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]

Recognizable Gold YouTube videographer, teacher, gold claim owner, and long-time Patreon content creator, prospector/adventurer Dan Hurd, is one of the newest users of the Sluice Goose elutriation gold separator, GOLDROP which I have been featuring on this forum since about May 4, 2018 when I spotted it in person at a GPAA gold show in Boise ID before I became the first outside the family, individual beta testor. KellyCo is now the national distributor and doing a fine job.

Dan has some pre-YT. full-color publicity stills currently in a collage format, and now out on the net, advertising his intent to demonstrate and showcase his use of this new fascinating GOLDROP tool in the goldprospector's universe.

Stay tuned for my follow-up post, with the url to his new YT when it is released. OR, go ahead and beat me to posting the link. Won't hurt inventor John Richmond's feelings in the slightest.

Get out and get some shiny this year. Enjoy the hunt, Colorado Prospectors, and the rest of us!

[gold_tutor]

Dan Hurd just released this hot, July 25, Sunday morning, his 3rd YT video showing how he used the GOLDROP as a separator, to harvest 10 GRAMS from an 84 CY small machine operation. This is the contact layer of topsoil and first gravel layer, a test just to see how much gold was in this first phase of machine mining his claim. About 28 minutes long, and pretty fast moving, it's a nice paced video.

Grab your beverage and take a look. $8-ish dollars a cu yard is not economical, but for a test, and $600+ real, sellable gold in his pocket, it's not a poke in the eye, either. Trommel, two sluices, then Angus MacKirk, 12v. Tremor Sieve Shaker (still available) , Dan quickly hand-panned the 2 larger size, sieves, AND saved the smaller +1/8th mesh, and +1/16 mesh for the GOLDROP. Good plan, Dan

I would hope he'd save the cons which fell through the 1/16th and would actually table them, frankly. Even for contact zone topsoil/gravel, there are definitely smaller, fine gold in this 84 cy layer. The fine fine, under .0625" is most likely quite startling, which is why one needs a table, Dan.

Dan Hurd uses GOLDROP elutriation separator in 84 cy test run

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Dan Hurd's teaser ad for FIRST of 3 vids demonstrating GOLDROP

Recognizable Gold YouTube videographer, teacher, gold claim owner, and long-time Patreon content creator, prospector/adventurer Dan Hurd, is one of the newest users of the Sluice Goose elutriation gold separator, GOLDROP which I have been featuring on this forum since about May 4, 2018 when I spotted it in person at a GPAA gold show in Boise ID before I became the first outside the family, individual beta tester. KellyCo is now the national distributor for GOLDROP and doing a fine job.

Dan has some pre-YT. full-color publicity stills currently in a collage format, and now out on the net, advertising his intent to demonstrate and showcase his use of this new fascinating GOLDROP tool in the goldprospector's universe.

Stay tuned for my follow-up post, with the url to his new YT when it is released. OR, go ahead and beat me to posting the link. Won't hurt inventor John Richmond's feelings in the slightest.

Get out and get some shiny this year. Enjoy the hunt, Colorado Prospectors, and the rest of us!