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What kind of experience do have in finding gold and space rocks?

Dang

I'm going to just keep on using my 20 year old gold bug 2. I'm scared of monsters. 

On 10/11/2016 at 4:30 PM, Reno Chris said:

Boulder dash - Have you ever run any wet vs. dry comparisons on your dry washer? I did and was quite amazed at the results. I took buckets of DW tailings to a stream some miles away and ran them in a sluice. Steve was there and saw it too. I'll have an article on it in the next issue of the ICMJ. The bottom line is that the dry washer did amazingly well - far better than I expected. (I use a Keene DW2, 212 12V puffer)

Yes I have Chris, my 151 drywasher recovered 92% of recoverable gold with one pass. No unnecessary pre screening.  Just used the screen it came with.  Strangely it lost very little fine gold and lost the larger fluffier types of gold.

Keene 151!! Mine is awesome on recovery. Can even run it damp with no loss of values.

In my opinion master all the basics such as panning, drywashing, dredging,  and hard rock mining.  Once you have found a pound from each of those activities buy your detector.  In my opinion detecting is the hardest to be successful at. 95% of detectorists never find a nugget . People skip the basics and because they do this they just guess and hope for luck.  Experience is the best teacher.  Good luck 

Vlfs rule!!

You killed it! Nice going for rye patch.

20 years old and the classic gold bug 2 can't be beat!!! 

I also have been interviewed by two different production companys for TV reality shows. In my opinion it's just them pitching ideas to major networks. Obviously no networks were interested in the 2 different reality shows I did interviews for. Guess I need to work on my personality.

Here is picture of my dry washer which is a 3 tray Keene 151 that I put together. We have a article in this month's icmj magazine if you want to read about our struggles.  Has a shaker screen and about a one ton hopper. Gold is from only one clean out. Runs about 8 tons per hour.

Nice lunk

Your new, just stick to bedrock.

I used one for a day. Previously had found a few 2.5 gram slugs in the drainage. The mine lab 3500 could easily hear them from one foot plus. The atx on the other hand could only hear it from a maximum of 6 inches. Maybe I just got a junk atx machine or don't know how to detect. 

I couldn't tell 100% if they stole gold that was already out of the ground or were detecting?? Article was confusing. I'm learning that it was already out of the ground gold.

I'd be very happy with a consistent 1500 an oz. Much easier to make wages from gold.

Well said jasong

Interesting

Very nice finds lunk

10 to 1 for me

Dang lunk, extremely awesome. 

Dang nice new patch, I m sure there are 20 more too.

Nice water worn pieces

1500 would make me happy!!!

That thing is awesome Lunk!! Nice going.