How much Gold in 1000 lbs of Sand? Oregon Gold Panning
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- Great day! I will be back next week to get an even better gold that I left behind but I know it’s there. It’s just a really long trip that I’m willing to take to find multiple grams of Oregon Beach Gold thanks for watching in Subscribing. Happy pans. #sluicebox #goldmining #goldpanning#prospecting
You're doing great fam. Nice au indeed. I would love to hook up with you next time I come to Oregon. I got family in Portland. Keep on having fun getting that au and living the dream. Gold Squad Out!!!
Any time!
Brother you do what's make u happy don't worry about people good luck
I’ve never done any beach mining, but I love your set up. Very cool! 👍🤟
Same here
You’re losing more gold and you were catching. Do small Hand fulls And give time for the water to clear out the sand. When you put a bunch of sand in there, it feels up all the crevices, and the gold will float over the crevices that are full and end up on the beach. Overloading your beach box is the cause of this. Coming from a minor who’s been doing beach mining for over 37 years. The game is not to run as many buckets as you can, the game is to run only as fast as the water will let you without overburdening your mats. Another secret is the fine gold is flat it mostly accumulates within the top 6 inches of the darker sand . I worked at Cape disappointment, and when I discovered where the gold was in the Layer I started getting 8 g per day. Many of the Gold, miners know who I am.
Hey thanks I appreciate that. I was surprised to see know micros towards the end of the sluice so I’m thinking after about halfway they must be floating away! At first I thought no gold was getting by but I know it’s richer than this.
how about you make the whole beach box 5 times as long and just throw the whole bucket there? and maybe try to dig around your beach box to find black sand so you can maybe increase the amount by 10 or 50 times because you dont have to carry it all the way.
I don't know I do the small handful of thing very at least use the green golden scoop and I'd make sure that I had that sand wet you always make sure what you're putting through your sluice box is already in water and wet it hopes the gold which floats on water sink that's why when you do gold paydirt at home or if you do clean up sit home you'd put the Jet-Dry in it because it breaks the surface tension of water you're fine gold will absolutely float on water so you make sure whatever dirt that you're running is wet especially sand
Yeah, with the right permits we can run a recirculating system but when we sluice we can't take up the whole width of the creek. 1/4 to 1/2 depending...(I think).
Now that’s a kickass sluice!!!
@@justinm.3594 Thanks man, great for sand
THAT WAS FREAKING KILLERRRR DUDE THE SLUICE WORK FANTASTIC, i bet you could figure out a self feeding hopper system :)
Thanks it a big one lol
I really like your sluice I might have to steal your design for my own. I have a hard time dealing with all that fine gold from the beach but in the winter it’s the only choice sometimes. Good job!
Thanks! Pretty simple and cheap, I might end up making two out of it though depending on the creeks flow this year.
@@Goldhunter7769 I was thinking use low v mat make it longer and not as wide.
Got some good Oregon sunshine there
I couldn't agree more smaller shovel to put it on😊
I got the same problem. I'm a rock hound but when I'm after gold. All the rocks are leaveright lol that sluice is awsomr. I suggest you put pic of it flowing as the thumbnail of the video. It will boost views.. bummer that Karen didn't like the sluice lol
Took your advise on that, that was actually my first idea then I changed it last minute. Definitely better now thanks bro!
Dude love your vibe, my new favorite miner....test pan test pan ....cut that beast in half and put hinges on bottom and fold it up
Preciate ya! Funny you say that cuz I’m actually doing that soon! Thanks for watching and heavy pans my friend!
If your running beach sands. Gold cube. 4 stack. Battery pump. You can't feed it to fast. Get it all 👍
I wish not allowed motorized here, unles somehow I could haul up to the grass line
That’s good to know I now know what to look for with the sand near me and there’s a area near me that’s a quarter mile of sand like that
Yep, and test panning is key which I should have done more of that time.
jet dry helps stops floating gold. great video.
That’s only if he were using a recirculating pump and water supply.
That Gold Father is awesome. Are you taking it out the creek while you go and get the next 2 buckets? I would definitely do that man all the best mate great video 💪👍💪
Thanks and
No I don’t like to disturb the flow with that fine gold or it will blow out. I’ve made a couple modifications since this video including cutting in half and using ribbed carpet in one half.
@@Goldhunter7769 I find I loose a lot of gold leaving it in I always take it out anyways looking forward to seeing Gold Father Version 2.0 💪👍💪
I am not asking for secet spots But is that in the Gold Beach area ? I live up in Washington
No, it’s actually near bandon but I’ve heard gold beach is awesome! Do you go to cape disappointment? I’ve seen guys pull serious weight from there.
Great job for a homeade sluice! Keep on having fun. No shame in your game bro
great video, i wish i was there or somewhere like it, I have a suggestion get rid of the buckets dump straight in the cart it will be easier for you, it lets you lift the sand you are dumping in the buckets 6 inches less in and out that is one foot of less lift for every shovel full of sand that you do. Because the buckets stick up a foot over the rim of the cart. This seems like it's not a lot unless you are talking about hundreds and thousand shovel fulls. Very nice looking gold you got, did you make that sluice box?
@@peterloichtl4512 Hey there! Thanks for the input and yes I made the sluice. Others have said the same thing however the video only shows a few glimpses into the actual workload involved.
