Gold Seeker

Looks like you had a great Father's Day trip!! How do ya'll know who's gold is who's after mixing it all together?

Nice find!

Yes it will still be a bit before the Manicore is being sold, so that comparison is going to take a little longer even after the Manicore is being sold and someone who has or used both can post/report such a comparison.

I'm not sure why you thought you had to create 4 topics just to ask this question, but it is what it is!!! That being said/complained about, I think the Trademark for the Le Trap sluice is now owned by Geo Sluice Mining/ Jeff Davis, or at least he did last I heard. https://www.geosluicemining.com/products/le-trap-sluice-box-gold-sluice-stream-river-robber-sluice-gold-prospecting

Yes I also think it's Botryoidal Hematite or Botryoidal Goethite, Botryoidal means "grape like".

Nice little nuggets! Which detector did you find the Tarantula with?

Not a bullet mold, photo 1 and 3 show both sides of the "round end", no holes. I'm not sure of what it is myself.

If you get the Manticore, you'll have to wear that talisman when using it!!

It hasn't been years since he posted this, he just posted it less than 2 weeks ago, on July 29th!

Yes that's a scary looking road for sure, but if I visited there I would have to drive that road....because my first name is Skipper, it's not a nickname it's my given name when I was born, so I would have to drive on "my" road in NZ!!!

The first book I would recommend is Chris Ralph's book "Fist Full of Gold". Steve's review of this book. A topic on this book.

Is there only the nuggets you're finding or is there any fine gold in the soil? If there is fine gold is it worth processing?

Good find...but maybe it's just my computer but I don't see the new photos, only the one from you previous finds.

Being the casing length is 2 1/4" it would be a .44-77 cartridge, still for a Sharps rifle and mostly used for buffalo hunting and target practice. It was the most popular cartridge for the Sharps Models 1869 and 1874, up until the introduction of the .45-70 which took over in 1876, but that caliber would of still been used for a long time after that by those who still own the previous models 44-77 Sharps rifles. http://www.thegunmag.com/the-colorful-history-of-the-44-77-sharps/ It's still possible that a prospector had a Sharps rifle for protection from bears if in bear country, or for hunting to feed himself.

Also found this on .44-90 cartridges.. An accurate case length will tell you which .44-90 casing it is. "Apparently there is more than one .44/90 cartridge according to the 8th edition of 'Cartridges of the World'. Both are bottle neck cases; .44/90 Remington Special, case length 2 7/16" made for the Remington rolling block 'Creedmore' Series about 1873. .44/90 Sharps Necked, case length 2 5/8" made for the Sharps 'Creedmore' Series and listed in catalogue as early as June 1873. The SPG Reloading Handbook lists the Sharps cartridge; boolit diam. .446" approx 414 grains in weight 1/40 tin/lead. 90 grains FFg; Federal 215 LRM Primer, .030" card wad and 3.30" oal." https://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?15598-44-90

Not sure how accurate this info for this auction was but it dates that cartridge at 1883. "This auction is for a raised letter headstamp E. Remington& Sons 44-90 Remington Special Bottle Necked 2-7/16" cartridge with a paper-patched inside Lubricated 550 grain lead Bullet. The 44-90 was introduced as a match cartridge in 1883 for the Remington Rolling Block Creedmoor." https://www.gunbroker.com/item/930752746

RIP Roger

Gold has dropped another $40 or so in the last 24 hours, I think the gold manipulators are reading this topic and toying with us!!

It's not called "Double Image", it's called "Double Vision", the name is right on the bottom of the car in the photo posted by Kaolin washer.

If you sell it on eBay most likely, or sell it on Craig's List, also might get more than scrap from a pawn shop. The gold value of that ring is $60+ at today's gold price, and then whatever you could get for the diamonds if anything. https://dendritics.com/metal-calc/?RefreshEnable=on&Metal=Au&WeightU=1.856&cb=12964965001&Units=g&P=583&Purity=583

It will be a long time before that gold, if the surveys are accurate, enters the market. Gold on surveys and gold in the hand are very different, it takes a long time to mine gold and they aren't even started yet, and once they do start 31 million metric tons will come out of the ground very SLOWLY! Once they start what they mine in a week or month will be a lot to one person, or even 10 to 100 people, but for the market it will not be a huge amount. They will be lucky to mine 2 to 3 metric tons in a year's time, if that, once they are up and getting the gold, and it could take a year are two to get too the gold and up to speed.

That's made by the same guy who makes the Magic Bit video I posted. That works really well but it would take a long time to do a lot of blacksands that "might" have a little bit of gold, if the blacksands are holding a lot of gold it would be great tool to have.

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I was doing a little more searching to see if the sluice magnet i posted above is still being sold anywhere and it seems it's not....but I found this little device for separating blacksands from gold after the panning stage instead of the plunger type magnets which tends to pickup gold along with the blacksands. It seems to work rather well at leaving the gold behind https://youtu.be/fiN9EaX6Cno

I haven't seen this product before but years ago there was a magnet device being sold that was suspended across your sluice box and hung down into the top of the water flow and would lift the blacksands up to it allowing the gold to stay down at the bottom of the flow. It was basically super magnets inside a PVC tube with attachments on the sides to attach it with, you could easily make a similar one for your sluice. I don't think it's still being sold but here's a link to one that says "Sold Out" https://www.goldfeverprospecting.com/sluicemagnet.html I also found a video of it in action. https://youtu.be/dyDBxgEJfv4