How much gold do you really find?, How much gold do you find Options

[trent]

I would like to know how much gold you find on average and what methods you have used in your figure. I am looking for responses like: "I use a Garrett Scorpion Gold Stinger and a gravity trap pan. I find about an once every five 10 hour days of searching in Colorado." I ask this as I am curious as to see how much most people find. Please don't lie (or exaggerate) as the real gold has always just been, at least to me, enjoying the Creator's creations. If I find no gold or coins I am still happy to be outdoors living ... unlike now as I currently sit behind my desk. Thanks for posting your estimated average! --trent

[gold_tutor]

Hi, Trent. Doing my very best to follow your model given below in the little white quote box:

I am looking for responses like: "I use a Garrett Scorpion Gold Stinger and a gravity trap pan. I find about an once every five 10 hour days of searching in Colorado."

Besides checking ALL quartz and "pretty rocks" with my Falcon Probe detector for that wonderful ping that means EUREKA!!!!....

...I have 4 answers for you, using your model.

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I use my calculator, my list of gold karatage, my list of items I compiled of what I find gold in and on, and my magnifying loupe to locate and acquire a minimum of 4 cheap ounces a month and usually between 8 and 12, right from my computer in eastern Oregon. My average acquisition cost is UNDER $20 per troy oz.

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When I find the gold mentioned above from my computer at such cheap prices, I usually also get between 40 and 80 to 120 oz of silver per month for free, because that is usually attached to the gold I acquire or stuck in the bags I purchase which is extra because the sender thinks the amount is too little to mess with. My average
acquisition cost is UNDER $0 per troy oz , because it is FREE

3
I use a couple of standard tools, PLUS a little flip chart I developed so I could tell how much catalytic converter matrix is inside each type of catalytic converter, so that I can recovery Platinum, Palladium and Rhodium, approximately 10 oz of PT, and 5oz of PD and 5oz of RH minimum per month. I buy the used cats from my private route of scrappers each month and keep the mess to a minimum. Oh, and I get to make a couple bucks back on selling the S/S cans the matrix is encased in. My average acquisition cost PER OZ for ALL 3 metals combined is UNDER $38 per troy oz.


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THEN IN THE SUMMER!!!!....YAY...
I have a very nice claim that I grab a buddy and a #10 shovel, plus 6 - 5gal buckets
and run the ore through my own portable gold trommel shown below. Shoveling
3 hours a day, each, and cleaning up the cons by means of a GOLD MAGIC BLACK SANDS WHEEL once a week, we usually pull 4 oz of gold a week. Then after we wheel the cons left over, we dry them in a steel goldpan. Then we run them through a private design electrostatic gold collector that kinda looks like a desert box but it isn't. Then we use a jeweler's scoop shovel and an artist paint brush to scoop up all the minus 40 and under gold dust. Anything left after that goes through a refining process to capture the rest of the gold. Average cost UNDER $36 per troy oz. Claim maintenance is $125 --small miner exemption labor filing where we get to exchange labor for the filing fee, plus gasoline to and from, and gasoline for the trommel, plus packing in food costs = $150 TOTAL for the two of us for a week. It's all fines, not a nugget in the lot.

I hope this gives your mind some wings as you sit behind your desk and plot and plan.

My website is: Megan's Cheap Gold, Plat and Cats Methods

Now, I'll go find my Dixie Doodlebug portable trommel with its fluorescent green solid rubber bike tires pix to add to this reply.

KEEP US POSTED ON HOW YOU do, OK? You can't sit behind that desk forever!!!

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[gold_tutor]

This is to reserve a spot for a pix of the gold pulled last summer off this claim.
This photo doesn't do it justice, because if you saw this pan in the bright sun before
we wheeled it the first time, it would look plumb yellow there are so many fines in it!
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[russau]

hey megan, i thought you got rid of your blue bowl?? you said you made your own and liked it better!

[gold_tutor]

You have a purdy good memory, Russ. I do NOT have a "blue bowl" and I bought a factory made blacksands wheel which I swear by and have already mentioned the brand.

However, I can't control what my buddy brings on these weeks in the woods, aka his "blue bowl."

Fortunately, whether he uses it properly or improperly, a D.A.M. Blue Bowl swirls out gold AND blacksands into a bucket underneath. That gives me the final crack at it with the desert electrostatic gizmo I mentioned earlier.

I definitely do not like them and find them a waste of time & money, which is why I sold mine to your buddy Carl, and didn't mention using here because I don't. I thought Trent was asking what equipment the responder used. I responded and I don't use the darned thing, I hate them. However, I did think showing the photograph of his using it showed the yellow cast of the black sands I mentioned.

You would agree, wouldn't you Russ, one definitely has to make allowances when one is sharing the loot in exchange for a friendly shoveler.

He can bring his D.A.M. blue bowl and the any other D.A.M. thing he wants just as long as he doesn't leave with my half of the D.A.M. gold :D :D :D

I know you have some good stories, Russ...please share. I like reading of your successes with the yeller stuff and the fine dredge modifications you've made to increase your haul!

[russau]

well yes ,one must make allowances!! my pursuit of the fine stuff continues! i eventually bought a blue bowl and i kinda like it! its faster than meself! but, i can pan the fine stuff preety good! if i was in the land of nuggets, they would be icing on the cake! but untill that happens, i have to be content with the fine stuff. but i must pan in small amounts. maybe 1/2 of a table spoon or less. otherwise the fines get away! to much black sand will work me to death!

[russau]

dredge modifications, now theres a story about truth ,justice and the american way! trev alty,zooka,the late clark wockner,wally koz,greg in bc and a ton of others have been helping my with some out of the box thinking on fine gold recovery! i cant stand in their shadow when it comes to their knowledge in mining and dredgeing!! but ive had a lot of fun building and modifyng my equipment. and it never ends! i built a 2,3, 4 dredge and im making a back pack 2 in. dredge now for colorado rally. and im looking at trev altys suitcase dredge now. it should be very good fine gold dredge. its going to be made of ABS plastic. i bought up some ABS sheet plastic to see what i could do with it. its light, cheap, easy to work with. this may be what ill end up with and sell all of my other equipment! im getting to old to fight my 4 inch and the 3 is getting just as bad!

[russau]

well to perfectly honest about it, i found more gold after reading megans book on recycled gold than i have out prospecting. part of the reason is i dont get out that often and then its not for a long time! but at home and work im always keeping my eyes open for a deal! you would be suprised at what people throw away! and dont even know what they are throwing away! thankyou , to the unobservant!