Finding Heaps of GOLD in Sand!
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does not seem worth it
For the money, no. For the fun, yes.
@@VoGusProspecting To be honest it does look fun. And you never know you could find big nugget that changes your life .
Thats it, think of micro mining, like this, as a hobby that gives you cash back with the chance of a big prize.
@@VoGusProspecting Exactly how I view it, and if your not out there participating you will never stumble upon that monking huge slab of gold sticking out of the dirt!
$40 worth of gold for a days work. Need bigger sluice and skid loader
As a youngster, I would go down to river and pan the gravel bars, just the fun of it. I am now a combat related disabled Veteran and bedridden at the young age of 71. Your videos give me a lot of enjoyment, seeing others getting out into the back country enjoying their hobbies. I recently discovered your channel and really find enjoyment in it, stay safe, watch out for those deadly snakes and spiders.
WOW! You can never tell what you are going to find, but I did't expect that much gold. Gold is Gold no matter how small. Love your videos!!!
Very Professional. Micks even got the safety boots on.
Aussie safety shoes
You have it good in Vic, Chris.
Here in NSW, we are only allowed to process 1 cubic metre of soil in any 48 hrs and we are not allowed to use a highbanker run with motorised pumps of any kind. Everything has to be manual.
At least I'll get more exercise and save money on pumps, motors and batteries.
We have a whole heap of other restrictions as well.
At least we don't need a permit as you do in WA, unless we want to fossick in a state forest, then we need one.
Chris, with the speed of the water racing above the sluice mats, is it fair to say that some of the tiny flakes of "flour" gold could be washed/lost into the river. If so, would a 20 litre bucket catching the sluice water, positioned just under the end of the last sluice mat, help in assisting any escaping flakes in settling to the bottom of the bucket? Perhaps a 40 mm PVC outlet tube inserted into the side of the bucket approximately 150 mm down from the top may also help to prevent said flakes overflowing the lip. Just an idea of mine, where the outlet tube might slow down the water entering the creek, thereby helping the gold to sink with less turbulence...
Chris to the rescue! relief program! Thank you Chris and Mick and the pups!
That actually looks like a great setup and plan! Hope you guys find a nugget the size of a grapefruit!
Is the black sand volcanic?
10:28 Dog: "What is this guy always looking for in this dirt!"
He'll never find out
Thank you Vo-Gus Prospecting, enjoyed.
You asked for comments, so I would like to offer one on the topic of the reduction of material handling operations (energy).
The main query is, Why double handle your shovel loads? Having 20 x buckets to dump straight into sluice would save a lot of shoveling. Alternatively, dump your buckets into some sort of elevated hopper that feeds the sluice directly. I know it is another piece of equipment to handle initially, but maybe it can double as a tote bin in which you can carry a lot of your clobber. Obviously, this suggestion is not for every site. But hope it is useful as it would save a lot of time and reduce load on your back. Cheers from Central Coast, NSW.
At 10:30 I taught my dog to get a beer from the fridge, but she ain’t too good with a shovel.
Good ol' Mick. Man of few words, but a powerful presence on camera. Love your work, Sir
Another great visit! Glad you are getting out and nice pile of gold
Great job! You’ve taught me if there’s lots of fine gold, and easy digging, it all adds up!
You got that right!
a hollow cone, think ice cream cone, with steps for riffles / ridges of gradually reducing size as it approaches the top, spun with concentrate will sort by size and weight in each step, make 2 or 3 steps the same size before reducing and the ower one will have gold the upper one less so, reducing in size as they radius to the top. this should be a full proof sleuce. to clear as you spin faster you clear just tier by tier layer by layer, a precise spinner can be done with a series of rollers
Great video as always, Man...!!! I’ve been a big fan of the finest Gold for a long time. It’s great to be able to catch enough to put in a poke. I’ve been a fine Gold recovery specialist for a long long time. It’s all there was available to me and I learned how to process it better than most people. I have great equipment and a strong knowledge base on the super fine Gold. You guys are doing a smash up job with the gear you have.....!!! Congrats....!!!
That was entertaining. Thanks for taking along. Best of Luck to future projects. 👍
The frog excellent putting him back 🥂👏👏👏🖖😁
Now that's some easy diggins ! Very good recovery. I agree, most gold is ultra fine (-100 mesh), and abundant. However, the trick is to build a machine that can recover it. That's my goal up here in US deserts. Cheers mate !
Forget the gold, just give me a dog like grisly. Love that dog !
Good morning Chris , suddenly I enjoy math . And I like the way your mate uses a bucket to pan into in order to collect more gold and lose less. Stay safe and healthy, best regards from Lloyd way over here in Ontario Canada.
Cool seeing such a good return on running sand, thanks for the great vid 👍👊
I want to buy a river sluice but the gold where I live is very small. Is a dream mat the option? what do you suggest?
Found Gold specks under our Church while fixing the plumbing. And the Whole Town is Full of it .
I also notice you dont let your consintrated wash across main flat part of pan.
