Now The Blue Bowl ROCKS!! Silicone Miller Table on the Rocks 

I have the blue bowl. I like to dry my cons, classify everything into seperate sizes down to -50, pull all the magnetics out of each keeping the magnetics in seperate sizes then wet everything back up, run everything separately on it's own in the blue bowl with jet dry and I feel like I get all the gold out easily. I do like that blue bowl silicone mat though!! 😁🤘

Now I don’t have to try it!!!! Thanks for taking one for the team!!!!! ✅🍻✌️

You've turned a vision into reality👏...Great dedication 🤝

Good job Alan ! I haven't been a very big fan of the Miller Table. Much prefer the Blue Bowl ! Thanks for sharing !

Use Roofing Membrane rubber for the table. It is made to be wettable with water. Also use Jet Dry. I think it is known as EDPM Elastomer or something similar. Use regular Silicone Seal to glue it.

It got you working for that gold this time.THANKS FOR SHARING

Awesome. So going to try this. I have a bucket of processed black sand that I want to be sure I got all the gold out of.

looking good fam. keep up the work. GOLD SQUAD OUT!!!

Nice catch !Gold is the color of the day. TANK

Alan love all your videos about how the blue bowl works and the possibilities of this BLUE BOWL 🥣

Very nice work again my friend.

Good recover i tell everyone about you and your silicone mats sir.

That new silicon mat worked like a dream according to what I could see, but it’s too far away for me me to see for sure how much of what is left in the pan is gold, or if a lot of it is white beach sand. I’d love to see close up footage with a magnifying lens.

Awesome Alan great job hope your having heavy PANS brother.

I tried spray clear roof sealer. Seems to be a lot beter than nothing would like to compare yours to see which is beter

Hi,tireless worker,seeing all your vids ,but no comments,glad yo see you well and working, silicones hidrophobic,but it catches good,what about painting with matte paint in transverse direction,ive done it on a homemade batea,painting around on it,and really changed. Happy see you working ,take care and enjoy,thanks for share.

Mats made with silicone is wonderful

ALAN, dont give up just yet,, to me from what i can see is your miller table is to short in length, but hey what do i know,, as for your blue bowl i have never used one and only seen them in videos,,, i think your idea on the miller table is on the right track,, keep up the impressive work

Very interesting!

I just Subbed, great work there my friend, I will watch your other vids. I love to gold pan as a hobby and metal detect. 👍👍👍👍👍💰

I am a blue bowl fan, but just got a miller table to try it out.

I now see why in the other video you mentioned that you we’re giving up on the Miller table. Your blue bowl works so well, there isn’t much point in trying anything else. The gold swirling is really cool to watch too.

great project, amazing

Great job

Hi Alan. I had the same problem when I tried to make a silicone Miller Table. I tried painting the Silicone on the deck of one and on another I made a solid top out of Silicone. I did a video but before I put it up, I decided to see if you had the same problem I did. Looks like you did. I really do like your design and it certainly is easy to get to work, but not out of Silicone unfortunately. If it's ok with you, I'll make one with your design that works very well. That makes a right nice little mini Miller Table. Looks like the blue bowl part works very well.

This innovation with the silicon mat on the floor of the blue bowl is terrific. This should sell like hat cakes to any blue bowl user. But it creates another small problem because the gold sticks to the silicon making it difficult to snuffer up. I was thinking that maybe you could develop a new type of snuffer - one that uses a small motor to suck up the gold rather than than squeezing that snuffer bottle continuously for fifteen minutes. On another vein I was thinking that there is no reason to snuffer up all the gold (completely clean it), just get that you can easily get on your first pass. The rest you can leave in there. It’s not going anywhere, so no reason to slave at it or ever remove the mat.

i think your table may need a bit more length also a thought would be to add a vibrator to it like the type from an old mobile phone. might help with separating the gold on a even lower angles with a light water flow.

Alan, your miller table mat idea is very good. The problems you experience with water flow is because original miller table surface is not made from silicone. You got very good setup here, just need to narrow the width of your miller table down to 2-3 inch. It will look like a mini sluice without riffles, yes, but it will be easier to control water flow.

Very interesting ! Thanks !!!

Love mine

Maybe a thin layer of flex seal liquid rubber painted on the silicone . or hold a can of spray paint about 2 feet over the matting and spray from the discharge side twords the resevoir side, to give a speckel-wear look and the texture should help hold the gold.and from that side so it gains a little more depth and slows the water down on the far end.

thank,you for sharing.

