BLACK SAND??

[Golden-1]

should i keep my black sand? i am kind of torn between keeping it and throwing it out it looks cool in a vial but i don't know if i am just wasting my time or not.

 

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[63bkpkr]

Was your black sand found along with gold? If so there is a group of folks that keep black sand and at a later date they reprocess it to remove really small gold from it. If you were not finding gold along with the black sand then it might not be worth saving. I think one method of checking is to heat say one cup of the black sand in an OLD fry pan, not Mama's brand new Chef's pan, and with hand/arm/body/face/eye protection as well as being outside while doing this, pour the really hot black sand into cold water.

The shock of hitting the cold water is supposed to crack the black sand releasing fine gold then the panning or using a 'finishing' sluice begins or a blue bowl.

Best of success with this..................63bkpkr

 

[Golden-1]

awesome thank you for the information it was found with small flakes so i will just keep saving it for a while

 

[DizzyDigger]

Saving black sand takes very little room, and as said above, it holds gold..
..it might be too small to easily see, but it's there and can be removed
with a miller table, blue bowl or other type of fine gold system.

 

[goldenIrishman]

Save them up Golden!!!! Believe it or not there's actually a market for them even if they don't have gold in them. Target shooters love to use it to fill shooting rests for their rifles as well as some other uses for them.

I'm not sure of your experience level ( You sound new to the game. No offense ) so I'll keep some other methods of extracting gold from black sands to myself for right now.

Jeff

 

[deserdog]

I don't have any black sand anymore. I sold all of mine. I sold the amount that would fit in a small flat rate box for anywhere from $8.00 to $12.00, with buyer paying the shipping. It would be a little over 5 lbs. of black sand, and stated in my auctions that I had panned out all the gold I could see, but had not put it voer a table or through a bowl.

 

[KevinInColorado]

It's also used by some spas as a heated sand for therapies...they will pay too!

Just sell on Craig's list or ebay: only the magnetic sand of course, non mag is often lead or silver or other oxidized metallics.