DIY BLACK SAND MAGNET

[@johngillen3331]

Very nice. I’m making one this week after I finish the Miller table project. Thanks a million !!!

[@utahavalanch]

Hi John. Thanks for watching. I have another one that I'm going to put up here in a bit that I use for probing for black sands when I'm out in the field that's similar but a little different. It's a little more work than this one but it makes for stronger magnetic force from the magnets. Stay tuned. New generation Miller Table videos about finished as well.

[@BearlyOutdoors]

Rare Earth magnets, never heard of 'em but I am looking for them now! This is probably one of the most complete videos I have yet to see on the Tube. Kudos!

[@utahavalanch]

Hi Michael and thanks for watching. Rare Earth or Neodymium magnets are a somewhat new technology. They are as far as I know the strongest magnets made. They are rated in power such as N35, N50, N52. etc. The stronger N50 series are the best for this. I buy mine from Ebay but you can also pick them up on Amazon and at your local Home Depot stores in the nut and bolt areas. On Ebay do a search for Rare Earth Neodymium Disc Magnet N52 and you will find them.

[@erai5595]

All I gotta say is Thank You... awesome DIY tools

[@utahavalanch]

Erai 559 Thank you Erai and thanks for watching. I have a new one coming out that is a little longer and stronger you might like. It's great for cleaning black sand out of a small bucket of material before you run it.

[@erai5595]

utahavalanch awesome! I live in a town close to the mountains , lots of creeks to search up there. Every winter the snow melts and our river rises it's a seasonal thing haha. I'm just gettin into prostpecting and have done everything DIY so far. That probe is going to be ideal for searching good spots once the river goes back down.

[@utahavalanch]

Erai 559 You may be interested in my video "Black Sand walking stick". It's a walking stick with magnets that I use for finding black sand deposits that may have gold in them. You can buy these rare earth magnets in EBay in different strengths. N52 is the one to look for

[@zalmaflash]

Good video and a simple tool - thanks.

[@utahavalanch]

+zalmaflash Thank You and thanks for watching.

[@BrightSparkIdeas]

Brilliant idea and great build, thank you for sharing

[@utahavalanch]

Hi BrightSpark. Thank you and thanks for watching.

[@airplanegirl01]

Great Idea. I didn't have anything on hand you listed, but managed with 1 1/4 PVC pipe and cap ends, aluminum tubing, 1 inch REM with nut and bolt screwed into aluminum tubing, 1 1/8 x 1/4 inch spring, two washers and electrical tape. Once I found these materials, took me 15 minutes to make it, and it works great. Nothing like making something with what you have on hand, Thanks for the great idea.

[@utahavalanch]

Hi Caley and thanks for watching. Yippers these are really easy to make and very handy to have. They work great for testing dirt to see if there is enough black sand to have gold in it.

[@airplanegirl01]

@@utahavalanch Yeah, really easy to make. Again, thanks so much for the video showing your idea.

[@utahavalanch]

@@airplanegirl01 you’re very welcome👍👍

[@randallfry7510]

Great video as always and to the point.

[@utahavalanch]

Randall Fry Thank you Randall and thanks for watching.

[@benwarren2559]

What a great simple idea thanks for sharing

[@utahavalanch]

Ben Warren Hi Ben and thanks for watching. These are really handy for cleaning out the black sand from your material. I also use them to find pockets of black sand when I’m out in the field which may have gold in them. If you watched my video on the black sand walking stick, I use my walking stick whenever I go hiking and you would be surprised at the places you will find black sand and gold. I only dig in spots I find large amounts of black sand. Whether in a stream or dry land, these will help you find the gold.

[@rikiray3370]

I learn alot of cool tricks from you. Thank you

[@utahavalanch]

Thank you and thanks for watching.

[@dereksmith8708]

Thanks for sharing this idea. Made a similar one to it today. Only changes that I made were the spring was internal over the bolt and I had a lug and washer at the handle to allow for easy pulling of the bolt. This allows me easily collection without having to hold the spring compressed. Also, smooth release of the material when I retract the handle without any chance of pinching my hands with the spring.

