A week on Lake Superior beach working black sands

[williamsingr]

Just got back from the beach front, didnt get much, about a gram and a half of very fine fine flour gold, found out the last day I needed to dig deeper to get the better gold, I watched probably over an ounce of micro gold flow right on out what a bummer seeing that and unable to trap it. The micro gold was so small it just washed with the black sands. Found out one neat trick, that if you use the back side of the v matting it will catch gold as small as a needle tip but nothing smaller, caught a lot of pin head sizes that way. But the gold cube being advertised as 98% effective will no way in hell catch all that micro gold either. The only way to catch all that micro gold is using a miller table to separate the gold out, I will be building a potable one this winter. If anyone has a better idea of how to catch micro gold I would love to hear your input !

 

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[Randyd]

you might try some metal lathe or the aluminum screen door guard (for dogs) for part of your riffles. I was amazed at the amount of -100 gold it catches!
Randyd

 

[liftloop]

so you tried the gold cube and it didn't do the trick i take it...

 

[russau]

any outcome of any peice of equipment is depending on the operators ability/knowledge to use that equipment to its fullest potential! i dont know of any "plug & play" equipment thatll save really fine gold without experience!i never used the Gold Cube, but ive seen the original plans and id put the Gold Cube up against any similar peice of equipment on the market today!i know of several people that do own this Gold Cube and they say it works just fine! screening your material and water flow(specific gravity) are biggies when it comes to fine gold on any equipment !