Always pan your cons above 50 mesh

gldguy1

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So I finally had time to pan my cons from 50 mesh basically stuff that didn't go thru my blue bowl, first scoop of dirt I find this little guy. It pays to pan them cons ImageUploadedByTreasureNet.com1483950164.667568.jpg ImageUploadedByTreasureNet.com1483950179.382425.jpg
 

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I found these 3 in my second scoop ImageUploadedByTreasureNet.com1483951239.108912.jpg
 

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So if I decided to just discard my cons which one time I did because I didn't know any better I would have missed out on this fine color. ImageUploadedByTreasureNet.com1483954289.833759.jpg
 

russau

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Yep ALWAYS re-pan or re-run your cons several times to get that last piece! when I use my different clean-up equipment I like to re-run them at a different setting or different water speed to catch that smaller stuff. Plus it gives this F.O.G. something to do besides the ole people stuff!:dontknow:
 

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I don't want to miss anything I screen with a kitchen strainer probably 18 mesh then 30 mesh for the blue bowl
much easier to pan the plus's if they are all the same size, of course if I get lazy then I run out of buckets....
 

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I know it is operator error (don't have the patience to run it as slow as I should lol), sp I know my BB loses stuff, so I always re-run it and then at least run it through a sluice.

Just got a Gold Miner wheel and ran 3" from my BB cons bucket (with some 20 mesh cons) and got this. :unhappysmiley:

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