Silly thats gets fines to sink to bottom faster. & only water wave should carry dirt
UP & OVER edge of pan .if your dirt flows over edge so is your gol.....
I guess we all have different definitions of "heaps"...
a better sleuce is not riffles its perforated holes and layers of it so the gold ends up in a bucket not a mat, a dry sleuce even is a wet vertical spinner shaker that will sort by weight, add holes to sort by size and weight
I pan in AZ stateside. At our local day pan area. We find the same micro gold. Occasionally we find a flake which is considered big gold compared to our fly poop. I’d love to come see ya and let the pan lead us to the gold and vice versa.
Gold is gold it all adds up! I think all the flour gold looks awesome in piles!
you found a point of low water pressure when the creeks in flood, we find them on our rivers in nz. we stone out, take the top foot off and wait for the next rain. easiest digging ever
Looks like a heap of fun! Well done!
Nice. Goes to show that even in spots that you might think are crap, you can still get good gold.
Thanks for sharing Chris helps keep us sane during the insanity of not being able to get out and scratch the itch..
Glad to help
Gold is gold no matter what size it is. We have flour gold around here that is so small I could not see it the first few times I panned. Someone had to point it out to me before I could see it. I now use reading glasses so I can see the gold. Thanks Chris and crew for the great video, I relly enjoyed.
I have a 5 gallon bucket of wet classified dirt from a spot I never ran!! Its from where i Saw A Frog 🐸 go into a hole,
by where i was digging..
i GOTTA FIND THAT BUCKET! Ha great video Chris n GrizzBoss n Mick..
It is so weird watching these old videos from the one you make now wow what a change😮
Greetings brother gus it is good to see your programs in the midst of this quarantine in the Dominican Republic
Love the Boxer🐾
If you slow the water down at the end you might catch more fine gold. Try putting a catch pan under the end then pan it and you'll find out if you're losing any gold.
Catch pans don't give accurate samples unfortunately. You need to take it from the tailings its self. Which we do every session.
Loved your setup on this one. Glad you've got some material to share while we're all in lock down: eases the cabin fever. Looking forward to the wight up. I guess Zoe's scales aren't quite that accurate...lol!
I’m glad your always good to the wildlife
Nicely done. Waiting to see how you clean it up. That's the kind of gold I have to deal with.
You need a vibrating table to separate the fine gold out and the black sand I think is magnetic so a magnet with a bag over it should sort the rest?
99% of my heavies are non magnetic unfortunately and this was just to prove a point. Gold does not move like most people think.
Spent 50 years in the building trade half of it with a shovel in my hand and would love to spend a week doing this just for fun or enough gold to make a ring... Good video.
Nice you've got a pure breed dog and a mutt for highbanker! Very educating!
Two toes has a method of catching the itty bitty stuff.
my favorite type of videos on gold prospecting
Spot on with your advice buddy, went out to try myself today, was super fine gold was using the big boy dream mat, no classification prior well very little. Test pans showed 3-5 specs per pan everytime but the mat only resulted in 4 specs. Struggled with the
Well done Chris and Mick 😊
Up here for thinkin' mate 🤔💡😁
Gotta love Aussie ingenuity 🦘🇦🇺
Love the 'Rog 🐸 ribbit ribbit
Thanks buddy
Grew up next to Lake Superior and this is what we get. Hard to learn to pan on this stuff.
Great vid and I like how you show gold can be where we would usually not look. I wonder how much gold made it to just the last sluice, as that setup looks like it covers all bases (moss, gold hog and gold rat).
I hope you have enough videos to keep going until the end of home isolation, or maybe a new podcast or two 😀
i find when im cleaning up really fine gold if i shake my pan side to side smooth and fast while hitting it off my other hand that baby powder -100 mesh all goes to the one side.
imagine that pan on a motorized spinner, pile sand on it and keep it running the gold will go into the corners, you guys like panning so much you didnt automate it, but look panning is more accurate than your sleucing so automate panning, put a pan off center on a spinning plate and keep adding material also shake while spinning.
I Love It!!😆! That's the Craziest, Sweetest looking "Long-Tom" I've ever seen!!
Joij
CHRIS, FIRST thank you for taking all of us along!!, SECOND that is the size of gold I have around me except not in that quanity!!
Now that's better! That's what I call a sluice run. Yay! Go Chris.
Loved it and Brienne, my Irish Wolfhound, said thanks for the scratch behind the ear. Keep the great content coming.
Yup, I'm hittin the river this Saturday come hell but not high water lol
I recently found a spot with gold like that, it is glacial deposits. I have been panning it and get 3 to 4 pieces per pan. There is water but it's not running. I don't have a high banker. Any ideas on how to run more material? Thanks for another great video Chris!
Biger longer sluice
Its an old miners tale that gold sinks down through sand and gravels when its not moving and there is no water flow. I know you may have been told this but it just doesn't work that way.
I made a video on that
one thing I have a always wondered about is if you know you are loosing gold out of the bottom of the sluice why not leave a pan at the end to catch the heaviest of what is washing out. or does that not work?
