Well, it’s our chosen hobby, Larry, I was gonna give you a hard time until I seen who wrote this to me.

I think that needs about 8°

TJ,, gold in Iowa is found in rivers and creeks. You want to look at the inside bends you’re looking for gravel and bigger rock called cobbles or boulders. If you find a creek or river, that has a lot of boulders or rock in it. That might be a good place to check for gold.

This is gonna be pumped into my raptor flare with extension

Yeah, just a little bit ago he was showing me his concentrates from Wisconsin. Still in his garage.

It kind of all depends, on a suction nozzle at the point where the pressure incoming water tubing is welded onto the suction nozzle. There is a reduction in pipe size. What that reduction does is increased pressure at that location going in to the nozzle. That reduction is restricting the flow of water thus increasing the pressure. You can have whatever size input, water, plumbing you want but it’s hard to tell by the outside what the restriction is.

I’ve seen some suction nozzles that are pretty decent in size and they have a tiny little pressure in-line tube. Personally, I like having a larger tube or a pressure in line to whatever size comes off the pump. That’s what I want welded onto the suction nozzle tubing. I believe that gives me more strength if I have a 3 inch nozzle. I’ll have a 2 inch pressure in tubing welded onto that main body assembly. That doesn’t mean I have 2 inch Diameter of water coming into that nozzle. At the point that that incoming pressure tubing is welded onto the main body. I will have a reduction right there. For a 3 inch nozzle your minimum needs to be .75 or three-quarter inch reduction. I usually run a larger pump so I increased my reduction size just slightly maybe to 7/8 or 15/16. That is just something I do. It creates a stronger, sucking nozzle. I know some people reduce the size of the reduction in Jet. That’s why I build my own.

That reduction will determine what the throttle setting of your pump needs to be.

Oh, one last thing it’s very easy to make your own suction nozzle. All you need is the components. They’re easy to find a drill and a welder. And the determination to accomplish this task. I would rather match a suction nozzle to my pump than to wonder if the nozzle I buy is going to work right.

@@IowaGoldProspectors Thanks

That was just a dusting of small gold blown up on a magnifying device.

@@IowaGoldProspectors I know, just asking how much it weighs.

Well, there’s a chemical recipe for that. I think it involves fluoride Hydrogen peroxide and dawn dish soap. I got that Recipe somewhere in a folder on my laptop. Give me a day or two and I’ll look for it and if I can find it I’ll send it to you.

@@IowaGoldProspectors Oh, thank you so much! I am having this problem here and wondering how to melt tons of clay LoL

Well, I tell you what I got my laptop out but the battery’s dead and I cannot for the life of me. Remember where my plug is. It’s an older laptop is the problem. So I googled a few things and I tell you you’re just gonna have to dig through it because I don’t think there’s really a good solution to dissolving a large quantity of clay. I do recall that. Recipe for clay be gone, has fluoride and hydrogen peroxide as the two chemicals that it takes to dissolve clay added to water. I tried this out probably eight years ago. I think I got one tube of cheap fluoride toothpaste, and one bottle of hydrogen peroxide and mixed it with 1 gallon of water and tried it in a 5 gallon Bucket with some clay material it wasn’t a magical potion. It did not do anything close to what I needed it to do. But if you get on Google and search what dissolves clay, you’re gonna come up with two items, fluoride and hydrogen ions. I don’t think there’s a really good solution to your problem, unfortunately.

@@IowaGoldProspectors Oh, nice! I saw many videos from prospectors in Brazil and they told the same thing: they "skip" the clay. I know the slaves here in the 1700's did that too but they used to stop when the first layer of clay was reached: But the theory says there are more layers of gravel below, another layer pf red though clay and the final rich gravel. I hope this is what I will find underneath. I had a sample where I found 15 small pieces, then when I took a 20 kilogram bag to analyze trying to break the clay... nothing was found, I think the clay took the gold away. That's my experience for the last days...

Not bad, not bad at all

Thank you, Sir

Hey, how are you doing. Yes sir getting that shiny.

@@IowaGoldProspectors doing better 💪🙏

That’s all you can hope for one day at a time that’s how it works for me.

