PicknShovels said:
Ive got a miller table and it works fine. Only issue is with the amount of black sand im bringing home each trip its taking me 2-3hrs ( sometimes longer) to pan out , dry and weigh the gold. I dont mind doing it but i was wondering if there is a less time consuming way of seperating the black sands from the AU. If i wasnt so hell bent on keeping the alluvial gold in its natural form id run it through a retort lol.
Hate to say it, but the blue bowl will take you just as long as the miller table. It's time consuming.
yes the trick to it is classify, pan out your +30 mesh. and run your -30, 50 and 100 on your table.
do yourself a favor, get some mesh screens. 50 mesh and 100 mesh. the fly-screen is about 20 mesh, and trying to run that is just not going to work properly. yes you will recover the gold, but you are missing a lot of it as well.
you will also find that after running the different sizes you will recover much more gold easier, as the larger sand will wash out your gold if not classified down.
I have my miller table set up over the blue bowl, sound funny, but the amount of round gold that rolls down the miller table, so I do both, and there is no easy quick way to do it unless you go get a shaker table, I don't have the $$$$$ for that, plus I don't mind the few hours of peace and quiet over a weekend, when I can't get out, OR THIS RAIN, gee this rain.