Air Trommel

[Sluicedog]

Any one know of an Air Trommel? Maybe a 4' tube with an air compressor hose attached, spiral flow..how do you collect the gold?

 

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[Jagdpanther]

The November 2007 issue of Lost Treasure magazine had an artical about the Gould-Bazooka that had been converted to dry washer system. Gould Engineering has a web site but I could not find any info about the dry washer.

http://www.gouldeng.com/bazoo.htm

Hope this helps.

 

[Functional]

Any one know of an Air Trommel? Maybe a 4' tube with an air compressor hose attached, spiral flow..how do you collect the gold?

I haven't used one of these, but there are some videos showing how others have on YouTube:
http://www.google.ca/search?q=gold+...earchbox&sa=X&as_sitesearch=youtube.com&hl=en

F.

 

[Sluicedog]

The spinning vortex in the long tube would certainly separate heavy from light, but I agree the efficiency might be low. But, if you put your concentrates in again..you might be moving alot of material through....the name of the game is to end up with the gold!

 

[warsawdaddy]

I wouldn't think that an air system would breakup the bits of clay,etc,like water will do.