Thank you sir I hope you’re getting out and getting Gold

Yeah, I think Mike’s gonna have fun with it

Thank you, sir you also have a great Easter

Tell me the specs on your regular pump. What’s the gallon per hour and feet of head.

Well, I’d say most likely you could run a 2 inch suction nozzle. Your reduction would be a half inch. If I had more to go on like the specs of your pump, I could go into better detail.

@@IowaGoldProspectors mine says a max flow of 150 gallons and shut off feet 92.

Sorry I didn’t get a notification that you reposted. I think you could safely run a 2 1/2 inch suction nozzle with this pump. I think if you try to run a 3 inch nozzle you’re going to have issues with lift. I would suggest that you only go up to 2 1/2 inch suction nozzle. It’s a good in between. And you have to use a maximum of 5/8 inside Diameter Jet reduction. Your pump puts out 9000 gallons an hour, and a maximum of 39 psi.

@@IowaGoldProspectors thank you.

Not that much here in Iowa, too many variables to give you an average. First off you have to have a good location. Then it would depend on what type of equipment you take out there. It’s also going to depend on how much material you move. But you also have to always remember the gold that you can find in Iowa is absolutely tiny. It is not coming from hard rock deposits. It’s been ground up by glaciers and is eroding out of the soil if you’re in locations that have glacial till. The best spots might produce a quarter gram or better. The average spots you walk away with gold that’s unweighable. It’s a good thing I have a full-time job. And this is one of two hobbies that occupies my free time. You might ask yourself if I’m not finding that much gold why waste my time. I do go out of state to mine in different locations. I want to know my equipment even though I’m not finding that much gold here at home. We all figure that if we can find it here in Iowa, we can find it anywhere.

@IowaGoldProspectors thanks for the reply. That's what it seemed like, more of a reason to get out hang with the guys and drink a few beers.

@69mustang07 we do find gold, but it’s nothing to make a living at. It is just that a hobby. Some of us are thinking about vacationing out west to find bigger gold.

I would love to trade places, you have more gold up there I think. But I don’t think I could handle the winters and possible shorter warm weather seasons. Thank you for leaving a comment spring is coming soon and I hope you get out and enjoy yourself and find plenty of gold.

Well, this little river sluice is 6 inches wide by 2 foot long. I do have an experimental sluice that I bought in Europe that is 6 inches wide but it’s shorter and length but it’s unfeasible to use it in this fashion. And I would have to classify down to about 3/16 or an eighth to use it. And it doesn’t not have legs.

Yeah, sorry I don’t often hold the camera. I have tremors, so I try not to hold it. It usually goes on a tripod. This ain’t Hollywood that’s for sure.

Maybe someday in the future I’ll remake this video. I got to delete some of the um’s and ah’s out of the script. Sometimes the brain doesn’t think as fast as the mouth can move.

I’m in Harden county

Thank you

Yeah, it’s tough in Iowa. You gotta know the soil types. You’re looking for glacier till. As many times, as I show going out and finding gold, I don’t show going out and not finding anything. We are kind of in a drought right now. I would tell you to start searching small creeks. But a lot of of them are dried up.

You really have to search in Iowa. I mentored a person out of Carlisle here the last year. Last year he tested 192 creeks. Found gold in most of them, And just picked up a permission this year that has small pickers and possible pieces of platinum. Finding gold in Iowa isn’t as easy. Iowa is kind of approving grounds, not only build your skills. You can test equipment, and if you can find it here in Iowa, you can find it anywhere.

Oh, and I know the Mingo area, there are some good creeks up there. But you gotta knock on doors and get permission. It would probably be easier if you’re from the area versus not being from the area to get permission. There’s a creek out roughly close to Mingo, I know has gold, but never got a call back from the landowner.

@IowaGoldProspectors I've found 2 colors in Indian creek and then I've found 8 colors in Skunk River...

Well, I would suggest you avoid rivers and creeks that run through wide floodplains. Instead start looking in deeper valleys.

