davsgold

I sent you a message about the settings I use in WA

nice going Condor

even here in Aussie, I like the idea of gold and or silver as a long term hold, after all gold and silver, well gold more so, has stood the test of time for thousands of years, just in my opinion way better to be physically holding precious metals than any FIAT currency when/if the sh!t really hit the fan, I think the old Egyptians and Incas new something cheers dave

it's been a pleasure to help you and your detecting buddy as best I can without actually being there 👌 cheers dave

Have a good and safe trip mate, to bad we won't be able to catch up with you while your here, but I hope the gold gods are kind to you and most of all enjoy cheers dave

and the end result after processing 32kg of quartz was 33.38g of gold into a bar, so getting just over 1 gram per Kg of rock is a good effort I reckon

determination, that's for sure, anyhow good that your both back out getting some gold cheers dave

it's a big dolly pot and bar to break the quarts down but like you say is is very uneven in size

thanks for putting up the pictures of you milling setup, I like the idea and also like the idea of a Jaw crusher above the impact mill and the rollers for the final processing I know most of mine is fine flour powder but there is also some gritty bits still about the size of sugar grains, and if I can reduce the metal from wearing so much will be great

I also make picks, these are quite popular and the main one is the medium size with a 700mm long Spotted Gum handle which is similar to what you guys call Hickory 5mm boron steel plough disc blade and 8mm boron steel plough disc point, pipe collar oval shaped to fit the oval shape handle The Boron steel in the plough discs is similar strength and wear resistance to the AR600 steel that your using, the shape of the plough disc is the finished shape I like so the parts are just cut using a plasma cutter which does not over that the material

do you have a picture of the inside please

I'm going to try the hardened security chain and see how that goes, for now I have just put "D" links in with the same chain link attached till I get the hardened security chain

started running some of the milled rock through the gold cube to get the fine gold, (and a lot of metal fillings) from the wearing out of the chain links in the impact mill, anyway a magnet sorts out the metal from the chain links After running a couple of pan fulls of material I flushed the the mats and used a magnet in the results in the gold pan to remove some of the metal from chain links This is the wear on the chain links in the impact mill after 32kg of quartz going through and a short video of the gold cube running

breaking up some quartz rock and getting the bigger bits out before putting it through the mill and the sluice

yes mate, sure is.

A few pictures of out travelling and prospecting rig, you'll notice a modification for the canopy to fit a Quad bike in the later pictures, the Quad save a lot of walking

Good morning to you all, it's been a long while since I was here last cheers dave