Kevin your the man I’ve been learning from you from the time I seen you on gold fever thank you for your excellent teaching skills and for continuing to help the community of prospectors
Alright Kevin, good to see you on UA-cam. I hope you have more vids or are making more vids. Great demonstration, definitely wet your pay dirt. You have a load of info & it's appreciated, especially on metal detectors. Finally getting out this coming week for camping, gold mining & fishing. thank you for the vid, Sergio
Thank you Kevin. Also, it did help me become a better prospector. I'm at a known producing river with a sluice for my first day really prospecting. EXCITED.
Sure thing.. We'll do a video on it, but the basic principle is that when dumping the material from your scoop, you want to see the material hit the sluice box, stick for a fraction of a second, then flow down through the box. If it is not hitting and sticking, and just flowing, then your water flow is too intense and you could be losing gold. Either adjust the angle of your box, or slow the water heading into your box by constructing some sort of blockage.
What do you do after the clean out of your sluice box? I just got my first set of pans and a small pocket sluice but I don’t know the next steps to recovery of the gold
Is it HIT or MISS finding the Right Spot? Any clues to look for Instead of wasting your time on a dead river area. Or is it just relaxing AND HOPE FOR THE BEST.....
My father was a geological engineer... I spend a massive amount of time looking for the best spots and in comparison much less time mining. I'm looking for places to set up my sluice boxes and or drywasher and have metal detectors capable of finding and measuring subsurface black sand accumulations and they also find gold. Every sluce box clean out is just another sampling process as much as it is a mining process. I want to know the size distribution of the gold and I want to know how much dirt I have to process to get a gram of gold. Gold does a very good job hiding from humans, but it tends to move from the mountains basinward until it traps... we look for thoes traps (ie... a clay or shale base or bedrock) and it's these re-worked or concentrated gold accumulations that make shoveling worth the effort, time and expense. I use the Monte Carlo Method... which is just taking random shots in the dark or in this case taking educated and random samplings or random and educated pan samplings and I also look for associated indicator minerals like quarts, iron and black magnetic sand. I use magnets to look for black sand and I will pick up a hand full of dirt then drop it on the ground and then look at my hand in full sunlight and I'm looking for quarts crystals and micro-fine gold. When I pick up rocks... I judge whether it's weight to size ratio is sufficient to contain gold. The other thing I like to see is iron. Gold intrusives and extrusives are generally associated with iron so we look for iron. If we see pyrite... this can also indicate gold is near. In places where gold is only micro-fine then its best to classify just above that size and let all the other larger material go. I have a 360 power microscope and it really helps to see very small pieces of gold. When slucing for fine gold clasification down to 1/4 and 1/8" is extreemly benificial. The best way to find anything is to ask someone else who knows where it already is... So a smart phone and Google and Google earth are extreemly benificial. Government reports in libraries and in books and all books on where and how to find gold are also useful. Easy to get to spots...well maybe we are to late... harder to get to spots greatly increase our chances.
This is a great lesson.thank you
You're very welcome!
Nice demonstration brother
Thanks!
Kevin your the man I’ve been learning from you from the time I seen you on gold fever thank you for your excellent teaching skills and for continuing to help the community of prospectors
Alright Kevin, good to see you on UA-cam. I hope you have more vids or are making more vids. Great demonstration, definitely wet your pay dirt. You have a load of info & it's appreciated, especially on metal detectors. Finally getting out this coming week for camping, gold mining & fishing. thank you for the vid, Sergio
Thanks for the walk through! Looking forward to spending some time with my young sons in the creeks with our sluice
Good video! Awaiting warmer weather!
You and me both!
Thank you Kevin. Also, it did help me become a better prospector. I'm at a known producing river with a sluice for my first day really prospecting. EXCITED.
Thank you for many tips on about using a sluice box.
I got a sluicebox for xmas and I'm super excited to use it this spring up in Maine. Thanks dude. Love the way you convey info 👍 👍
That's how to get it done fam. Great day out there. Keep on having fun getting that au and living the dream
Gold Squad Out!!!
Always!
Great info again!
Excellent lesson, thank you
Great idea to not put your scoop with material above the water. Where were you running your sluice and did you find some gold?
This was from a couple years ago up in Oregon. Found a couple specs... Wish I had more time to really prospect that creek. It was a beautiful spot!
Hi Kevin, do you have advice for extremely fine gold particle size please friend ?
nice tips thanks!
Does anyone know where Tom Massie, from the Gold Fever show, is at nowadays?
Thank you for the good information.
Glad it was helpful!
Can you expand on "hit, stick, and flow" ? thanks
Sure thing.. We'll do a video on it, but the basic principle is that when dumping the material from your scoop, you want to see the material hit the sluice box, stick for a fraction of a second, then flow down through the box. If it is not hitting and sticking, and just flowing, then your water flow is too intense and you could be losing gold. Either adjust the angle of your box, or slow the water heading into your box by constructing some sort of blockage.
Thanks, much clearer.
What do you do after the clean out of your sluice box? I just got my first set of pans and a small pocket sluice but I don’t know the next steps to recovery of the gold
Is it HIT or MISS finding the Right Spot? Any clues to look for Instead of wasting your time on a dead river area. Or is it just relaxing AND HOPE FOR THE BEST.....
My father was a geological engineer... I spend a massive amount of time looking for the best spots and in comparison much less time mining.
I'm looking for places to set up my sluice boxes and or drywasher and have metal detectors capable of finding and measuring subsurface black sand accumulations and they also find gold.
Every sluce box clean out is just another sampling process as much as it is a mining process.
I want to know the size distribution of the gold and I want to know how much dirt I have to process to get a gram of gold.
Gold does a very good job hiding from humans, but it tends to move from the mountains basinward until it traps... we look for thoes traps (ie... a clay or shale base or bedrock) and it's these re-worked or concentrated gold accumulations that make shoveling worth the effort, time and expense.
I use the Monte Carlo Method... which is just taking random shots in the dark or in this case taking educated and random samplings or random and educated pan samplings and I also look for associated indicator minerals like quarts, iron and black magnetic sand.
I use magnets to look for black sand and I will pick up a hand full of dirt then drop it on the ground and then look at my hand in full sunlight and I'm looking for quarts crystals and micro-fine gold.
When I pick up rocks... I judge whether it's weight to size ratio is sufficient to contain gold. The other thing I like to see is iron. Gold intrusives and extrusives are generally associated with iron so we look for iron. If we see pyrite... this can also indicate gold is near.
In places where gold is only micro-fine then its best to classify just above that size and let all the other larger material go.
I have a 360 power microscope and it really helps to see very small pieces of gold.
When slucing for fine gold clasification down to 1/4 and 1/8" is extreemly benificial.
The best way to find anything is to ask someone else who knows where it already is... So a smart phone and Google and Google earth are extreemly benificial.
Government reports in libraries and in books and all books on where and how to find gold are also useful.
Easy to get to spots...well maybe we are to late... harder to get to spots greatly increase our chances.
We're is the best place in a river to start to look for gold.
Stay tuned over the next few days. We've got a great video lined up that helps answer this question! Press that bell to turn on notifications :)
Hey I just started a prospecting group in yreka California you don't mind if I share your videos do you
What if I made my own sluice box and it’s about a inc under a foot what should my angle be?
Very helpful
And thank you for your video..
can you put it in a river