Dream mat for - 300 mesh gold??

[catfishjim90]

Just wanted to know what everybody thinks of the Dream mats for flower gold? I have some good spots on the Missouri River in the St. Louis area. One shovelful.of gravel I usually find 15 to 30 pieces of flower. I have been using my 4 stack tromal cube with saw tooth matting. But I’m not getting as much gold as I think I should be getting. I’m thinking about modifying the tromal from 1/4 inch down to 1/8 . And then going with micro mat on the top two trays. And then cape d mats on the 2 bottom trays. The black sand is really heavy in this material . Probably get a cup in each shovel full. I’m running a 4000 gpa pump with a valve if I need to valve down . Do you all think this would work? Here is a picture of some of the gold I get on the Mighty Mo.

 

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[russau]

Hi Jim ! Long time no see ! it looks like your doing well on the ole River , BUT I think you'd do better doing one mod at a time to show improvement . I myself used to try several changes at a time thinking it'll speed up the process but it only slowed me down to rethink what I just did and which changes are helping and which isn't ! Hope this helps you and GOOD LUCK ON THE RIVER !!!

 

[Reed Lukens]

Modify it down to ⅛" because ¼" is too large for the cube. Set up one tray with the dream mat if you want, but leave the rest. The cube is a well thought out proven machine as is, but adding different trays with different mats doesn't hurt anything. The gold cube trommels come with 3/16 holes stock, so yours was modified from the start. My 3/16" gold cube trommel runs great with the stock mat.

 

[Bonaro]

Personally, I don't care for Dream mat. The only advantage I can give it is faster cleanups.
Everything that is not gold, is waste...work on removing that first.
The gold in the pic is quite a bit larger than 300 mesh. Figure out what the largest pieces are and screen to twice larger and toss the waste. Consider devising a way to remove magnetics before it gets cubed.

 

[russau]

When I was dredging I would remove the magnetics in my sluice at the head end of the dredges sluice . To do this I made 3 pcs of 3/4 in. plastic pipe that stretched across sluice and had super magnets inside of that tube and had the ends caped off . these tubes were secured to the sluice sides and were positioned about a inch above the water /material I would periodically pull 1 tube out at a time and cleaned it off while running the dredge. This helped me a lot! I would pan the magnetics later !