What is everyone's favorite last step to clean gold ? With so many options out there, and some of them rather slow, how do you guys like doing your final cleaning ( pan, blue bowl, miller table, shaker table etc) and why do you like that method ?
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I have so far only really been playing to just see how they work but will need to spend more time playing with bowl and miller table. But I did see an older video from Dan Hurd about a home brew pulse bed jig, mainly because it would be cool to watch it do its thing but have not been able to find much information about it.
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Jigs are really interesting, if I can ever get caught up highbanker building inventory I would like to experiment with them as well. They seem like they might not only be faster but easier to use. If they work and I can come up with an affordable design........... In the meantime take a look at these small jigs. https://rgmak.com/shop/?variation_id=3061671
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they are lovely, currently i dont have enough cons to justify the spend on it. maybe this year lol
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When I did more placer work I used to love the goldcube ...
I also classified my material to all individual sizes , 100mesh, 80, 50 etc and ran it individually and found I got the highest % of gold in the clean up compared to running it all at the max the goldcube can handle ( 1/4 mesh I think) ...
We also had one level replaced with vortex matting and found that useful as well
Happy Propecting !
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Classification is key, I wonder how many people do it?
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Classification is key, I wonder how many people do it?
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I wash my carpets (36" sluice 8ft long off my shaker deck) through a 1/2" classifier then put everything through a vortex sluice with a Letrap behind it. The Letrap will get 10-12 pieces that carry over past the Vortex but as a percentage its very low.
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If the volume of concentrates is low, then simple panning of plus 30 mesh and minus 30 mesh. If high, magnet sweeps + cleanup sluice +/- miller table and multiple runs, then tapping gold to the front lip, sucking it up with a snuffer bottle, rinse and repeat until back panning reveals clean gold.
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