$200 for spinning water?

[@kevinhavens8289]

Longer videos maaaaaan!!!! U always cut it off too soon when that longer video supposed to b done that ur working on??? Hopefully soon!!!

[@VoGusProspecting]

They take 4 days, at 6 hours a day, just to edit. Patience bro. Enjoy the fact that I'm doing daily content

[@Aaron_Hanson]

Dude chill 🤦‍♂️ It’s technically a job at this stage to just create a video for us to enjoy. Then you add the time on the creek, time travelling, time for family & friends etc! Give the bloke some credit for keeping us entertained and educated ffs 😳

[@Phoenix_Enterprises]

@@VoGusProspecting Darn fans always wanting more...lol Thanks Chris.

[@MikeyIsSoGreen]

I prefer longer videos too and it really annoys me that the algorithm is pressuring creators to run with shorts. For me, frequent 5-10ish minute vids is a good compromise while I'm waiting for the bigger ones. On another note, I feel like the production values are down a bit, which I see as a positive, because I'd rather wait 2-3 days for great contend presented a little roughly, than wait a week for the exact same content presented flawlessly.

[@MarkOfArgyll]

@@VoGusProspecting You're knocking them out of the park man, lots of vids with lots of info in them. So speaking for what I imagine the majority of people are thinking, we appreciate all the hard work you put into the channel, both on camera and more importantly off camera. Editing, composition, all that fun stuff takes hours and hours even if you are a professional editor [which many YT'ers edit up becoming I guess] So we all thank you. Well, at least I do.. ..

[@Phoenix_Enterprises]

Taking a moment to say thanks Chris for all the time, energy, and cost of creating and sharing your content. Thank you very much.

[@russellbenson8544]

Chris, there are two groups of people. Ones who can't think out of the box and the other who figures how to build the box. The majority is the first group and very few in the second one. You, sir, are part of the second.

[@wasslic]

But as member of the first group , I am very thankful and appreciative of Chris's efforts

[@robertmunro7117]

Awesome cleanup technique, thank you for showing the process

[@darrensinden8230]

If only this vid came out yesterday 😂 Had a tiny amount of material that we separated with tweezers 🙄 last night. Wasn't fun at all 😂😂😂

[@MerchantMarineGuy]

That’s “the golden rule”! If everything is the same size, the gold will separate easier from everything else

[@susantabor7874]

It’s so nice when things work out. Especially when you figure it out for yourself!

[@kenlyneham4105]

What a brilliant video, thanks heaps Chris. You have saved many people dozens and dozens of hours of frustration.

[@joshuajackson6442]

That was so exciting! The joy of experimenting is so rewarding.

[@wasslic]

Just tried this method, worked very well. Thanks Chris. I have just moved to Wang, so looking forward to some time on Reedy

[@mattelliott7650]

Thanks for another very educational video. I have learnt so much from you. You never cease to amaze me with your knowledge. Thanks.

[@gyvren]

This is monumentally helpful information! Thank you, Chris! Can’t wait to try this out! 😉👍

[@RaymondKobler-td7xm]

I have used a similar method for years, and shown many people. You get a hold pan and put about 2" of water in it. Take about a tablespoon of cons and spread them around the edges of the pan. Then use your finger and start swirling the water When you see the black sand starting move quickly move your finger to the center of the pan and give it a quick swirl. You will see a lot of the black sand go right to the center. I suck out the black sand and repeat until I am left with clean gold.

[@putteslaintxtbks5166]

Cool! Reminds me of watching a guy use a five gallon plastic bucket with a, I think, about a one inch hole in the center of the bottom and had something like a small container lid stuck in that hole. He. Would swirle the bucket and after a bit, all the gold was in the center in that little lid. It looked like it worked real good.

[@trevdyer173]

This should work for whatever its comfortable to work with as long as its round to give a propper vortex. I think if you didnt have riffles in the pan you could put more water in

[@TheVegemiteGuy5941]

Your findings in conjunction with a vibrating table or plate would be a very efficient way to separate gold from black sands. Also a small hole to collect the gold into a small collection jar and all you have to do is feed it concentrates.

[@davidslack-smith9814]

That’s the go. Maybe a cheap sander somehow?

[@markfryer9880]

​@@davidslack-smith9814I was thinking about a sander as well.

[@TheVegemiteGuy5941]

@@davidslack-smith9814 I thought that too. Great minds.

[@otc-x1-b9]

Great seperation technique. Thanks for teaching.

