since stumbling across your channel and you have earnt my sub. keep doing the dan things ..i love it ...cheers from australia .. im loving the beautiful part of the world you live in and your respect for the rules or the claims you are mining .. find heaps mate