Went out sluicing for a couple hours, came back home to pan and found my first Gold lol not much very small flakes about 6 in total. I dug down in a black sand creek about 2ft next time i will go deeper.
Went out sluicing for a couple hours, came back home to pan and found my first Gold lol not much very small flakes about 6 in total. I dug down in a black sand creek about 2ft next time i will go deeper.
Thanks, i was running the sluice pretty quick and for it to collect little specs like it did i,am impressed lol. I forgot what to use when i am panning some of the little specs were floating, do i use dish soap ? and how much.
Is what you are working pretty much sand?
If so I would change out that expanded for deep V mat... Then tune it till it just keeps a little bit of black sand in the V's...
I think you may find what you will capture surprising.
You have to tune the sluice to the gold you are after.
The work getting it makes you appreciate every speck! Good job man! Welcome to gold fever!
In that case set things up as a high banker and let it pre-classify everything down to the size gold your getting ... maybe classify to 8 mesh.Hi johnedoe, lots of sand up top but down a foot or so it becomes a mixture of all sizes from small pebble to fist size stones. What was left in the mat was pebbles and a lot of black sand. Thank you.
Don’t forget to report it to the irs
Thanks you guys. Whats the best way to season my pan ? i went back to the creek yesterday for a couple hours and almost took a nose dive in the fast moving water , my sluice caught on a tree branch and through me off balance the bucket went in first omg, i was able to grab the bucket before it went under.