I am used to simpler to setup machines (Whites MXT and a TDI) and with all the menus and sub-menus I KNOW there must be really superior settings for my purpose, so am interested in what others have found. I bought mine 95% for use in the Arizona desert for the typical small-gold found in...
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Hey all, I'm pretty new to prospecting, but am really enjoying this! I live in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and just about everywhere I look I can find gold, but in small amounts, and its super fine. I've been looking into the best way to recover this gold. I've been researching blue bowls...
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I have been prospecting the uwharries sense 1997 and have found quite abit of gold over the years. I also manufacture the uwharrie gold maps, stanly county gold and the sniper hand dredge in uwharrie. There is alot of easy diggings if youre looking for flood gold, it accumilates in alot of the inside bends and exposed bedrock.
If you dump too much material on conventional riffle sluices, the gold can wash right on out. Some sluices like the Bazooka Gold Trap are more forgiving then others but the best feed rate will vary from sluice to sluice and it just takes time to learn. Classification is probably the best way to increase your fine gold recovery.