This man is priceless when it comes to his sacred knowledge. Im telling you he is the real deal. No hype no gimmicks no nothing but pure valuable knowledge that people pay big dollars for this info. And he is taking the time to educate us on what it takes to be successful at this awesome culture of American life. Thank you thank you thank you. I appreciate every single video..

Just remembered, I thought that you only used jet dry when panning but your video also proved the truth and I was also running everything dry based on incorrect information. Will be making significant changes to my recovery methods. Thank you so much for this great video.

Watching you and Dan Hurd and Jeff Williams , I have been learning a lot , but still got along way to go. Found gold for my first time about two weeks ago, 10 little pieces at a river here where I live close to my house. If you was with me , you would think I had found a 10 pound nugget. 😄 can’t wait to go back . Thanks for your videos , you make it easy to understand. Thanks again.

Well done Chris !! You covered all the major (and critical) topics for fine gold recovery. Additionally, I have learned the material flow rate over the sluice should be about 1 ft./sec. Ideally, the water height over the riffles should about 1/4 inch. Any sluice set up half way decent can catch nuggets, however, the real challenge are the fines, which are in abundance. Hope many folks will learn from this great video !! Best of luck to you. Looking forward to your gold in sulfides recovery !

Thank Mr. Ralph. You’re a very good instructor with very good points. I always leave your channel with useable information & great ideas from you. I greatly appreciate you.

Thank you for explaining the fine gold recovery method. Now the process makes since to me. I am running my sluice way to fast even though I fed it steady and consistent. I really didn’t understand the flow rate but I do now. I will rerun my concentration over the next couple of days making adjustments for the flow rate and remove the turbulence that is apparent in my sluice system from Gold Hog and their mat structure. What kind of miners moss should I use, unpacked or backed? Thank you so much for showing me the errors that I have been making. I have viewed this video now three times before I found my mistakes. Great knowledge and instruction.

Very informative and professional.. best panning youtuber online

I'm here for the jet dry tip thanks so much

I am happy to see a video that explains the specific science of fine gold recovery in a sluice.... I watch too many people dump material into a badly angled and flowing sluice and then wonder why there cleanup didn’t have very much gold... 😅 And yes you are completely right when you mention that just because you see fine gold in your pan , IT DOESNT MEAN you got all the gold.... it’s just means you dumped a bunch out while having kept the fines you are seeing remaining in your pan... So many experienced miners don’t understand this concept and it blows my mind haha 🤯🤣 Hopefully they watch this video and start properly sluicing and slowing down there panning !!!

Excellent job of explaining how to set up a sluice properly, never ceases to amaze me how many people try prospecting for gold whit out researching and understanding how to do it , God only knows I was dumb as a box of rocks when I first started

Your videos R awesome! Just became interested in this subject while currently visiting the high & golf country in Colorado. Your a great teacher! & really appreciate your in depth videos! THANKS!

Very well explained and demonstrated. Some people try to get it down to an exact science with precise flow rates and angles. Some people fight over what angle to use. But every situation is different.

Many thanks! I think I've got fine gold in red clay in my back yard but didn't know how to extract it. I'll give your method a try!

Thank you! Waterflow and angle, two variables. Not just the angle of the box.. Did not know what a slick plate was. Makes sense. Fluid dynamics too.

Great info, Chris. I'm a retired civil engineer, and well remember CE221, Fluid Mechanics. Excellent description!

Thank you Chris for sharing this information. Great video and explanation of what the process is.

Thankyou Chris , for your good helpfull information , on how to set up sluicing for fine gold ,

Awesome video and information, thanks!

Hi Chris . I just recived your book from Amazon , the size of the book surprised me , so huge . That means there's a lot of information , many thing to learn . I feel lucky to have it in my hands

Another good video Chris !!! Good looking sluice box

Thanks for indicating what speed things should flow through a slice box. Very helpful information.

One of the more thorough videos I've seen on proper sluice box set-up and operation!

Agree 100% on the sluice, it's the setup, not the mats.....great video, thanks again Chris...!

