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!!!

[gold_tutor]

Well, I'm having more fun than a pig in slop, as they say down on the farm.

I've been continuing my experiments with this fabulous GOLDROP Elutriation tower of inventor John Richmond, Sluice Goose Industries, Albany OR. It was approximatly 11 pounds before the bilgepump, etc., and I've got it down to under 7 pounds now, and have it mounted onto an aluminum tripod what was originally an easel tripod, with extendable aluminum legs.

It is such a joy to set up, and run now. Where as my 5'7" frame could barely see over the very large hopper for the he-males amongs us.

One of the things I've also done is change out that gonzo black, OEM round hopper of John's for a sloped bottom, offset, automotive funnel. Inserted into back of the red funnel in the pix, I've slipped the top water feed so that it makes a gentle arc and due to gravity, the 1/2# of cones slips and slides at a pretty steady rate into the funnel neck and down into the tower for separating then capturing.

I'm having so much fun, primarily because I'm seeing gold in darn near every capture jar that I dump into the regular sized GOLD CLAW when I empty the capture jar, which is often now that I've got this working jiiiiiiis right!

The relaxing sound of falling water out of the tailings pipe fitting, and the certain knowledge that I'm more than 95% guaranteed to get at least some color out of everything I'm running whether from local creeks, sandpits, Oregon beach cons, or sacks of "Washed" Quik Crete sand from HOME DEPOT, or black beach sands from Cape Disappointment in Washington State, you name it.

I'm seeing gold.

Boy, seeing gold every darn time takes the work out of running and finishing off "run of mine" or all the potato salad containers of cons I've never finished up until now, from years and years and years ago.

I'm operating now this test unit as primarily a finishing machine...only running material from -20 down to -50. Since I can clearly see through this unit's crystal clear elutriation chamber, I know when the material has worked down the same con twice. Then I crank up a specific value increasing velocity, send the gangue spinning up and into the tailings tube, CLOSE the gate valve above the capture jar, untwist it, empty the jar. VOILA...all those pretty gold specks and flakes. JUST WOW.

I haven't had this much fun since 1988 when I first learned to pan and thought I'd died and gone to heaven, getting to actually do THAT one on my bucket list.

I can't wait until this thing is on the market for the rest of you, that's how close to being done with the testing that John has me doing.

Just had to check in and give an update.