Yeah, I tell you what a lot of bases don’t exist anymore. A lot of bases been shut down. an awesome base that I went to for my original training for my job in Air Force shut down so many display planes Chanute, Air Force Base, Illinois. If you’re anywhere close to your birthday, happy birthday.

Yeah, I’m sorry I never made a full video of this trip. Let me look at my video throw it up on LumaFusion paste it together and hopefully get something out tomorrow. It might have to be tomorrow day time. My last video I posted was almost 9 gig trying to post it on the weekend at home it took for freaking ever.

If I don’t get this posted by tomorrow, it’ll be Saturday afternoon

Mr. Foxen long long long time no see. Thanks for jumping over on my channel last time we talked you told me you were finding gold on a certain creek. That dumped into the river in your hometown. And that you were going to follow that creek upstream. I guess I should’ve gotten your phone number back then we could’ve kept in better touch. Are you gonna get your other knee or hip replaced this summer? Maybe in the fall you can get out or late summer. Do some panning. What a great way to get back into a physical fit shape.

I thought I had found some. Then Life kicked me in the ass. Lost the gold bug. As far as my other hip. I have to wait till the Dr. Says I have suffered enough to get it done

@larryfoxen9236 I get that lossing the gold fever. Iowa does it to me. I’ve gained some super great prospecting friends the last 10 yrs. And we go on vacations 3 or so times a year for Gold and those trips revive my gold fever. Sorry you’re in pain i hope your situation gets better soon.

Who thought it would be almost 70 in February. Hope it’s a long hot year. There’s other locations I’d like to get to if the water is going to be low.

Thank you sir.

If I was retired, I would be up there every summer.

So this is on the beach of Lake superior. Gold is easy to find, the lake is awesome, and that time of year that we were up there’s no bugs on the beach. But if I could swing it, I would be up there every day also shifting through the sand for gold.

I just gets added to the vile a little bit at a time

I got a small backpack dredge . I think I’m gonna haul over there instead.

Thanks, Jacco I hope everything‘s going great with you, sir

@IowaGoldProspectors I wish I could say yeah....I have some health issues at the moment...but no worries nothing I can't handle 💪

Well, I hope you’re feeling better soon.

I think it’s gonna be a super dry year. Might have to hit some of the bigger, rivers running through the state. Some of those locations that you can only get to when shit dries up.

Thank you there, Mr. Jason. You gotta keep your strength up when you’re digging for gold.. Or maybe something to soak up beverages

Well, this was last Sunday, I tried to upload this this morning. 20 minutes at 4G is about 8.61 gig and I have crappy service. This was supposed to be uploaded at 6 AM. I got finished with this last night at 10 PM. Me and Austin hiked up a creek valley today. It was dry. Got a good hike in about 3/4 of a mile with a 20 pound pack. Found about three micro dots for the whole day.

I think you’re right about that Jimmy.

Those cleanup slices are made out of something like epoxy at least that’s what they smell like if you buy one new. It’s a little bit Twistable I think those things would be good if they sat in a aluminum frame.

I read through about half of what you told me looked at the video and gave you a response. Gave you a second response. Read your initial post only to realize you already have one.

John, the only gold that most Iowans recognize is that of which is grown in the fields. There is nothing on the books as far as permits for gold panning. If you’re gonna buy a pan and a shovel and go gold panning stay out of state parks.

Air to buckets together like that creates a suction.

You look for rocks, bigger rocks, bigger gold. But in Iowa it’s all small stuff.

Drew if you’re really interested in looking for gold whether it’s Iowa or any other state there’s a lot of good information out on the Internet Facebook is a good place. Chances are you have a local chapter of the GPAA. That is abbreviated for gold prospectors association of America. Through groups like that and other clubs in western states, you gain access to places to go. It’s and enjoyable, hobby outside you get to meet other like-minded people it’s an all-around good hobby, even if you’re in Iowa, it allows you to go to maybe some county parks get out walk around look at some creeks it’s exercise and that’s what a lot of us need more of.

Well, I tell you what it’s very possible

I think I enjoy the water, the wildlife, the scenery, just being on that beach with the waves rolling in as much as finding gold up there