Show off your home panning station

[PurpleGold]

I'm in the process of making a cons cleanup station in my basement. I'm heading to Home Depot today to look at big wash tubs for panning. I want to make an area that I can sit comfortably and pan. There must be other prospectors on TNet that have an aching back like myself. I'd like to see if anyone can give me ideas on how to be as comfy as possible when panning at home. I almost feel like standing may be easier on the back. Show off your home panning setup!

 

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[Goldwasher]

Here's my clean up shack.

 

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[arizau]

Here's my clean up shack.

Love the drain on the tub.

 

[KevinInColorado]

Coolest shack ever, I'm inspired!

 

[Duckwalk]

Dont have a permanent station but here is what i do in the winter when my material is frozen...

https://youtu.be/BdyGJ-r9HEw

Edit: after watching this video again, i have gotten about 1000 times faster by now...

 

[Goldwasher]

Coolest shack ever, I'm inspired!

As you can see its on the cheap. The framing is pine from our property. The roof was a tarp for a while. I took a shed down for a coworker of my wife's I turned that into roofing.Thats where the pavers came from also. The table for the blue bowl came from a country club I was the chef at. The pro shop was tossing it (I also made a trade of golf clubs to a n antique/junk shop in town once )
Every Home Depot has a cull wood rack.....does Lowe's? I don't live in town if I did I would be at the cull wood rack a couple times a week!
The blue bowl and recirc set up and gold that is processed in it, is worth way more than the shack and that's the way I like it !!!!!!!

 

[SchoolOfHardRocks]

Sick Hat.

 

[SchoolOfHardRocks]

Question: I have 30/50/70/100 mesh classifiers coming in the mail today. I've been finding a significant amount of fine gold lately and need to more efficiently clean-out my cons. It's currently taking me FOREVER panning it out a teaspoon at a time. Is it better to classify cons wet or do I need to dry it out first?

 

[arizau]

Question: I have 30/50/70/100 mesh classifiers coming in the mail today. I've been finding a significant amount of fine gold lately and need to more efficiently clean-out my cons. It's currently taking me FOREVER panning it out a teaspoon at a time. Is it better to classify cons wet or do I need to dry it out first?

These are just from my observations. Dry material moves more readily across the screens leading to quicker classification. Bumping and bouncing the screens helps too but is pretty hard to do effectively under water. When underwater, the sides of the screens inhibit water flow across the material in them and material in general just moves slower due to water resistance. Works but.....you have to get pretty aggressive to spread the material on the screen otherwise it will just stack up. Wet screening helps to break up mud clods and cleans mud covered material but you probably won't have many or any in those small sizes. In either case......it is easy to overload the screens leading to incomplete classification so.....

 

[mytimetoshine]

Question: I have 30/50/70/100 mesh classifiers coming in the mail today. I've been finding a significant amount of fine gold lately and need to more efficiently clean-out my cons. It's currently taking me FOREVER panning it out a teaspoon at a time. Is it better to classify cons wet or do I need to dry it out first?

Wet

 

[Goldwasher]

Agreed the density doesn't kick in until water is involved!

 

[PurpleGold]

Mike Pung of Gold Cube fame has cons cleanups videos on YouTube. He classifies dry. I prefer to classify wet. Either way works you just have to work it.
Here's his link
https://youtu.be/aajaVGqQwfQ

 

[gold tramp]

Went to post a pic of my finishing area and noticed its just to dirty, even my shaker tables covered in slurry.
after looking a youall stuff i was a little embarrased of my dirty station.
when i move it this summer i will get a good clean pic for youall to see what a hard rock miners station looks like.
GT.............

 

[Asmbandits]

Went to post a pic of my finishing area and noticed its just to dirty, even my shaker tables covered in slurry.
after looking a youall stuff i was a little embarrased of my dirty station.
when i move it this summer i will get a good clean pic for youall to see what a hard rock miners station looks like.
GT.............

No shame GT, just means it's getting used constantly and that's a good thing. Always love ur posts especially with pics! You call it dirty id say it's hard work I can tell the difference and I love seeing it.

 

[PurpleGold]

The dirtier the better

 

[mike(swWash)]

I'm not finished with it yet but it'll do for now....

 

[Duckwalk]

I'm not finished with it yet but it'll do for now....

The video is private, gotta make it public.

 

[mike(swWash)]

Fixed the video Thanks