Second run gold

hurthawk · Jul 31, 2009

I re-run the cons from the last gold trip utilizing a homemade sluice.

strickman · Jul 31, 2009

nothing like recycling,one day i'll finally get the micro-gold out of my 55-gal of black sand.there is always gold left.

kilnmaint · Jul 31, 2009

Yep, I use a gold wheel after I have panned. Always find some in the black sand and the lighter sands!!

kiwi jw · Aug 1, 2009

Hi guys, Yes I too have buckets full off black sand cons. I want to put the lot into a concrete mixer or something similar to give them a good tumble & crushing to free up any scale & other impurities etc. Then re-process. I am a fan of the blue blowl for the fines but it is all very time consuming. Trouble is the more you leave it the more the cons build up. I have played with mercury but dont like going down that avenue & I get a lot of "stick" from people for using it. I always wonder how much gold is in the cons & know there always is some there. One day I will get around to it......But I am off up the river again today to add to my black sand cons. Thats the easy & most enjoyable part.

Here are some pics of a day up the river.

Pre classifying through my sieve bucket for the small sluice to cope with

Ready to run the preclassified material through the box

Clean up

Washing out the carpet

End result

Happy golding

JW

kuger · Aug 8, 2009

Hey Rick is that the new rubber matting that Rob got in

I want some but it is a little pricey!I have around seven or eight five gallon buckets of once over black sand I am going to have Kevin play with this winter(if he stays at Robs now we cant dredge)

hurthawk · Aug 9, 2009

kuger said:
Hey Rick is that the new rubber matting that Rob got inI want some but it is a little pricey!I have around seven or eight five gallon buckets of once over black sand I am going to have Kevin play with this winter(if he stays at Robs now we cant dredge)

Kuger,
Yes it is the new stuff. It has visible riffle action so you can watch the black sands agitate and the gold just burrow in to the deep V in the mat. I run the cons through the new stuff and then put a second gutter sluice with lower grooves right behind it. The second sluice is at less of an angle, thus slower flow, and it picks up the really fine stuff that has passed through the first sluice.
Let me know when you are free to do some detecting or highbanking (now that we have to use the dredges for paperweights).
Rick