What's Inside this 50 Year-Old Vintage Can of Gold Paydirt?

[jeff of pa]

 

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[russau]

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[Duckshot]

Kind of cool except the author is swirling when the instruction told him to shake.

I wouldn't have done it that way but he did find some color.

 

[jeff of pa]

I'm sure Everyone has their Own Technique, and the Diehards never really Change

 

[Duckshot]

I don't know, sounds a lot like squirting extra water from your snuffer bottle into the stream instead of into a pan. Probably won't lose anything but maybe.

Shaking makes the gold go side to side and down as you tip your pan before you wash off the less dense material. Swirling as you tip makes the gold go around and around and up and down. If the gold is small like the glacial dust I find I can wash it right out.

I guess with clay pay dirt swirling with the pan level would help break stuff up. I don't have much of any experience with clay.


Edited to add- ask yourself this- at 9:45 in the video why is his black sand on top of the pile?

He did not wash yet and he has black sand on top. I like to put the dense stuff in the corner before I wash ought the lights. YMMV.