Final Clean Ups - Playing at the shop while everyone is gone.

[goldhog]

Some pretty gold in video if nothing else. Ended up being about 48 grams.
It was Saturday and I needed to show some of our field testers how to set up and run the new Washer Mat.
(It's not a sluice mat... it's a hyper-concentrating mat.)
Some were missing the "concept" of a STRIPPING mat / final clean up mat and were running too slow.
Pretty stuff to watch at least.

 

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[delnorter]

Good video Doc. The mat does a great job on the concentrates.

It appears there is a type of glue or caulk along the edges of the mats. You speak of pulling the mats to clean. Does this glue/caulking adhere to the mats and come out with them when pulled?

Thanks Doc,
Mike

 

[russau]

Nice demo Doc! impressive results!

 

[goldhog]

Good video Doc. The mat does a great job on the concentrates.

It appears there is a type of glue or caulk along the edges of the mats. You speak of pulling the mats to clean. Does this glue/caulking adhere to the mats and come out with them when pulled?

Thanks Doc,
Mike

No, it's just the standard side tape used when installs. They are glued so we don't take them apart.

 

[Lanny in AB]

You sure do make some great stuff, and the gold looks fantastic set off against that black!

All the best as you keep refining your production methods,

Lanny

 

[goldhog]

Thanks guys.......
My main point with that video was to make sure people ran it really HOT....
100 gallons per inch, and a 12 degree pitch.
When you reduce the pitch on it... it does not perform as well.
Like always... the FEAR of losing gold will often cause you to lose it.
Slow things down too much and it just doesn't work well.

 

[meMiner]

Running "hot" is the same thing with the Le Trap sluice. Run it flat and slow and it is not effective.

By the way, I love the idea of your wash matt, that stays clean of everything but some of the gold and minimum concentrates. I like the way you think.

 

[GoldpannerDave]

I appreciate seeing the mat in action. Reducing cons like that is a great idea. I might have to adapt a sluice and buy some of that mat. I checked the website but did not see a price for it (of course, I could have missed it).

 

[goldhog]

I appreciate seeing the mat in action. Reducing cons like that is a great idea. I might have to adapt a sluice and buy some of that mat. I checked the website but did not see a price for it (of course, I could have missed it).

It has it's own page to try and keep people from ordering it as a "sluice mat".
Gold Washer Mat - Concentrator Sluice Mat

 

[kazcoro]

Thanks for the videos Doc. Always watch them all. Great info and narrations!

 

[mu50stang]

Nice video. Im a fan of your products and use your mats in my 4 inch dredge and catch very fine gold. I have one issue with this product. Wouldn't it be faster to run everything through the gold cube and just clean the top tray and get about the same effect. The gold cube catches almost 95% + gold on the top tray and you can feed it pretty fast. Just wondering why someone would use this if they have a cube already or are you marketing this to people who don't have a gold cube.

 

[goldhog]

Nice video. Im a fan of your products and use your mats in my 4 inch dredge and catch very fine gold. I have one issue with this product. Wouldn't it be faster to run everything through the gold cube and just clean the top tray and get about the same effect. The gold cube catches almost 95% + gold on the top tray and you can feed it pretty fast. Just wondering why someone would use this if they have a cube already or are you marketing this to people who don't have a gold cube.

I think you missed that point in the video.
If you go to 14:23 in the video, you'll understand why we run the washer mat prior to the cube.
It comes down to "isolation" of the clean gold, from the other heavies.
That's why I strongly encourage people to run the mat TOO HOT...
I stress constantly it's not about getting 100% of the gold... you've already caught it.
It's about STRIPPING out the gold and cleaning it. Much like a shaker table is designed to do.
Get as close to pure gold as possible.
For most people you'll have 85 - 95% of your gold in the first two sections of the matting.
But the key is... the amount of total cons there.
You'll end up with about 1-2 tablespoons of total cons.
Again.. I show that in the video as well.

Cleaning cons is really about a "work flow" process and being efficient with both capture and time.
Each person and op have their own systems.
In that video we ran 2 gallons of cons in about 15 minutes.
Between the washer mat and cube... we pulled roughly 99.97% of the gold out on the first run.
(I'm not saying 100% because we saw a few tiny specs in the tailings)

The total run had roughly 46 grams of gold.
Roughly 42 grams was caught in the first sections of the washer mat.
(Shown at 19:05 in the video)
The rest of the gold was spread pretty evenly through the rest of the process.
I wouldn't throw out any cons without running them through the Gold Cube, so this layout just works really well and
kills two birds with one stone.

There are also some good videos from our field testers on our testing forum.
(Testing thread) and shows how it developed over time.
Doc