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Bryce

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    Yukon, Canada
  • Interests:
    Placer Mining, Prospecting
  • Gear In Use:
    Minelab Gold Monster 1000. Minelab Pro-Find 35. Pick and shovel. Manual wash plant and sluice.

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  1. Does the Minelab Pro-Find 35 pinpointer count? Bought it to complement the Gold Monster I bought last year to speed up target recovery. Overall does a great job but tends to flip out at max power and keep beeping away until lowering the power or restarting it.
  2. MTB Rider, good to know there's another Yukoner on this forum. I'm also in Whitehorse.
  3. JW, yes those are .303 casings. And you are probably right about the Yale piece being a lock.
  4. JW, I like how the jacket bloomed. Found it in a gravel bar. In the same river I found that Yale ignition switch. The spoon was found in the Yukon river just as it starts running alongside Whitehorse. Spoon is probably from 30's to 40's. The manufacturers stamp is still legible.
  5. Still no Yukon gold. But I like finding lead and copper too. Not Aluminum, unless it is campfire beer can aluminum lol
  6. Thanks :) Loved the Q&A throughout the video. Best part was when he fired the guys and hired women. There is some proof that females are better machinery operators because they are less Rammy.
  7. Johndoe, I'm panning to prospect. The setup works well for my survey of the claim. Production is sluiced. Then yes, finer classification most definitely helps with recovery from the cons.
  8. I am classifiying my material through a roughly 1/4" classifier, however I'm panning glaciated ground with alot of persistant heavies. My technique is down pat, but a good pan with less aggressive riffles makes it fast. The turbo pan however is a gimic. Thankfully it was free. Now it's a depository for black sands sitting on the shelf.
  9. I like the Estwing pan, but I am as much trying to pan very fine gold dust. https://www.estwing.com/products/plastic-gold-pans Garret's gravity trap riffles clog up on me. Very interested in trying Minelabs pan. Good colour, curious to how well their riffles will work.
  10. Thanks to those who keyed me in to using CLR for removong rust from rocks/specimens. This rock wasn't found with my detector. Got it quite a few years ago from the Mactung tungstein exploration camp on the Yukon/North West Territories border near the portal. It's heft made me interested and thankfully the chief geo at site let me keep it. Years it sat in my collection, but once I got my GM1000 I tested the more interesting rocks in my collection. This rock detected constantly in the non ferrous and strong. It sure cleaned up well, and the blue dotted pic is the Scheelite fluoresceing under short wave UV light (Calcium Tungstate, CaWO4) Cheers! Bryce
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