Sheet in stream to catch gold

[reptwar1]

Anyone ever heard the stories about old timers stretching sheets across streams to catch fine gold dust? I have read it on several sites but now cant find any of them. Reason Im asking....just got off the phone with a guy that did something similar and caught just over an ounce of gold in 2 weeks. The guy then told me that his contact with USGS informed him that every 24 hours, $16,000 in suspended flour gold flows past the town that we live in. That price was in the 60's when gold was $30 an ounce. Allow me to adjust for current gold prices... Ready?...$541,560 EVERY 24 HOURS!! Now you see why I'm interested lol

 

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[chlsbrns]

When you say 'micron' what actual sizes or range do you refer to, certainly this is not all about only 'one micron' Thanks

Im talking about gold that suspends in water. 74 microns or smaller but larger particles will stick to grease, oils ect.

 

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[Goldwasher]

Hanging out with some more cold hard facts!!!

 

[chlsbrns]

Elemental gold

It's placer gold which by the way is also elemental gold.

You didn't comprehend that from the links tbat I posted?

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/g...1-sheet-stream-catch-gold-13.html#post4676967

 

[chlsbrns]

If the sediments actually contained all that gold to begin with, why not just process the sediments rather than stir them up and try to recover it that way? Have you ever assayed the sediments?

The discussion ws and is about getting suspended gold from water not getting gold from sediments.

Suspended gold is gold that is so small that it suspends in water.

 

[GoldpannerDave]

Wouldn't a sufficient amount of Jet Dry knock it out of the water so it could easily be dredged?

No; Jet Dry reduces the surface tension of water so solid small pieces of gold don't float. If it is microscopic gold particles, you are not really going to catch them with a dredge even if you knock them to the bottom. That is the reason for the burlap coated with Vaseline or other oily substance.

 

[chlsbrns]

No; Jet Dry reduces the surface tension of water so solid small pieces of gold don't float. If it is microscopic gold particles, you are not really going to catch them with a dredge even if you knock them to the bottom. That is the reason for the burlap coated with Vaseline or other oily substance.

In addition if a dredge or sluice could capture such small particles of gold it would capture them from the water with no need to drop the particles.

 

[chlsbrns]

Has anyone noticed comments posted about oil floating gold out of a pan or sluice? Thats because oil sticks to gold! The 9+ oz of gold that we got so far is a result of gold sticking to oil. Pretty simple huh?

The same gold that we got was from water that was used repeatedly over and over again to process pay dirt meaning that it ran off of a commercial sluice over and over again and we captured it with fish oil on burlap.

 

[Goldwasher]

You are right it is elemental gold...no matter what I should say sub micron gold... either way there's like 25 tons in every cubic mile of seawater... it is not economically recoverable. When it is that size out of any kind of water....your river water is not richer than ocean water even if going through a gold bearing area like where I live....they can barely register mercury in moving water...therefore you are not talking about what's in the water even. Your only results are from a settling pond....it is so rich that if you were doing actual science it would be tossed from the results!!!!! Problem 1
Therefore you must be trying to recover from guess what sediments!!!Your trying to get someone to capture enough of Something through any of your mentioned systems! Water no because your not going to recover gold from water that way.. so suspended gold something big enough to have water even move it on whatever scale.....in moving brownish river water your greasy whatever is most defiantly catch more crap by weight than gold.....EVER.....in ANY.....RIVER ANYWHERE.....PERIOD...... The science behind that is called..

"Duh"....and I own the mining journal article.....I know it well and that is why I didn't include it because It is irrelavent. The material ran was not river water or bank run or even rough classified it was it's own batch.On a dredge hibankedr or wash plant out put. Based on the fact that the gold is moving way too fast for the capture area you could feasibly have. Its a non-starter. Every contrivance imaginable has been tried....most great discoveries are accidents!.....there literally should be a saying something along the lines of......."well boy you can't just put a rag in the river and expect anything but to wash windows"....

Yep that one's pretty good... tonight the part of kranky grandpa was played by .Fog horn Leghorn..... yep I can 5o tally hear it

 

[chlsbrns]

You are right it is elemental gold...no matter what I should say sub micron gold... either way there's like 25 tons in every cubic mile of seawater... it is not economically recoverable. When it is that size out of any kind of water....your river water is not richer than ocean water even if going through a gold bearing area like where I live....they can barely register mercury in moving water...therefore you are not talking about what's in the water even. Your only results are from a settling pond....it is so rich that if you were doing actual science it would be tossed from the results!!!!! Problem 1
Therefore you must be trying to recover from guess what sediments!!!Your trying to get someone to capture enough of Something through any of your mentioned systems! Water no because your not going to recover gold from water that way.. so suspended gold something big enough to have water even move it on whatever scale.....in moving brownish river water your greasy whatever is most defiantly catch more crap by weight than gold.....EVER.....in ANY.....RIVER ANYWHERE.....PERIOD...... The science behind that is called..

"Duh"....and I own the mining journal article.....I know it well and that is why I didn't include it because It is irrelavent. Based on the fact that the gold is moving way too fast for the capture area you could feasibly have. Every contrivance imaginable has been tried....most great discoveries are accidents!.....there literally should be a saying something along the lines of......."well boy you can't just put a rag in the river and expect anything but to wash windows"....

