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@joek51110 ай бұрын
First use a magnet. Then take a funnel and plug the stem just below the tapered side. In the stem. Add your concentrates and water and shake the funnel. The gold has nowhere to go but to the bottom. Scoop the jusk off the top. And repeat with more concentrates. Very simple , it's specific gravity at it's finest.
@raybrowning21884 ай бұрын
The fine gold gets caught it the black sand and if pulled out with the magnet
@georgetteroenfeldt81442 ай бұрын
I see people roasting blacksands in a cast iron pan and they say doing this helps the sand and gold seperate.
@joek5112 ай бұрын
@@georgetteroenfeldt8144 I can see that working if you get it glowing red. Why? It demagnetizes the black sand so it can the separate and move more freely
@TGriffiths-ve6nw25 күн бұрын
I wonder if the theory is that the salt is supposed to demagnetize the iron? Just guessing.
@joek51125 күн бұрын
@@TGriffiths-ve6nw No water density. Salt increases the water density and MAY cause some of the black sand to sink slower. Alowing the much heavier gold to seperate. In short boyancy . The other thing it can do but takes time is oxidation of the black sands / create rust that mixes very well with water. But that works best with damp black sands rather than wet
@Livingunderarock33311 ай бұрын
I got back into prospecting and one thing my dad taught me is that gold sticks to Mercury. So throw a bunch of gold infused black sand in a rock tumbler along with some Mercury and run it for a period of time. When done you will have a button of Mercury and you strain it through a cheese cloth I believe or something similar and you will be left with gold.
@SweetheartRob2 жыл бұрын
the reason it works after it cools is because it starts to grow salt around the sulfides and make them easier to remove from the gold because the salt won't grow on the gold because the salt is super light it make the sulfides easier to remove
@Matt_the_Miner2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the explanation man!
@timothy1052Ай бұрын
When tapping the pan, letting it rest against your chest defeats the purpose of walking the gold. Hand at 9, and tap at 12 and gold will pile at 10:30. Resting the pan at 6, just scatters it.
@GSProspecting2 жыл бұрын
Great job all around fam. Keep on having fun getting that au and living the dream. Gold Squad Out!!!
@prospectorpete2 ай бұрын
Removing the black sand from ultra fine gold is easy. Instead of trying to snuffer up the gold , tap the pan, get all the gold around the rim and then snuffers up the black sand. Ad you rinse down the sand, remove it instead of the gold. Keep tapping the pan to keep the gold at the rim
@paullong84889 ай бұрын
Hold your pan like your throwing a frisbee except of letting go bring it back hitting your other hand over and over again then slightly start lifting the edge of pan up on the side that’s hitting your hand. It’s sucks but it works better to isolate it from the sand better
@gonepanning5 ай бұрын
Perhaps fill a catch pan with hot salt water to wash out. When you wash out in your tub you reintroduce normal water, and it gets diluted. Would love to see this done again this way, just to see if it works. I love these experiment type videos, great effort my man.
@robboyko3712Ай бұрын
Run it trough a Miller table or try Fire Assay which is the oldest method going back centuries.
@AndrewGilpatric4 ай бұрын
Find a novice gold prospector at best. But I have heard if you put a small magnet in the back of your PAN and one on the bottom of your PAN. It will collect the black sand. Some gold will get caught in the black sand but you can hope this helps
@tonyasiegler71772 жыл бұрын
Hello Matt...I'm writing to you from Maine. I did some prospecting this past fall and believe I may have found huge deposits of fine gold. I am a newbie but what I did with zero stuff is "float" the gold out. Meaning I made a slurry from my concentrate and poured off the water and let it settle. Seemed to work. I'm still messing around with a small amount of mercury to prove it to myself and others. I'm still not sure but if I'm 👍 right...I have a new career come spring.
@Matt_the_Miner2 жыл бұрын
Sweet! It’s alway fun finding a new spot that’s got good gold. Just be careful playing around with mercury.
@tonyasiegler71772 жыл бұрын
@@Matt_the_Miner Thank you, yes. I am very careful! Overly so...but I'm getting confusing results and it is making me doubt myself. The sparkle I see in the pan is gold but when I apply the mercury it isn't absorbing it it is only Turning the gold silver. I'm not sure what's happening.
@Matt_the_Miner2 жыл бұрын
@@tonyasiegler7177 does the gold look the same in sunlight as it does in the shadows? If not then it’s not gold. Another option would be to have it assayed. That normally cost between $45-75 per sample.
@tonyasiegler71772 жыл бұрын
@@Matt_the_Miner It would have been money better spent. Definitely going to look into that. As for shadows....hmmm...🤔. I'll check that.
@aiolijones2 жыл бұрын
@@tonyasiegler7177 A little late to this party, but I've had the same issue panning in the mountains here in southern California. I thought I had hit the jackpot but it turned out to be mica. It settled heavier than black sand and looked just like gold, but flaked easily and floated around in the water when it was super fine. The resemblance is uncanny but my recommendation would be to use a blue bowl concentrator or something similar if you're able. I bought a bag of paydirt online to use the real gold as a reference when panning concentrates, and it's made my accuracy much better.
