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[omnicron]

The only rocks that I have hang up on my sluice is rectangular bedrock, so I just avoid them. This creek was buck-line dredged many years ago so I only have to move 1% of all the rocks. What is the most time consuming is busting out the bedrock.

With my last clean out I am well over a ounce now.

 

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[Oakview2]

Atta boy Omni :-) you may be making wages, but sooner or later you are going two hit that good pay. I feel your pain, we switched to GH matting and even though we had our best weekend, the box was loading up with magnetics, and I was finding 4-6 pieces in every pan of tailings. We are carving up our Keene riffles this week and tweaking and the first piles to hit will be our tailings piles.

Oh and yes I receive other money btw...I'm a porn star. Every time someone watches one of my 1000's of movies I gee t paid! Duh!

 

[omnicron]

I'm just being sarcastic about being a porn star...

Oak, good luck getting your mats dialed in. I've been running my sluice at around 3/4" a foot and engines at about 2900 to 3000 rpm's and they are saying I need to get more engine speed and pitch to increase my water velocity. I was figuring that Doc's not running high pressure pumps and I am, so I was thinking I didn't need to run my engines as fast! Based on my recovery I figured I was dialed. When I was in this bluish material that was under this very hard rusty crusty layer...I'm assuming it would be called "blue lead"...I tested my tailing and found substantial losses. Considering I cleaned out at 2.5 hours and pulled 3 grams I was surprised I had losses! Sure hope I'm able to get it dialed in for the Salmon River next week...

 

[goldgit'r]

The GH mats work well in a high banker, not so much in a dredge.
You have to run about 2'' per ft of drop on the sluice and you need fast water, it's hard to get that with a dredge, especially a large one.
I have tried the mats in a 2'' and got them to work but doing so created other issues so I went back to my old set up.
I still use GH mats in one of my high bankers.
Good luck with your endeavor.

Wes

 

[Oakview2]

Our claim mates are using the GH matts in a four inch proline, 6.5 honda and Hp 400, same powerplant as us, and they are running pretty much wide open and back the throttle up to where the engine just changes pitch, and they are losing little or nothing. We are hoping that our changes will do the same. We got almost a half in four hours of really fine gold, but the losses were substantial. I knew you were kidding just got a kick out of your comment. Good health and good hunting

 

[omnicron]

Pitch adjustment is not a problem, I built it into my dredge. I was just going off what Doc told me in a email about running the sluice as flat as I could get away with.

Oak, a half in 4 hours would rock! I'm assuming you saying a half ounce.

 

[principedeleon]

The only rocks that I have hang up on my sluice is rectangular bedrock, so I just avoid them. This creek was buck-line dredged many years ago so I only have to move 1% of all the rocks. What is the most time consuming is busting out the bedrock.

With my last clean out I am well over a ounce now.

oh okay; now it sounds better to me.
keep it up. i cant wait to start dredging this heat is killing me.. it feels in the +100F.