GOLDIE, My Goldrop test unit from Sluice Goose Inventor, Exciting New Tool for small, medium scale miners Options

[gold_tutor]

Hi, All!

This is a new thread, inspired by the 2004 thread I started when I first got my hands on the old "Gold Separator" tiny unit which I purchased off of eBay on a hunch and then wrote about here, when Gat chimed in and helped make it work better but not as good as what I'm introducing here today.

Here's the OLD, Original CP forum thread from 2004:

Old CP thread I started on Gat's and My tiny gold separator

Here's my existing unit, GOLDIE I call her, which I'm currently beta testing for Sluice Goose Industries out of Albany OR which has not put these into production yet:



THIS ONE, My GOLDIE, totally HAS ME JAZZED.

Miner, Refiner, and entrepreneur, David Emslie right there in your sweet state, Denise, has seen this at the GPAA shows since May of 2018, and is also Jazzed about this unit and its performance for his reclamation mine which will be online in the next 5 weeks, and start chewing away at those tailings piles around his site. Colorado Approved, and county licensed, and lining up the old mines in the area, Dave wants to use units like my GOLDIE which John built, instead of totally relying upon gynormous tables already built and ready to be site mounted.

David Varabioff of "Motherlode Gold" (GoldBay Gold) is jazzed about getting his hands on a Goldrop unit shortly for his Colorado Quartz Gold Mine in No. California. Yes, the one he sells paydirt from and also finds those scarey beautiful Crystalized Gold Specimens, which just take my breath away.

Thirdly, Yuba Industries, a well known-- at least on this left coast-- miner, is also Jazzed after their initial salted cons test returned very high percentage of gold in their run of table cons when they just completed testing Goldrop. Salted 14 grams, recaptured 13g, aka 93% capture. I know nothing of the mesh sizes nor the composition of the con, nor the beginning weight/volume of cons, just got the report.

THIS 31" unit (adding the changeout catchment jar at the bottom of this "goose" adds another 5" in height), is a verrrrrrry small footprint unit and I predict will obsolete Shaker tables in both speed and rate of capture in the very near future.

This unit, since it is a closed system ELIMINATES the skating/kiting High Corey Factor gold losses from those flat, FLAT gold flakes, and all the floaters, too. ALL THAT, yes, They ALL end up in the catchment jar, and thus into your snuffer bottle for taking directly to the bank, and in short order. This is so satisfying.

I can process a 5 gal bucket of 3/16 screened cons in my GOLDIE in less than 20 minutes, and smile like a Chesire Cat.
Uses an 1100 GPH bilge pump, only 3 AMPs DC, and a gallon a minute. This is IDEAL for portable Solar Panel constant charging while processing, AND a recirc system, since it uses a gallon a minute in water.

I LOVE my "GOLDIE!"

Let's visit about this, CP'ers!!

Glad to be back with such good news, after 15yrs "doin' my thang" but never far away from my pan...which, BTW, I've traded in for the fabulous GOLD CLAW pan. WHEW!!! This is a WALK-OFF, 2 - Run homer to use Colorado Rockies' Baseball color commentary!!!

[Denise]

Good to have you back! Sounds like a great adventure you have embarked upon! I wish you all the best of luck.

[gold_tutor]

Good to have you back! Sounds like a great adventure you have embarked upon! I wish you all the best of luck.

Thank you, Denise. So good to "hear" your voice again, in this forum. I have been gone a long time. Yes, this is quite the adventure. The gold is so pretty and yellow which gets caught in the jar at the bottom, I'm really tickled.

I'm trying many dirts from multiple sources. I have been also using a DC powered sieve shaker for the top of a 5gal bucket unit which makes short work of the classification process. Since most the gold I have access too is pretty small, this just helps my time on the GOLDROP to be more effective.

This elutriation process is the BEEEEEEE'S KNEES! LOL

Here's what it looks like when it's not set up and I want it moved. (Well, sure I could carry it...it only weighs 9# after all) Somebody had to take the pix, right??? I'm no good at the "selfie" stuff.

BTW, Just out of curiousity, I took a GC tray WITH vortex mat to the USPS to put it on "official scales". Then I multiplied, 1 tray x 4 to get the 4-stack GCube weight without pump or stand.

DIMENSIONS:
GOLDROP : 9 lbs total.
GCUBE 4 stack: 22 1/2 lbs total

HEIGHT/LENGTH
GOLDROP: 31" stem to stern
GCUBE: 4 Stack 20" top to bottom

GIRTH/WIDTH
GOLDROP: girth--> 2" Diameter
GCube: girth 13 inch width

These are just some comps I thought to measure.

ANNNNNNNNNNNNND, then there's this:
I don't have to wash out the GOLDROP like I do the GCube trays/mats, NOR pan out the GCcons out of the GC mat, etc.....
Elutriation does that collecting and sorting for me, and collects the gold into an unbreakable jar at the bottom. VOILA

TIME FROM BUCKET TO GOLD IN HAND: using scoop and plop method:
(and yes, I'm working using putting my continuous feed, Joel Farmer of USProspector, vibratory hopper in line for this GOLDROP Not happy with GCube surge and scour feed system. I'm scooping and plopping with the GOLDROP, too, currently.)

Scoop method of 5gal bucket
GOLDROP: 5 gals raw material every 20 minutes or less.
GCUBE: haven't ever measured that one. Maybe someone would chime in and tell me how much time it takes to run a 5gal through a 4 stack? I truly don't know.

GRAB the gold, once and done >>>>if I do it right with the GOLDROP. AND FAAAAST? WHEW!
That's why I'm practicing with this test unit. I LOVE those effeciency and speed and weight numbers:

Now you see a few of the reasons I'm so jazzed with this puppy!!!!!