Processing serious flour size gold, working with super fine gold Options

[jackragusa]

I read a lot about folks working with a Blue Bowl on very fine gold, but I find it's much slower than just panning . Besides, the seriously fine golds also works it's way out of the blue bowl even under the slowest workable speeds. I have a large bucket of con.s I would love to go thru and I am sure the gold is there but the labor of just panning is just not worth the time. Other than a wave table or a shaker table which is obviously way too expensive to balance out, what choices do I have. Even if there was say an ounce to an ounce and a half of flour gold in the bucket, I would still be making only half of min. wage panning it and I do ok panning. But with panning this size gold, you have to go thru everything three times to insure you didnt miss anything. So please HELP....

[jackragusa]

Boy you guys are tough. When I said min. wage, I was speaking in time spent, not money made. I was just expressing the long and slow process of extracting the fines from the black sands. You see where I work, the material is already at - 50 and smaller. It's very heavy black sands and never needs classifying. Now the gold is similar in size and usually a lot smaller. The gold cube after we tweeked it out catches all the gold very nicely. It just leaves us with about a gallon a days worth of super con.s We are considering on going in on a shaker table with a few of us. Now as for actually making money. You are all wrong. You can make money doing this and we do prove it every day. Nothing wrong with pulling a few grams a day playing on the beach. Now we dont get rich, but we certainly just dont do this for the love of moving hundreds of tons of sand each summer simply because we love redecorating our beaches. I was just looking for maybe a simpler way of extracting very fine gold ( -100 and smaller) from our seriously heavy black sands with out spending a fortune to do it.
Now as for the cube. It is a wonderful piece of equipment. With a little fiddling with, will retain 90 percent of any fine gold you might incounter on the beaches. No it's not perfect, but nothing is. I do recomend you buy the new topper attachment to add to the cube and always use the four stack version when working beach sands. Also, it's not a bad idea to up scale your pump to say 1500 gph on the cube and 2000 gph on the topper. I use two pumps and regulate them down to create a moderate flow thru out the system. But each circumstance is different. I am just saying "dont be affraid to experiment with your cube." You will be supprised with what you come up with. Now we work a beach on the west coast and those of us who regularly put time in on the beach have all paid for our equipment this summer with just our findings and then some....It's no secret of where to go, many go there and some do well and some do ok, but we all find good gold. It's just so dam small.....