Fine Gold Recovery

Many people get out and get some gold. Then they pan it down, pick out the big chunks, and are left looking at a bunch of black sand with specks of gold mixed in. Many different pieces of equipment have been made to try to get the most gold for the least effort. Corrugated pipe cut in half, rain gutters with ribbed matting, spiral wheels to name a few. All the way to vibrating tables of all sizes. For most prospectors the method is by trial and error. After many years of practice the easiest and most affordable way for me is to screen down the material to different sizes. Anything smaller than 20-30-50 -100 mesh goes thru the blue bowl to eliminate almost all of the black sand. When getting the gold out with a snuffer bottle I wash the remaining black sand with a puff of water to blow it away from the gold. Then suck up the fine gold into the bottle. Using the snuffer with the tube and washer removed I put the funnel part into a vial and deposit the gold into the vial. The blue bowl can run for long periods set up as a recirculating system and doesn't load up like the rain gutter or tube systems, which require frequent cleaning. Many people with patience will work the black sand picking out each speck. If you have time this way works. After running my 8" dredge the amount of black sand left to clean up would take a long time to pan and pick out. Good luck in the search, thanks for looking