My 2 cents... I would say it is a good idea to classify out any material that is smaller than you want to deal with.. It really does make it easier..
That quote is a bunch of crap..
The
GOLDEN RULE: If EVERYTHING in your pan is the same size...
GOLD RULES
The
GOLDEN RULE: If EVERYTHING in your pan is the same size...
GOLD RULES
Apparently GOLD colored letters don't show up on a TAN background.. So, just for this message, Purple Rules...
You don't need a blue bowl... You don't need a miller table..... You don't need some weird tornado whatchacaller BS... You will need to classify
to make any of those work properly... And once you classify... Its so easy to pan, why waste your time and money on a slow finicky device.
It REALLY is easy to pan REALLY REALLY REALLY TINY gold........
when its classified.
Here is a shot I took a while ago with my cell phone.. -250... Just so happens to be two and a half thou. .0025" and smaller, just under the size
you can actually see with the human eye... Somewhere in the range of thickness of a very fine blonde hair. The thickness of crappy notebook paper.
But its that tiny dimension in all 3 directions...
Can't see a single tiny piece of gold... BUT, using a currency microscope (dirt cheap on E-bay, buy a dozen, give some to your friends), there is over
200 pieces of gold in that shot.. Can't see a single one in the photo.. And that's a match head...
Is it worth it going down that low? Depends I guess.... I've been stockpiling my -80's and classify them out and pan them down
once in a while.. Did it the other day.. Gold fever hit me hard.. Had to do something... After seeing what was in my -250
(I didn't bother going to 400), I just tossed it in the panning tub.. The 80-120 and 120-250 was pretty nice...
I'll get that little stuff back later when the panning tub gets full up and I run it back through the cube.... And start stockpiling the tiny
stuff again...
But... If your question was about dropping the -100 out so that your +100's are easier.... YES.. DO THAT, it will make it easier to pan...
KEEP that -100... Its gives you something to play with when the FEVER!!! hits and its cold and rainy out, or you just don't have enough time
to go out digging. A little bit of TINY gold is better than NO gold any day.