[@utahavalanch]

Derek Smith Hi Derek. Thanks for watching. Good idea. One thing I like about putting up these videos is that I find that many people come up with different ideas for doing things and I learn a lot from them. I am finding also that if you don't use the spring but let the bolt with the magnets rest on the bottom. You then pick up the magnetite and to clean it off just hold onto the head of the bolt and let the pvc shell drop. The bolt moves up faster than the magnetite can keep up with it. Works even better if you are dropping the magnetite into a container of water. I usually collect all the magnetite I can and then process it for gold. Don't get much put it's something to do. :-)

[@lukeozdigger5730]

Thank for the video that has given me another simple project

[@utahavalanch]

+Lukeozdigger I appreciate you stopping by luke. I hope you enjoy it.

[@watermain48]

Very nice. And simple, I like simple...

[@utahavalanch]

Bill K. Thanks for watching Bill. I like simple as well. I have another one in the works that is longer, more powerful and streamed if you're interested. Good for stirring small amounts in the bucket to remove the black sand.

[@FlourgoldWizards]

Clever!!!! Thanks for sharing it!

[@utahavalanch]

Flour gold Wizards Thank you for watching. I have a new version I like better if I can get some these other videos finished up. I find these are a "must have" for cleaning black sand out of your sluice when running dirt. I always keep all black sand as you can crush the large stuff and get more gold out of it. I have a 2" pvc probe that I just use for black sand fishing.

[@FlourgoldWizards]

Cant wait!!!!

[@utahavalanch]

Thank you Jo and thanks for watching. I have a few more things I'm working on. Hope some of them are of interest.

[@twotwentyswift]

Very nice LS. Looking forward to your seeing the video of your latest rendition of your deep sump Miller table! Now off to the build : ))

[@utahavalanch]

twotwentyswift One thing I’m doing a little differently now on the longer probes is using a length of 1/4” threaded Rod inside like the smaller ones except without the spring on top. Sometimes if you get a lot of black sand it’s hard to shake the magnet loose. So with the rod, I can wrap my hand around the lower part of the tube and pull the rod up and when the black sand gets to my hand it falls off. If you saw my video on the walking stick magnet, I’ve done the same with it. I have the rod sticking up into the handle so I have plenty to get a grip on. Also I can remove the handle and put a cap with a hole in it to make it into a regular probe. I am now buying 3/4”x3/4” rare earth magnets from EBay to put on the end of the rod in my walking stick. This gives it some really strong power. I also have a 2” version with a 148 lb lift magnet for black sand fishing. Now that is a beast.😝👍. Gets a fair amount of gold caught up in the black sand. I made a mini table of the new design and as I run it I’m finding different things i want to try on it. So it’s still in progress but I’m really liking it so far. It catches runaway flakes further down the table so you don’t have to run all the cons if a couple get away from you.

[@twotwentyswift]

@@utahavalanch Thanks for letting me know about your upgrades. I just happen to have a few lengths of threaded rod in my shop so I'll put one to use. I admire the fact that you don't rest on your laurels but are constantly looking for ways to improve things. I watched a video on KZbin here that showed a guy throwing out one of those big fishing magnets and he brought up a touch of gold with the black sand and I wondered how effective that would be. Hearing you confirm that opens up new possibilities to try. I'm also planning to build one of your hand dredge pumps. What would we do without cheap abundant PVC for all our projects, haha. I've even heated up a section of 4" PVC and made a retention sheath for one of my hatchets, later I went to Kydex and now make retention holsters and knife and ax sheaths with that like the manufacturers do. Being retired is great, isn't it!

