crevicing tool

[olepossum]

i was wondering i need some advice i have a idea of making a creving tool called the crevice pick run a hose to the water to the pump to a tip that would shoot medium to high pressure water jet in to the crevice and loosen up the dirt and rocks so i can get to the gold i have a area that when the river runs at regular depth there is a area about 30x50 ft of exposed bed rock but it DRYS out real quick and the cracks are small i was going to make two of them one for loosening it up and one for sucking it out or should i just use hammer and chissel and dig it out by hand some advice would be much wanted and should i use a bilge pump or a pump like they make for the above ground rubber pools help please i get gold from the river so there should be gold in the cracks any advice would be much needed and greatly appriciated

 

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[russau]

theres already a device out there like that. its called the "gold drill" or the "gold well" or something like that! it pumps highpressure water into the ground, then you turn a valve and it sucks the material out and you keep going back and forth like that!

 

[olepossum]

well crap i am new to the hobbie of prospecting and i am kinda hooked on it i am also a mder i have a whites dfx 300 with prospect as a mode and a 12 inch coil

 

[TerryC]

Possum, ALWAYS break open those cracks in any stream that is known to carry gold. The small size tells you no one has been in there before. Quite possibly a gold bonanza awaits! TTC

 

[olepossum]

oh boy do i ever plan on it hoping to go back this weekend have found some small flecks of gold and a spit load of little red garnets cant wait to get back there .

 

[Seamuss]

Dido on bedrock busting and using a flusher hose to get the gold out.

 

[russau]

i think this device is a really good tool to use. he was thinking out of the box and found a winner!

 

[russau]

oh boy do i ever plan on it hoping to go back this weekend have found some small flecks of gold and a spit load of little red garnets cant wait to get back there .

ask Wade Carver! goes by the handel "sluice box" thats in your/our club that had one of these "Gold Well" devices. he showed me it many years ago. very simple idea using a PVC "Y" and 2 valves and a few internal homemade parts,water pump and hose. Ask Doug Foster how to get ahold of him. Wade makes some really nice mining gear.