Yep that one's pretty good... tonight the part of kranky grandpa was played by .Fog horn Leghorn..... yep I can 5o tally hear it

Wrong again as usual! Yes ocean water contains gold mostly nano sized in parts per trillion. Look thru usgs water sample reports. There is plenty or recoverable gold! Gold particles 74 micron down into nano sized particles are recoverable!

Not from sediment, from water!

What you are really saying is that the 9+ of og gold that they got and melted must not be gold its mud? Or that I'm not being truthful?

Gezzzz the mis-information spewed from self proclaimed experts!

 

[reptwar1]

First of all, my original post was serious. Secondly, it obviously works as proven by chlsbrns. 3rd, when in the hell did I EVER imply that I thought I was going to retire from my lawn sack in the river Yall can criticize all you want.Kind of like the 500 lb guy on the couch every Sunday yelling about what the quarterback SHOULD have done. I will continue with my experiments as, if nothing else, I will learn something new and it keeps me occupied. Thanks to the majority of you that arent so narrow minded as to criticize

 

[gold tramp]

If im reading this right were saying the gold particles stay suspended in the clear non turbulent waters ?

I have a tail pond that I run my rp4 tails into. I know theres micron gold in my tails as there is really no way too be 100% recovery on this type equipment.

Im using hardrock tailings pond, lord knows how many different minerals are disolved or suspended in this slurry water mix.

if I was too siphon off the clear waters from the pond after a couple days settling, let this evaporate. one could see if there was a suspended micron gold ?

I know youall are talking placer, basically I just make my own placer by grinding the ore and washing pulp across a shaker table it’s a mechanical stream bed of sorts.

One would have too think the waters would carry the same ? more so in hard rock as the gold is way finer.

Just my thoughts I may try in my spare time evaporating some pond waters see what I get ?
GT………….

 

[reptwar1]

Gold tramp... The man that told me about getting the ounce of gold in 2 weeks....Lord, I would LOVE to put you in touch with him. And btw, his information BEFORE even catching the gold, came from USGS and the corp of engineers

 

[reptwar1]

Lets just all agree with gold tramp and assume that it cant be done rofl

 

[chlsbrns]

If im reading this right were saying the gold particles stay suspended in the clear non turbulent waters ?

I have a tail pond that I run my rp4 tails into. I know theres micron gold in my tails as there is really no way too be 100% recovery on this type equipment.

Im using hardrock tailings pond, lord knows how many different minerals are disolved or suspended in this slurry water mix.

if I was too siphon off the clear waters from the pond after a couple days settling, let this evaporate. one could see if there was a suspended micron gold ?

I know youall are talking placer, basically I just make my own placer by grinding the ore and washing pulp across a shaker table it’s a mechanical stream bed of sorts.

One would have too think the waters would carry the same ? more so in hard rock as the gold is way finer.

Just my thoughts I may try in my spare time evaporating some pond waters see what I get ?
GT………….

Gold starts to suspend at 74 microns. In a still pond some gold will stay suspended indefinitely. At what size I don't know? This is suspended gold...


https://www.google.com/search?q=col...ved=0CAgQ_AUoA2oVChMIpK-tvaLyxwIVSII-Ch1HEgyR

Why dont you try doing what we did? Stirr up the pond and float some burlap coated in fish oil or coated in vegtable oil?

 

[gold tramp]

Gold tramp... The man that told me about getting the ounce of gold in 2 weeks....Lord, I would LOVE to put you in touch with him. And btw, his information BEFORE even catching the gold, came from USGS and the corp of engineers

If i can i like to find out for myself if something works or not, usgs corps of engineers those are just titles.

when you are out here trying to make a buck off this stuff you learn about the hog wash fast, theres very little time for needless work or $$$ mistakes.

ive read all about this stuff, it comes down to what comes off the table at the end of the day, the yellow not storys about getting it.

by all means experiment but document with pics n writings that way its not just talk.

GT.............

 

[gold tramp]

Gold starts to suspend at 74 microns. In a still pond some gold will stay suspended indefinitely. At what size I don't know? This is suspended gold...


https://www.google.com/search?q=col...ved=0CAgQ_AUoA2oVChMIpK-tvaLyxwIVSII-Ch1HEgyR

Why dont you try doing what we did? Stirr up the pond and float some burlap coated in fish oil or coated in vegtable oil?

And contaminate my whole works with oils, im in the extreme fine gold recovery buissness.
we have a no oil policy in the mill area, and the oiler answers to the Cpt. if we have problems.

I may try a vasaline slick place on my tale race one day run the water n talings into the desrt, i will take a few pics of it when i do, probably be best if i used the midlands the third time across the table this has the finest gold particles in it, the ones we leach.
GT.............

 

[reptwar1]

I will post pics when I finish with my experiments. And chlsbrns grandfather has a gold fairy that apparently dropped off 9 ounces of gold according to you?...

 

[reptwar1]

Ahhhh yes...it all makes sense now! Gold tramp, do you work for the epa? Lol

 

[gold tramp]

Ahhhh yes...it all makes sense now! Gold tramp, do you work for the epa? Lol

What are you crazy

 

[reptwar1]

Lol yes. I am.