Steven -

Miller Tables are highly effective but super slow. Larger separation tables are great but expensive, which means you better have a bunch of material to recoup costs. There are several sluice type recovery systems that get fine gold, are reasonably priced and can run small or large amounts of material.
Also a great DIY. Call me if you have any questions.

Equipment isn't nearly as critical as technique - There are three factors to watch when you are recovering fine gold.

1. Maintain a laminar flow across the entire width of the recovery box – This is critical to get fine gold to drop and get captured.

2. Reduce the height of water to 1/8 - 1/4” above your mat. Reducing the height of water going through equipment means the heavies are closer to the capture area and gold can’t get caught up in the water column.

3. Make sure to slow your water velocity down based on the material size you are running. Water speed is critical to fine gold recovery. If your water speed is too fast the fine gold will either get caught in the flow or pushed out by the material without being captured.


KB

Keven thanks for the tips it will be very helpful I’m trying to learn about prospecting do you know of any book on the subject of prospecting that I can get and thanks to all the people who responded to my post you all have been very helpful

Steven,
Undoubtedly the best book that I could offer you would be "Fist Full of Gold" Written by mine and Kevin's good friend Chris Ralph. From basic to advanced. Buy 2 of them, one for your kit box to referee too often and trash and the other for the prospectors library. :-)

Steven -

I agree with Kevin - Best 30 bucks you'll ever spend.

Prospecting is research, mapping and then boots on the ground to verify that your research and mapping is valid.
Lots of written material on the historical mining areas and districts out on the web.

Once your research is done visual mapping programs such as Google Earth and GIS mapping programs give you an overview of the areas.
Topo overlays help to determine how you are going to get into the areas you've selected.

One of the best tools is right on this website - The Online Mining Guide has directions and prospecting tips written by GPAA members for many of the GPAA claims. I always check the OMG before I make a trip to any GPAA claim.

I think Kevin Hoagland wrote an article on his prospecting method and we covered it extensively on our Podcast.
https://onthegold.buzzsprout.com/

The episode is Compartmentalizing & Confidence = Gold measured by, $ per yard over specks in a pan.


KB

Y’all have been a big help thank to you all