How much gold did we get with this .. MAGNET!?

A large gold mining operation in the Quesnel area of British Columbia, run by my buddy Tyler, uses a magnet in their clean up sluice to prevent the magnetic black sands from plugging the sluice. Tyler gave me a sample of these black sands removed with the magnet to see how much gold got caught up with the black sands. Check out these results.
And as a side note, Tyler usually goes through these black sands to recover the gold. It is not lost. And NO! gold is not magnetic.
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[@Wyrm1701]

Well done, you're re-invented the CleanGold sluice system. That one uses a line of magnets to trap black sand, which then is used to trap gold. It does this astonishingly well, even better than the old mercury amalgamation method and is being touted as a way to stop people using mercury quite so much.

[@workingfolk]

Actually, this device is a much scaled down replica of the electro-magnetic ore separator used in iron mining since before 1900. Exact same concept of alternating polarity magnets in the core of a spinning drum. Of course, in this case, the prize is in what was "waste" in the ore separator.

[@jasonhowarth6789]

Another great video, Dan! Congratulations again on reaching 1,000,000 subscribers! You deserve it! 👏

[@Danhurd]

Thank you very much!

[@jasonhowarth6789]

@Dan Hurd you are very welcome!

[@davidbwa]

Suggestion - Re some of the output spilling on the table. Why not use quart jars and adjust height of top of jar up a bit so the blue neck outputs are farther in each jar. It seems like they would have less chance of bouncing out on their way to bottom of jar. You could also use a canning ring to hold a paper coffee filter around top of jar with center area cut out. In other words, just using the paper like an additional funnel for anything that tried to bounce.

[@briancunningham5183]

we have tons of black sand here but not much gold. this machine will be a great addition to our gold equipment. making clean up a lot faster.

[@highaltituderc7753]

My friend jesse who's been mining gold for over 40 years told me that in Blackhawk Colorado they have found 13 different colored peices of gold.

[@MikkellTheImmortal]

I just checked the math on the difference between pyrite and gold for their mass density. They are 19.3g per cc for gold, and a mere ~5g per cc for pyrite. With this knowledge it's quite easy to see how that tiny amount of pyrite doesn't effect the total in any significant way when Dealing with such a small amount. Now, if you had a ton of mixed material like that than yeah, I would try to remove the pyrite.

[@Danhurd]

It also depends on how clean you need the gold for the end result too. I mix this back into paydirt, so having some pyrite in there does not really matter.

[@slimwantedman6694]

Good morning from Southeast South Dakota

[@Danhurd]

good morning

[@BlackLightStar]

Placing different sizes of flat washers in the chute outlet (before sorting unit) allows you to control the rate at which the machine takes in material, allowing for easier use.

[@Chrissy85308]

I love seeing the snow. I miss seeing snow in the winter. I haven't been where it snowed since 2004. I enjoy learning so much from you. Thanks!

[@joshyb2937]

The part you explain different materials under microscope is very valuable. Thank you Please include other sample occasionally

[@silviadias7791]

Thank you for the videos! It gives me joy seeing the gold shinnies and knowing that winter won't last forever!

[@Danhurd]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@johnramirez5032]

Patience is a virtue when cleaning up sands

[@buffalokrisgoldprospecting]

Coulter Is awsome. Makes cool products. Right on. Great video

[@s.d.iprospecting4359]

i really like Tylers cleanup sluice he really knows how to build stuff.

[@llldodgelll]

3d printing adds a lot of possibilities to prospecting. I hope to see more of it!

[@TheDaisytails]

Wow. 3.6 grams!!!! That is impressive. Thanks for the video!! I guess there is plenty to do even in the winter when the river is too snowed in. Have a great day, happy new year and HUGS

[@PenDragonsPig]

i picked up a bunch of black sand off the beach with a magnet. grass will respond to a dressing off iron plus i experiment with making weights n stuff. there already is some iron in our garden soil at all levels- brought in or naturally but not black sand (rhode island coast). after 20 years messing with this stuff i learn there is actually gold in it. maybe in the summer ill check out the 30lbs or so i have in the garage or the tons of it 1/2 a mile away on the beach. sorry for using freedom units i left 🇬🇧 before they compltely went over to metric.