[@utahavalanch]

twotwentyswift No problemo. I’m constantly working on new ideas that come along, usually when I’m running one of my projects. Yea, the magnet on the line is called magnet fishing. It is good way to get a little gold out of hard to get to places. However getting the Black Sand off the magnet is the problem. So I bought a 2” 148 lb lift magnet. I mounted it to a 3/4” PVC screw on cap and now I can remove the ram on my 2” hand dredge and replace the suction leather with the magnet and then put a cap over the end of the tube. I end up with basically a 2” version of my black sand probes with a whole lot of attitude. If you hit a good pocket of black sand in a stream, you may end up with 5 pounds of sand and gold on the end of it. Big Cottonwood Canyon above Spruces campground is good for that. Yep, the hand dredge is the only way to go in a stream. Beats a shovel hands down. Also some of the black sand still has gold imbedded inside of it so save it all and during the winter you can crush it and get more gold. Now you have the Miller Table and so you can easily separate the gold from the BS. If you make my hand dredge, be sure to watch the upgrade video to it and use the leather pump cup instead of the Plummer’s plug. You can buy 2 - 2” leather pump cups here. gold-n-sand.com/collections/all/products/leather-cups-for-x-stream-pro-hand-pump These are made just for the hand dredges. Oh, yea, if you get up Big Cottonwood, go to where they had the big mud slides awhile back and get samples. That mud is old ancient river mud that has big gold in it. Yippers, being retired is great but I miss not getting weekends and holidays off. 😢

[@twotwentyswift]

@@utahavalanch Boy, you sure do have some great ideas. I'm only about 20 minutes away from that slide area but never would have considered trying that. I came into this thinking I'd spend all my time along a cool stream in the mountains among the trees and now you have me thinking in a different direction. But the surroundings will still be my priority before the gold, unless I get that "fever" I keep hearing about. And honestly, I don't expect to make any money doing this, but if I can find a bit of color once in a while to keep it interesting I'll be happy. Thanks so much for the link to the cups. I do a bit of leatherwork but just ordering the first set would be great. The high-quality bike pumps still use the leather seals so that tells you something. Sometimes I have to remind myself that our homes are sitting on an ancient lake bed and that my own yard might be a fun place to start but there's not much adventure in that so I'll save that for a later time. I'm headed down to Milburn tomorrow to do some fence repair on my pasture so I'm going to give Fairview canyon a try as long as I'm there. I didn't get the black sand magnet probe made today but got my miller table mounted to a nice Husky container so it'll be at 3.5 degrees and rotate up for storage underneath when I'm traveling. Thanks again LS, you're the best!

[@wahidzaman4334]

How to we buy sir can u tell it can help from gold to sand

[@auroraprospecting]

Great video!

[@utahavalanch]

Thanks Aurora and thanks for watching.

[@eldoradoprospecting7230]

G'day mate,great tutorial,a few Australian prospectors are making these.Awesome little tool.

[@utahavalanch]

Hi Eldorado, thanks for watching. Yep, they are a very handy tool and I use it every time I process material through my recirculating sluices. I found in panning that if you pan down to the black sand. Just use the magnet and it will remove most of the black sand and leave pretty much clean gold.

[@ullrichhuppert849]

Danke, tolle Idee. 👍🏻👊🏻

[@utahavalanch]

Thank you and thank you for watching.

[@dobe2050]

Thank you for your video, i like your idea, because : is verry easy to built :P ... i go to see your another video, ( Dom ... from Québec city )

[@utahavalanch]

+do be Thank you and thank you for watching. I have found that these are very useful little item to have.

[@TheDeath66677]

thank you very much! saludos desde méxico :)

[@utahavalanch]

Ahmed Chanel Thank you very much for watching.

[@abdulsomad4244]

The best idea....

[@utahavalanch]

Thank you Abdul and thanks for watching.

[@dart70ca]

Those magnets come in rings as well. Put it between the nuts. There are also 'cups' available to confine the magnetic field to one face. See Lee Valley Tools for an example.

[@utahavalanch]

Yippers, there are a lot of varieties of them and I have about a dozen different types I'm playing with. No end of things you can do with them. I bought a 2" one that will fit inside my Hand Dredge and I can replace the leather cup on the shaft with the magnet and use it to fish for Black sand. It will lift 148 pounds and it will collect a lot of black sand at a time.

[@justjo9722]

Way to go old bube, I thought it amazing. keep going.

[@lukethedrifter8302]

That is very cool.

[@kaningraja2145]

Love you so much❤❤❤

[@utahavalanch]

Thank you and thanks for watching.