You look like an old family of mine even sound like him makes this freaking hilarious when I watch it 😂 very informative thanks for the effort

Thank you for this video , it helped me out , im new at this hobby

Thanks for the clarification about the purpose of the slick plate. I have wondered, for a while now, why the Gold Cube's top tray is a slick plate.

I picked up your book. I live in Wa. Lots of fine gold here. No pickers or nuggets

Great educational video Chris. It seems I am always working on Flour gold, Then getting a little bit At the Kern river. Thank you for the info.

Wow. Was just about to buy a blue bowl but I think I’ll pass it. 2 g passed through it.

That's for the class teach. Can't wait for the next class. Keeping it AU% GOLD SQUAD OUT!!

I was the most happiest when out looking for gold. Good memories

Thanks Chris, you are a treasure for gold prospecting education. msc

Sir, maine aapke bahut se video dekhen hai. Mujhe bahut achhe lage hai. Maine gold recover karne ki koshish ki hai. Ek jagah mai problem me aa gaya hoon. Vah ye hai ki jab rock se gold ko alag karte hai to ant me rock aur gold ke kanon ka weight ek saman ho jata hai aur vah alag nahi hote hai . Kaise alg karen.

Thank you for another amazing video. The best Video on the subject I’ve seen on KZfaq yet. I’m looking forward to buying your book. I live in Northern California and I hope to get it signed one day.

Thanks for answering my gold floating question. This great video thanks for all the info

Would have loved to have seen what the losses were. I love the fine gold recovery ideas. Thank you for your time.

That was a big help got a pump coming so I can do that at home Thank you Rod . Elko NV

Thanks Chris for the good information. Keep the videos coming

Thank you for your advice and knowledge.

Awesome video. you gained my subscription

This guy was on that TV series of How the earth was made episode for gold. So I would believe or listen to everything he has to say.

thankyou chris four the lesson very informative andhelpfull.

Good information!

As usual a fantastic video loaded with valuable content

used to have the same ol' sluice box

This is highly informative. Thank you very much. I am developing simple gold mining technologies in my country that help bridge the gap between heavy duty and small scale mining equipment. This video serves me well. God bless you.

Lol, I love your passion and how you get offended of other peoples mats. But overall I feel you are right. I see benefits in all mats and even replaced my dream mat for an regular V mat if there's only fine gold. But the dream mat did collect a LOT of black sands so I know it works well. I wanna try the micro mat as well. I realized the big dream mat did collect find gold after looking in a eye loop but I know I lost some as well. But I'm also a beginner so I don't blame the mat. I think I put too much material for the size of the sluice.

OMG! Did you just make the bird go away? I don't know what it was but it made me 😃 sounded like he/she wanted to be a bit of a star as well🤗. I have been watching your videos all morning. I must get up and finish with my storage shed,as it was below freezing again last night and snow- will come, as it always does for us New Englanders❄🌨🏔. But I wanted to thank you, thank you for your videos, for sharing your knowledge bank, for all your tips, pointers and short cuts. I am the only rock lover I have ever known. I have never cared about mans value on rocks or minerals or gems, to me it never compared to my intense love for them. Only of late have I been searching to find what I may have accumulated over the years and if I could ever find enough to possibly step out of my profession and possibly get by just doing what I love. So this is my beginning, of course, over halfa century later😱 no the face there is only for a smile🙃🤗. So I will be watching and taking notes and hopefully absorbing all. I love the fact that you tinker and fabricate and share it. I am one of those people that can't stand waste, can't throw away anything that may have a use, and if I can conceive it, possibly I can achieve it types. Believe me, my recirculator won't look as well put together as yours, but it will work. Again, thank you Chris, this is all so very much appreciated🙋

Fine gold recovery is a lot of work.

Great video!

That video was very good and I nodded and smiled several times when you said something that i had found out in trial & error. My biggest wonder and maybe you can touch on it later is getting the black or red sand seperated from the flour gold. I have a blue bowl and as i run the concentrates i see it wash right down the vortex hole. Blue is good for small pickers & placers but not much else. I also have a sluice box but have yet to set it up. I will do that in the spring. I had a lot of 20 /30/ 50 and 100 screened concentrates and black magnetics That i panned first, then ran through the blue bowl. After the second run i dumped 1/2 of it for Gods cut. I will re-run the rest later. Good info sir. Ill probably buy your book too. Kurt Webb Southern Middle Tenessee. At Home Panner.