[@gndn]

Great explanation on things, thanks

[@Danhurd]

Glad it was helpful!

[@matthewgibbs6886]

love the clean ups the most

[@judithbogner3222]

Never boring at your house Dan! Neat gadget! 🤩 Thanks for another lesson! 😁

[@michelleelle4622]

I never knew there was such a machine! Awesome

[@michaeldeleted]

Garnets are said to be non-magnetic, but that was before the days of neodymium magnets. Garnets are actually very weakly magnetic and can be picked up with a strong magnet.

[@jtnelson1803]

Hi Dan! Love the content and positive energy! Had a thought.. I’ve never panned gold, but watching you tap the pan to bring the gold to the top I wondered… would a small hand help vibrator accomplish that task faster instead of tapping the pan? Just a random thought

[@itzcaseykc]

That's a nice amount. Some actually redo the filtered stuff in the water for anything residue that might have slipped out of the pan the first time around.

[@stevenkeithley4336]

Great video Dan keep'em coming bud. Stay safe and be well brother. 👊😎🤙🍻

[@Danhurd]

Thanks! Will do!

[@funmud._.]

I’m a big fan of your videos. I love to see a video on how you do your research in finding gold or even other precious gems in BC. Thanks for the videos take care.

[@wescreek3493]

every time Dan I watch a video of yours I learn something thanks DanThank you

[@rindapelton5876]

Much work for that gold…. But worth it!!!! I’m delighted you have that snow and cold!!!! I’m in Texas seventy degrees with Sun!! I enjoy your teaching us!!! I Love your vids!! Thank you 🤗

[@devilslightbeam]

Love the video as always!!! How long did it take to separate everything out before panning it?

[@Danhurd]

Maybe 20 min, but that is because I was filming.

[@ArcherCC1599]

Dude I love your content Dan, but I've run into a problem. Your voice is so chill I drift off to sleep!

[@MikkellTheImmortal]

The magnetics that were still in the cons afterwards highlights how no one tool is perfect

[@Danhurd]

Also highlights that I should have taken it a bit slower. But I am impatient

[@Gardeningchristine]

It’s fun to see the 1M behind your name sir. Congratulations 🎉

[@danielionescu466]

Congratulations Dan👍👋

[@johnfonda985]

Nice job Dan

[@billmulholland4140]

Great video. Thanks Dan 🍻👍

[@Danhurd]

Thanks

[@johnnyv.223]

Beauty. Good day, eh! I'm Always glad to see another one of your great videos. This is some very good info for newbies like myself. Enjoy that beautiful snow in the Great White North. I wish we had more down here. Thanks again for this one.

[@doogen5]

Colter is local to me here in Idaho and makes great stuff!! Congrats on the 1M Dan!!!

[@geraldbizot5770]

Congrats on 1 million subscribers

[@addisontakacs7149]

Hey Dan! I had an idea for an experiment! Could you run a ball of aluminum foil in a rock tumbler and show us the results? Thanks!!!

[@easternwoods4378]

Hope to see that smelted. That would take care of all the other material. Rather than panning to get as pure as possible, at what point does it make sense to just smelt it

[@asjamuir5534]

Love it Dan says " I'll mount the camera to pan with two hands" next frame he is still planning with one hand legend

[@haroldwilkerson2026]

When I went up gold panning in the big horn mountains in Wyoming, I was finding a lot of what looked like red garnets I should have kept some to see what it actually was

[@ronheflin7848]

Love my mining magnets tool .love the videos stay warm

[@michiganprospectors]

I dont like to use a magnet to pull the magnetic materials for just this reason. Although separating our fine flour gold from black sand is very hard with the heavies in it.

[@SparksGFX]

I thought gold is non magnetic, like silver?

[@Gardeningchristine]

The black sands kind of catch it up like a net, but it can be separated.

[@bargreg]

Read the description you will understand.

[@patbluetree4636]

it is magnet reactive like copper. but not magnetic itself.