[@withoutfurtheradoforever]

That works great!

[@utahavalanch]

Hi and thanks for watching. Yippers. That it does.

[@deanmayer6508]

Excellent idea.

[@utahavalanch]

Dean Mayer Hi Dean. Thank you and thanks for watching. I have a bunch of these in different designs and sizes and I use the heck out of them.

[@deanmayer6508]

@@utahavalanch I can't believe how simple that is to make. I really enjoy all your videos so I have the notification turned on so I won't miss any of you videos. Thanks so much for making these and sharing with us.

[@utahavalanch]

Dean Mayer Yes, these are very easy to make and I use them to find gold as well as remove the black sand before processing. You can add and remove magnets to change the power on them. If you saw my video on the walking stick magnet, I use it while out walking the neighborhood and find gold in the gutters and potholes in the road. Any place you find a good amount of black sand is worth taking a sample of.

[@jeffholmes1362]

Great idea, thanks for shring

[@utahavalanch]

Thank you and thanks for watching.

[@ViKee010]

These are great. Thank you.

[@utahavalanch]

Thanks Vickie and thanks for watching. When I get all the video clips put together, I have another one that I am using now that is of similar design but the power is much stronger. So Hope to have it out soon.

[@MrLodak]

Cool little diy

[@utahavalanch]

MrLodak Thanks J. I have been finding a lot of uses for these things. I have been testing these for about a year to help me find good material to bring home to process. I'm finding that if you don't get a pretty good amount of magnetite in the material you are digging, then move on. I just got through with two trips and they sure helped put me on the gold on both. Both were in "No Gold" areas as well. They work well in that ancient river bed material as well to check the layers. Simple but can be effective. Thanks for stopping by.

[@MrLodak]

Ya when I get to a new job I test with a magnet first, A very handy tool in for this field.

[@utahavalanch]

MrLodak Yippers, they sure are,

[@phildetect5844]

Thank you very much

[@utahavalanch]

@@phildetect5844 thank you very much for watching.

[@MikesCrazyAdventures]

Can you do a quick video of your walking stick ?

[@utahavalanch]

+MikesCrazyAdventures Hi Mike, I think I can put something together here to show you how I built mine. It's very simple to build and handy to have when you're hiking but I'm also finding that it finds magnetite deposits that may have some gold in them. You would be surprised at all the unusual spots where I'm finding gold. I'm finding that if I test a stream or pile of dirt with it and don't get a positive reaction, I don't bother to work it. But if it's positive then I give it a try. I'm still doing the research on that part but I can show you how to make one and you can try it for your self. It will take me a few days to put something together but if you either subscribe to my channel or check back on my channel in a few days I'll put something together for you. Thanks for watching.

[@johngillen3331]

Well, got most of my first Miller table built today. Tomorrow I start applying the Helmsman and the Chalkboard paint coats. I kinda upgraded the spray dam. I made two of them. One close to the PVC sprayer.with a gap on the top instead of the bottom creating a kind of spillway then the second one with the gap on the bottom to reduce overspray. One thing though. I wanted ask how you made the sump at the back of the table. It appears the green painted section is raised a bit but of course even six coats of chalk paint doesn’t make that big of a step-up. Any suggestions? Thanks

[@utahavalanch]

Hi John, sounds like you are coming right along quite nicely. I experimented with that design 2 years ago and it worked OK but not quite like I figured. You need to keep the dam rather low because the outer edges of the water tend to flow toward the middle as they come over the dam causing an imbalance of water and more current in the middle. But give it a try and try to make it so you can put in different height dams. That's the whole idea of building it yourself. So you can learn and make changes as you go. Then you will make another one with those changes and so on. I've ended up making 36 different tables over the years and one table gives you ideas for the next and so on. If you are talking about the table in the Urban prospecting video, yes, the green deck is 3/4" higher than the bottom of the sump. I took a 1/4" board for the bottom and glued a 3/4" piece of pine onto it and left a 2" space at the back for the water bar to sit down in a hole. This makes it so the weight of the water above the water bar cancels out any turbulence and makes for a smoother flow. Kind of like what you are trying to do but below the deck instead of above it. I love how it works. I'm trying to get the second video of a 2 video series finished on it. Another one for you to try. :-)

[@Aslyuriel]

"Couple of nuts on the end of the rod where the magnets go" Hah! Deez Nuuuts!