[@pertinentparadigm1337]

That's good to know... Jeff Williams just had a similar technique on his channel with a 5 gallon bucket, and a paint stirrer attached to a drill to quickly separate gold from cons.

[@Chris-vt5zb]

Loved this one thanks Chris your tenacity is awesome

[@davidhandyman7571]

Great work there, Chris. I wonder if you might get even better success with a bowl with steeper sides. The energy of the water could be a little more concentrated at the edge. Just a thought.

[@christianmontgomery506]

this is how I've always cleaned my gold. but instead of spinning the pan i use my fingers to spin the water you get more control you can really control where the lights go in the pan. the depth of the water is important.

[@chriscarley9951]

Wow, That was really slick. I will have to try that with some practice concentrate when I get to the house. Very cool tip. Thank you

[@ainschuntayleuhn1147]

Chris… If you spin a Disk, apx. 4” across in the centre of your pan, the results are far more substantial. I used a circular diamond sanding Disk that attaches to the drill on an Arbor.

[@mickme8914]

Its never gonna work without a GAZTON!

[@peterokeefe1463]

Thanks Chris a fantastic video well thought thru and articulated very well…. If you watch it 3 times it’s a long video😂 Thanks again appreciate your time and commitment to the channel, a job well done !!

[@AmericanDad420]

Keep up the good content!! Dont stop! Your vids make me smile and learn every time you post. ❤️ ❤️

[@MarkOfArgyll]

Great experiment! Even better results!

[@sovereignlivingsoul]

thanks, excellent video, i grabbed about 4 inches worth of black sand in a 5gal pail from a river nearby that i am drying out and processing, i am going to try this, one issue i may have is i don' think there is a lot of gold in it, there seems to be either silver, mica, and a little copper and some gold, everything is very tiny and shiny, but i have managed to collect about 98% of it so far with what i panned, still too much black sand with it so i am hoping this technique will work

[@piratescrew1869]

Amazing. I’m trying it! It’s the simple things that make life easier and keeps the motivation up enough to go back and back again! Thanks human résumé! C.V.👍👍

[@Aaron_Hanson]

I’m constantly trying to come up with ways to make panning easier for myself. I only have one functioning arm and it frustrates me to no end that I can’t process an “acceptable” amount of material in a certain amount of time. I’ve thought about orbital sanders, cordless drills etc to help stratification, but so far I have not figured a safe and logical method 😂 Cheers 🍻🇦🇺

[@ONAFIXEDINCOMEAlley-fz8tg]

Look around for a soil classification vibrating table. If ai recall correctly they are orbital and gluing a good magnet to the center of the bottom of your pan, then centering it precisely, might do the trick. Im also hand/arm compromised, so also on search for better ways.

[@ferdburphel2076]

Sweet discovery! Call it the Vo-Gus shuffle 🙃! I cant tell if this came from necessity, boredom, or dedicated gold fever🤝

[@TisButAScratch666]

I shall be using that method from now on (I suck at panning!). Thanks Chris!

[@timothyodonnell8591]

Very helpful! Thanks, Chris!

[@mickellis8747]

Wow Chris, that's a great technique, thanks for sharing.

[@DetectaBull]

Good onya for having a go at all the experiments. Looks like you're on a winner now. Well done young fella

[@killermouse1974]

great video. a basic idea, but required a bit of time and thought to work it out. brilliant. a nice simple method anyone might master relatively easily. thank you. just need to invest in a good set of classifiers now though.

[@rogerclaiborne6815]

You are a genius! Deffinately going to be using this technique.

[@BruceMoe]

the cleanup you just shoad on KZbin. best idea ever, thanks.

[@Anashadk]

If you ask on "google" you will find that buried gold has a reasonance of about 37Hz (some variation will occur depending on the composition of earth/water), just above the range of normal human hearing and can be induced by a normal speaker from a radio etc. Not a difficult number to achieve, this will help separate the gold for you. As an added bonus (if you attach a speaker to the bottom of the pan) the speaker magnet should trap some of the magnetic particles and help separate them from the gold.

[@markfryer9880]

The tin oxides from Reedy Creek are non-magnetic.

[@Anashadk]

@@markfryer9880 yes, I remember him saying that, but I am sure he uses other streams that carry magnetic material.

[@joshuakuehne6485]

Those blue bowls are amazing for cleaning fine gold!

[@dartmart9263]

How about swirling the material in the pan and adding a marble or a large ball bearing to maintain the spin motion closer to the bottom of the pan? Just tossing an idea.

