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« on: April 29, 2012, 05:40:37 am »
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Just got back from the Lake Superior beach front, didnt get much, about a gram and a half of very fine fine flour gold, found out the last day I needed to dig deeper to get the better gold, just my luck, oh well next trip.  I watched probably well over an ounce of micro gold flow right on out what a bummer seeing that and unable to trap it. The micro gold was so small it just washed with the black sands. Found out one neat trick, that if you use the back side of the v matting it will catch gold as small as a needle tip but nothing smaller, caught a lot of pin head sizes that way. But the gold cube being advertised as 98% effective will no way in hell catch all that micro gold either. The only way to catch all that micro gold is using a miller table to separate the gold out of the black sands, I will be building a potable one this winter. If anyone has a better idea of how to catch micro gold I would love to hear your input !

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« Reply #1 on: April 29, 2012, 07:47:00 am »
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I've found that a velvet mat made lumpy by adding chenille strips (pipe cleaners work too) over it is a good one to place on the out feed area of your sluice. I place the chenille about 3 inches apart and sew them from below. The direction of the chenille is the same as the riffles in your sluice. Catches all the gold - even the flour gold. After I used my first one for a year or so, I noticed that some gold was trapped in the weave of the fibers. I decided to try burning it and mixing the ashes with water. I panned the ashes afterwards and got a full half gram of superfine gold. I did have to add an accelerant to the cloth as it melted a little at first.

Posted on: April 29, 2012, 03:43:00 PM
I forgot to mention that I hold the mat in place by a couple of sheet metal screws and washers on the upper end corners of the mat. Use high quality, deep pile velvet which doesn't melt when burned. Also, I gave some thought to using the natural ribbing in corduroy instead. Haven't tried it though.

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« Reply #2 on: April 29, 2012, 09:52:19 am »
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Which side of lake superior, wondering if any on the canadian side...

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« Reply #3 on: April 29, 2012, 07:27:07 pm »
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Michigan side east of grand marais but i do know a major gold deposit was found back in the 1800,s directly across on the Canadian side so there should be gold on your beaches also.

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« Reply #4 on: April 29, 2012, 07:31:39 pm »
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Again it sounds like a Job for the PooP Tube.

Man, build a PooP tube about  6ft long and just start feeding it.

Pump enough water to keep things going and clean up. Shocked

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« Reply #5 on: April 29, 2012, 07:35:54 pm »
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Whats a PooP Tube ? Never heard of one ?

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« Reply #6 on: April 29, 2012, 07:45:40 pm »
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thanks for the come back,

probably however, probably gobbled up by the multi nationals

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« Reply #7 on: April 29, 2012, 07:50:25 pm »
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Look up the Henry Henry Poop Tube.

Just a bit of Corrigated Drain pipe that works like Riffles.

They work most well for clean up.

As your just working with sands and Black Sands it sound like the ticket.

It gets it's name because it was first made from the Drain Pipe of a RV.   PooP Tube.   LOL

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like the concept Wink

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Look up the Henry Henry Poop Tube.

I don't believe that will work well with flour gold. I've built a couple of them. They're too slick to capture the really fine stuff. Seriously, Homie. Just won't work on fines.

I suppose if you had the runoff going into a catch basin, it might work though. You know, like maybe putting a large gold pan at the end and slowing down the water flow.

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