Hello, I am Troy from Michigan Prospectors. It all began when I found gold in the sand in my Northern Lower Michigan back yard. I got the gold fever and I have been prospecting for gold around Michigan ever since.
I am always trying out new gear and prospecting for gold and minerals in new locations around Michigan. My family and I also love searching for fossils, rocks and minerals. Join us on our adventures. Also check out Michigan Prospectors website, FB group and store.
That’s crazy that Michigan state has a law limiting a sluice to 52”. It’s just nuts how super regulated everything is and how the government controls everything. I remember being blown away still when I watched Dan hurd saying it’s illegal in Canada to have a permanent in ground sluice. I thought to myself what the heck? If I was a government that wanted more tax revenue and wanted to spend more in the future to buy votes or do projects I’d push to increase tax revenue by promoting production of goods and services. An in ground sluice to me sounds amazing. Like pour a cement thing with rebar and have some setup and check it quarterly or yearly. Like the government should love that. Permanent in ground sluices could also be portable. It could just be heavy angle iron just nailed down with one or two foot stakes. Like it blows my mind it’s all illegal when the government needs more tax revenue every year as the government spends a bigger percentage or makes up a bigger percentage of gdp every year.
I suggest keeping it unfolded and securely tightening all the bolts. Dealing with a sluice breaking into three parts, especially with precious material inside, is a situation I experienced today. Have you found a solution to prevent this issue?
I have an idea. Take two pieces of angle iron that’s a quarter inch and aluminum and cut it so it’s long enough to go past the two sections of bolts that bolt the three pieces together. If you had two pieces of angle that’s aluminum you can just bolt it on and probably would make it all super super sturdy especially if you use quarter inch and just cut it to fit on your height etc.
Bud I don't care how hard you run that water the gold gets trapped in the blue bowl. I have a blue bowl and ive never lost a piece of gold out the top. Especially one as big as you made it out to be.
I live about 2 hr from Port Huron. I visited close to fall time and that is a lake is cold for me lol. Kids enjoy. this year, at the same spot we went to. it sink and dead fish all over this year.
Into a little pile in the corner.and then you.snuffer bottle it up.mine come with 2brushes.my miller table had a hole in the right side.a little vile use to screw in under the sluice.when you seen the gold you would.brush it to the 🕳️ hole and straight into the vile.worked great and speeded up the gold recovery.If the blacksand built up brush 🖌️ it up toward the header box.keep brushing the gold to one side in front of the header box and snuffer it up.all apart of the black magic and was in the instructions.
I feel like you could have magnetically black sanded mentioned that the black sands were magnetic at some point in this video .. i moved to Hollywood from magnetic sands Battle Creek in 1994 so if you hear an accent in my text tháts possibly why ( magnetic sánds) - if it seems like im magnetic sand trolling you that is just a figment of your magnetic sands imagination ( i did give the video a magnetic sands thumbs up so hopefully it balances out the magnetic sands !
I dropped a couple of my specimens, and they are super brittle,… and fragile, even to the point of shattering… But we had a great time climbing around… Corey was having so much fun…!
You sure that was smoke? With the change in wind direction, it may have been fog/mist. We see it all the time here near Whitefish Point. Was there small raindrops falling just feet away from the beach as you headed more inland?
It was smoke. We have a lot of air quality warnings coming from smoke due to wildfires in Canada. I also talked to the locals about it while there. No rain. Was a beautiful sunny day.
Michelle has a good eye for fossils, You taught her well Troy. We will all be fossils and someday be discovered by people in the future. Something to think about . . .
Hi Troy. Just want to let you know I really like the items I purchased from your store. The one with the copper was much nicer in person. Looking forward to getting some Lelands from you--both in jewelry and just stones.
