Hank Chapman flux for 1hr at 2100F

Im down by Troutdale where the Gorge open up as you hit Troutdale or Washshugal yeah the old timers just threw it out, nuggets, it also occurs mostly In ore form however, I know it's heavier than gold so it would be with your heavy's but sliver is lighter, I also have black sands that have run through bigger and smaller sluices and it's still in there. Now maybe it could be another PGM platinum group metal, but one thing for sure is they all occur in the same areas as gold, silver, copper, diamonds, gemstones; precious and semi-precious...prospector Chris Ralph has some great videos on how precious and semiprecious go together like well your favorite toppings on a pizza...however I have not found anyone who can or will tell me what it is but, I gotta believe though platinum is harder than gold it still grows in crystalline forms and those get beat up and flaked off over the ages...why else would it be staying with the gold has been my main clue that when we look at the periodic chart or precious metal charts, they are all close together and come from the same sources that brought up the mineral from deep in the crust or whatever....I'm a master of education but not of chemistry or geology but I think if you bake off or what I mean is put it over your little 200-300$ furnace maybe coat the wool with the 5lb premixed batch of greenpatch high heat mortar for coating the kaowool, that is inside many of the inexpensive gas furnaces, assay it, cupel out the collector metal and see whats left...now there are fancy little laser guns that will tell you exactly the percentages of what's left. of your precious metal bead...I'm waiting on my 1st furnace now, ordered the greenpatch from a real nice fella from Georgia $12 for 5lbs +shipping but he even said the company him and is wife use charges too much for shipping and he promised he'd refund it, and he said you could even water it down a bit and give that wool a double coat, cause that kaowool or the other fire wool stuff is NOT SAFE to breath and it's a lot cheaper to coat it with the mortar than buy those expensive gas masks/breathers or dealing with lung cancer...hope it was helpful, Jason from Mt. Baker and Mining has one, you just kind polish the metal down so it has a nice clean reading and it'll tell ya down to thousandths or more % of what you got in your black sand.....I've heard people say it doesn't occur naturally, you have to extract. it with chemicals, but watch Chris Ralph's video on Platinum, he can pretty much tell ya all you need to know about any kind of mineral, metal, gems, also the University of Washington has lectures with Nick Zetner here on KZfaq as well, watch the Liberty gold mine videos, and there's a few other that are great about how gold even begins to form, anyways your neck of the woods is filled with gold, silver, copper, PGM's if you can figure out the USGS MRDS Google Earth and NASA's spectral imaging, to work both Chris Ralph and Matt Mattson here on youtube have or had video's where they explain the whole crazy process so your can from space find entire valleys of quartz which is just oxygen and silica I believe but when those columns rise though hot springs or where hot springs were before the plates moved these stationary hot spots to where the are today, like the Yellowstone caldera, Nick Zetner has a great video on tracking the yellow stone hotspot and I believe he connects it to the Liberty Gold just North of Ellensberg...Happy hunting and God Bless

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I would suggest making sure your molds are high density & add some thinner to the flux as it should pour like water.

That looked more like a two tenths of a gram... $10? Assuming you already have the grinder, silter, and furnace.. just the cost of operating those 3 things, even if you got ten times what he got you'd barely cover costs. Not to mention, you need a good source for the rock.

Andrew S the cost of a gold cube is 300, a pan and tub is less then 20 dollars, the cost of a forge and all the equipment is around 300. If you come out with a ounce a day thats 1400 but you have to use chemical extraction to get pure. That would be nitric acid first and then aqua regia to get it pure. To let you in on a little secret if you go to the old gold mines there is countless material thats already been broke up with billions dollars of gold still waiting to be processed. If you decide to crush the rock yourself you can buy a rock crusher for around 250. Find the one that lets you hit the material with a sledge hammer in a cylinder. In my experience there is already so much material already broke up that you dont need to use a rock crusher. There is more abandoned gold mines out there that the government even knows about

Andrew S most people didnt get rich gold prospecting. The people that did get rich got rich off other miners in the quartz mines. That should give you a hint on where to look. The people that did get rich became more rich then you can imagine. All day moving material in and out of the mines. If they already moved billions dollars of gold out of the mine then think how much is still there waiting for the taking. You can find tons and tons of material that has been broke up but never even been processed yet. The old miners have already done the hard part. The government shut all the gold miners down and they just left everything.