Nice video i enjoyed the science neat idea. ⛏

Interesting issues with the table. I have had trouble maintaining constant flow in my bowl as material washes out there is less resistance making the water flow vary. Can you post a link for the regulator so I can check it out? Also, can you use your water table brush to sweep the fine gold into a pile in the bowl? Thanks for posting. Stay Well!

if painting the matt with silicone helps, have you tried just painting the bottom of the bowl with silicone? thanks for sharing you research.

Hello Alan, that was impressive, but did you check the waste material to see if any gold went over the top

Well done jakes SA

I would maybe try something like 1000 grit wet sandpaper glued to a tray for a Miller. I do think they sell a purple one that may help you see color.

Did not get where you list the math with the nugget trap

What do you think about running that Miller on a sweet grade of petrol or mineral oil? High specific

** let the miller cascade into a normal sluce and maybe if the Miller is stacked over the regular sluice u can make the water faster. Kinda like one on the other so the cons from the Miller fall down into the feeding area and sprayers of the other.

Blue bowls out of the box have no issue catching superfine gold, provided you preclassify your material. Stock blue bowls arent meant for material bigger than 30 mesh. The more you classify it the better your capture rate on fines will be. Personally I do 30-50, 50-100 and then 100 minus, with slower water flow for the 50- and much slower for the 100- I make my living as a solo alluvial gold miner so process a lot of cons. Every few months i clear out the bucket under the blue bowl and re classify and re run it all super slow and careful and i typically get a number of specks in the single digits. Blue bowls run correctly are very effective. Lately ive moved onto a spiral wheel, with the high grade feeding down a bit of pvc pipe into a small 30 mesh sieve sitting over the blue bowl. This gives me 99% recovery rate, the 1% will be collected next time theres a rainy day and i dont want to head out

I'm new to all this, so correct me if I'm wrong; wouldn't the miller table require jet dry or soap in order to break the surface tension and allow the lower water flow to work correctly? It seems to me that there is too much surface tension which can be chemically treated with soap.

Sounds like the table needs to slant upwards with maximum water flow.?

Add some rocks in pan to cut water flow

You could tip your bowl up on a support and wash down your heavies down to one crescent point,then sucker it up.

I'm sure it's already been suggested somewhere here but to me it looks a little short, with more length youll trap alot more gold

Great!!!

How does it compare to the dream mat for the Blue Bowl?

I don't use a Miller table for the reasons you stated in your video. I do better with a long sluice and silicon mats. I use the blue bowl for small batches of cons. Is your blue bowl dumping into your clean up sluice? There is a lot of color on the mat.😎👍👍👌👌⛏⛏

This is the big problem I have been having with my Miller Table. Either the super fine gold flows down or the water separates on me. The Blue Bowl is not much better with the flat flakes we have. I have seen them wash right down the middle on me. Either that or nothing washes out.

Vibration or longer silicon mat?

Use a small paint brush to move the gold around

How much gold did you add!

When you brush the gold up it may be building a static charge that’s separating the water from the mat.

I dont see them available

I use a turkey baster to push that stuff around

What about a old record?

Alan great experiment again !? video run up to 13-34 minute ? some think wrong !

Woww, it's imposable.🧠👌.✅

Try a different material, and some jet dry in the water.

Try adding some mercury in the deep end . It will bond with the gold

Putting black silicon in kind of defeats the purpose of the blue bowl you can not see when all the black sand is gone.

It's better but I can help you further blue bowl. Your missing a COOL opportunity

👑🔱🗻🌏🏞️🏅🎬🎞️..

I take it and pay the shipping if you're going to throw out

That right there is the reason most people don't fuck with flour gold, time is money and you waste so much time trying to separate gold from magnatite that it's not profitable...unless that's all you have to do.

Put chalk paint on the silicone

Have the water enter the table from underneath. Make a pool of water that rises up and over the hole edge of the table. Rather then having the water dump unevenly from above. Get a smooth flow of water flowing across the hole table. The pump fills the sump and over flows onto the miller table. Ok yes cyclone is causing the dry spots, but a nice smooth flow may help. This is a untested idea.

Alan I can solve your ISSUE. Ditch the Miller technique. To slow.

Ok,, at 13 minutes you’re done buddy,, I mean it’s finished, there’s absolutely no reason to run again, Retrieve what’s in the bowl, dry it, put it in a crucible, add flux , melt, and pour into a button, all done,, I don’t know about you but my time is money, I’m not about to waste time trying get every little speck of sand out,, the sand will melt also, that’s what glass is made out of

Much better idea guy e-mail me

You talk a lot. Blah ,blah ,blah , blah , blah , blah

Would have been nice if weighed the gold for recovery quality