Last fall I bought a miner's wheel. I have screened my sand down to 1/8' and run it several times, I still have rocks( not gold) in the cup and in the bottom of the wheel. I hate panning, kills my back and knees. I know there is plenty of Gold in the sand as have seen it. I've used twisters to get a couple of chunks that were just smaller than pickers out. I can't decide to just snif all the black sand and gold then heat the fry pan to get rid of the water, and run a magnet over it to remove the black sand or continue the back breaking process of panning the gold out.




Thinking I bought a gimmick. However, I did the research before purchase, what there was of it. Watched all the video's I could find and it appeared that even after spending 300. you still have to pan the black stuff away from the gold. I watched the video on the Desert Fox at 500. and it said " CLEAN GOLD " but in the video, the back of the machine was never shown during operation. Once it was done the guy pulls out a cup of clean gold from behind the machine but can't prove it was actually the one on the machine while running. it might be worth the money IF THE MACHINE DOES PRODUCE CLEAN GOLD!


THIS appears that it could get to be an expensive hobby, buy the time one gets the metal detector 900 a pointer at 150 the pans, buckets, screens, separator of some sort 300 to 500 and others things one needs to be safe. It goes beyond my budget. Though, I suppose, it is like any hobby. I've been a leather craftsman for the past 50 years and my inventory is 15,000 + so guess it is what it is.