Getting all the gold with a recirculating sluice - Wet recovery of gold is best if possible
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- Опубліковано 4 вер 2024
- Getting all the gold with a recirculating sluice can be tempting. So I wonder, dry Washing or wet washing - Which is best? What method will produce the most gold for the time I invest? Is it worth it to go after all the gold with a recirculating wet sluice box? In this video we will do some testing to see.
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Dry washing has so many variables when it comes to successful recovery.
As always Chris, great content, and i`m glad to see your recovering well.
Thanks 👍. I always enjoy your videos.
Thank you Chris for an informative video! A great thing about the gold cube is it forces ALL of the gold under water between levels wetting those tiny flakes that can float away and escape the sluice. Awesome sluice! I intend to purchase one.
Buy it through High Plains Prospecting and get a 5 percent discount.
Maybe Set the cube at the end of your dry washer?
That would more than likely feed too much material in at once. I’d think maybe running it into a shaker table would work better, but would defeat the purpose of it.
Immediately thought better of it, I’d just bring a friend and have someone running the tailings while they pile up.
The dry washer runs dry, the sluice runs wet, not an easy thing to match them up to feed one into the other.
Fun to experiment
Very cool, awesome info. I've seen some trailing piles that were rich, and some with nothing. It's all about knowing your equipment, and patience. If you rush any part of gold recovery, your percentage will drop. Heavy pans all!
Very true!
Thanks for another great video, Chris. I am very new to gold prospecting and read your book pretty much cover to cover, and plan to reread it because there is so much good content. I look forward to more videos, and personally would like to see you testing/comparing new products and providing your critiques.
Glad you enjoyed the video. As far as comparisons, I did do one comparing some metal detectors - see: ua-cam.com/video/8sa0MsBL50o/v-deo.html Part of the problem is that I am not an equipment dealer and I don't own every piece of prospecting equipment to do comparisons between them. I needs to be comparisons of stuff I own.
Picking up your book today! So exciting. 😅
Yay! Thank you!
I’m actually enjoying your videos. I’m a bit of a beginner living near Golden Colorado and been having a hard time finding great spots and some of your videos are very helpful. Thank you
glad you enjoyed the video.
Great work my friend, half a gram is half a gram. Really enjoying your videos mate ⛏️🤠🇦🇺
Thanks much.
Thank you! I think a gold cube is what I want to get after I get the dry washer figured out, seems to be an effective tool to use in the NV desert.
Glad it was helpful!
great info fam. keep at it. GOLD SQUAD OUT!!!
Always!
Yooooo I have been researching this and I finally decided that I lose too much to my sluice. I pan on the South Platte, and yes exactly. The fines are too hard to capture effectively. So now I just go out and classify, no sluicing and bring back the cons. Today I just came back from home depot and am presently experimenting with a slow sluice system like the one you did in your back yard awhile ago.
Some of the gold on rivers like the Platte is just super small, it makes it hard to catch.
Great video!
I bought a 3 stack gold cube with a trommel recently, so I'm interested in seeing what I can find with that.
My wife and I just moved to Sparks, so I'm excited to get some more prospecting done now that I'm out from under the California overloards!
I suggest you join one or both of the local prospecting clubs in the Reno area. They have access to some good gold bearing ground.
I love your videos Chris, met you a few times at the Phoenix GPAA shows. You are a really good person. One of my longtime metal detecting buddies wants to get into gold prospecting. I told him to purchase 'Fists Full Of Gold' and watch your videos.
I appreciate that!
Very nice video its actually good timing cause currently here in Mexico and found a few flakes the other day prospecting and was thinking should I get a recirculating sluice or a dry washer to look for some more
I’d get the sluice and just classify the hell out of your material. Wet is always better than dry.
Depends on the situation which will give you the most gold at the end of the day. Dry washing is less efficient, but you can process a lot of material with one.
Tere are some small pools of water and the G is quite fine so will just recirculate into a river sluice
Nice to see you out there finding good gold and seeing the results of running your tailings. I am assuming your in Nevada somewhere. I have not giving up on finding some land down there....but I will be ready for that come next spring. Take care Chris
Next spring would be good.
Chris, Keene advertises that their 'dustless' model series 160, 190, and commercial 210 'dry washers' have recovery >as good as wet sluicing
Lots of sellers make surprising claims for their products.
I’ve got a 141s and the gold it catches is as fine as a perfectly set up sluice.
Having an enclosed model would reduce variables which would increase recovery.
I work at reeds prospecting in Western Australia, I sell these things constantly. Plenty of bigger prospecting operations are running multiple 151 trays with custom built hoppers.
Chris the photo of your dry blower, is it a bellows? If so, use a vibrating dry blower with a static mat. The difference is jaw dropping.
For new channel visitors just getting interested in the topic -- Chris of course knows all this:
Gold Cubes are especially good for beach deposits -- whether that's ocean beaches in southern Oregon or southern Washington, or Lake Superior beaches, or deposits of fine gold associated with very large rivers like the Columbia. That's all going to be extremely fine gold (and some platinum group metals in southern Oregon), probably finer than the stuff in the video.
Check local regulations -- e.g., you can't run any motorized anything on Oregon beaches, which are all state land. In Oregon, find a little creek cutting across the beach and run a river sluice. Or quickly concentrate the black sands you get, and take home cons for processing.
Yep, well said.