[@Anashadk]

You tapping the pan seems to separate the gold easiest, I was wondering that if you set your drill on minimum, and continued to use two stiff brushes at the business end, whether this could "tap" the pan somewhere and separate the gold for you? If you made an extra hole in the pan, the gold could fall into a container.

[@johnjacobs1625]

Nice!! Quicker Cleanup, more time to play with Fern!! Cheers JJ

[@gyvren]

Sometimes it’s better/more profitable to be the guy selling all the prospecting/refining equipment.. 😉

[@caoryn]

Huh, that's actually one of the final steps of my cleanups... I repeat that maybe twice to get as much black sand out as feasible with a snuffer bottle, and the very final step is doing the same in a yoghurt (actually a Monte) cup. As an added benefit, when you dry the gold out in the yoghurt cup and then pour it out somewhere, the gold will flow but some of the remaining black sand will stick to the cup (at least it does with the Monte cup, and even then only with the default cocoa + white flavour; other flavours act differently even after washing and I have no clue why). But I usually only have single digit centigrams (hundredths of a gram) worth of gold per cleanup. 😞

[@michealklonowski5267]

nice gold and process thank you for sharing the adventure and information 😀 😊

[@stevetold1519]

Cheers mate, I will definitely be giving it a try..

[@rodneymiddleton1044]

That was cool and obviously a lot less work involved good stuff Chris and thanks for posting mate have a great day 😁😉

[@theresamarie1379]

Forget the electric drill, you have just used the exact motion that an orbital sander uses, turn one upside down and velcro your pan on in place of the sanding disc!! I will send my bank details for the royalty cheque!! :-)

[@SasquatchBioacoustic]

Chris, you really need to try using your Gold Claw Pocket Pan for you cleanups. It is extremely fast and accurate. Moreso than anything else I've tried.

[@jeremywalker210]

Love the beginning tips 😂

[@sevenofclubs]

would smelting the blacksand seperate the gold? cheers

[@thornmollenhoff8698]

I gotta try that. Thanks for sharing.

[@mandybrown7758]

Really cool experiment Chris now i have to try this

[@awi7317]

Really liking these more experimental videos (and yes I will be trying this!)

[@MikeyIsSoGreen]

Hey Chris were these tests done with seasoned or unseasoned pans? I'm thinking this method is relying purely on forces and not on friction, which would mean an unseasoned pan might work better?

[@samshapiro9033]

Very cool experiment! I tried something similar with a plastic plate that had a raised edge and it worked ok. Gonna try this with my Minelab pan next! Would be interesting to do a side by side comparison for speed versus a Miller Table too

[@TalRohan]

It's so simple it actually looks like this would work in a frisbee....

[@markfryer9880]

​@@TalRohanNow that is an interesting and challenging question?

[@TalRohan]

@@markfryer9880 hmm just need some gravel and a frisbee and we're good to go lol

[@epicname1549]

Damn Chris... Fucking Genius!!!

[@TheCoffeeBushKid]

WOW. Thanks Chris 👍😁

[@cashashin]

I could demonstrate a hand technique which can separate silver from copper it's so sensitive.

[@m.e.l.9335]

@VoGusProspecting Chris does the direction you spin the pan have any effect on things? I notice you spin to clockwise, my muscles wanted to work it anti clockwise. Does the old Coriolus Affect play into it?

[@ut000bs]

The reason I became a physicist is that physics is cool stuff. Chris, your curiosity is showing. Nurture it. 😉👍

[@huskypilot6305]

Beautiful experimentation mate. I plan to mechanise this technique. It will soon be available for only $199.98. 😜

[@tiarealbering9630]

Chris. How about the Corliss effect. Did I spell that right? Like a big sink with a drain, pump water in while it all spins and constantly draining... maybe the gold stays if enough flat area. New fan Niles⛏️

[@billcherry2510]

That was interesting and entertaining! Keep the coming.

[@ziggyhogan7560]

Hey mate fellow ozze here. Are u in NSW ? I have always wanted to do some of this any good ideas where to start i was going to look at old mining rivers but dont know much about where? Would love to go camping for a few days doint it

[@scottsmith5202]

Thanks Chris good to know

[@buntafujiwara3586]

Good work. Thanks for sharing.

[@buckshotprospector]

GET IN THE BAG

[@48thstateprospecting]

Why what’s in the bag..WHATS IN THE BAGGGGG…. STAY AWAY CALIFORNIA JOHN DOE HAS THE UPPER HAND…..

