What is a good and cheap gold recoverer?

[mrmanpig1]

Is there anything that's like 50$?

 

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[Oregon Viking]

Good...AND cheap?
Do you mean a sluice? Or a pan?
Are you talking fine gold recovery? Blue bowl or miller table?

 

[mrmanpig1]

Something like a blue bowl to separate the black sand from the gold once I sluice it

 

[Jason in Enid]

A gold pan is all you need.

 

[mrmanpig1]

Ok thanks

 

[ratled]

Any gold pan will do but for the nitty gritty fine stuff nothing beats this finishing pan. Dredge Sales, Dive Equipment, Mining Supplies and Metal Detectors - ArmadilloMining.com Armadillo is the ONLY place I have been able to find them. They are real good folks and have good shipping

ratled

 

[mrmanpig1]

I have never seen one of them do u use it like a normal pan?

 

[winners58]

like ratled said.. it's made by Falcon https://www.google.com/search?q=falcon+finish+pan&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
the motion is a little different get it to one side like normal then tip it forward to get the water over the material then rock it forward and get just the black sand to move, once some of the black sand off you can dip it to get that little bit out of the pan then keep doing that, it takes some finesse and patience.
when all I have left is gold I set it on top of the cable box to dry out.

 

[Oregon Viking]

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This one with the Microgrooves around side of pan?

 

[goldenmojo]

A pan and learning how to tap.

 

[winners58]

each person does it a little different I rock it, some people dip it,
then there's the bump and tap and what Doc call's the Georgia swirl

 

[ratled]

I don't know why it works so well I just know it does. Nothing else work like it. I only use the smooth one.

If you are just feeding a hand sluice and have those cons at the end of the day you really don't NEED much else. Get into the larger dredges etc then you may WANT something else to help process the cons. This is my recommendation:

Classify your cons into say +#8 screen or similar Dredge Sales, Dive Equipment, Mining Supplies and Metal Detectors - ArmadilloMining.com

You can hand pick those or pan

Classify the remaining stuff to +20 or similar (a kitchen colander works from a thrift store) Dredge Sales, Dive Equipment, Mining Supplies and Metal Detectors - ArmadilloMining.com and pan the larger stuff off.

Run a magnet like this (or a DIY one) Dredge Sales, Dive Equipment, Mining Supplies and Metal Detectors - ArmadilloMining.com over the smaller stuff to pull all of the ferrous stuff out. This will make the remaining stuff a little more free flowing.

Pan that off until you have a very small amount of material left. Pick out what you can while you can. Use the finishing pan for the real fine stuff. I do about 1 Tablespoon at time and hit with the magnet before using it.

Practice with it awhile and you will amaze yourself how fast you can actually do it for clean gold... not like the stuff on Friday night TV.

Here is a better picture of one next to a Proline pan. The gold hasn't been cleaned yet, just about to hit it with the magnet when this shot was taken.

If you WANT an added a step look up Henry Henrys or Poop tube sluices on You Tube... and then do these steps

ratled

 

[Reed Lukens]

Any gold pan will do but for the nitty gritty fine stuff nothing beats this finishing pan. Dredge Sales, Dive Equipment, Mining Supplies and Metal Detectors - ArmadilloMining.com Armadillo is the ONLY place I have been able to find them. They are real good folks and have good shipping

ratled

That is the best finish pan, I've been using them for years also. You can watch the motion of it here. I didn't watch Doc's video yet, maybe he uses the Falcon pan better

 

[Reed Lukens]

look up Henry Henrys or Poop tube sluices on You Tube... and then do these stepsView attachment 1250016

Now there's a name that I haven't hears in decades We used to have dinner with Henry and his wife at the UPI outings back in the day when the sky was bleu... lol

 

[NeoTokyo]

Along with the finishing pan you could also make a small miller table too.
Harbor Freight has a selection of cheap pumps, 12v and 120v.

After you build your miller table you can also build your own blue bowl, you will already have a pump from the miller table.

DIY stuff is how most of us stretch our dollars.

 

[ratled]

Now there's a name that I haven't hears in decades We used to have dinner with Henry and his wife at the UPI outings back in the day when the sky was bleu... lol

It's amazing how folks have been through UPI over the years.

Merry Christmas

ratled

 

[Hoser John]

$50 was the limit. John

 

[Reed Lukens]

It's amazing how folks have been through UPI over the years.

Merry Christmas

ratled

Yea I was with UPI for a long time but we only went to the outings here out of Red Dog when they had a claim there. I don't remember what happened with that claim and they used to work Greenhorn at the outings but there was some conflict with other claim or property owners in the area. They were really active here back in the late 80's to mid 00's and I still see them here and there but I haven't gone to a UPI outing since probably 95

 

[Laz7777]

use a second pan (doesn't need to be a pan, actually, just something large enough to pan and hold water).
make a sucker bottle (drugstore: hair coloring bottle, surgical tubing)
learn to do the tap, after gold is seperated, suction it up, most black sand will be gone.
add some dish soap (or Jet Dri) to the water of your safety pan to stop the ultrafine flour from floating.
pan the concentrate from your sucker bottle, then dry it and run a magnet over it. don't need to buy a fancy mag, just a rare earth one from most hardware stores, but put it in a plastic baggy over it so you don't wind up with a lot of magnetite on your mag.

or (looking over my shoulder for eco-nazis) get some merc!

 

[arizau]

A set of classifier screens will help you to recover the vast majority of all the gold in your concentrates. When only like sized material is panned or otherwise processed the gold is easily separated from the waste material. 30, 50 and 100 mesh screens will do the job. Pan or process the sized material separately and it is best to do about tablespoon quantities for anything smaller than 30 mesh when using a gold pan.

Good luck.