There's a desire out there ingrained in many of us. It's the need to hunt, seek and discover things that are hard to find or overlooked by others. My name is Chris and these are my adventures driven by that desire. Follow along, I'll share my experiences and what I've learned along the way. Please help my channel grow by liking videos, leaving comments and subscribing. Thanks for watching!
You're a nice guy so I wanna share a secret with ya. After 50 years of doing it, so here goes. You know mother nature likes to sort gold out in the rivers along the inside bend, of course you do. It's down hill and if it was a 360 degree corkscrew it would be all too easy, so think about that for just a second, okay? Now comes the good part, if it was a double corkscrewed with riffled sections it would be even better. Now, there's a flexible tubing that does that, but not any tubing works, nope. The tubing is corrugated, but only one type of corrugated tubing works. It's free too, and you need three 10 inch pieces or 30 inches to catch everything. All your cons you show here takes about ten minutes to process, but you'll have to build it yourself. I'm too old, but I gave one to Jeff Williams. So anyway. DEF tubing, it is the spout that comes with diesel exhaust fluid. See folk fill up on DEF at the auto parts store, most use a funnel and throw away the "click tubing". You can't hardly go past the barrel in front of the store without seeing one thrown away. I ask the store to save them for a few buck sometimes. You need 3, and you cut off the screw cap cleanly and connect them together with a short pieces of clear vinyl hose. Build a stand with 8 inch diameter to set it on so you can remove the tubing sections to empty you gold out. the stand must support a large funnel at the top. and you need a 600 GPH pump, to flow into the funnel. Set your slope at about 8-10 degrees on a stand that includes a funnel at the top, pump water into the funnel and scoop in the cons. it's fast, it won't let you down, it catches everything. If you build it right you can empty a gallon of con through it in 20 minutes, retrieve up to 1/2 teaspoon off gold between clean outs. No more. To clean it, carefully separate the 3 tubes it a gold pan full of water, plug one end of a section with a finger, lower it in water to fill it. plug the opposite end & shake the gold to the bottom, empty it over a gold pan, repeat until they're all clean. Now that some clean gold. Cheers.
Would the size/shape/surface area of the piece of lead have something to do with it? Seems it would act like a "kite" the sluice box. I just ordered a 10x38 combo sluice, so I hope that's the case! LOL
Yes, that was one of the main points I was testing. Flat gold is hard to catch. I was hoping the cells would suck the gold down and protect it. The test wasn't perfect, but it was a good visual demonstrating how something as heavy as lead can sail through when it's flat and thin. I did this because I've experienced hard to catch flat gold in multiple locations.
Keep in mind that pure lead has approximately a little more than 1/2 the density of pure gold. The density of gold is what keeps the gold in the sluice. If you want to really see the difference use flat gold.
Yes, I'm aware. I still feel like it's a fairly good test for a slower stream sluice. It wasn't meant to be an end all be all test. I was just having fun on the river and shared my experience. However, I have received some tungsten flat rounds for the next time I do a test. Tungsten has nearly the same specific gravity rating as gold. Thank you for making your point in a kind manner. So many people just want to say someone else is wrong.
Thank you for the compliment. 👍 I'll drop a few links for you. You can contact me directly through my FB page. I'm considering doing some giveaways there. Be sure to follow the page. facebook.com/share/6RRaWaTzBAdTVs8K/?mibextid=qi2Omg I help run the Cape Disappointment Gold Mining group. facebook.com/share/g/JRhHA1PRQpHxWDAF/?mibextid=A7sQZp I'm also a member of Republic Mining. They have some amazing claims. If you join, use discount code "gold" for $50 off membership. republicmining.com/
You’re absolutely correct. I’ve experienced what you’re saying twice recently. There was a very old pay streak down about 5’ below the surface ground, down at the water’s edge that I dug through & when I dug through it I lost the flake count when I did. There’s another spot in the gravel up near the ground surface high above the creek water level that had good flake count. I tested just the layer itself & didn’t go any deeper & it seemed consistent. Gold lays down in thin layers typically. So maintaining high flake count usually requires staying within the layer of strata where the high flake count was located.
I just found a 8 1/2 ounce gold platinum nugget in sw washington, I seen you on the Lewis river looking for platinum nuggets, I said hi and you ignored me lol. Competition is just to fierce I guess. But hey 4 years ago I started prospecting and Im up to 450 pounds of pgm nuggets, diamonds tektites and other crystals. Its a wonderful hobby I only wish I'd figured it out sooner.
I apologize if I did ignore you. It probably wasn't intentional. I don't remember telling anyone I was out looking for platinum nuggets. I wonder if you are confusing me with someone else. What your describing would be incredibly rare for the area. Have you had it tested?
@@prospectingforadventure No testing yet, I spent all my time up till now finding as much as possible. Then I can pivot to testing selling and of course God willing more prospecting. Platinum is very abundant in Clark county and in fact on the Lewis River you find low quality diamonds, gold, platinum, kimberlites and agates in abundance year after year. Take some peroxide and spray the metal you find. You will see a reaction. Alot of the platinum is different phases and compositions from how it forms. I do post much of what I find on my channel for a reference.
Just so your not missleading folks the colors are in fact the difernt minrals in the gold not the indavigal spects in the bowl . Be grest if people got terms right guess if i cant spell why should you call anything proper
@@prospectingforadventure no I mean, I've never seen that kind of black sand period. Granted I live way up in northern Europe so maybe it's just not found here?
Boy. Those salmon smolts sure are curious. You should have brought a frozen block of 'brine shrimp' to feed them. LOL I'm just about to get started looking for gold here in Oregon. I'll also be looking in creeks and rivers falling from Mt. Hood, but for the time being I'll be using a pointer, a crevice tool and a pan. (maybe a portable shop vac) No wet-suit for this fat old man!
Just some local trout. There are no salmon or steelhead in this section of the river. It's a lot of fun watching them! I had one the other day swim down and suck up a gold flake I was about to retrieve. I guess he identifies as a gold fish. Lol
I just ordered one of those Milwaukee 18-Volt cordless vacs, along with a 'Nokta PulseDive' pinpointer and a couple other small items needed to get started finding some gold on the rivers and creeks coming off Mt. Hood here in western Oregon. At some point (after I bank some gold) I might have to expand my hunting abilities to underwater building one of these! (but the thought of stretching a wet suit over this 6'4" 300# old man isn't a pretty visual, so it'll probably never happen 🤣)
Cow Creek has been good for gold through the years. I wish that Windy Creek would have had the same kind of gold. Oh well. For some of you that have heard stories about big stinky critters with hair all oner their bodies and walked upright like men that lived around there, yes, they were around there. Some people called them bigfoot. Around Glendale we usually just called them hippies.
with my experience with dream mat I've come to the conclusion it just isn't what the hype makes it out to be I use the gray the green and micro purple and unless you classify it to 1/8 it just fills up and clogs the cells and gold blows out you can't beat expanded metal and moss with v rib or goldhog matting I feel I wasted my money buying dream mats
hello sir, I just bought this combo product for France. I'm also a little disappointed. Much more detailed instructions from the seller are missing! . I notice that if the flow is too slow, the rifles open their mouths, if the flow is faster, the rifles open their mouths, in return the fine gold flakes tend to leak from what I have observed. I saw that it had a slope of 9 to 9.5%. It remains very difficult for the 2 smaller rifles! the vortex should work better. I will add that the carpet I ordered is 8x36, it does not respect the dimensions! 36 goes to 34 so really 2inch difference 😂
