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Post by goldgrabber on Aug 14, 2015 5:27:48 GMT 10
Hi, Here's a video where my friend and I were working a large protruding bedrock boulder which had the equivalent of a gravel bank behind it. We spent 4 days working behind the boulder, making a dam so that the water level would drop and help stop the hole filling back in during the evenings.
We worked the hole with my mates 4" manual gold pump which just shifts material like crazy. It NEVER got blocked with stones at all whilst in constant use for 4 days, my trusty standard 2 1/2" pump works great but always gets blocked with fist sized stones but the 4" just sucks them straight up and spits them back out.
My friend had previously worked the same spot but only for a day and always wanted to dedicate more time to try and reach bedrock and we just started to see it bottom out on the last day before we had to fill the hole back in, it was a shame we didn't have just 1 more day to see the bedrock floor and see any gold on it. My mate did find his biggest piece to date out of the material we worked and I also found a small picker along with more fine pieces, not enough to justify 4 days work but it was great fun all the same.
I hope you enjoyed the video and please feel free to like and comment on it. Please subscribe for more videos as they come and check my channel for my current videos, Cheers...
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Post by shivan on Aug 14, 2015 8:16:05 GMT 10
Looks like an interesting setup, seems like you can move some material with it. How cold is it in your part of the world at the moment?
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Post by goldgrabber on Aug 15, 2015 23:35:04 GMT 10
Cheers, yeah the amount it can shift in loose material is just stupid, fill a classifier in less than a minute haha.. Where I personally live in NE England the weathers not bad, 20-25 degree's c, however where I go prospecting in the Scottish Highlands, it drops down to 10-15 during the day, colder at night. You wouldn't think they get a summer from what I've seen so far up there
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Post by labrador on Aug 16, 2015 8:20:24 GMT 10
Shivan, you know your geology, no wombat burrows over there. I have not given much thought to gold in Scotland, Goldgrabber what would you expect to find in a day, in a creek like the one in the video. And is it a popular past time for the people ?
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Post by shivan on Aug 16, 2015 9:56:30 GMT 10
My dad was from Essex, and I have been lucky enough to visit England a handful of times and stay with relatives. Have not been to Scotland yet though, I would love to make the trip one day. After seeing a surf school go out surfing at Bude in the middle of winter, I did not think the English felt the cold Did you guys hear about the larger nugget that was found out that way recently?
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Post by goldgrabber on Aug 16, 2015 19:44:37 GMT 10
That large nugget was found where I go, however some of the locals and regular panners took that with a hint of scepticism because along that stretch where it was supposedly found gets hammered and they said they found it lying on surface gravels, whilst promoting the guy who was teaching panning at the same time. There is gold in the UK though, mainly Scotland and Wales, very little in England itself. There are probably a couple hundred panners in the UK, it's not really an advertised hobby with very little officially permitted placed where you can just turn up and pan without seeking land owners beforehand etc. Where I usually go the locals say they can pull out a gram per day with just the hand pumps or more if sniping, I'm still to hit anything like what they say they do as I'm probably lucky to hit a gram after a week long trip (if that), I don't mind though as it gets me out to places I would never normally visit on my days off rather than just plodding around the house trying to find something to occupy my time. Hopefully I'll back back up there again in 2 weeks time.
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Post by shivan on Aug 17, 2015 1:07:09 GMT 10
Interesting to hear about the nugget, always another side to the story. Is there much chance of finding anything else besides gold where you dig or just gold? I don't think many of us do this to get rich, I may feel exhausted after a trip out digging but I always feel revitalised when I get back. I think the gold is an added bonus to getting outdoors and dirty for a bit
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Post by Flying Scott on Aug 17, 2015 22:15:58 GMT 10
that device will never be successful. as soon as the water stops moving within the pipe the gold will fall out. Flying Scott
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Post by nuggethill on Aug 18, 2015 7:17:23 GMT 10
You may need a sump trap
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Post by goldgrabber on Aug 18, 2015 19:12:56 GMT 10
How can you say the pump won't be successful, do you not see how quickly it fills a classifier? Ideally it needs either a 45 or 90 degree bend on the end so if it was twisted before lifting out the water, the bend would stop any material falling out, however, even as it is you can see it really shifts the material (as long as you're quick to lift it and get it over the bucket). As a test I used my 2 1/2 standard size pump (which has a bend on) and it took me over 5 minutes to fill a classifier working the same material, compared to using the 4" above which took less than a minute to fill and my mate also found his largest piece of gold to date from this pool using this pump, so to say it won't be successful is certainly an incorrect statement
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Post by labrador on Aug 18, 2015 20:45:50 GMT 10
There is a Yabbie pump that is primarily used for sucking up sand worms and ghost grabs, and a sand prawn thing that looks like a sort of a yabbie,it is about 2inch and about 3 foot long, I have tried a few ways to get it to be efficient, it stays a home, waiting for a fishing trip. It is the similar principal as your 4 inch, and as you say and your video shows it gets the dirt in to the bucket. Did my friend Flying Scott see the elbow on the end, I thought a thums up for that.
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Post by Andy on Aug 18, 2015 22:20:30 GMT 10
I can see yours works & not being critical, but if you had a light rubber ball attached to a cord that was connected to the end of the plunger, & the ball blocked the tube end at the full stroke of the handle, nothing would fall out of the tube when it was lifted out of the water.
This is how I have my 2 inch set up.
Like this bloke did...
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Post by dreadnought on Aug 19, 2015 19:18:42 GMT 10
We use a SM Prospecting Hand Dredge Nuggest Sluice Gold Sucker Pump, ducks nuts, have great faith it would suck a hemaroid off an elephant. Fleabay $95.50.
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Post by Flying Scott on Aug 19, 2015 21:07:49 GMT 10
goldgrabber, It depends on your definition of successful, Most of the posts agree with me in 1 form or another. Gold being heavier it would escape from the tube with the first grains of sand. If there were an inverted funnel within the tube it would be beneficial Flying Scott
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Post by dreadnought on Aug 20, 2015 6:14:12 GMT 10
Have to agree with the Scottie, your 'dredge' needs tossing or show us the gold recovered
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