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The Peace River I am referring to is in SW Florida, USA. Starting as a drainage ditch in Bartow, Fl and empties into Charlotte Harbour, near Punta Gorda, Fl.  Dell

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Dell_Winders;

OK. If I were to tell you all about the Peace River, here, it would something like: ".....the toe bone connected to the foot bone, the foot bone..... " Is LONG. 

A couple of gold-rush rivers run into it, guys even worked the Peace bars, in the 30's, during the depression, because they could make more money than working for $0.50 a day, for some farmer, IF the farmer had money. A good panner could pan 10 to 13 oz. per day, between the time the ice went out, and June high water. Now its got 2 dams and the gold doesn't renew.

I think gold was worth $20 or $24 an ounce, then, so it was huge money, but had to last a year. Of course, they would not have gotten full price. 

I read about one guy (he wrote a good book) that had a sluice box, in the Manson River, in front of the store, who said he washed $1.50 per day, just to eat. He probably got 1/10 of an ounce per day, now worth about  $94. 

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Dell_Winders;

Ice on this Peace River, in BC, is thing of the past! The two dams drop water a total of 600+ feet, and if I remember right, the water GAINS 1 degree per 100 foot fall, so its about 6 degrees warmer.... than it used to be. It now stays open until far into Alberta. Its amazing, because I have walked across on the ice.... sure can't now. 

The gold in the Peace, here is about 2 mm and down to non-visible without a lens, as you go up-system, into the Nation River and into the Omineca River, the gold is commonly as large as 4mm  flakes.... very thin, so thin it can float, because of  surface tension.

I got a "flake" as big as my little finger nail, in 20 Mile Creek, which flows into the Omineca, I washed it out for my partner, out of a layer of red clay (he wasn't a good panner then,) so he could show his wife gold was real..... didn't help, she divorced him, over it, anyway. 

When pan refining, the use of liquid detergent or jet-dry, just a drop or two, breaks the surface tension, so nothing floats away.   

Something else, possibly interesting, is alluvial diamonds in gravel, over in Alberta. I got a PDF on it, a couple days ago. 

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ksightler;

The dishwasher jet-dry is also good, maybe better... it is like a super adjuvant, an adjuvant is also known as a water wetter. It kills surface tension therefore no  spots.... "the spot fighter."

IF you recycle THE water, you could use a small sluice concentrator, or even a rocker or a bumping table  (King Solomon's Special.) An ounce in a 20 gallon tub is probably too much. You don't want to use this stuff excessively, it is probably not good for the environment, but a couple drops per pan amounts to no more than 40 to 50 drops a day... if you are a hot-shot panner.

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Hello Jim!

Welcome aboard and I'm very happy to hear you found the information helpfull. Hope you will share some of your expirience with us, too.

All the best,

Christian

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