Classifying

[Davejane]

Can you classify when the rocks are not soaking wet but wet and muddy and sticky or will you lose to much gold sticking to the rocks?

 

[G0lddigg@]

gold will tent to stick to the clay mate better completely dry or submerced in water

 

[Davejane]

That's what I thought. Thank you.

 

[blisters]

At the very least if you are leaving 10% of your pay dirt stuck to rocks you'll lose the same amount of your gold.
Jon

 

[Parko]

Definitely wet. Make sure you break up any clay and wash all of it off the rocks etc. You'd be surprised how much flour gold you'll catch. Bonus: you'll be able to easily see any gems or crystals in the classifier

 

[Davejane]

I don't usually classify. I just clean it all in a pan. I'm going with a mate to a muddy area and he wants to classify and my thought was he was going to leave half the gold up there

 

[Guest]

Yep i agree with what Jon said. Jemba

 

[limpalot]

Need to make a Sieve bucket to wash all the rocks in, then tip the classifyed and washed material into your pan. Tip the washed rock from the sieve into another bucket for inspection ; re wash . Look in Do It Yourself for sieve bucket instructions.
Cheers
LL