Good evening,

I just got a new piece of equipment delivered today via Amazon. I kicked the bucket so to speak on this piece of equipment. I caved in and got the Gold Rush Nugget Bucket. The bucket is not all that bad, to be honest. Albeit being a new invention there are areas of improvement. The Gold Pan its self is eh so so. But then again I have my personal preference on the type of pan.

One of the major benefits though is the fact that everything you need is contained within the bucket. You have the bowl for the cons, the classifiers, a gold pan with the snuffer bottle and a vial along with the concentrator it's self. The plus side that I found to be really worth it is when you are doing sampling and you do not want to drag all the equipment out for a sampling mission. While you can do the regular prospecting thing with this; i find it to be a great sampling tool.

There have been discussion around the fact that it replaces the sluice. I would have to disagree with this for one major reason. That reason is that you cannot move large quantities of material through it before you clean it out. The sluice on the other hand, has that ability. On that note, I would suggest having both handy dependin gon what you are doing while out prospecting in the field.

I know that it is designed to move stuff with water, but I would think that it will work with dry material as well. I plan on testing it with dry material later this week when the paydirt is delivered. I will get into the paydirt thing on another post. But suffice to say, payddirt is beneficial when it comes to testing new equipment out.

If you have any other suggestions/comments on the Gold Rush Nugget Bucket or any other tips regarding equipment, please leave a response as I usually check this site quite often.

Good night and have a safe weekend.


Signed,



Anthony Ingersoll (A Greenhorn)