I am digging in a creek with a shovel. Hauling buckets up to the house and putting it through 3 sieves 1/2 1/4 1/8. When I first started the run all the mats were immediately full of 1/8 pcs of sand. I am expecting that if I have gold it is extremely fine. So I will probably start classifying down to 50 and 100.
What I am thinking is classifying to finer values before the cold cube because I was not happy with what I saw in running the gold cube. Could be because my water floe is somewhat impaired, I will remedy that. But the large grains of sand seemed to be blocking access for the finer stuff where the gold may be.
Did my first gold cube run today. Only classified to 1/8. I'm thinking it would be better to get on down with the classifying before running the cube. Comments?