Introducing the Gold Churn .

jack outbush

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arizau

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Wow! What a concept! I saw your video but, out of courtesy, I will let you post it unless someone else does first. I hope, for your sake, that you now have it patented. Good luck!

PS I can see this being used with water too with some modifications.
 

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Selling Spam?
 

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Looks like it would zap spam:laughing9:
similar principle using the gold magic dry, only this little unit would help in grinding up the fine gold caught up in the clumps of dirt. arizau hit on an idea using wet, would be great on the sticky gray clay
 

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Interesting concept just like my old cement mixer for concentrating but extreme amount of welding and fab work. Wish ya luck with further refinements. Looks nice with big nuggets but add black sands and fine gold to really see what needs tweaking. Nice fab job, very clean. John
 

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Here is the Australian (?) forum where he first introduced the gold churn and the followup comments. (deleted by mod)
I too am looking forward to some field test results showing how well it concentrates the fine gold and other heavies. Care to comment Jack outbush?
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Here is the Australian (?) forum where he first introduced the gold churn and the followup comments. (deleted by mod)
I too am looking forward to some field test results showing how well it concentrates the fine gold and other heavies. Care to comment Jack outbush?
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jack outbush

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Thanks for the positive comments Guys .
Although the unit in the video works well ' we are building a better model that will process material faster & be much more efficient retaining ALL the fine gold . :thumbsup:

Jack .
 

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Thanks for the positive comments Guys .
Although the unit in the video works well ' we are building a better model that will process material faster & be much more efficient retaining ALL the fine gold . :thumbsup:

Jack .

I will not claim credit for this idea as I saw it elsewhere, but, have you considered putting vanes in the classifier section also in order to clear the oversize when you reverse the action rather than having to remove the classifier and dump it?
 

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Although I have not seen the video I suspect its not much different than these videos with the exception that they are powered and not as portable but can move a whole lot more material...

THE GOLD DRUM
 

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jack outbush

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I will not claim credit for this idea as I saw it elsewhere, but, have you considered putting vanes in the classifier section also in order to clear the oversize when you reverse the action rather than having to remove the classifier and dump it?

Hi Arizau , I did try that will an earlier model but could not get it to dump out ' even built a cone shaped classifier but that also didn't perform .

jack .
 

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jack outbush

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Although I have not seen the video I suspect its not much different than these videos with the exception that they are powered and not as portable but can move a whole lot more material...

Hello AzViper ,
First off I like these words you use :- “He who builds their own equipment has a better understanding of what works and what does not

I built a unit similar to the gold drum long ago & posted the design on an Australian forum ( date would be there ) , this is it below :-
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I tested this unit & found it lost fine gold , I tried a sweep back chain ( second photo ) still the same problem ' that's when I started to design another unit to see if it could be possible for a dry unit to perform close to the best wet high bankers regarding fine gold retention .

As I said before ' the next build will do it all Dry .

Regards
Jack .
 

AzViper

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Although I have not seen the video I suspect its not much different than these videos with the exception that they are powered and not as portable but can move a whole lot more material...

Hello AzViper ,
First off I like these words you use :- “He who builds their own equipment has a better understanding of what works and what does not

I built a unit similar to the gold drum long ago & posted the design on an Australian forum ( date would be there ) , this is it below :-
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I tested this unit & found it lost fine gold , I tried a sweep back chain ( second photo ) still the same problem ' that's when I started to design another unit to see if it could be possible for a dry unit to perform close to the best wet high bankers regarding fine gold retention .

As I said before ' the next build will do it all Dry .

Regards
Jack .

Never used one or built one, but I would imagine the angle, speed, and depth of the drum plays a huge part in how the heavies stay in the the drum. I can see how improvements would make the Gold Drum a useful tool in the field though.
 

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jack outbush

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Never used one or built one, but I would imagine the angle, speed, and depth of the drum plays a huge part in how the heavies stay in the the drum. I can see how improvements would make the Gold Drum a useful tool in the field though.

The problem with cement mixers when used Dry is they throw out fine gold , took me a while to figure out why :icon_scratch:
Because the bowl is round the material slides as it's turning ( the gearing is also to fast ) stratification is just to slow ' so as it fills & starts to empty the top strata layers still contain fines .

The Gold Churn shape & internal design overcomes that problem , any gold quickly drops deep allowing the bulk of the lights to be discharged without loss .

I like your Vac/blower , would work well with the Churn .
 

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