Finding Gold - Arizona Desert - Dry Washing for Gold - How To
Вставка
- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Using the Keene 151 dry washer in the Arizona desert looking for gold on a private mining claim.
How does a dry washer work? Where’s the best place to dig? Panning the concentrates.
Gold Fever prospecting club.
#goldfever
#goldprospecting
#drywasher
I have been thinking of trading up to the 151s. I have had the 140s for several years now. The heat induction plus larger hopper seems like it would help recover more. Good overview and instruction on the machine. Love seeing the washes and how you select an area to run
Man..I gotta get out there. What the hell am I doin
Road trip buddy i have a 151s keene
Don't forget to look for nuggets when you're raking down the grizzly. When we would run into damper material, we would flatten the box and double run that material. We would sometimes be in areas know for the occasional nugget, so we try to remember to bring the metal detector to test our tailings and others in the area raking the rocks out flat first.
Seems like a lot of hard work. How much time does it take to gather enough of those tiny specks of gold to make it worthwhile?
It’s not for profit that’s for sure. Just a hobby
Awesome video Jack. The keene 151s is epic. I love my keene 151s i did a video on the claim with mine got some good gold. Heavy pans my freind.
are you sure its not fools gold?
I run an older keene drywasher, the bellows type and it catches the gold really well with hardley any loss into the tailing pile.! Thanks for the video jack.
I’m wondering why you don’t classify your material… Because you are working solo? I’d do it for that red clay material at least, just to loosen it and let it dry more…
Edit: Just realized that top bin IS your classifier! 🤪 🤣😎
Thanks for sharing Jack, looking forward to unboxing my drywasher for the tailings piles, still raining daily so not yet, heavy pans 🇺🇸
Pretty cool but I would definitely wear a mask you could get valley fever and you definitely don’t want that😮
Are you 10:41 hearing voices jack. I had one of those 151 dry washers ,burned up in the cedar fires here in SD county. All I got now is a Keene power sluice with a 21/2 suction hose
Hey Jack... I just noticed you recently passed the 10K subscriber mark! Congratulations 🎉
Almost a year I've been living on claims jumping Maricopa yavapai la Paz dry washing so many places I even got to see a snorkel drywasher😂 LMFAO that thing is a piece of sheet.. gas leaf blower is best if. It's wet run again. But gold is where gold is... Happy hunting...
Great day out there fam. Loads of great info. Keep on having fun getting that au and living the dream. Gold Squad Out!!!
Set the dry washer up wind will help knock the dust you're breathing down or bring a generator and a fan. I hate mask too they get plugged up fast.
I just received a gold magic spiral wheel, am interested to see how it performs ✌️
you lone wolf want some help? im thinking about wintering ...
If ya want to give your gold away... I'd like some 😅
Nice work Mr Tucker. My usual spot is quartzite. I haven't found gold at any other spot detecting. Maybe just bad luck but wickenberg seems very over worked.
I bring a fan to blow the dust away
U toob deleted all my supporters 😮
Your a hard working miner 😅
Looks good for a Saturday morning adventure ! A smile in the pan !
You needed to put your blower motor up wind from your drywasher. Your air filter won't get as dirty as quick.
How do you choose the best spot? Low areas, boulders, under rocks? I understand looking in washes.
One of these days I will be able to get out to Santon. I did here you gallons per minutes were you being facetious on the amount of flow it should gallons per hour. Other than that great job
Using a rockerbox, you can have the best of two words by how a rocker uses so little water, and it can be reused over and over again. Pluss dry panning first what was cleaned out of the box, leaves panning it all down as far much less work.
Can't wait until I get back out to the desert and use my 151!
Hey Jack Great video ain't used to seeing you in pants. I recognize that tune from the old gold fever show or the old Tom Massey show.
Yeah, I went out a couple days ago and headed home by 10am and it's not that hot yet, maybe a 100 that day. Can't wait for the 117's 😅
Miller table work really well for removing Blk sands and clean out the gold. What I”be learned 😅
Nice. Good color showing. Very enjoyable to watch.
I love my desert wilderness. I never would have believed that I would become a Prospector and now I am called that.
Some people think it's ridiculous until I give them a fire opal, it is then I think that it's a good laugh on them. But it is not easy, however it is the fun of it. Been at it awhile now. It has become instinct. My partner and I need to get new gear and most often don't find enough to get flashlight batteries, but then again every so often there is the exclamation
Eurika I Have Found It!
Making it very worthwhile.
Great video. I thought about getting a dry washer but they are so pricey
Great video. I am still fairly new to desert Prospecting. I bought the small Royal drywasher and have found a little gold with it, but nothing like I use to find on the rivers up in the Northwest. I was hoping to about 1/4 to 1/2 a gram a day with the drywasher. I have been pre classifying my material before running it. The guys in the club have told me I need to run more material through it in a day to see those kinds of returns. The most I have run was 12 full classified buckets in a day and did not come close to the 1/2 a gram mark. So I am not running enough material in a day or I am not digging in the right areas. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks Red
Drywashing is not as good as running it wet. Make sure you’re running the machine the correct way. Most important.
I don’t classify as the Drywasher has a 1/2” classifier built in. You can add a 1/4” screen on top if you want to classify smaller. Save a step and don’t classify.
A rule of thumb I used to use is I liked one to two grains of gold per bucket.
1 grain is 480 buckets for an oz of gold.
If not that good look for a better spot.
Good luck
Enjoyed the vedio Jack, thanks
Enjoyed that!