Gold Rush Nugget Bucket

I have one. It's great for sampling. Reduces to a super concentrate. Great for the girlfriend. She likes the idea that she can trap gems in the classifiers. It traps the gold. For a hundred bucks it's not such poor man type product compared to some sluices. Maybe not for the seasoned prospector but it works. If you have teenagers this is perfect. They would be hooked. It's a classifier a concentrator and with pan tweezers and snuffers and vials and a magnet. All carried in one bucket. Compare it to a portable beer making kit. Lol. Both make gold and both get you hooked. Lol.
 

Been discussed before, fluid beds, I'll see if I can't find the diy video. Watching this one, I'd say classification is a MPIA.






And now watch this



How quickly he gets down to fines and which do you think is gonna clean better?
 

Great option for places where sluices are not allowed since in that case you are going to be classifying anyway. If allowed to use this in a hands n pans only place, I'm confident this would improve your recovery. I did notice he spends a lot of time bent over as he worked...not sure how long most people's backs would hold up to that work posture. I think I would put the bucket up on a rock or something to protect my back, etc.
 

You mean work smarter not harder :tongue3:
The ol back gets quite a workout prospecting and mining more so than any job that I ever had.

I'm always looking for an easier way nowadays. That's why everything I own that's heavy either has wheels or a motor!

GG~
 

I had this same idea a few years ago but never got around to building it. I was going to use it in Murfreesboro to try to find diamonds. I wonder how well this would work for them.
 

After watching more than one of the video's, above, it looks to be
little more than a 2 stage classifier with a funnel for the small material
to flow through into a catch-tub at the bottom. What am I missing here?

In JCAZ's first video, the fellow has quite a few buckets full of material
he's planning on running, but at little more than 2 shovel scoops at a time
(with associated labor to classify) he's going to need a pizza delivered..why?
'Cause it's going to take so long he's sure to miss a few meals!

Is there some additional action happening (unseen) that reduces the
classified materials to just black sand, or that is washing out the lightweight
small material before it gets to the panning stage?

What am I not seeing here that makes this worthwhile?...:icon_scratch:
 

I realize this is quite an old post, but i had to chime in.

I got one for the kids this Christmas and they really dug it.
My brother got one for his kids and my brother-in law got on for his kids.
So 6 nephews hammering the steams this upcoming summer.
The desert in the winter- Mammoth in the summer.
At the Beach too int the summer.
This little unit will be with us on every camping trip!
I may get one more just to have permanently in the trailer.

The bottom catch cup is basically acting as a fluid bed fed via gravity.
It works really quite well with a steady flow of material and water.
The kids are great at it. one shoveling and one stratifying.

I think this would work awesome to sample a new canyon and get a real good concentration at each location you try.
5 or 6 buckets worth in in 10 mins max....maybe
Pour the cons in a zip lock and label it. move on the next spot.
seems to work real well at concentrating due to the fluid bed action.
It's pretty much full-proof for the wife and kids too.

Kudos to the designer!!
I think the package is quite a brilliant design in both functionality and overall thought put into the layout .
K.I.S.S engineering at work for sure.


Perfect for the kids and wife like I said.
Price might be a little high for what you really have, but they do have some custom parts that they've got tooling costs to amortize for sure.
Sure - they could have gone to a Chinese production facility and get it down to $49.99.
but it's made here in the states by a small company doing the American way.
So I support em!!!
And they work with you on multi-order too so that's cool.

I am curious to see how well this thing might dry-wash?

Cheers

G
 

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G-bone said:
I realize this is quite an old post, but i had to chime in.

I got one for the kids this Christmas and they really dug it.
My brother got one for his kids and my brother-in law got on for his kids.
So 6 nephews hammering the steams this upcoming summer.
The desert in the winter- Mammoth in the summer.
At the Beach too int the summer.
This little unit will be with us on every camping trip!
I may get one more just to have permanently in the trailer.

The bottom catch cup is basically acting as a fluid bed fed via gravity.
It works really quite well with a steady flow of material and water.
The kids are great at it. one shoveling and one stratifying.

I think this would work awesome to sample a new canyon and get a real good concentration at each location you try.
5 or 6 buckets worth in in 10 mins max....maybe
Pour the cons in a zip lock and label it. move on the next spot.
seems to work real well at concentrating due to the fluid bed action.
It's pretty much full-proof for the wife and kids too.

Kudos to the designer!!
I think the package is quite a brilliant design in both functionality and overall thought put into the layout .
K.I.S.S engineering at work for sure.


Perfect for the kids and wife like I said.
Price might be a little high for what you really have, but they do have some custom parts that they've got tooling costs to amortize for sure.
Sure - they could have gone to a Chinese production facility and get it down to $49.99.
but it's made here in the states by a small company doing the American way.
So I support em!!!
And they work with you on multi-order too so that's cool.

I am curious to see how well this thing might dry-wash?

Cheers

G
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I respect your opinion. Some new"ideas" work. I like the made in Oregon aspect.:icon_thumright:

I still would like to try one.
 

A new miner came on my claim last year and was using one of these. He really didn't have any experience with mining yet so I went down and worked it with him for maybe 20 minutes. The spot he had chosen to work, we had worked out a few weeks before and he didn't know that he was on an active claim. But I always do my best to encourage the new miners that I find working my claims and this happens on a weekly basis. It is a beginners tool because it classifies and concentrates for you. But it is perfect for the kids or beginners. After he showed me how it works I taught him a bit about looking for gold location in a river and then sent him down stream a little to a good hole where he worked with us for the rest of the day and found his first nugget. A sluice is a better tool for anyone but for the beginner, this is great :)
 

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