Lets play guess the weight while I wait for my scale.

[Doitlaynstyle]

I ordered a scale yesterday from Amazon.com: American Weigh Signature Series Black Digital Pocket Scale, 1000 by 0.1 grams: Kitchen & Dining and I am new so I have no Idea what gold weighs in at or even close to by sight. So let's hear some guesses and the closest to guessing gets the following according to these rules:

Well This thread has taken on a life of its own!! Lets cover how close you have to be to win.
1. exact match wins if no exact match see #2
2. nearest guess either higher or lower to .1 wins
3. If tied with another the first guesser wins so be sure to submit your own unique value!!! Good Luck!!
I was just going to give honorable mention but I am thinking that I will throw in 5lbs of dry paydirt from the area that I am working. I will bring it back and ship it after my next trip so that the winner can get a look at the same gold up close. Winner covers shipping. Sound good?

 

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[Vance in AK]

0.34 grams is my guess.

 

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[419GottaMinute]

Then I change mine to .3 grams

 

[Terry Soloman]

1.2 grams

 

[omnicron]

Hmm my guess is .6 grams. Hey did you know that you could of bought a scale at harbor freight for less the $12 that is accurate to .01 grams? I had it checked at a gold/coin shop and it's that accurate.

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this is the one I have and it's great!
Gram Scale - 1000 Gram Digital Scale

 

[goldog]

Four tenths of a gram. Or about five grains.

 

[Aurabbit79er]

I guess 1.5 grams

 

[Aurabbit79er]

Hmm my guess is .6 grams. Hey did you know that you could of bought a scale at harbor freight for less the $12 that is accurate to .01 grams? I had it checked at a gold/coin shop and it's that accurate.

Search results for: 'scale'
this is the one I have and it's great!
Gram Scale - 1000 Gram Digital Scale

I got one from Harbor Freight. It works great, auto tare, grams or Oz.
I think I paid $16 plus shipping, about $19 total.
I use it for cooking too.

 

[oldbrundogg]

I guess .42 grams not that a newbie like me would have any idea but second pic showed the 4 from the calendar and third pic showed the 2
OBD

 

[Doitlaynstyle]

I guess .42 grams not that a newbie like me would have any idea but second pic showed the 4 from the calendar and third pic showed the 2
OBD

LOL thats one way to come up with it. The scale I have coming is a 1000 gram that has tare and is accurate to +-.01g for $9 and free shipping through amazon. See the link in the first post.

EDIT:Found out this is not true it is acurate to +-.1g..... BOO Gotta get another one.

 

[Goldwasher]

.4g

 

[tinpan]

Hi My, guess is a lot less than this

tinpan

 

[Doitlaynstyle]

You just made a common rookie mistake, Doit - Its 1.5 grams = 1 dwt. Anyway my guess is .50 grams.
BTW, it looks really "clean" for a rookie. You know you'll have to dry it before weighing, right?
And although your scale is fine for beginning, its not accurate enough when you get to the ounces, pounds, in other words,
Hoser John would toss in the trash!

I got that from 419. Which is it for sure? I have panning on lockdown. I dont know why but I can run a full shovel test pan in under 10-15 min but with panning concentrates it gets trickier.
1.I use the magnet in the bag trick to remove the metals and magnetite,
2. then I shaker table(a shaking technique that mimics the tapping technique) the pan until some gold shows
3. I snuffer the gold and whatever sands are close and repeat until I have all of the gold out of the majority of the sands.
4. I dump the sands back into my concentrate mix for later processing or selling.
5. Then I dump the snuffer bottle into the pan and shake until I have just the gold separated from the sands and snuffered up.
6. Dump the sands again, put the gold in the pan and take a picture, put it into the vial and done.

The way I do it now I can be done with the panning part of cleanup in an hour. The first time I did it took over four hours and I had to find a solution.

 

[Doitlaynstyle]

Hi My, guess is a lot less than this

tinpan

Thats pretty.....

 

[419GottaMinute]

Actually, fullpan and myself are in accordance. 1.555 GRAMS equals a pennyweight.

 

[Barndawg]

I'm gonna guess 2.2 grams. Nice lookin' gold!

 

[Fullpan]

Doit - your numbered steps look just fine to me - that's the way I did it.

 

[Meurnik]

I can understand that, Now that I know the conversion 1.555 DWT = 1 Gram I can easily convert. Its like getting a liter of milk... WHO the EFF buy milk by the liter lol

I buy everything by the liter! Milk, yoghurt, gas, OJ... but i also measure with the metric system...

OT: My guess is 3.14 grams, just because i love to eat pie!

 

[Aurabbit79er]

Actually, fullpan and myself are in accordance. 1.555 GRAMS equals a pennyweight.

That's my guess too

 

[LP13]

I'm in for .77 grams. So what's the prize if we are right and how close do we have to be to win

 

[Doitlaynstyle]

I'm in for .77 grams. So what's the prize if we are right and how close do we have to be to win

Well This thread has taken on a life of its own!! Lets cover how close you have to be to win.
1. exact match wins if no exact match see #2
2. nearest guess either higher or lower to .1g wins
3. If tied with another the first guesser wins so be sure to submit your own unique value!!! Good Luck!!
I was just going to give honorable mention but I am thinking that I will throw in 5lbs of dry paydirt from the area that I am working. I will bring it back and ship it after my next trip so that the winner can get a look at the same gold up close. Winner covers shipping. Sound good?