Its just a demonstration guys

The best to use is chapman flux and thinner. A lot of that slag was the sands burnt off. I'd take the end concentrates and pan them down some. Then take 1 part material with 1 part flux. It doesn't take much thinner. If you use 2 tablespoons of flux then 1 tablespoon of thinner

You can buy a good forge for a couple hundred dollars. Usually it takes 1 hour to completely melt. With a propaine forge that will be around 3lbs of propaine to run a hour. A 20 lb tank is only 30 dollars so its not to expensive. Id wait until you have a lot of gold tho. That way you end up with a good size ball of gold. The guy in this video only ran a small amount of material. I personally would have waited until I ran about a ton of material before I smelted my concentrates. I would have paned the concentrates down to get rid of most the sands first to. The more gold in end the better

@@keithdaniels9093 thanks Keith I will try it. If don't come alright I will be back for more advice

Its a demonstration...…..

Bob Sullivan did you watch the video? I’m pretty sure their selling the new Keene 140 S dry washer.

They won't answer. They don't know how to run the online part of their business. Best advice, get a gold buddy!

my experience is that 'dry' washing was typically about a 75% catch rate process - if your looking for higher rates then your recirculating wet methods were closer to 99 according to the specific systems used - if your in dry areas, the problem comes in transportation of water to the field environments in question, profile, footprint ...is the media sticky or dry, loose or firm ...is your subject fine or large ...even in the mini or small footprint systems, you create them to the scope of the process - using a high backing tray, a trommel, or pre-classification methods ...cube or sluice ...each has their advantages and disadvantages according to conditions - and 'tuning' to the amount of material your wanting to run is also a major factor - this is why i 'always' spread and detect/sample other peoples tailings when i find them // in all reality, not to make excuses for Pat, but some of your questions don't have simple answers unless one knows the media and methodologies being deployed (and it becomes a question of tuning according to changing conditions day by day)

Jim Strait in his book said he built a 12"×12" wooden box to measure the amount of gold per cubic yard of material he was working. I did the calculations and built a wooden box equal to 1/2 cubic foot. So when we go from location to location we can see how much gold we have per cubic yard of material. and where we want our cut off to be...say 1 gram per cubic yard or more if we can find it. I'm sure by now you figured out how to maximize your capture rate... box angle, air speed, air volume. Use a second cloth layer in the bottom end of the box to slow the air flow and try to catch the fine gold in the bottom half/quarter of the box. I will be using neodymium magnets in the top end of my box to catch the black sand and use the magnets and the caught black sand to catch the fine gold. Same in my sluice boxes. The Gold Magic auto wet/dry panner with the motor or hand crank or both can be set up ahead of the drywasher to find the gold. I also have a Whites Goldmaster E Series with 14" coils and stock coil to hunt for black sand (and gold) and a newer garrett goldmaster 24K to hunt for black sand... any detector that gives a VDI for the ground balance point may work. Indicates mineralization type, but not amount. The newer Deus II Has both the mineral phase and mineral strength like the Goldmaster. A magnet on a stick works also to search for black sand. Set up to catch the black sand and use it to catch the fine gold. We are looking for the size distribution of the gold for the area we are working. To make an adjustment in the top box screen size.

You have to clear the material... in front of the riffle box by hand. It sounds like the angle is to steep or your feed rate is to fast or the air pressure is to high and its blowing everything up out of the riffle tray even at the gate open half way, so open it some more and maybe add more black diffuser layer in the bottom 1/4...bottom 1/2 of the tray. If you got gold running out of the box... thats good because that means you have gold... now the question is what size is it and how much is there per cubic yard. How mutch an hour can you make doing pick and shovel work. At some point the gold can be so small that their is no mechanical device made that can seperate it from its host deposition and heap leaching is all we can do. The Carlin Trend in Nevada I'd an example of microscopic gold production. Owned by Barrick and Newmont. Oil and gas is are lighter than water so they move up in the subsurface until they trap. Gold is heavier than water (19 times so it and it's associated mineral black sand mover down in the subsurface until they trap. Clay or shale or some other non permeable strata is the trap we are looking for. Preferably at the base of a hill or mountain or who knows at the base of some gravel bed. I look for microscopic quartz by picking up a handfull of dirt and dropping it and then looking at my hand in the sun. I also have a 360 power gem microscope so I can see into the world of fine gold dust missed by the weekenders. I started looking for gold with a whites metal detector and a Keene highbanker dredge combo in Wyoming in 1985. The gold was microscopic and it was the hand held pocket Panasonic 60 power microscope that got us on the gold. Then later ICP assays started to put us on the gold.