@mikesherman859010 ай бұрын
Roast your sulfides, then get a blue ball going about medium speed and sprinkle a teaspoon at a time. And the oxygen makes all the shiny float and you'll catch a lot of it. Will drop right in the center before it sinks
@bjvoorhies11 ай бұрын
It's even smaller than you'd think (material size through a 70 mesh screen) because dividing an inch by 70 doesn't take into account the thickness of the screen wire. "70" mesh material is actually lots smaller than 1/70 of an inch. In very small sizes there's more wire than hole. Two-mesh - not so much: the wire-diameter-to-hole-size ratio is sooo much smaller in larger sizes.
@Matt_the_Miner11 ай бұрын
I don’t think most people realize this.
@joaniemckinney9702 жыл бұрын
Hi Matt! I live in the Pacific NW and BOY do we have tiny gold here! It is also ensconced in black sand. It is heavy and magnetic! If you will first remove the magnetic sand from your concentrates, that will be a lot less material that you will need to get off of your gold. Then you just need to learn a new panning technique from the one I see you using in this video. It is fine for the bigger stuff, but won't work for the small stuff in the heavy sand. There are a few different ones, but this is a link for the one that works best for me! Happy panning! kzbin.info/www/bejne/pX7WhYKnlp5sbrc
@prestonduggar6 ай бұрын
Using a gold wheel will remove the black sand and only gold will travel up the wheel and out the hole in the s center of the gold wheel into a stainless small bucket hanging from the gold wheel trap. a gold wheel uiss is battery powered , it sita sit`s in its own tub filled with warter and has its own spray nozzels attached to the wheel, This device can be used for final clean-up of your black sands, The cost of a used gold wheel may only cost you a couple of hundred bucks, or buy new,
@gregbevans-zg3ex4 ай бұрын
Take a pre 82 copper penny shine with cleaner dip in mercury drop in front of gold pan and work materials back and forth fine gold will stick to penny including micro gold down to molecular level to recover simply turn penny on edge and snap down gold will all fly off due to centrifugal force remove amalgam return penny to pan and continue processing all material when you can’t see any detail on penny repeat mercury eat 2 1/2 times it’s weight of gold before it needs service
@georgetteroenfeldt81442 ай бұрын
Who here has a collecktion of blacksands that will go to the end with you...why? Because it still may have some gold in it. I know i sure do!
@dirkfrazier9779Ай бұрын
A true Explorer: I don't care if the map and directions fly out the window 5 miles from home on a busy Highway and a windy day, we are going and not back, we'll drive till we find it, and screw that person who invented Murphy's Law- what does he know anyway?
@lotharschiese85592 жыл бұрын
Ever go swimming in a salt lake, you float. The salty water is denser than fresh water. The salt combines with the water molecules, giving salt water more matter per cubic inch than fresh water when the same volume of water is compared. Therefore, your body will float more easily in the sea. The salt you add to the water, first, JUST use hot tap water & you can get hotter in a bowel in the microwave. Stir the salt, adding a teaspoon at a time, while constantly stirring until all salt has dissolved, then add & repeat, till the salt won't dissolve anymore. Now you have a saturated solution and pour the water into another container leave the undissolved salt behind. Let the salt water now cool to room temperature, you will see some salt will recrystallize because as the temperature goes down less salt stays in solution. Don't go outside in the cold with this, otherwise most of the salt will come back out of the solution as the temperature drops. I predict that the only thing that will happen is that every thing in your pan, in this saturated salt solution will become less heavy than being in fresh water, will be of no advantage. But who knows, we might be surprised!
@Matt_the_Miner2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the info. I’ll definitely have to play around with this.
@bigcoryjones212613 күн бұрын
What about bicarbsoda and vinger black sand is iron rust it away.
@better_thenUАй бұрын
Bro, I need these plates, but they're too expensive, and I think the water coming out of my submersible water pump might contain some gold, so I really need that plate.
@ainschuntayleuhn11474 ай бұрын
Pan it out in the Salt Water. Not Fresh Water. It’s about changing the Fluid Density.
@ThesmartwhiteguyАй бұрын
Mercury is dangerous there's way better ways to get it out of the concentrates I'm trying to figure out how starch floats out
@gorillagoldhunters Жыл бұрын
Awesome video! New subscriber!
@Matt_the_Miner Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the support!
@mattc62262 жыл бұрын
look this up....improved hand panning for micro fine gold by hard rock university
@777JC776 ай бұрын
Mercury is dangerous
@mattc62266 ай бұрын
@777JC77 I know it is, but the video I was talking about does not have mercury
@travisjochimsen5426 Жыл бұрын
Use a magnet.. push the gold up in one spot ..suck it up....repeat.. pan what's in you snuffer bottle...cupel with lead
@americaswildestprospector2 ай бұрын
Mercury, as long as the mercury is recovered and not released into the environment then your good
@thebodgingbigfoot4014 Жыл бұрын
fascinating!!!!!
@StrIghttalk3335 ай бұрын
What about mercury
@angelahales87752 жыл бұрын
Hydrogen peroxide
@mvandepeer98366 ай бұрын
Old timer told me he would smelt all the fine stuff to separate sand from gold.