Underwater Gold Mining in Alaska Rapids | 6" Keene Dredging for Gold + Big Cleanout

[@chazzface8562]

Good work! That is some pretty color water. Keep up the good work y'all.

[@riversharkprospecting8882]

Great job cool video nice gold

[@GSProspecting]

That's how to get it done indeed fam. Keep on having fun getting that Au and living the dream. Gold Squad Out 🤠

[@aarongrabowski3775]

I didn’t even know you did dredging too. A plus for me. Nice job.

[@MeleeMotors]

Sweet! Thanks for watching.

[@timwilson-fx1sx]

sry for your loss beautiful place

[@kymberlywolcott9655]

What an amazing and heartwarming and educational video. Thank you ❤️❤️❤️

[@MeleeMotors]

❤️❤️❤️

[@GoldChump]

With few exceptions "prospecting" "mining" channels do not get a lot of followers by themselves. I like motors and gold - add fishing and subscribers likely goes to 100's of thousands. Well boys it is time for the Keene 6220 Triple Sluice Duel Motor Super Max 6" :)

[@MeleeMotors]

Thanks for the input! That's actually a great idea. A triple keene would be incredible down there!

[@GoldChump]

@@MeleeMotors There is an older version triple sluice that I saw work well some years back. Hard to say how effective it might be each place would be different. Where I saw it work well the gold was small in general ( South Fork junction with Sixes River Oregon) and lots of fines. I think the old style triple sluice had a 1/4 inch punch plate at head of main sluice which then under that water was routed to the two side sluices. Anything over 1/4 went down main sluice anything under down side sluices. Side sluices had reduced flow. Not sure if that system can just be added to current set up. I think that is a good chance it can. I would bet Keene has some sort of attachment ( may be even updated) for earlier frames/dredges. Be a bummer if 10-15% of really fine gold was getting flushed out.

[@MeleeMotors]

@GoldChump yeah it's definitely a hard battle to capture all the gold, I think with any setup you loss a little bit but the 6" keene we have down there has a 3 stage sluice box seems to capture quite a bit. We don't deal to much with the fines tho, we like the chucky stuff lol

[@GoldChump]

@@MeleeMotors I know where I used to to work flood gold in gravel bars (1970's) here in Oregon there was not much( if any) super fine gold. We used a standard A-52 Keene sluice box having only added miners moss instead of using the stock carpet. Pretty basic set up. Early on we had a second sluice below it to see what we may be losing. I think in 10-20 pans off second sluice we may have found 2 or 3 specks so we ditched that second one pretty quick. On the other hand a river here like the Sixes and even the Illinois ( if one were to dredge it) would likely benefit quite a bit using a system like mentioned. There is lots of gold so small you can hardly see it in those two rivers - but bigger stuff too. Similar to beach gold. Look forward to more gold videos!!!