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I have been thinking about the southern Oregon ocean beaches. There is still just a large amount of gold down there (and platinum). One can't always find a little stream that's right where the shifting black sands deposits are. Someone should build a modern-day fine gold rocker-box, that's totally legal on Oregon beaches, that can process big volumes of material with very high gold and platinum recovery. :-)
Chris can probably imagine how that might work. Probably can sell about 500 to 1000 in northern California and south Oregon, in a short time. :-)
I think it should also be reiterated that people tend to be unaware of just how much gold is available in the black sands of Lake Superior. The millennia of retreating ice dropping gold from Canada, and the wave action of that giant lake, have in fact concentrated legitimate amounts of gold on those beaches. You can more than pay for your gas (better yet, get a BEV) if you're hardcore about it.
I like the gold cube sometimes when I just want to go out and get a bucket or 2 of classified dirt and run it at home.
That would work...
First of all am you came back i always like your videos you may not get enough pay day gold but maybe someone try that and get life changing gold and he learned from you and that is not wasted
Glad you enjoyed the video.
@@ChrisRalph absolutely I did awesome you are generous honesty PP
Waste not want not. Nice job on the reprocessing. Hope you can join us at the Nugget Hunt on the 24th. Aloha
Sadly I will be prospecting for gold in Alaska on the 24th. Otherwise I would join you for sure.
@@ChrisRalph It's a dirty job detecting up some Alaskan nuggets, but someone has to do it. Hope you can join us next year.
That's some nice gold you recovered. Clearly demonstrates that dry washing cannot get it all. Looks like 20-25% increase in recovery, provided the same amount of material flowed through both machines. You mentioned not running all the tailings, so is the 2 grams from all the tailings, or equal amount fed into the Gold Cube ? Could the recovery be higher if you could washed the header tailings as well ? Thanks for sharing Chris !! 👍⛏⚒🤠
I did two trips there and got about 2 grams both times. I wet washed about half of the tailings so it would correlate to one two gram trip, giving around 20% increased recovery. The wet washing is a lot more work as you well know, so I think I'd get more gold just running new material with the dry washer.
@@ChrisRalph indeed. A dry washer is far more simple to set up, but very seasonal. Pros and Cons for both. My trailer mounted wash version will simplify a bit, however, water remains a concern.
Thank you Chris.
Very welcome, glad you enjoyed the video.
Another awesome video!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I always wanted to try drywashing. That's one thing I've never tried. I luv using the cube. With this weather I like tunnel air conditionining if ya know what I mean .
We've really had a hot weather streak on the west coast.
never dry washed I'll have to come over and try it looks dusty
Dusty but it works. I've done a fair amount of dry washing in the California gold country too. A great way to clean up patches found with your detector.
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Thanks for sharing your knowledge..Ralph..
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Thanks much.
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You're welcome!
Chris cool video
I have a question. I’m running my sluice box in the northern mother load and I keep getting these small, shiny, metallic, bluish rocks at the bottom of my concentrates I was wondering if you knew what they are?
There are lots of rocks that could be described as shiny and bluish. Sorry.
Have a nice day Great
glad you enjoyed the video.
Approximately how much water did you have to haul? 5 gal = 40 lbs, and that gets old in a hurry if you have to hike it in
There is a road to within 50 feet of the site where I filmed, so I didn't carry it far.
Cheers👍
Thanks - glad you enjoyed it.
Ok, I assume the amount of water you bring depends upon the size of your tubs, etc. Bug generally speaking, for a Gold Cube plus trommel, about how much water do you need to bring out with you?
Depends on how much clay is in the gravels. I normally bring around 25 gallons.
Maybe a little off topic, but is there any small scale chemical processes?
Some areas have about 50% smaller than the eye can see.
There are and I plan to do a video on this in the future.
so how do you find gold in a desert. i have 5acres about 10 miles from a major mountain in colorado. yes there is a major creek coming out of mountain. n a ski view shows many hundreds of years ago of water flow runoff from a extinct volcano mountain. n im close to some of that area. can i email you picts for your geological 2cents read please. d.
Gold is not everywhere. Is it on your property? I have no idea. Test it yourself and see....
I dont offer a picture evaluation service.
Geology College Professors have Grad student pack Mules that do all the hard work.
Sometimes that is true.
Chris, just curious, how much water would you say it takes to run the gold cube?
In that example I was running around 15 or 16 gallons of water.
what about to prospecting on The slope of an extinct volcano?
The slopes of an extinct volcano in most cases is unlikely to have gold. See this video I made: ua-cam.com/video/v136BEdR_yU/v-deo.html
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Just wondering but on the TV show Gold Rush, they have a table to separate the gold. So just how much does a gold table cost ? Is it worth it ? And why don't you have one? ( unless you do and they suck ). Anyway great video. PS. How about the blue spiral wheels also. I would believe they should be cheaper. But what I'm seeing nothing to do with gold is cheap.
You probably couldn't afford it, but let's say you could. They are tricky to level, and with more than a dozen water flow adjustments, you're better off with a "blue bowl" or a spiral wheel.
Love your video as always, but whats with your volume/sound?
Not really sure what you are experiencing. Wind noise?
They only make sense for a commercial operation. The shaker table on the show is about 25K, but it makes sense for them.
How do you filtering the water?
When the water gets too muddy, I get new water.
@@ChrisRalph was just thinking if you need to bring water with you, you need a car to o that, i mean how many liters of water for a day?
I like the idea of your book but it not being in color is a mistake for a tutorial, knowing what stuff truly looks like is huge in prospecting , this is my one and only critical critique of your content
Color printing is far more expensive than Black and white - the book would have been over $100 if printed nearly 300 pages in all color. Additionally a fair percent of the illustrations are older drawings and photos that are originally in B&W, so even printing full color they still would be B&W. Long ago, I decided that far more people would object to a $100 book than would object to B&W - and its proven by the fact that I've sold more than 15,000 copies and had only a handful of objections to the fact that its not color.