Gold Nugget Bucket

johnedoe said:
When I lived in Alaska I had caught fish on a bare hook.... just jigged it along a little....... Man I miss those days.... There you actually went catchin instead of fishin....:laughing7:
On Prince of Whales Island the easiest fish I ever got was a coho salmon with my gaff. It had nosed into a V of rocks and the tide had gone out to a point he had no where to go.... just reached down and picked him out with the gaff.
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Bare hook? Sounds like you were fishing for Sockeye. Just a bare red hook
trolled behind a small flasher and they'll pounce on it. Guess it mimics the
shrimp they eat.

Had a day on my beach some years back, and the Coho were so
thick in the river that while you were casting for one, another one
would be resting in the eddy created by the water whirling around
your legs/waders.

When the Chum are running a guy can wear himself out real quick;
soon as you release one you're hooked up again. They run 12#-25#,
and are like trying to haul in a pickup truck that wants to go the
other direction....:occasion14:
 

johnedoe said:
Just another "Gizmo"... Mining equipment is a lot like fishing lures..... It catches more miners than gold........:laughing7:
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You said it. In the Klondike gold rush the guys who made the real money were the outfitters. Not much has changed.

This looks like a neat product. It looks a little flimsy if you ask me. I don't think it would hold up to the rugged trips that I usually go on. It might make a good concentrator to use in your garage though. Hard to say without a field trial though.
 

This bucket system is an interesting idea. I already use a classifier in a bucket and then pan what gets washed to the bottom , but the funnel and fluid bed like action in the cup may just take it a step farther and reduce the amount that has to be panned afterwards. Though my problem is just about all the gold in my area is super fine thin flakes or specks that may float or wash out of that cup at the bottom.
 

That was another thing I was thinking about Ohiochris. Has anyone used this, multiple times, and gotten some decent fines/tiny flat flates that have a tendency to float, out of it?

If he cuts the price to $25 I'll demo it and make a video for the guy >.>
 



I've thought about making one from 5 and a 3 gal stacking buckets.

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The inventor was on Shark Tank and now has an investor. They want to sell them at Walmart, Cabela's etc.
price might go down....or..it might go up!
 

I finally have mine out of customs! will hopefully trial it in the next week or two...
 

Awe the great rotopan, bought one when they first came out, all I can say is that it is a great classifier, good also when working clay gravels. When I used it some gold did stay in the trap but the majority of gold went into the bucket and this was course gold I was mining.
 

et1955 said:
Awe the great rotopan, bought one when they first came out, all I can say is that it is a great classifier, good also when working clay gravels. When I used it some gold did stay in the trap but the majority of gold went into the bucket and this was course gold I was mining.
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Where do you think the fine gold will go in that nugget bucket?
 

More rounded pieces will likely settle and stay. Flattened "foil" pieces may float/skate out though many will stay. Just the nature of the beast.
 

SunshineMiner said:
Dizzy... Now that you say that.. That might not be a bad item to have on hand when you're in a Hands and Pans only area! This would be your bucket/classifier and you still have your pan! You're legal! A BGT would be illegal in such places. There is a place here in California called Knights Ferry that still has some good gold in it. Unfortunately it is a hands and pan area only. I'm thinking this would have actually done me some good as I probably could have processed more material!
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A lot of the "hands and pans" areas near me are literally, hands and pans. You are only allowed to dig with your pan, nothing else. No scoops, shovels or trowels. The whole point it to keep you out of there. This bucket contraption would get you into trouble on the Yuba.
 

The Gilded Lens said:
A lot of the "hands and pans" areas near me are literally, hands and pans. You are only allowed to dig with your pan, nothing else. No scoops, shovels or trowels. The whole point it to keep you out of there. This bucket contraption would get you into trouble on the Yuba.
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This brings up a question about my favorite river the Smith. (Hands and pans) only.
Doc (Gold hog) has this.

Large Gold Pan - The Hog Pan

It is considered a gold pan. so....does the Forest circus/BLM also?
I have a Garrett 15" super sluice...so I can dig with it?
I can move a lot of material being a "hefty" individual:laughing7:
So is there a limit to how much material you can move with a pan?
Garrett super sluice is just a shovel without a handle. And it's green...:laughing7:
 

Oregon Viking said:
This brings up a question about my favorite river the Smith. (Hands and pans) only.
Doc (Gold hog) has this.

Large Gold Pan - The Hog Pan

It is considered a gold pan. so....does the Forest circus/BLM also?
I have a Garrett 15" super sluice...so I can dig with it?
I can move a lot of material being a "hefty" individual:laughing7:
So is there a limit to how much material you can move with a pan?
Garrett super sluice is just a shovel without a handle. And it's green...:laughing7:
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Exactly!!! I need to bend a metal pan and have someone weld a handle to it and ta da! PanScoop Pro! ©Gilded
Who has a welder?
 

I received a nugget bucket as a gift last year and my first thought was since I have a lot of other equipment I would never use it.

I set it up yesterday just to test it and I am impressed with it's apparent efficiency. I first took about 3 gallons of unclassified sand, silt and gravel from a wash next to my house, ran about a gallon of it then mixed in about a tablespoon of oregon beach sand (all minus 100 mesh mostly black sand) and finished up the run. I dried and classified the concentrates and panned the minus 100 mesh. Found one tiny color and that is about what I usually get when panning the bare black sand that I added since it has already been panned. I kept those concentrates with the one color left in to add to my next test. To make my next test a tougher one, I screened about 3 more gallons of wash material to minus 1/8" and repeated the test adding about a tablespoon more of the beach sand and my previous concentrates. I dried and classified the new cons and panned the minus 100 mesh. Results: 3 minus 100 mesh gold colors. This was not a conclusive test but it is enough to impress me. My guess is it will likely catch anything larger than 100 mesh and it appears to be capable of catching most of the gold smaller than 100 mesh too.

I recirculated water by setting it up elevated in a black mixing tub from Ace and scooped the water with a bucket. The second test took only about 10 to 15 minutes max to run so it probably can compete, volume wise, with some motorized recirc sluice systems (?)

I forgot to add above that I added a handfull of marbles to the catch bowl. According to the instructions, a handfull of marble sized rocks is recommended when running sands.
 

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Just heard about this today cause I left TV on and Shark Tank came on with sound off and it caught my eye. Read most of the posts. Some mentioned the floaties going away but how do you put Jet Dry in a sluice anyway ? I may have to try this as I can get the grandkids to do the heavy lifting and pan it later at home :)
The bucket lined with a hefty bag can be used as a toilet also. Just a thought....
 

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greydigger said:
Just heard about this today cause I left TV on and Shark Tank came on with sound off and it caught my eye. Read most of the posts. Some mentioned the floaties going away but how do you put Jet Dry in a sluice anyway ? I may have to try this as I can get the grandkids to do the heavy lifting and pan it later at home :)
The bucket lined with a hefty bag can be used as a toilet also. Just a thought....
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I would say excellent choice for kids. Might do a clean up or two while saving concentrates for better cleanup at home. The glint of gold in the pan at the creek may give them incentive to keep digging and loading.

Have fun with the grandkids.
 

Any recent reviews of the Nugget Bucket? I've yet to really test it, hoping to try it out in the next week or two out here though.
 

Saw they are now carrying these at Sportsman's Warehouse...I believe it was something like $119.99, for anyone who may be interested.
 

HardHatMatt said:
Saw they are now carrying these at Sportsman's Warehouse...I believe it was something like $119.99, for anyone who may be interested.
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The price has gotten better, nice to see!
 

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