My long range field trip

[WM6]

Originally Posted by Dedevil

As this is loose old river soils i'll use "squeeking trees" Funny enough i cant find a picture of squeaking tree supports on the internet.

You mean something like this ? :

[Dedevil]

Yes that is it.

A shaft 60cm x 1 mtr x 3 mtr deep takes around 80 - 90 buckets. To make it easier to get down to where the gold is the shafts are oval shaped. This takes about 75 buckets.
Once at 3 meters the dirt starts going through a trommel to be washed. There are about another 25 buckets before you hit the bedrock, each bucket will have about a match head of gold or maybe more. I will also go slightly into the sides at this depth for another 25 buckets and hopefully get around 1 -2 ounces for my work.
Also a windlass on top to get the buckets out makes it easier on the back.

[Dedevil]

Let's get back to the basics and just find GOLD! This forum has become too much like another Geotech forum where everyone talks about the best with no results.
So here's my results
1 OUNCE A DAY!

LETS SEE ANYONE ELSE BEAT IT!

Or are you just hugging JP's electronic Teddy Bear?
rgds

[Geo]

Hi.
Did you finish the trommel???
One ounce per day is with the use of trommel???

Regards

[Dedevil]

Originally Posted by Geo

Hi.
Did you finish the trommel???
One ounce per day is with the use of trommel???

Regards

Yes Just finished. The olive container didn't work as the sun's heat warped the plastic.
So i changed to a car gas cylinder.
It is a very rough prototype and will take another picture when it's set up in the field.
I power it with a boat bilge pump and a cars windscreen motor ( all 12volt) and run it from my car battery. Will go solar panels on the next model.

regards

[Dedevil]

One ounce a day will be average daily from 300 x 20 litre plastic buckets of dirt.
The trick is to seperate the gold from the potters clay. I am using two rotating sieves.
Near where i go i got a very strong signal on the divining rods. I think the strong charges i divined is gold that is traped in a bend of the old creek bed at 13 feet / 3 meteres and should have concentrations of around 6 ounces a day.

[Geo]

Originally Posted by Dedevil

Yes Just finished. The olive container didn't work as the sun's heat warped the plastic.
So i changed to a car gas cylinder.
It is a very rough prototype and will take another picture when it's set up in the field.
I power it with a boat bilge pump and a cars windscreen motor ( all 12volt) and run it from my car battery. Will go solar panels on the next model.

regards

Good luck with the new trommel

[Dedevil]

I now know there is a rule number 3- Dont go chassing gold in the middle of the night after drinking beer at the pub.

I went out and set up the trommel and camp beside a dam. Then thought it was too late to start so went and drank beer at the pub. After the pub I thought i was invinsable and went mining. I tripped over and almost broke my leg! I spent the next two days just panning and got a few specks.

rgds