Heading to the beach Tues for some black sand sifting

mike(swWash)

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Whites Spectrum XLT with about 1/4" of dust on it and can't even remember how t turn it on?!?!?
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Sweet! Post some pics for us land locked shovel masters :)
 

I am soooooooo jealous! :occasion14:
 

The weather sure is nice here (at least on the north beaches). Let us know how your day went.
 

Hit the beach at 10am and found the winter storms had washed out most of my favorite deposit areas but found enough to feed the sluice mostly black sand for 5 straight hrs. I forgot how small the gold is and what a HUGE PITA it is to clean up. I did a few spoonfulls and it looks like about half of my previous takes from the same area on other trips. Once I'm done running it on the miller table in a couple days, I'll put up a picture of the total.

However the weather was great and I managed my 1st sun burn of the year. Definitely no better way to spend a day at the beach.
 

Nice Job Mike!! Most of that recoverable beach gold is -100 to -200, right?
 

Yeah really small to invisible to the eye size....
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Now do you call that fly poop or gnat sh*t? Just messin with ya. It looks like you have a good system cause your squeezin the gold from the earth. Waiting to see the final cleanup pics. :icon_thumleft:
 

Nice sure is pretty looking "dust" I'm exited just got my permit in the mail today now I just need to devise a recirc system to test out on the heavy black sands found on the beaches here
 

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