[@Danhurd]

Yes

[@jerrydesgranges8294]

Awesome video here Dan. Definitely a very educational video at home since you are snowed in. Lol. Haven't seen you using the black sands separator magnet. Lol

[@rikspector]

Dan, Thank you, a great adventure. Happy New Year to the Hurd Clan! Cheers, Rik Spector

[@MerchantMarineGuy]

It would be interesting to smelt those magnetics down and see how much PMs they still contain

[@cmcer1995]

Boy, that sure looked like a lot of extra effort but you were able to recover some extra gold. Interesting to see how much gold one might lose by other heavy materials carrying or pushing it out. However, persistence paid off in gold. Great video.

[@Danhurd]

It was oy an hour. And I was having fun playing in the shop rather than watching TV.

[@dennishedrick5308]

With those magnets you would be best off to run it two or three times to make sure there's no gold left.

[@Danhurd]

Ya I ran it twice

[@jeffdrews5341]

After boing all that is there any advantage to clean in on the wheel next ?

[@xyzabc4574]

Hi Dan! Great news! I *DID* enjoy this video. You also earned my subscription a long time ago. Great to see you back on the GOO-OH-OH-OH-OOOLD!!!!

[@johnnybushman651]

Good video Dan, thanks for the useful information. Now I know a little bit more about black sands

[@mandybrown7758]

That tool is pretty amazing and you do a great job explaining Thanks for sharing

[@asamann1738]

Love your videos man. Keep living the good life in the great outdoors. But cold is gross. So maybe live somewhere warm for the winter lol.

[@dallasblair]

World have liked to see you pan the magnetics to see if the machine doesn't keep any gold

[@candied.crabapples]

Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us, Dan! I learn so much from you! 😀

[@jimster1111]

would crushing the black sand and using a shaker table yield any more gold than this method? really like the 3d printed seperator nonthe less.

[@EddieSchirmer]

i love to see you get the gold Dan! it makes me want to get out and pan haha. at least i also have "shop-prospecting" i can do, so winter wont stop us mua ha ha ha. 🤣

[@torkandbeans7321]

Love your content!! I know you use a variety of equipment on your channel for testing and 'for science', but what is your best equipment for final gold retrieval, shaker table, gold wheel, etc??

[@Danhurd]

shaker table for industrial scale. gold pan for small scale

[@DavidMarvin]

More snow videos. How about some snow gold?

[@fishslayer8533]

Dan I need to buy you a bigger indoor panning tub lol I would've hit the side and dumped it already

[@cameronheppe6119]

You have had a few videos down in the United States, but I don't think I've seen any in Colorado or the Rocky Mountains. Is there no good prospecting in that area?

[@VeeTravels]

Wow I did not know machines could do this now!

[@FuelX]

Thank you great video. Could there be gold stuck with the magnetic material or it's not possible? Like gold stuck in iron or magnetite.

[@donhook9443]

Dan have you ever tried a blue Bowl that separates gold and black sand real well

[@Danhurd]

yep, I have a video on that

[@nhasantaynguyen]

hay quá

[@keithhoughton419]

Great vid my friend

[@meinkamph5327]

Dan ur a teacher. Is there no way too demagnetize the small stones?

[@Danhurd]

not really

[@objectivesovereignty]

if you took out the time of muck'n around with the camera, how long might you say it took to seperate the gold to the weigh'n stage ? As for the winters day, it's 34c here in South Australia LOL. Cheers.

[@jakedomingo2167]

where did you you get the magnet my friend

[@011CJ]

I have allwase wanted to make some crazy magnetic riffle system to go at the end of the sluice on my dredge. I have done a lot of thinking and small scale stuff but never baught the magnets to make it. I just want to collect more black sand and see how much of it is or isn't staying in the box🤔 .thanks for the vid

[@wellsjdan]

Did you ever do the Hawaii geology vid?

[@tonylaurenzi8011]

Thought I saw somewhere that pure tin is very rare and expensive

[@TheMiningChannel]

Very cool Dan!! Glad you were able to get some gold out of that. I'll send you home with a 50 gallon drum next year hahhaha.

[@Danhurd]

That would be fun!

