what do do with above 1/8 classified

[rocky99]

I am only expecting (hoping) to find small flakes. I will be going through a gold cube and then further processing. What do you guys do with 1/8 and larger (other than visual inspection) if you are not really expecting to see nuggets?

 

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[63bkpkr]

Well, if you have a good method of selling off the fines/flakes for jewellery pieces etc. you can do that. If not you can save it till you have enough for molding a small brick of gold and you get to decide how long you want to save the fines for what size brick. There is a post on T-net just recently about a prospector that did just that, cool looking brick just do not touch it till it has totally cooled.......63bkpkr

 

[goldenmojo]

You can use it for decorative rock in your landscape.... other than that if it has any magnetite/hematite you could crush and roast to release any sulphides it might have.

 

[ratled]

Pan it to 1/4, and then sometimes the +1/4 too. Gold can be encrusted in black and not look like gold or a piece of host rock may be viable but you could miss the gold attached to it in a quick scan. By panning it the weight of it will give it away. Anything that "acts funny" in the pan can be checked closer. This has proven successful for us many times. One guy I was working with almost through out a 2.2 dwt nugget because it was just heavy hematite! Scrapped it with a knife and the color was there

ratled

 

[Jason in Enid]

I pan it to check for any large pieces and then use it to fill low spots in my yard.

 

[arizau]

If you are talking about screening previously obtained concentrates then pan them. If you are just screening raw dirt to get minus material for feed for the cube then just forget about them or run a metal detector over them if you have one.

Good luck

 

[crusty]

When panning cons at home, I usually throw this on, just to give me a little more chance of spotting anything I might miss.

https://www.amazon.com/SE-MH1047L-Illuminated-Multi-Power-Magnifier/dp/B003UCODIA/


I just pitch my 18 mesh and bigger stuff in the rocks in my yard and the 20 and smaller in my blue bowl cons to run through a sluice again later.

 

[Kenmitch]

lol....Last year when I did my 1st run at sluicing/panning at a creek I barely got past searching the 1/2 classifying stage. I must of looked at 1000nds of rocks and only wound up sluicing a couple buckets of material....Still was fun at least.

 

[Bonaro]

If you haven't already done it, pull out the magnetics and discard them to your rose bed, they love the iron.
Throw all of the remaining oversize in the driveway, rake it out and run over it with a metal detector. A 1/8" nugget at 0" depth should make it freak out.
You can check a 5 gallon bucket before your beer gets warm.

 

[KevinInColorado]

When panning cons at home, I usually throw this on, just to give me a little more chance of spotting anything I might miss.

https://www.amazon.com/SE-MH1047L-Illuminated-Multi-Power-Magnifier/dp/B003UCODIA/
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I just pitch my 18 mesh and bigger stuff in the rocks in my yard and the 20 and smaller in my blue bowl cons to run through a sluice again later.

Cool viewer, I think I'll get one.

Tossing +18? I hope you pan it first! I've found +18 gold in Denver and up near Fairplay. I'd hate to think you were tossing nuggets

 

[IMAUDIGGER]

I am only expecting (hoping) to find small flakes. I will be going through a gold cube and then further processing. What do you guys do with 1/8 and larger (other than visual inspection) if you are not really expecting to see nuggets?

Throw it on the ground and detect for nuggets. Alternatively fill the bottom of a plastic mining pan and run the pan over your detector coil, then toss on ground.

 

[rodoconnor]

I have found enough black nuggets that everything gets panned.Only takes a few seconds.If it acts like gold scrape it with a knife and look.

 

[goldhog]

Search carefully............

If you don't look for big gold, you'll never find it.
Regardless of your area or local.

If we see piles of +1/8" around, we always re-run it.

You may only find one a year, but it will be mounted above you fireplace.

 

[Jeff95531]

When panning cons at home, I usually throw this on, just to give me a little more chance of spotting anything I might miss.

https://www.amazon.com/SE-MH1047L-Illuminated-Multi-Power-Magnifier/dp/B003UCODIA/
View attachment 1402771

I just pitch my 18 mesh and bigger stuff in the rocks in my yard and the 20 and smaller in my blue bowl cons to run through a sluice again later.

Oh I may have to have one of those...