Prospecting old tailings pile part 1 - video!

AU79 Prospector

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Jun 25, 2017
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Whats up guys! I just posted my next prospecting video for anyone thats interested. On this video and the next one I am currently working on, we run tailings from an old hard rock mine from the 1800s... clearly their fine gold recovery left something to be desired as I found a nice amount of fine gols (Again this is Virginia so a nice amount of gold for MY area =) I hope you all enjoy!

 

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Bodfish Mike

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keene puffer drywasher , Keene A51 Sluice
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Nice job -- I like the way you put the video together and narrated it.
congrats on the the gold.
Mike
 

IMAUDIGGER

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Were you classifying the material before running it through that sluice?
 

IMAUDIGGER

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I ask that because you might be able to significantly increase your recovery by skipping the classification and using the saved time/energy to run additional pay material.
 

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AU79 Prospector

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Jun 25, 2017
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Virginia
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Nokta AU Goldfinder
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I don't classify (but try to remove the biggest rocks like 3+ inches) The gold hog piglet is designed to run unclassified material... Because I run it with a battery though, the water flow is a bit less than ideal so I have to manually clear the grizzly bars which is slowing me down. I am working on some modifications to add one or two addition 1250 gph pumps /additional tubing to hopefully improve this issue.
 

johnedoe

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Cleangold sluice & prospectors pan, EZ-Gold Pan, and custom cleanup sluice.
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Nice gold.....:occasion14:
 

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