[@thecrowcook]

Gonna be a lot of scooping with that measuring cup to go through 50 gals worth

[@TheMiningChannel]

@@thecrowcook hahaha

[@backtoiron]

Been watching you for quite a while now.

[@mattr3238]

is there any platinum or silver there?

[@monikawaldhauser8192]

Great video!

[@tinamathews3379]

Considering that there's a lot of rust in the gold, perhaps you should smelt it all down, into a nice button.

[@josephcormier5974]

That's a good score for something given to you excellent video great content thank you for sharing this six stars brother

[@Danhurd]

Thanks for watching

[@darkcanyonprospecting1148]

Spin it off tool works better and so much faster. I could have processed those cons in just a few minutes. Dan just showed how limiting this twist on the Spin it Off tool really is. My Spin it Off tool has a patent. Maybe Dan will show it in the same light someday and give it credit for being the original magnetic sand separating tool. The Spin it Off tool is a real tool. The stuff being shown here is a toy.

[@Danhurd]

I have one, not yours, but the same idea. I use it and it works well. Every tool has it's place.

[@abdullahihussein3034]

Hi Dan I live Toronto I have few minreal I don't know where to sell can you give some advice where to go and sell thank you

[@Patryn71]

"I'm going to mount the camera now so I can pan with two hands". Proceeds to continue to pan with one hand................. 🤣

[@Danhurd]

yep

[@dawndixon402]

😁👋👍👍👏👏💕🙏🏻 Enjoyed this episode as always. Thank you

[@Danhurd]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@dawndixon402]

@@Danhurd you are very welcome.

[@dwightvoeks9970]

So what's his recovery not including the black sands he pulls out? They trap a massive amount of gold per ton. That must be a very rich placer mine.

[@kaijuking28]

outside of the gold collected, can the other material be used for anything?

[@Danhurd]

not really

[@smokeymacpot76]

that seperator seems to work pretty good..great vid as always Dan

[@danniejones2032]

I was glad to see the snow. Yesterday's video with you in the river I was thinking global warming was in full affect in BC.

[@Danhurd]

I stock pile lots of videos so I can release videos all winter long when the snow keeps me from filming. The date is in the description when I release months later.

[@graydonjones6912]

No such thing as global warming it's a good way for the governments to steal money from us under the global warming bullshit

[@danielcunningham2394]

Have you used a magnet fishing magnet on various types of deposits?

[@Danhurd]

no

[@engahmedawalehubdhig4363]

Hi! Bro how can we get the gold catcher magnetic

[@silviadias7791]

Question: where would I buy the black sand magnetic separator?

[@Danhurd]

miningmagnets.com

[@wayneneher6362]

Hi, Dan! Greetings to you and Dana and the Boys! If you save the magnetics, would you sell or give them away?I have a buddy that makes knives and he would be interested in smelting the magnetics for steelmaking.

[@jonathannorthup5705]

Hey Dan the guy on @flourgoldwizards has that same sepperator he just had to change the funnel to one with a smaller hole to control the flow rate so the machine and the guy filling it have an easier time 👌

[@dallasedwards4260]

Great video dam thanks for sharing.

[@dallasedwards4260]

Dan phone got the best of me lol

[@auMr.Pocket]

My math says that black sand is about 27.5+oz-au a ton!! 3gr from seven lbs of sand. ANDY!!!

[@frankbyrd6726]

Three and a half grams is substatial ... some kind of adjustable automated feed of the material thru the seperator so you can walk away would not be hard to do ... hmmmm ...

[@Danhurd]

They sell an auger for it

[@angrypop2594]

Pretty tough process with the heavy only, takes a lot of patience it looks like.

[@Danhurd]

The magnets speed up the process a lot.

[@Cptnmorgan226]

I have a feeling at 35 ounces per ton of magnetics the buddy mine will be running a mag separator soon

[@Danhurd]

He typically cleans this out and separates the gold after. But he knew I could make a video on that part, so he sent me home with it from this run.

[@memer-tn3nk]

Dan I bet you love playing with it I see you lol

[@davecameron4674]

Nice save !

[@Danhurd]

Thanks!