panning for gold

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not too sure about THAT handle.... these holes with black sand.... you better hope someone else has not found them, or they might be cleaned out, when you go back.... happened to me!

A dredge would do it, but take care the separator screen (if it has one,) does not lose nuggets- - it needs a nugget trap.

How deep are the holes?

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		Quote:			Posted by com.service@live.com
	The holes are about seven feet deep and just as clear as crystal, you can see the bottom of the hole..I hope no one has been there with a dredge !! BD

Sounds like you could use a long pipe, on your dredge, and never get (very) wet! Like the boat mounted ones.

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		Quote:			Posted by com.service@live.com
	Yeah, a piece of irrigation aluminum pipe, great idea you have there ! Thanks BD

If the holes are deep enough, you can use air, to force a "vacuum" and suck up the gravel. Just put a fitting at the bottom of the pipe and make sure it is big enough to handle lots of compressed air, then the air bubbles will bring both gravel and water, to the surface. Make sure the water runs back in the hole, so you maintain enough to work with air.

This way you avoid pumping the already scarce water, to another hole, or lose it.

Can you fit flexible hose on that pipe or can you run it directly to a sluice?? What I have, here, is about 4 inch by 15 or 20 feet, and aluminum..... I got it for radio tower. A joint of 4 inch (or even 2 inch) ABS sewer pipe would work fine... the OD will be about 4.375 and 2.375 inches, for ABS. Easy to work, but easy to break, too. Its also cheap like borscht!

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		Quote:			Posted by drpepper
	must be a lot of hunters in my area been finding a lot of shot and rifle slugs. of course i remove that nasty lead form the streams. maybe we should send all the nasties we find to the tree huggers

What a good idea!

How about sending them a clean-up bill??? 

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i like the green or blue pans the best you can see the gold show the best even gold as small as a needle point. as far as using a magnet to look for gold in lakes or ponds and such i have read some articles in the mining journal where people have used magnets in streams and rivers where they are searching for magnetic concentrates because gold is generally found with magnetic sands and if you can find an area where there is a large concentrated area of black sands there could be alot of potential gold and it could save you alot of potential looking. if you check after you have found the concentrates by panning you will see how much gold their is. hope this helps! just lookin for that yellow metal myself in wyoming.

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