Hello Mr. Chris. I've just finished the whole video without feeling the time passing and I'm so grateful for the enlightenment and the time and the amount of information you offered us through these videos. I'd like to ask you if you don't mind. I live by the Nile river.. is it possible to find fine gold in the Nile river coast? Several years ago I watched a documentray about gold on rivers' coasts but the report's videos was taken in Brazil as I reckon and nothing was about Nile or other rivers around the world. Sorry for my English. I'm still learning.

Amazing video, I want to start prospecting and sluicing for gold in the spring so this video is really handy. I have a question related to this system, is there still any micro gold in reservoir or mud and how much loss are we looking at?

I do love all that. But a hard job to do is the lack of materials. Anyway, I keep on wachting your videos, to know more about gold stones and more...

Veery very interesting,teacher.Sulphides are what im runnining here,from a crust under the dunes,plenty of pebbles captured in it,with no magnetic black sands in,im sure theres gold in it,seems coming outv from a deteriorated gosssan down in thje dephts of the dunes,will slow seriosly my running,probably letting go the fines.Thank you,another great class.

So, have you tried a Dream mat? What catch's the gold? The mat or the box? The mat does, how long does it take to clean out your box? It takes seconds to clean out a Dream mat. Is miners moss or carpet and expanded metal designed to catch Gold? Dream mat was. Old traditional ways like using a rotary dial phone, how many people still use them? when better tech comes along do we stick with old ways? Lot of good general info. No disrespect here I like your videos great teaching .

Sir, you are teaching like a professor.

thank you Chris for sharing your knowledge ! i have learned a lot .just wondering if you have a mat under your miners moss ? thanks !

Excellent.!! Learning... thankyou !

The first tiny riffled mat section at the top seems like it's more for getting a quick idea of how much gold is in the dirt one is running immediately, and could be quickly be brushed on down with a paintbrush to reset the "detection mat". It would be nice to have an automated and rate adjustable dirt sprinkler system so that I didn't have to do it one spoonful at a time. I get the impression one should really practice with various sizes of lead flakes, water flows, angles, classifications, etc, and under controlled conditions at home, especially learning what not to do, rather than try to learn the finer points of how a sluice box works in the field, the hard way.

Good video a few suggestions: instead of reasonable angle or flow Say 20 degree angle or if you slues is 30 in long the drop from top to bottom is 3 inchs etc. Thanks

'''' THANK YOU ,,, SUPER.................!

I love the video, I wish you showed how to clean up your fine gold...

Thank you for going through it all!

Nice video.! I thought i could sepperate the magnetic sand from the gold but the black sand seemed to grab the gold next to it. The particulates of gold is much smaller than the sand and i sepperated it down to 16th inch. Looks like ill need to be paitent and learn more.

Good tips. Thank you Chris.

Awesome class Professor Chris!

This video was very informative. Thanks for sharing this information. As for books. I have never liked reading. As soon as I start reading I immediately get so tired that I can't keep my eyes open. Therefore I never finish the book. So, I get more from videos. Videos keep my attention and I don't get tired. I've been like this my entire life. I don't know why this happens. In school when I had to do a book report, I would never read the book. Either I would have a friend tell me about the book, or I would just make up a story in my head and write that down. I would put an author's name to it and I was good to go. So I thought. The teachers always caught me. They would know that the author I put down never wrote a book like that. But the teachers always liked my stories I made up. But not well enough to give me a good grade on it. So, I will have to stick to your videos that are very educational.

VERY nice Experience Video Sir thank you very much

Thanks Chris very informative.

love your videos ive learned alot thanks chris!

Hi Chris, I just came across this video and at approx 20:30 you mention an upcoming video about removing the fine gold from the sulfides. I am not able to locate it, so could you please let me know if you did that video and give a link to it? Thanks!

