Mosswisher

[SushiDog]

Hey....this is what the forums are all about, right?....I am glad it helped out....don't forget to check the crevices that you dig the moss from....SushiDog

 

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[ncclaymaker]

Why attempt to create a labor intensive process to release the gold from the moss. Burn it inside of an old steel container, rinse out the ash... and what have we here? K.I.S.S.

 

[russau]

I saw a really neat miller table design last night, gonna work on one for some fines.
[/quote]if when using the Miller table itll run better if you screen it all and run each screening seperatly.and a thin (1/8 inch)sheet of smooth water across the table . no waves or any ripples in the water to distort the flow. a small, even fed of screened cons preferably from a autofeeder will give you good results.

 

[Hoser John]

By utilizing your time working gravels you'll get real gold and not microscopic fly specks that don't add up to squat. Work smarter and not harder to prosper. John

 

[nuggy]

If micro fine gold wasn't worth getting most of the worlds largest commercial gold mines would have to close. I'll take an ounce of fine stuff over a gram of coarse any day.
Of course if you don't have the equipment or skills to catch finer gold, you could be throwing away a large portion of your possible take. Local beach gold on a friends mining licence is very fine 60% or more of the gold he recovers is not visible to naked eye.

Some places have very little fine gold, others have only fine gold - waste of time trying to catch what isn't there, waste of labor and fuel not catching what is there.

Getting onto some good moss, about fifty tiny specs per pan - could get an ounce or more in a week - if you have enough good moss. The moss I'm talking about wont burn very well as its wet and full of sand. It has to come from a river where plenty of fine gold is present and moving in flood times. It will be lying fairly flat and will have gravels swept over it in a flood. If you are not able to process a cubic yard, or don't have a cubic yard of moss that has an average of fifty tiny specs per pan visible - then you are not going to make enough to make it worthwhile.

Also if moss was no good at catching gold - they wouldn't make an artificial version for gold miners to line their sluices with - but they do.

Some folk could starve in a restaurant - don't join them. Nuggy