Sunday, March 9, 2014

Well it worked.. But the sample sucked.

Well here is is finally. I took the idea from someone on Youtube. I thought I would try it out and it did catch one tiny picker that i missed when I first panned the first two pounds.



It seemed to work well until the pump quit. Oh well only paid 10 dollars for it. I have a couple other designs I will be testing and hope to use outside locally when the snow finally melts...

This batch was a bust but I'm going to pan it over again just to be sure. Just the one tiny and no fines. :-(


Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Not looking good for this sample!

5 pounds if pay dirt from AZ, first two pounds ha poor results. one small picker and a couple of tiny flecks. 

I ran the concentrates threw my small home made sluice and then panned it after to be sure. 

The sluice is made of a 3 foot long 1 3/4 wide corigated plastic tuning the kind that comes with a sum pump. I used a fountain pump 20-80 gpm, I'll show pictures later this week. made after watching a couple if YouTube videos.
I have miners matting coming and a redesign attempt at a small sluice. pictures to come.