Jet Dry vs some say 1-2 drops dish soap. Not all dish soap is the same. Have Jobe 10" sluice w/legs & funky 2" hose attachment box, needs flap to smooth out the water. Trying to find cheap step by step header box build instructions that make sense for converting to highbanker with added garden hose for washing crevices. Keene 6" sluice Tom & Perry's Clean Up Sluice, need simple adjustable stand instructions, plus I think the valve needs to be moved to one side and not straight into the sluice that plastic thingy doesn't reduce the turbulence at all no matter where I turn the valve. I need to know how to set up the smaller sluices or make changes to them from the factory setup. You got a gutter sluice build instructions/video for use in low flow gulches or springs or maybe those corrugated plastic pipes? How would you make the flair for them? How cheaply can you make a recirculating system?

The Washington State beach miners have gotten fine gold recovery down to an art as that's all there is out there. Makes you wonder how many million of ounces are out on the coastal beaches. Not a bad gig for retired guys to go out and make a gram or two per day just for fun and beer money.

Is there any way of combining physical size filtering with gold's magnetic or RF characteristic, along the sluice?

Gracias por su tiempo y su información 🇨🇱👏👏💪

good stuff mate i use artificial lawn as mats works great

Should all material be classified into different sizes and run individually at different rates and angles?

I am in the market for a portable river sluice. You showed yours but what would you recommend that is on the market now?

Yes!

It's real that gold can find in any surface

Love the videos! Can you do a video on how your set up looks and works?

Can we melt magnetite and the micro gold together, and pour into a cone mould and recover the gold

It's Everett. Good to see you and good informative information as always. How's your dad doing?

At .55 seconds are you talking about the new dream mat? Just a hunch.

Great video, would of liked to see some of the actual panning action.

Would a section of aluminum gutter work ?

Any luck with quartz ores with gravity? Goldcube or shaker table? Eco goldex for tailings cement with zinc shaving? I need every piece 😁

Chris I just watched this again good info. Did you ever do the video on sufides that you talk about in the fine gold recovery video. I have some clay with < 100 mess gold in it. I’m thinking of just putting it back wear I found it. I find more in the tailings than I find in the sluice. Ha

After you run your concentrates how do you remove the black sand from gold

@ (20:30) I think the water might have been going too strong...I would try again just to make sure, but that’s only if I were you. Have a nice day Sir :) smart gold huntings (:

Hi Chris I love yer channel and yer book. Is it necessary to roast or treat limonite to free the gold or has mother nature taken care of that for us?

yep

Really enjoyed this presentation. Has anyone invented a machine that adjusts the sluce at maximum and minimum angles with consideration of water volume rate of speed and tested it? Has anyone tested or would it be a good idea to step the miner's moss so that the it would create a water fall effect or would that create too much turbulance? Has anyone tried a round centrifugal device that flows downward using miner's moss or use centipetal force? Just asking. Very good video and I learned a lot. My problem is I live too close to a big river with tributaries too far away to attempt this with very litttle chance of going there. Thanks anyway.

Great video, lots of useful info! To me the attractive aspect regarding other fine gold capable matting is clean up time. Specifically when I'm running large samples from multiple spots, having a 5 minute clean up in between samples when I have a half dozen or more samples it certainly convenient. Clean up was obviously not the point of your video though haha. You are absolutely correct though, proper set up and operation are key, much like a detector. I use an Angus Mackirk sluice I picked up years ago for sampling, when set up properly it catches fine gold very well.

Thank you for the information. I am looking for a good underwater pointer metal detector ... Size of a big cigar.

we got alot of black sand here in the philippines being mined by the cheenese.

Thanks for the great info. You mentioned that you have ran some of the material thru a blue bowl. Does this mean you find the sluice works better & or faster than the bowl for fine gold?

Looks like a dc pump but what gph to get that flow? Thanks for the video.

Hi Chris... thanks for the video. This is a little off topic...but I'm trying to decide between the Minelab Pro-Find 35 and the Fisher F-pulse pinpointer for small nugget recovery. Do you have an opinion on which pointer is better for nuggets in the .1 gram size? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.