[@buckshotprospector]

@@48thstateprospecting oh you don't wanna know what's in the bag

[@ilouse]

I got some weed in my bag 🤣

[@buckshotprospector]

@@ilouse hahaha

[@48thstateprospecting]

@@buckshotprospector …………….🤫

[@johnh8615]

Can you do the bucket and battery drill sluice like Jeff Williams did so we can see if it works on fine gold in your area? I’ve got a bucket and a drill so that’s all I can do.🤣

[@WHAMaTRON]

How do you separate the gold from black sand ?

[@keithdrower9120]

Sound vibration might work at different frequencies.

[@Aaron_Hanson]

Chris already has a strained relationship with the neighbours 😂

[@bentankard7276]

Hmmm i have a gold pan.... and a metal detector.... but i dont have a white dog or a Gadzee.... can i still find gold?

[@kno3me-wz3bo]

Yo my man ya Should try putting your pan on a speaker...then try running different frequencies through it and see if the patterns made by the gold/black sand separate.

[@davidslack-smith9814]

Fantastic idea. A frequency generator would allow you to test for the best cymatic pattern.

[@earlrehkopf3225]

Jeff Williams on KZbin just did a video similar to this 5 gallon bucket is what you need bro and a mixer for your drill. It might help but Jeff know way more

[@stephenspring1324]

Cake mixer with one tool into the middle of the pan, be worth trying 👍

[@Free_Aussie]

Dad had a 22 short single shot rile as a kid. He was given 3 bullets and sent out to get dinner. 3 bullets = 3 rabbits.

[@paulevans5455]

Nice one , now I can do some of my leftovers and collect lost micro poop.

[@ssnerd583]

Mate, you are one of the c000lest d000ds on YT, no doubt.....I'm very happy I found your channel....maybe I can get down there and do a little panning some day :)

[@MegaSpambox]

Hi Chris bin watching lots of your vids for a long while. "Q" would a hand held vibrator help the separation in the pan ? poss worth a look

[@nathancarmichael7050]

awesome, I'm trying that tomorrow thank you have a wonderful day!

[@debiesubaugher]

Made your own shaker table basically. Nifty!

[@swoops212]

I've never tried it but I wonder if putting the pan on a lazy Susan and spinning it would work

[@VoGusProspecting]

That's a really interesting idea

[@Aaron_Hanson]

@@VoGusProspectingit might just work if you were to dump the concentrates in the dead centre and work out a desirable speed?🤷‍♂️

[@sierraneblina1388]

Great ideas! Thank u

[@Graham_OntheGoldagain]

Wow thanks that will speed things up 👍

[@themikemason]

That is a really neat method. I'm gonna try that!

[@VoGusProspecting]

Did it work?

[@themikemason]

@@VoGusProspecting it's a little tricky to get the hang of, but it does work.

[@WHAMaTRON]

Use a paint stirrer in a bucket 🪣 with the drill

[@jasonaucolorado5111]

We will call this the vogus swirl 🍥

[@mykel9699]

Maybe could try a random orbital sander attached to the bottom of the pan on very slow speed

[@ericchilver9113]

If the pan was rotating Chris? Vibrating tumblers ? Platinum group metals all have a higher sg than gold, could be interesting if platinum group metals were present…??

[@insolentstickleback3266]

Well I'll be an Uncle Monkey, I have never seen that swirl on the table top before. Just learned something new, thanks Chis! 😎

[@tandr3w]

I wonder if a random orbital sander under the gold pan would also work.

[@WardCampbell]

You just gave me an idea to use a square pad sander to vibrate pans and sluice boxes... Mount your orbital to a table and fix the pad to a custom v shaped bowl and use it like a centrifuge... Also a small laboratory centrifuge and v bottom glass viles should work great to clean up gold...

[@jbowerman50]

Interesting, i use my miller only after ive panned, just as a final clean cause i always seem to get black sand in the snuffer. Ill have to give this a go, looks like id have less need for the miller table.

[@skoitch]

“Everytime I check the tailings there’s nothing in it ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

[@Renewedmusic]

Brilliant idea!

[@terrybrady1644]

😀 that’s cool . Please try cymatics . Lay the pan on a guitar or speaker and try different notes. Or tuning fork . 😁 Try 😁

[@Jonthebelchingguy]

What about those things they use in laboratory. Makes a whirpool in a test tube.... ?

[@kerzwhile]

Absolutely Brilliant! 😉

[@Plunderpigge15]

nice results… I guess you could say you just had to sleep on it😂

[@VoGusProspecting]

Yeah I did

[@dumbitdownson1257]

Sounds like it's time to put a gold pan on an orbital sander.