Dan, your enthusiasm for the hunt is contagious and you have a beautiful spirit! We are grateful that you choose to share your life with us. I know that you invest a lot of time and energy to take us along in your journey. Thank you, kind sir!
I wish there were more people like you in this world. Love how you say I hope to earn Your subscription today! So many people just say subscribe and don’t work for it! You sir are one in a million
Dan, thank you for the awesome videos! I recently changed a well pump and kept the dirt/debris from the strainer located 300' under ground.... two years later and I still have a baby food jar of either pyrite, gold, or brass shavings from the well pump innards.
What an interesting video Dan. You're great at explaining everything and of course it helps that you do have gold in the pan to look at in the end. Thanks matey. xx
Excellent presentation Dan! You have a great video personality and I appreciate your enthusiasm.The loss you experience will be captured by the Magnet Sluice I sent you when added to the discharge of the GOLDROP. My demo video of the Magnet Sluice will be uploaded later today. I surely look forward to working with you when the border opens up
When doing densimetric separation you absolutely either classify density or size, you MUST run each size class on its own. Great information for anyone.
All I can say is, thank You, thank you and thank you Dan. I’m a new subscriber and follower for life. I’m spending my day and evening watching everyone of your wonderful videos. I love your passion.
9:34 The GolDrop separates by density of similar sized particles. Like any other density separator, if the particle sizes are all the same, the separation will be better. Dan mentions the Pyrrhotite as being very, very heavy. Actually, the specific gravity (density) is, like nearly all black sands, only ~4.3-4.5, while that of (most hard rock) gold is ~16.5+, or 4x that of pyrrhotite, or any other black sand. If there are 16 mesh particles of black sand mixed in with 50 mesh particles of gold, they are the same weight, and will react similarly in the water column of the GolDrop. Only when all particles are 50 mesh or smaller will any density separator approach 100% success, and give back 100% clean gold. 16:30 See how much larger the pieces of sheelite (S.G. ~6) are than the pieces of gold. They are probably similar in weight, that's why the GolDrop captured them all. If Dan had been able to classify better, the GolDrop would have eliminated nearly all the non-gold materials, because they would be so much lighter than the gold.
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Dan, I know this is an old video, but have you considered replacing the ball valves on this machine with needle valves? They are much more precise and allow for much finer adjustments. Highly suggest if you are trying to dial it in just right.
You are one of my favorite teachers.! You make 6. 3 more points to you. You beat them for profit. Number one is my HS math teacher, i think you are very close on that one. But i have a soft spot for granddad, and dad. Love what ever you show. Thank you.
If you can bring John up that would be awesome. I’ve watched his Sluice Goose progress for a long time and that’s a man that deserves to retire doing whatever he wants to. I love it when people have that kind of passion and make something useful.
I have been retired for 40 years because I have always thoroughly enjoyed what I am doing. I work at it 12 hours a day and yet I haven't worked a day in my life! What a mind can conceive and believe can be achieved!
I've been watching John's demo videos for ... a couple years now maybe? Nice to see his doodad get some run on one of the more popular gold prospecting channels. I'm going to have to pick one of those up, one of these times in the not too distant future. I do think it's a device that one can get much better at using with experience, to a point that you can about separate magnetite and gold better than you could with a little finishing pan.
Thanks for your confidence in the GOLDROP! Watch Dan's upcoming GOLDROP Videos and you'll see how he uses a new innovation of mine, the Magnet Sluice attached to the GOLDROP discharge. It makes the GOLDROP 100% efficient.
You could probably add magnetic separation below the separation chamber by increasing the drop distance to the collection jar and configuring the pipe correctly with a fork in it, with magnets the right distance away on one side,, letting the mags drop into a separate jar on one fork while the gold, scheelite and pyrite drop straight down.
Your video's are so exciting.. I watch from Manchester UK 😊 seen you lift that heavy box please stay safe and allow yourself to recover we love your videos but love you more take care
I have been a viewer for about a year now. I subscribed like on the 2nd video I watched. It cost nothing and it helps him out so much. That it's the least I can do. For all the wonderful videos he makes for us.
How about running the tailings through once more to catch more fine gold? Throw in a drop or two of soap to break surface tension? Or will that be irrelevant for the Goldrop's effect on super fine gold? If the main idea is that the separation takes time, how about getting a 12V hopper feeder and let it all chug away no scooping required? Or does it make more sense to just multi sluice the darn thing in the first place? How do they compare?
Hey Dan, when you run the clean water through, will you mix in some baking soda as a base to neutralize the sulfuric acid on the machinery?? I do that when I’m melting silver making jewelry. One dip in the Sparex, one in baking soda and water, one in regular water
Hi Dan - have been enjoying your videos. Thank you! I'm also in BC , and am curious what prospecting I'm allowed to do as a casual weekender (no red tape / more out for the activity :D ) If you (or anyone reading this), can direct me to previous videos, or resource links - it would be much appreciated. Thx!
I haven’t seen all your videos but I am trying, here because I love gold mines , Classifying you know the Gold Drop. Love it. Dan was that the rock from the gold mine a few days ago. I hope not because I definitely want to see that💯 💖🇦🇺
Dan I will begin by saying that I do enjoy your videos. I am a bit of an idea guy. And, it strikes me that everywhere I see a flow control such as that on the gold drop it uses a needle valve and not a ball valve. The needle valve, I would think would provide a more precise adjustment. I'm sure the good folks at sluice goose already thought of that though. I do have a tendency to reinvent the wheel. Thank you.
I was thinking the same thing after watching the first video the other day. Now, after watching what he got from the gold hog it would be even a better idea
Might be to much water, and not enough material going through it ( the hog) I assume once he gets the gold drop dialed in, you wont need that step. I think the actual intended use of that gold drop would be the other way around actually. You would first run it through a sluice, and then run that stuff out of the sluice in the gold drop. I have seen other videos of the gold drop ( or something very close to it) and that is the way they are intended. And the video I seen they had it dialed in so good they were just cleaning gold out of the black sands. That being said, I am just some dude who watches other people mine. I have zero experience and my knowledge of the subject is limited to RU-vid University.. lol Also where he mentions classifying it more, what he is saying is if he crushed it more, more of those large "heavies" would have been powdered and not gone into the jar in the first place. They would have stayed in the tube.
@@fortwoodmisery nope, you got it backwards. Size matters, also for gold particles. The reason there was gold in the tailing was due to the large differences in particle size. By making them of homogeneous size the dropper can be dialed in such that it can sort out everything and no longer loses the finest gold in order to spit out the larger pyrites. Also, running the tailings directly into the sluice will work fine, catch the water at the end of it and cycle that back instead of from the tailing bucket.
It would be very interesting to find what you consider 'very rich gold' in the hard rock... i.e. oz per ton? Thanks for continuing to educate about gold mining!
I just subscribed because I love these videos. Reminds me of when I was a kid out in the desert gathering buckets of iron filings that washed down from the Sandia mountains( lots of pyrite too). I'm not sure if this was asked before but do you ever do a total ounce/gram count after a cleanup? If so we would love to see it.
You have my subscription Dan! Gold mining is so addictive to watch. I would have a go myself but the UK has been well picked over already! Regarding the Gold Drop concentrator, would small gate valves make the fine tuning of the water flow a bit easier?
