black sand

I have a question? Has anyone one ever located blue clay in New York state. I recently ran across some blue clay in our creek bed while panning. Western NY region. I will get a photo this week of the clay. What does it mean?

An experienced mining friend told me about this; Says that Basic H, a product of Shaklee does a good job of this! Any one know about it?

Hello! I'm new to the hobby of gold prospecting and have met two main points of interest which I want to expound upon to see what I can do with them. Namely, these are... 1: I am currently attending university in northeast Missouri, in a region which, according to my (admittedly limited)...

Any NOX 600 or 800 guys or ladys out there use there NOX to find concentrations of black sand to prospect with highbanker/sluice/drywasher/dredge? it could cut down on time sampling. Or does anyone know if it can even be set to not discriminate out the black sands? I am going to get a 800 and...

Does anyone know how to separate diamonds from black sand?

Hello All, I got my blue bowl and have it plugged in and going well. Perfectly balanced / level and it appears to be working well. I have been messing with the flow and not sure what to do. Do I turn it up some what high? When I do I see concentrates climb the cone, but it looks like some of...

Hello All, I am sure there is a more appropriate thread to get this into, but I wanted to post here to get more eyes on it, and thus more recommendations. I have a beach near me, full black sand, in the shadows of a volcano. To make things worse, there are salt farms on this beach. The...

Are there any small scale refiners that would be interested in about 2 lbs. of black sand with PGM's in it? I have tried to find one with no luck so far. I do not know the percentages, but here is the geologists report. "At 60 power I see a sample from No Calif you will see y-o round crystals...

Willing to pay 50 cents a pound for raw black beach sand or left over black sand concentrates. Im in the process of building a prototype sluice box/ miller table combo and need black sands for testing. I pay for shipping as well. Call 479-857-4138 Needing black sand ASAP

Since I did my Bazooka Gold Trap post I noticed that some people were unfamiliar with the concept of a fluid bed. Well a fluid bed is very useful to anyone with a large amount of concentrates. It will quickly turn your buckets of concentrates into a cup of super concentrates. How a fluid bed...

I have heard that you can sell black sand and or melt it for super fine gold in it, is this true and what else can you do with it?