Does not work like that.
I've shown few times where we tested tailings to show loss rates. The problem is that it just flows right out of a pan, I mean if it didn't get caught in 4 Sluice box's there's no way it's stopping for something at the end.
The only things you can do are re run the tailing or increase the overall length .
Why is this just so fun to watch.
Where I grew up lots of sand black sand too neighbor drilled a new well down 150 feet sand all the way.
Only got a half comment there but the just wasn't wasnt working tried a few things to improve it but I find my standard moss sluice worked better. Any hints on how to improve the mats recovery?
with particles that fine wouldn't slower water be a bit less lossy?
Poor Griz just dyin for someone to throw him a rock... Thanks for the video, looks like a good time!
Thanks Chris. Good info. Wow nice pan from sand
Thank you brother
Oh man! I am so excited to see this franken high-tom being used! I am sure if you dig around in your past vid comments ill have recomended doing exactly this to experiment with...I have told others as well. If you could only have a power dredge , one of those blowing into a tromel ,going to the high tom. Also try the multisluice at a steeper angle if possible, and maybe place it further out in The system so it strips the cons a little better? Just saying based on this videos showings and the goldhog videos about hydrodynamics.
There are lots of options to explore. I wish we could dredge, we'd be on ounces a day
With steady work that fine gold adds up fast! Good job Chris. Nice gold guy's! GL&HD!
You cant have them opening between slooshis .
It will back wash out.
Have 1st sloosh drop into 2nd after travel over dam "d
Front of 2nd
You can run a line of magnets under a sluice box to help slow the gold down, and break it out of the laminar flow.
This i need to try
Sampling super fine stuff like that is actually what that _Best Dam Gold Pan_ is really good for. It loses a little less.
Good video as usual I have always said Gold is Gold no matter the size. Interested to see the clean up of black sands.
Great video. Get all the gold you can find, because after all it's still gold and worth it. Have you thought about getting a small feeder so you don't have to handle the material twice? Just a thought that popped in my head watching this video. Cheers.
great video chris and i agree any gold and all gold is good gold and only a fool throws it away as it is hard to find
If you're expecting to lose 30% through the sluice, wouldn't you want to slow the water flow a bit and give the fine gold more chance to settle out in the mats?
We did, but you can only level the box's so much before they stop clearing properly. It's a balance between the two.
And remember most of this gold is so fine you can't see it without a loope
Love congratulations on your finds
Thanks for watching
What do you reckon about the vibration table method?
Pretty sweet. I wouldn't have thought there we be gold in flood sand deposits
Was a fun experiment to run
I deal with mostly fine gold like that where I live it ads up
Looks like 38 cents worth of gold, what a score!
$24 actually.
Scratched the missus behind the ear..... mate she wants a word with you
talk to the Wisconsin beach sand miners, they got sand mining down to a science. also silicone mats are way moor sticky for that fine gold
Could the 'vibrating motor' be used to assist in the sluice sorting...? Seems a shame to be not using that energy, somewhere, some how.
Proper bugger, Gold Fever, hey. had it when I was younger. Still have the first gold from amalgam, Gemfields, near retreat Creek, in the '70's.
Nice work great video. Some people just can't understand gold fever. No worries more for us.
I really enjoyed watching you catching the fine gold as this is the bulk of my material. Flour gold is what I hunt for. It will be interesting to see how you separate it from the magnetite. I still wait until mid winter and do a tea spoon at a time. Very time consuming. Awesome video!
You can do it! thats how i started lol
great video flour gold is all i usually find but its shiny and yellow
Watching your dog dig in the sand I was wondering to myself is it possible to teach a dog to sniff out rich pockets of gold?
12:55 because we lugged all this stuff out here to shovel dirt into it, so by god we'll shovel all the dirt we can justify. if it's easy it's justified lmao
Grizz is a great Foreman lol
Very few rocks in the pay. I bet Grizzly was a bit upset that there wasn't much for him to chase
Thanks for sharing Chris
You bet
Once again nice video, love watching you find gold like this because I found my first little batch of fine gold in the stream on our land this week nothing like yours though. Went through two and a half buckets just a little over a 5 gallon pail of material. Like I said not much but I did not find anything last year when I tried doing this for the first time. Watching your videos gave me hope. Thanks and be safe. Alabama shelter in place.
Very nice!
Add some dish soap the small gold will float the soap makes it drop
It all add up nice gold
11:09 Grizzlies like DIG!🤣
just got back 2 work this week after a month off cuz covid19... thank you for the video! i love ur channel makes me happy for awhile and just forget my problems. dude i appreciate you! thank you again for being here man. love u. behind on rent and little food in the house just taking care of my girl and 1 year old daughter. im going without for them to keep living comfortable. anyway love u brother. watching video now. cya thanks again for being u !
Chris, hope you are doing well during all the Covid stuff. Stay safe, the nuggets are calling.
I wonder if that frog knows it's father was a log?
Rog. 😵.🐸.