This gold cube is AWESOME.

Jason in Enid

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OK, I will admit that I was very nervous on the first use. There I was in camp with my carefully set and balanced cube with four buckets of dredge cons, screened to -8 and ready to go. Scoop after scoop, and bucket after bucket goes down the feed tray. The pile of cons builds and builds underneath it. Damn, look at all that black sand piled there. Is there gold coming out with all that black sand? After I finish feeding all the cons through, I take it apart and there is gold all along the very top edge before the vortex even starts! It was still hard to imagine all that black sand passing through but no gold. I had to do some test pans of the tailings but I didn't find any gold in any of them. That finally had me confident in it's ability.

so instead of bringing home at least a dozen 5 gallon buckets, I have only a few scoops of super cons! It would have taken me weeks (and likely months) to work through all the original cons but the cube ate them in a couple hours total time. I will likely get through the cube cons in a few hours also.

I now LOVE this little peice of equipment! Mike and Red made something really great!
 

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Wait until you stick a trommel on top of that thing. Wow! So much time saved.
 

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Jason in Enid

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Wait until you stick a trommel on top of that thing. Wow! So much time saved.

If it weren't so damned expensive! I love the cube, but it's pricey. The trommel topper is even more so. I suppose it I was going to use this as a recovery tool instead of a concentrator then the cost might be more justified. Maybe move to a screen topper later on, but for now it's working OK as is. It just amazes me, that my old concentrator had to be fed with a spoon because if you went too fast, you'd pack it up and lose gold. I know that Mike and Red were testing the design by feeding it with a shovel and had very little loss running that hard.
 

KevinInColorado

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You can feed it 1/2 ton per hour of -8mesh. That's going pretty quick for a small time, artisanal miner.
 

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