GoldGodAndGuns
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- Apr 8, 2015
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Hello treasure hunters!
So I got a good deal last X-Mas on a 12" GoldWell sluice.
Saved like $300 so, why not?
However, the documentation available for it is slim to none.
I read on another prospector forum that one can do well over 10 tons per hour, another at 25, another at 50 and anywhere in between.
That again, didn't mention their screening size if any, I see the most results for GoldWell regularly come from treasurenet.com.
I know it can handle 3x as much dirt as a as a regular sluice... I also cannot find those numbers so it don't help me much.
I am fabricating a trommel for it and don't want to overkill it, like I don't want to under feed it, I am looking at the sluice's capacity.
I know, I am building backwards but that's how I work... hard build around a crown jewel.
Surely, the trommel is for screening screen and determined that 1/4 holes would perform best.
That said, the comments I read elsewhere had no mention of classifying either, so it leaves me confuzzled.
To produce a certain amount of 1/4" screen concentrate, I must feed a lot more dirt than gets put through the wash plant.
However, I discovered the absolute best results were at 5/16" but that's not commercially feasible.
I'd like to see some prospectors results, as in, "I ran 10 tons of 1/4" dirt for an hour easily".
So far I got to learn to not really believe what HM says, I rather pro experience comments, it's always best.
If anything I'd like to see miners talk how they actually overloaded it, what's the breaking point?
Again, documentation is so low and I see more and more miners buying them, they really are a work of art.
On the other hand, I don't want to build a trommel that will overload it... sky's the limit but I'm still geared towards as portable as possible.
Meaning I want each part that can be moved slowly by one man or faster with two or be moved easily and quickly with an ATV and winches.
I'll be filming the build, I'm sure some will get some ideas, I are quite inventive.
Thanks in advance
-GG&G
So I got a good deal last X-Mas on a 12" GoldWell sluice.
Saved like $300 so, why not?
However, the documentation available for it is slim to none.
I read on another prospector forum that one can do well over 10 tons per hour, another at 25, another at 50 and anywhere in between.
That again, didn't mention their screening size if any, I see the most results for GoldWell regularly come from treasurenet.com.
I know it can handle 3x as much dirt as a as a regular sluice... I also cannot find those numbers so it don't help me much.
I am fabricating a trommel for it and don't want to overkill it, like I don't want to under feed it, I am looking at the sluice's capacity.
I know, I am building backwards but that's how I work... hard build around a crown jewel.
Surely, the trommel is for screening screen and determined that 1/4 holes would perform best.
That said, the comments I read elsewhere had no mention of classifying either, so it leaves me confuzzled.
To produce a certain amount of 1/4" screen concentrate, I must feed a lot more dirt than gets put through the wash plant.
However, I discovered the absolute best results were at 5/16" but that's not commercially feasible.
I'd like to see some prospectors results, as in, "I ran 10 tons of 1/4" dirt for an hour easily".
So far I got to learn to not really believe what HM says, I rather pro experience comments, it's always best.
If anything I'd like to see miners talk how they actually overloaded it, what's the breaking point?
Again, documentation is so low and I see more and more miners buying them, they really are a work of art.
On the other hand, I don't want to build a trommel that will overload it... sky's the limit but I'm still geared towards as portable as possible.
Meaning I want each part that can be moved slowly by one man or faster with two or be moved easily and quickly with an ATV and winches.
I'll be filming the build, I'm sure some will get some ideas, I are quite inventive.
Thanks in advance
-GG&G
