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Posted by: Crusty Nov 19 2016, 11:30 PM

Saw this on Facebook today. Thoughts? Find it hard to believe it won't take micron with it, but they claim it won't

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-uDYPzDPmk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb0_qpGIEFo

https://www.facebook.com/blacksandspinoff/videos/1826624197558771/

http://www.nwdetectors.com/metaldetectors/pc/Spin-it-Off-119-99-p408.htm

Posted by: johnnybravo300 Nov 20 2016, 07:58 PM

That seems like an extreme amount of magnetite, even for cons. Wow
I have a cheap spring thumb push magnet that works awesome but I don't even use it much.
Seems useful if you have bucket fulls of magnetite but who does? That's a very strange invention indeed.

Posted by: Crusty Nov 21 2016, 08:46 AM

I think they're using a lot of black sand just to make the point. Most interesting video is the second link where it pulls the black sand out of a snuffer bottle. If it could do that without taking any micron with it, that would be quite a handy tool! But at $120, it is an expensive experiment lol

Posted by: swizz Nov 21 2016, 10:05 AM

Price point seems way too high. I can remove magnetic black sands from my snuffer bottle just as fast with my $1.25 neodymium magnet dragging it up the side of the bottle as she did. I see that it looks to work well for large volumes of concentrate which are screed out to about 2" depth. I just have never found myself in that situation. It may be worth it for large operations? Any magnet will pinch a certain amount of micron out of the concentrate and that's super easy to pan out, usually very minuscule.

Posted by: Crusty Nov 29 2016, 07:42 AM

Watched a bunch of videos and curiosity got the best of me, so I ordered one.

Need to get out in the creek and stop sitting at home watching videos on mining equipment ;)

Posted by: Kjelsner Nov 29 2016, 08:53 AM

I was out on CC Saturday and it was quite chilly.

Posted by: swizz Nov 29 2016, 01:55 PM

Any ice forming yet?

Posted by: Kjelsner Nov 29 2016, 09:09 PM

Yes. Ice is forming. From ice to ice the creek was only about 20ft wide. Stuff on near the shore was 2 to 3 inches thick.

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