Switching from Good Wheel

[TintedSnow]

Hey all,
I’m thinking I want to switch up from using my gold wheel for separating out sands and whatnot. I use a good cube for all my mining, then usually my wheel, but my wheel is broken and it’s turning into more of a project than I’d like. I’m also not to keen on it. Any suggestions I should swap to? Mini Miller table or something?

 

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[DizzyDigger]

If I try and watch the gold collect in a spiraling gold wheel, I'll likely
end up with a vertigo attack.

Miller tables are..well, they're just fun, and you get to see your
gold right off the bat. That, and they are much easier to make
with materials at hand.

I made mine using part of an old solid wood tabletop, a couple
of 1x2's and some green chalkboard paint. There's a number
of effective surfaces you can use as a top. Make a spray bar
(or take the one out of your wheel), use a battery powered
pump and Bob's yer uncle.

 

[russau]

I also made several of these and I liked them!! Like DD said ,they are EZ to make and I've made them out of what ever and used the "Black Board" spray paint and ,my favorite , dark Slate!! the sprayed "Black Board " paint works just fine but if you use it a lot it'll get scratched up and need to be repainted ,where as the slate keeps on giving! Another neat little trick is to drill a hole in a isolated spot out of the main stream of the table and secure a glass gold vile into it so that as the fine gold starts popping up you can use a little brush to move the gold over into the vile ! This trick works great. I liked my wheel also BUT I had to much equipment to haul around !

 

[arizau]

You say you use a gold cube for all of your mining....gold cubes do not produce a huge amount of concentrates so simply classifying a days take into several different batches by screen size should enable you to simply pan to satisfactory results in just a few minutes....this because the gold particles are 3 or more times as heavy as anything else in the pan. By using a 30, 50 and 70 or 100 mesh classifier you can make 4 separate, small quantity, batches (plus 30, 50, 70/100 and minus 70/100 mesh to pan separately. The plus 30 mesh can be panned easily but then the other batches will become increasingly difficult....but doable.* Still do the above classifying steps if you choose to make a miller table.

Good luck.

* minus 100 mesh is especially difficult to pan if it is mostly black sand like ocean beach concentrates usually are.

 

[russau]

Panning is so much easier if you run a rare earth magnet over your cons first to remove the magnetite and metallic particles , and then pan it ! Put your rare earth magnet into a plastic film canister or a baggie to remove the metallic's from the magnet !

 

[Bonaro]

Screen to 3/16" - remove magnetics - cube - remove magnetics again - Pan by hand
Dredge clean up is done in less than an hour