johnedoe

An amazing transformation..... Great job Steve. By the way.... We all knew you could do it.

The biggest problem this time was just the overload of sand flowing through the sluice form the freshet... I need to be able to lift the sluice just off the ground so it only gets the fresh water... Got to make some legs and wing dams but that is actually going to be an easy fix....... The actual amount I was able to run was about 1 1/2 5gal bucket. Had I carted material to the bigger creek 100 yards away I think I could have easily run about 20 buckets worth... That would have been a possible potential of over 1 gram instead of the 1.46 grain return for a couple hours digging. Live and learn.......

Got to the beach for a couple hours today, was a very nice day. Water was a little slow compared to other days but managed to move a little sand anyway.. Will do the cleanup probably tomorrow... or may just decide to hold the cons till I have made a few more runs.... Also thinking about doing another run again tomorrow but the weather is supposed to turn ugly again....

Have you seen this one? Lightweight and very portable. A friend of mine has one ordered, be interesting to hear what he has to say about it after he has used it for a while. I'll let you all know once I hear from him. The Whippet Dry Washer. http://whippetengineering.com

Beach gold is extremely fine.... virtually all of the beach gold I recover is -100 mesh and much smaller to the point of not being visible to the naked eye. Here is a link to cleangold's site with photo micrographs to give you an idea of what this beach gold is like.... Yes there is a special form of masochism required in this endeavor called beach mining..... http://cleangold.com/cleangold/photomicrographs.html I use a Cleangold sluice for my recovery equipment.

Went to look at a couple more sites for potential. Historically they have produced but there was little evidence this trip. The black sands weren't readily apparent and running water was less than perfect. The first three pics are from Whiskey Run. http://www.minecache.com/showdetails/10298354 http://tobi_wan_2.tripod.com/history/miningwhiskeyrun1.html The last three pics are form Seven Devils beach witch is just north of Whiskey Run about 1 3/4 mile. The pics are just to the north of Seven Devils creek. A stratified sandstone out cropping, a weep with a blue clay layer, and a small freshet with fair showing of black sand.

I did.... I had to....

Makes me dizzy trying to watch it.....

My concern would be that I would hope the new distributor is not selling counterfeit knockoffs..........

I realize this thread is about a year old but I'm gonna add my 2dwt. anyway. If black sand is an issue I would change out the riffles for gold hog mats. Check their site for suggestions

I have thought about that and I contacted the head of the southern Oregon coast region ... He seemed to think it was OK since it is hand powered. Problem is I need about 1100 GPH minimum to run the material through the sluice efficiently. I guess I could have a reservoir but that seems a little impractical due to the size and mounting required to make it work.

Do I understand this correctly... The Impact will operate on 3 frequencies but only 1 frequency at a time unlike the V3i which will operate all 3 simultaneously.

After last Friday today was a bit of a let down with only 1 grain.... The sand looked good but the freshet just wasn't up to it and ground sluicing is not the most efficient method to work.. But it's what we got in oregon since we can't run any power on the beach.... Not even an electric bilge pump recirculator unless we are above the grass line aka mean high tide line.and that just isn't practical o this beach. I would have been better off to have hauled the sand in my gorilla cart and setup the sluice in the creek 100 yards away.

Thank's Steve. It will never replace my day job but at least it gets me out and moving about and I usually at least make gas money...

We got nearly 7" of rain last night here on the Oregon coast.......... So guess what? I will be heading back to my little beach tomorrow and setting up in that freshet again, it should be running strong and the weather tomorrow is supposed to be halfway decent to boot. I will actually try to get some good pics and maybe even some video. So we shall see what tomorrow brings.

Beautiful specimens. Those should bring you much better than spot.... Way to go...

Yup.... No doubt about it. This is a great forum and well put together. I find it very user friendly. Thank you for all your hard work Steve.

Well here it is... The moment I know you have all been waiting for..... Cleanup and weigh in of Fridays take.I got the magnetics out of it but there is still a little junk in it, I figure about a grains worth of non-gold.... So we will call it approx. 5 grains +/- a little. Not bad for letting ma nature do most of the work....

OK... Yesterdays little adventure .... We set the sluice up in a freshet that was running out from under the cobbles that are awash during high tide.... There was good black sand visible in the freshet so we figured why not let ma nature do some work for us...LOL Here is a very quick shake out pan to see what might be..... I will finish the cleanup sometime today and post those pics later.

Well the bucket of material I hauled back last time was a real disappointment. I will hit the beach this weekend anyway weather permitting to see what I can find... I know...... I will never make any money doing this but it gets me off the couch and is interesting to me none the less, and it is the closest gold I have available, so what the heck. I can think of much worse ways to spend an afternoon.

Thank's Steve. Not sure what the geologic history is. But...... There are ancient beaches several hundred feet above current sea level. This layer appears to have been river bed in the distant past then covered with beach that has been raised. I have wondered what the last cascadia event was like along this stretch of the coast. The last event was according to scientists in 1700. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1700_Cascadia_earthquake

Went up to look the beach over again today..... I am hitting it this weekend unless the weather turns to absolute crap.... the tides are screwed up again but the days are long enough now that I should be able to get on the beach a little after 2:00PM.Here are some pics of what it looked like today and the 1/3rd bucket of sand I brought home..... only had one bucket today so I was lop-sided.... damn that was uncomfortable.Will run it probably tomorrow.

I'm waiting to hear how it works with an MXT. Any info yet?

Well I went up to my little beach today but didn't take the sluice....At least this time I did take a couple buckets with me and brought back about 2/3rds of a 5 gal bucket.Now I'm bummed because I didn't take the sluice..... Granted the weather today really sucked and almost didn't go at all.Anyway here is a little glimpse of the recovery.... This is the first little shake out and clean of the cons... did two more shake outs and got about double that amount for a total... Here's a quick little video of the surface... I think I am going to get back out there in the coming days... especially since the weather will be breaking and the tides are favorable.

Nice hit on the ring..... congrats....