Thanks Jeff!

Thanks Heffe! 🍻

Thanks Prospector Tripp! Really appreciate the great feedback 😁

Spiral clasifier would be ideal for dewatering and bagging up my tailings, not sure I would need to re feed them into the ball mill again though, only a few specks of gold escaping the table now. Losses are the lowest they've ever been, which I'm soooo happy about finally! Still need to reduce my grind size down to 50 mesh though, that will see alot more ore getting sent through the ballmill to be reground.

@@TheGoldmansChannel I’ve seen a few folks (orophilia, MBMM) say that the larger oversize has a tendency to roll off the shaker table and can contain unliberated gold in the matrix. Running the oversize from the screw classifier back to the ball mill will free up more gold that can be better recovered on the table.

There's definitely still gold in the sand that needs to crushed finer to be correctly liberated, but solving that issue in this case is as simple as reducing the output screen size on the ball mill. Remember everything that goes onto that table first has to pass through that screen. It will stay in the crushing system in a continuous loop until it's fine enough to pass through. Still waiting on my 50 mesh screen to arrive, crushing to 35 mesh isn't fine enough, there will definitely still be losses there like you said.

When they're set up correctly, they're bloody awesome. I've used mine for all of my big alluvial clean ups for the last 10+ years without issue and have now started also using it for the hard rock side of things. Love my spiral wheel

Thanks maaateeee

Can't be far off it now surely! 10 years of exploration work, surely I'm due for a win 🤣

Persistence pays off so I'm sure you will sink your pick into a 10/20 once p/t vein before to long, you sure have put the work in for it 👍

Half the plant will be held together with trampoline springs soon. I've got so many ideas! 🤣

He's turning 11 next year, so his supervision skills are improving greatly now, much less harassment to go and play, more relaxing and snoozing 😆. The pulsating water is the next issue to fix on the table because its a big issue. Probably amplified on a smaller table, but still a big issue on this one. Consistency of all forces is essential on a shaker deck. Ill go measure the driver and driven pulley sizes for you next time I'm up at the plant, then I can calculate the speed for you correctly at that running frequency. 👍🏿

They are like their human friend, treat them well and the returns can’t be weighed in gold. Now: I know @Orophilia has been working on portable tables and I warmly recommend you‘d take a look at his very impressive engineering. I‘m looking in to using a metal spreader to ensure calm laminar flow over the table instead of nozzles. Then I recall someone had an empty PVC pipe in the upper feeder basin above their (Miller?) table that did the trick for them. Maybe install a birdbath with a spillway to calm it down before the nozzles? Then I would also want to have a the jerk I can set and less of an abrupt knock on a small table. I have waited for this for months mate, thank you so much for keeping at it whilst others bathed and relaxed. I have a frame for a Polystyrol window and wood and foam and whatnot for the table. Then a big box (with Gardena couplings too 😎) and I have three pumps to select from. It‘ll be my winter project, I want to drive it from a lead acid battery on a boat one day. The physics behind these tables is quite interesting and seeing your table I‘ve also thought to myself „well, that works well for that mesh size and minerals so probably one can also just adjust ones own table to the material one delivers to it. Have a good one! Still on Patreon mate?

@-r-495 Good morning, I was up at the plant yesterday and measured the shaker decks drive equipment for you. The 3 phase motor is 1430rpm The driver pulley is 63mm The driven pulley is 180mm With the frequency set at approx 33hz that should give us around about 300rpm at the table. Thanks for all the tips and info, I appreciate it all! Yes I'm still on Patreon and PayPal, Thegoldmanschannel@gmail.com Is the link for both. Cheers mate!

Gosh, thank you for taking the time! Took me a while to get back to you, I hope you can find something „sensible“ 😉 Snowy regards!

Did you see the latest vid Cypher? The spiral wheel added to the crushing plant system worked awesome! Love it.

Water drains from bath tub back into supply dam. Need an easier system to empty the waste sands from the tub though, that's where a spiral dewaterer would be super handy.

The super mini shaker table dredge? I like it! I have another solution currently in the works though, going to incorporate the spiral wheel into the system and have it process the 1 and 2 cons as the table is running. Will seperate all the free mill gold into the container and will still catch all the heavy minerals separately also. Should work fantastic.

@@TheGoldmansChannel sounds great! Best of luck!

You're correct, that's the plan eventually. If local historic mining data is anything to go off, only a small portion of the gold can be recovered as free mill. Heaps more value to be had in the mineral!

Hello friend! Yes, all of that gold was previously being discarded with my old gravity recovery system. Sluices have their place in gold mining, but not on a hard rock crushing plant as I discovered 😁

Sampling programmes rarely turn a profit. It's more of an investment to attain better knowledge on the area of interest. Knowledge is power in the gold game, so every failure is an achievement in the grand scheme of things 😊

Thanks heaps mate, I appreciate the great feedback. You're very correct in saying dry impact mills typically crush the ore finer. However, the advantages of running it wet are pretty handy. For example, (most importantly) the ore can be fed into the plant wet or dry with a wet mill, so no need to wait for the ore to dry, more consistent wetting of the materiel, more consistent flow through the mill and then onto its following components, reduced noise, and of course, reduced dust. Most of my ore here is damp and has clay attached, so running it wet saves tons of time by not having to heat the ore dry or simply wait for it to dry naturally.

Thanks for sharing Captain! I'm very familial with Jason's tables and equipment. They build some fantastic gear! My table certainly isn't finished and perfect yet, but at the least it's now functioning in an acceptable manner for me to continue with my sampling programs. Many changes will no doubt come as I continue to use it and find ways to improve it. 😁

Help production or efficiency? Good question Maz. Not in this case though I believe, and not in most other cases either. Shaker decks are usually sized to accommodate the crushing plants output. Having a big table with a small plant would mean you were constantly tweeking the water and deck speed to allow for the lack of material going over it. Best to have a shaker deck suited roughly to your crushing plants needs from what I can tell so far. 😊

@@TheGoldmansChannel Thank you for the response, I was wondering if the increased surface area hence travel area helps in separating the various densities more effectively.

@MAZ501 it's a valid theory without a doubt! But yeah, my opinion on it is similar to a sluice. Better to have it too clear then too full of material. But having it too clear will also have a negative effect beyond a certain point. Gotta find that good balance 😁

It's not, but it was a great way to see whether my recovery increased with the new shaker deck as opposed to my old recovery method on the plant 😁

Ahaha you pretty much nailed that exactly. Except I went willingly 🤣