Finds sluicing panning salt sand road mix !

[Ben Cartwright SASS]

We I finally ran my 5 gallon bucket of salt sand road mix through my sluice and panned out the black sand, there was quite a bit of black sand.

I found two pieces of micro gold, slightly bigger than flour gold but too small to pick with a fine tweezers. I think I lost one when I was trying to put it in the glass bottle

 

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[63bkpkr]

Howdy Ben,
It has been my experience that when one shifts, moves, sorts, looks at by pouring out or in anyway messes with
ones gold that some of it always seems to slip away. Your comment about your possible lost 'piece' adds to my experience and feelings of this theory.

Good Success in the future with your prospecting.........63bkpkr

 

[midnightmoon]

Ahh, New England ingenuity!
Doesn't the sand mix come from the Mojave? No more paying for bagged concentrates for you folks; not when the city is pouring it down the street for you.
Awesome idea!

 

[Ben Cartwright SASS]

I can go to the DPW yard where they have tons of the stuff and pick up buckets full for free! I will have to get some more and try it again!

 

[Goodyguy]

I've heard of folks finding fine gold in bags of sand from Home Depot and Lowes.
I might try a bag or two this winter.

GG~

 

[TerryC]

I've heard of folks finding fine gold in bags of sand from Home Depot and Lowes.
I might try a bag or two this winter.

GG~

GoodGuy. I read that right here on Tnet. Don't remember who, though. I suppose the amount would depend on where in the country that particular Home Depot gets its sand. Take care, friend. TTC

 

[TAKODA]

Howdy Ben,
It has been my experience that when one shifts, moves, sorts, looks at by pouring out or in anyway messes with
ones gold that some of it always seems to slip away. Your comment about your possible lost 'piece' adds to my experience and feelings of this theory.

Good Success in the future with your prospecting.........63bkpkr

Quoting 63bkpkr ;

"It has been my experience that when one shifts, moves, sorts, looks at by pouring out or in anyway messes with ones gold that some of it always seems to slip away."


funny cause it's often true . I'm gona get a fresh beer on that one
packer .

 

[charlotte49er]

Gold Fever on the Outdoor Channel did a show entitled, "Urban Jungle". Tom was at Home Depot picking up bags of sand. You want to get motar/cement sand, as play sand has been washed several times to remove the dirt and trash. (And gold!)

However, as TerryC pointed out, it depends on where they get the sand from. Around Charlotte, NC. You can just about dig anywhere and find at least some specs of gold.

Then there's gold in the asphalt that used to pave streets. The story goes, that a guy was walking by and somethng shiny caught his eye in the street in Old Fort, NC. He pulled out his pocket knife and dug out a 2+ gram gold nugget!

 

[Goodyguy]

I just wonder if any sand and gravel companies sell black sand

 

[Ben Cartwright SASS]

I need to get back to DPW their road sand had plenty of black sand, more than I found up in New Hampshire.

 

[Jason in Enid]

Yep, you can go to any home improvement store and buy a bag of unscreened sand. Pan it or run it through a cleanup sluice and you are likely to find a few flakes of gold. Some people have found small pickers.

 

[Astrobouncer]

Here's a pic of a bag of sand I got for my turtles (either from Lowes or Home Depot dont remember which). I panned some of it out and yep, it had some -100 mesh in there as well as black sand.

 

[BangTango]

I read somewhere that the lowe's and home depot people are now salting there sands with a lil gold micro to build up sales of there sand to sale more to us gold panners- I wrote that down somewhere and read it...I Believe everything I read..lol JK.!

 

[Ben Cartwright SASS]

If it was on the internet you can believe it, they can't put anything that isn't true on the internet!

Where did I hear that? THE INTERNET

 

[Jason in Enid]

If it was on the internet you can believe it, they can't put anything that isn't true on the internet!

Where did I hear that? THE INTERNET

Are you dating a french model you met on the internet?

 

[Ben Cartwright SASS]

Are you dating a french model you met on the internet?

 

[Darrenjay]

Just ran a bag of construction sand through my sluice, some very fine flour gold and one fine

 

[Ben Cartwright SASS]

Great, book look where you live, wait S. Africa is known for diamonds, any stones in there?

 

[Darrenjay]

Not in my are, but i live right by the witwatersrand gold reef, one of the richest gold areas in the world

 

[Ben Cartwright SASS]

WOW! Here in New England we have gold but it is far and few between and a lot of competition for it.