swizzle
Sr. Member
My uncle was telling me about a guy who takes all of his black sand and dries it out really good. Once its bone dry he takes a magnet over the whole thing and the magnetite sticks to the magnet and whats left is gold. Would it pay to wire a few neodymiums to the bottom say under a waterfall or close to it and just go back every once in a while and clean the magnets off? Maybe attach a few magnets onto a larger metal plate to increase the range of the magnet and collect even more? Would it be possible to get an ounce of gold out of say a 5 gallon bucket of black sand this way or is this another wild pipe dream? I think hiking a few miles of stream in the spring and periodical dropping these "gold traps" every so often and checking on them in the fall might get you enough to add a few hundred or maybe even a few thousand dollars to your income every year, depending on the scale of the project and the amount of time devoted to it. Any thoughts? Swizzle