More February Gold Today. And It Was Chunky Again, Got To Love That

[John-Edmonton]

Hiked into an area where I often go during the winter, as it usually (but not always) doesn't freeze over. Nice hike and travelled with a light load.

I screened my gravel through my garrett 1/2" classifier. Two buckets dry and two were from the river gravel. Total of 4 buckets today.

This is feeding the sluice wet material. The dry material is fed about 18" above the sluice to get the gold to punch through the water's surface tension to keep it from floating out the end.

The days are getting longer. Not too long ago, the sun would have set at about 16:30.

Here's the gold as per clean-up today. I run my concentrates through a kitchen sifter screen, down my 3" VDR clean-up sluice x 2 then backpan the rest.

 

[Valens Legacy]

Great work on the gold and I know you will beat last years totals with a start like this so early in the new year.

Good luck and stay safe out there.

[Valens Legacy]

I forgot to ask if you have found any nuggets in the tree roots yet.