GARY SCHWALL Greenhorn Posts:20 
| 10 Mar 2016 04:48 PM |
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Get a blue bowl or buy a nice roll of v mat to roll in side your sluice (at home setup) run it slow to get all your fine Happy Hunting ! |
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Ricky WepplerGreenhorn Posts:1
| 15 Mar 2016 06:08 PM |
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I am new at this hobby and I bought a Miller table at my first LDMA outing in North Carolina last year. I panned down a sample of soil and did not see any gold. I took it to Mr. Martin and he said he would put on Miller table to see if any gold. Well there was 3 small flakes of gold. So I was sold and bought one. I can say I am happy with the purchase. |
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Jamin NeetGreenhorn Posts:24
| 16 Mar 2016 11:41 AM |
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I've done well with the blue bowl. It gets very fine gold, as small as I can see. Still going to need to clean it a bit afterward, there will be some heavies remaining.
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Richard DualGreenhorn Posts:1
| 23 Mar 2016 02:43 AM |
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I have had great luck with fine gold recovery with the blue bowl even get the -100 mesh gold with it |
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Matt Johnson New Member Posts:58
| 23 Mar 2016 07:10 AM |
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This is just my two cents, but I know a lot of good panner's would agree with this. If you are new to prospecting, my advice would be to simply pan your cons, and not buy a blue bowl or a miller table. If you want to become a good panner, you have to pan, and miller tables and blue bowls take the panning out of the equation, at least for the most part. That creates a crutch for prospectors and they become lousy panners. If you use a safety pan or a tub, you can always re pan your material. Once you understand the principal of specific gravity, and have seen it in action, it is no longer just a concept in your mind. It works. It becomes a reality, and with that brings confidence in your ability to capture gold with a gold pan. A fear of losing gold while panning creates a fear of panning, and if you never face that fear, you will never advance. A confident panner is a good panner.
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Mary McCarty Basic Member Posts:140
| 13 Jun 2016 02:05 PM |
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Posted By Scott Leidenberger on 01 Oct 2015 05:57 PM
James,
I have a Royal gold concentrating table that catches some really fine gold. I'm thinking it might be 600 mesh. I know I would miss this if I panned it.
Scott
Okay, I know this is an old thread, (I'm reading thru the archives to learn as much as I can) but I looked up the Royal gold concentrating table and it looks like the identical principal to a Miller Table? One and the same thing? Please correct me if I am mistaken. I think I prefer the Miller table because of the gold collecting wells making it easy to sweep clean gold directly into glass vials. I own a Miller table now but have not tried it yet.
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Mary McCartyBasic Member Posts:140
| 13 Jun 2016 02:34 PM |
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Posted By PAUL STRAUB on 05 Mar 2016 05:57 PM
Hey Leo, If the black sands assay at 7 ozs per ton, it should produce approx 7 ozs of gold when smelted. With an assay like that it pays to save it up.
Paul
A Ton is theoretically only 1 cubic yard... Sounds worth it to me. I have to ask tho', is that black sand in one ton of original material or one ton of black sand?
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Rick ELLIOTTGreenhorn Posts:
| 13 Jun 2016 03:58 PM |
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Why not use the acid method of returning it to liquid form and then re-solidification? There are plenty of examples on Youtube. Haven't done it myself but it looks like you'll end up with one piece at the end.
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Benjamin CrainBasic Member Posts:351
| 13 Jun 2016 04:05 PM |
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I have to agree with Matt Johnson, the best means of fine gold recovery is learning to pan better. For a small scale prospector the Miller Table and the Black Magic will NEVER pay for themselves in the amount of gold you will recover.
I have found a technique to modify a regular gold pan with a simple knife that will trap your fine gold better then anything you can buy on the market, I will try to share this in a new link this week if not the next.
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Mary McCartyBasic Member Posts:140
| 13 Jun 2016 09:38 PM |
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Posted By Benjamin Crain on 13 Jun 2016 04:05 PM
I have to agree with Matt Johnson, the best means of fine gold recovery is learning to pan better. For a small scale prospector the Miller Table and the Black Magic will NEVER pay for themselves in the amount of gold you will recover.
I have found a technique to modify a regular gold pan with a simple knife that will trap your fine gold better then anything you can buy on the market, I will try to share this in a new link this week if not the next.
While I do agree that good panning technique is important, a Miller Table off of eBay only runs about $130.00 including shipping and handling. Considering the current price of gold, that's only, what, a little over 3 grams? 
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THOMAS GLOVERGreenhorn Posts:
| 03 Sep 2016 04:28 PM |
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I would say use a blue bowl or desert fox to run the fines out although you will more than likely have to run a few times to get the water pressure right, I use the desert fox and then sit down with a super fine artist paint brush and magnifying glass (the type you can wear) and just separate all the color from garbage.
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Benjamin CrainBasic Member Posts:351
| 06 Sep 2016 04:51 PM |
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Does anybody know of a good assay company that will run small samples?
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WALTER EASON Buzzard Posts:581
| 07 Sep 2016 06:01 AM |
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AAA Precious Metals
AAAPM, Inc.
9908 SE Ash
Portland, OR 97216
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Benjamin CrainBasic Member Posts:351
| 07 Sep 2016 04:27 PM |
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Thank you,
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ADAM ANDREWSGreenhorn Posts:
| 07 Sep 2016 05:06 PM |
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I agree with Gary...Get a Blue Bowl & a 30 & 50 mesh classifier, a tub big enough for the bucket and pump to recirculate. Pan off the blond sands first or you'll be looking at chocolate milk going in circles forever, so you'll only see black sands and Gold if you pan off the blond sands first. |
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