idowa
Full Member
- Jan 21, 2012
- 165
- 74
- Detector(s) used
- Tesoro Lobo SuperTraq
- Primary Interest:
- Prospecting
I built my own design wooden sluices and ran concentrates through them from Lynx Creek, which gave me color but I had my doubts that my designs were catching all the gold.
Last weekend, I went to the Agua Fria after buying a brand new Keene A51 and ran about 10 buckets of material from a hole that looked promising, but had very little black sand and nothing in any of my test pans.
However, after I did my clean out, I got one tiny speck of gold but a whole lot of shotgun BBs; something I've only found one or two of in my homemade sluices...
It gave me hope that once I get into the gold, the Keene will hold onto it...
Is my assumption correct; that a sluice catching lots of lead BBs should also catch the gold
?
Last weekend, I went to the Agua Fria after buying a brand new Keene A51 and ran about 10 buckets of material from a hole that looked promising, but had very little black sand and nothing in any of my test pans.
However, after I did my clean out, I got one tiny speck of gold but a whole lot of shotgun BBs; something I've only found one or two of in my homemade sluices...
It gave me hope that once I get into the gold, the Keene will hold onto it...
Is my assumption correct; that a sluice catching lots of lead BBs should also catch the gold
?