[@girishbathani6734]

Which type of magnet?

[@utahavalanch]

Hi Girish and thanks for watching. I use rare earth magnets with the highest power I can get. Usually a 52 rating if I can get it. I buy them the same diameter as the inside of the PVC pipe. You can buy the magnets on Ebay or sometimes hardware stores.

[@lukethedrifter8302]

I live about 25 miles south of St.Louis MO. To find gold do i have to find black sand?

[@utahavalanch]

Luke Thedrifter Hi Luke, I appreciate your watching. That is a very good question. I almost always find black sand and magnetite associated with the gold I find and so I also wondered, the same thing. Now that we have these rare earth magnets it’s easier to try to find out. I started using the longest of those probes in the video to test areas in a local dry stream bed and every time I found a pocket with enough magnetite to pretty much cover the head of the magnet I found small amounts of gold. In areas where there wasn’t any magnetite, I found no gold. I worked some very nice looking streams that didn’t have any magnetite and after running a number of buckets of material through the sluice from them, I found no gold. I have spent the summer with a new walking stick probe that I have been doing a lot of testing with and I am finding that if there is enough magnetite to cover most of the head of the magnet there is a good chance you will find some gold. I have been very surprised at some of the unusual places I have tested that I have found small amounts of gold. Like mud puddles in parking lots and on older back roads especially in campgrounds, and sight seeing turnoffs, sand on the edge of the roadways, construction fill dirt. culverts going under highways, dirt along side hiking trails, kids sand boxes, etc. I am usually only able to get small amounts of material to test but 60% of the time I find a little gold in it. I will continue to test as I get out and about this summer and I will do a short video on some of what I am finding. But right now it’s looking like if you find a good amount of magnetite, there is a good chance of finding some gold. And I live in a state where “There Is No Gold” :-)

[@lukethedrifter8302]

Thank you for answering my questions, I really appreciate it. Standing by for the next video.

[@utahavalanch]

Luke Thedrifter No problem. Hope It helps. Hope to get the video out on your question soon. Just need to do a few more tests.

[@random4969]

You should patent that device lots of ppl will want your clever invention

[@utahavalanch]

Hi Andon and thanks for watching. Yep, it's a great little tool to have. Cheap and easy to build. I also have a 3 foot one that I keep in my shop for when I drop small metal parts on the floor and they get lost in the sawdust. I'm afraid similar ideas have been floating around for some time and so unfortunately you cannot have a patent on it.

[@mohamedabubakar8673]

The best action magnetic i

[@utahavalanch]

Mohamed Abubakar Thank you Mohamed and thank you for watching.

[@elvago777]

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[@petemack5167]

Make it with three REE magnets.

[@utahavalanch]

Hi Pete and thanks for watching. Yep, now I make them with at least 4 - 6 of this size or else 1 large 1/2” x 1” magnet. I found some 3/4” x 1” rare earth magnets on Ebay and I have 2 of those in my walking sticks. Those help me find gold deposits very easily.

[@bryanisensee2867]

👍🏻

[@barry6541]

1:01 Lol, shaft.

[@MikesCrazyAdventures]

Do you have a Facebook Page to Like or Follow ?

[@utahavalanch]

+MikesCrazyAdventures Hi Mike. No I haven't gotten into Facebook yet. I experiment with a lot of things and sometimes I come up with something that I think may be of interest to other folks. So I usually just put anything that I think people would be interested in up here on KZbin. I put a few clips together and did a short video for you on the Walking sticks. Nothing fancy but I hope it will show you how I make them and a little on how I use them. Very simple. You can find it here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z4LQiKuwpJ2VkK8 I hope it helps. If you have any questions just let me know. Thanks for watching.

[@To_Arms]

🤜🤛🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@utahavalanch]

Thank you and thanks for watching.