For instance, my slice was set higher up in that creek and I could no way will that card up there through those large cobbles so I had to have it in buckets to carry from the cart about 20 feet up to the sluice. in addition, this is pretty much straight black sand and it is super heavy, roughly 100 pounds per bucket some of told me to fill the cart that is very funny. That would be well over 500 pounds.
It was a fun day and actually ended up cutting that sluice in half because it was just too damn big! Sometimes I do take both and put them together long ways or side-by-side and it works great one has different matting now I glued in rib carpet and it seems to do great for beach sand.
One more thing to look out for. Gold is hydrophobic. It is good to saturate the sand. I think even submerge it so it gets a chance to shed the air out of it.
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WOW!!!
Nice video, still good yield
Need a longer sluice box
I like it❤
as i am watching i think, why is he not just filling the wagon Oo. Your welcome.
Right, I’ve heard that a lot but the reality is it’s way too heavy, even two buckets 3/4 full is max for me anyhow, the buckets way around 100 lbs each
@@Goldhunter7769 yea I know I move tons of dirt myself with wheel barrels and shovels with L2345 bulging disks and sciatic nerve damage use pickaxed shovels jacked up shoulders and run hours on end just pace it. have to work, doing this would be a cinch for me if only i could make living quick off it. but getting to these place be total problem for me no good vehicle. I lived in same place for nearly 30 years.
Just a thought why not fill up your wagon after you fill up your buckets
Way too heavy
Thats a lot of water for sand
Once you go black....
I mean why would you not just stick the bucket in the water and take out 10 inches from the top of the sand? Seems like a huge waist of time running all of it when all you need is to run the bottom 1/2 inch
Rain IS good luck. Other men will stay home instead of encumbering your "secret" spot, taking what should have been in YOUR pan.
PS. Dont waste the space in the cart not taken up by the buckets.
@@UpcomingJedi I hear you buts itsbtoo heavy!! Even two buckets is too much lol
I don't care what people think😂
Too much talking gee whiz!
Maybe put two sleuths in a row. Good setup.
Well it looks like it works great even though you were “lazy” you got great gold was wondering why you didn’t just fill the cart instead of buckets you may have been able to get 3 buckets at a time. Also maybe hook up a waist rope/belt system to pull the wagon from your waist, keeping your arm behind you and pulling is bad for your shoulder lol definitely looked like a success to me would like to know how much the gold weighed I’m sure you’ve got it cleaned up by now…. I’m guessing 1.2 grams? Thanks for sharing see you on the next one 👍🏼👊🏼
great work on your sluice box , Gold 💥💫
I'm thinking that the time it took you to get the black sand then back to the Gold Father made some of that smaller beach gold float:) Gold Father!! Ha Ha, love it!
Yeah no kidding it’s hard to say. Beach gold is so difficult to capture but I’ve gotten really nice test pans down further with hundreds of micros per pan so it’s there. I’m still in the process of getting her dialed in!
add a big bucket under the drop of the sluice and let the fine gold settle before you pour out the water to catch any potential loss in tailings :D
Amazing box man I hope it works for you, heavy pans
Karen's when your fishing, Karen's when you're driving, Karen's in our congress, Karen's in our schools, Karen's in the super market, now, Karen's when you're out beach mining......hard to understand where and why that got that attitude. It's getting harder and harder to be civil with those jerks.
I would suggest maybe adding even bigger, higher floatation tires to your handcart. Hears hoping for many more beach mining videos from you!
Preciate ya!
Right?
Looks like purty good take to me. I’m in Texas I might go hang out at the beach 😂
By the way, Secret Creek Prospecting sent me an unexpected envelope full of stickers and yours was one of them. I haven't decided if it goes on my motorcycle or a sluice box but I thought that was really cool!
Awesome! Kirk is a really cool guy, very thoughtful of others and promoting all the small guys.
I'm not much of a gold guy, but I'd say that box is working out pretty well for ya.
Thats really cool man, gj
Thx Rogue, appreciate that!
Looks like a winner to me. The sluicee is awesome! Thanks for sharing.
Great stuff! Box is workin! ✨️⛏️
Way to go on the sluice build and gold. What part of Oregon you in? I am located in Roseburg. Would love meet up some time and do some prospecting.
Rod K.
Thanks Ron! I just moved away from Roseburg last year. I live in Coquille now.
Gold pan take’s the guesswork out.
True and I've done some test panning there but I goingnto dedicate a full trip to only test panning soon
Nice Au indeed fam. Gold Squad Out 🤠
Too bad you can't drive on that beach. Then you can run some serious sand in half the time. But still cool seeing that beast of a sluice in action
Great idea. Whiskey Run Beach north of Bandon allows vehicle access on to the beach.
That's a really cool sluice. I've been to Cape Disappointment and the sand there is jet black. So, I was shocked at how much gold you got from the blonder sand. Way to go!
Thanks! I’ll probably have to cut it in half but it was fun! Cape D has some serious AU I’ve heard.
@Gold Hunter 77 I posted a Short of what I've gotten out of 2 gallons of sand from there. I have just a little more to pan before I weigh it. I don't know how to edit a video yet, so it's hard to share where we got it, how we got it, when we got it, where we stayed. But, it's a fun adventure and everyone we met said to go after a King tide when the beaches get churned up.
It all adds up in the end. At least you know where to go back to for more.
Next level non-mechanized beach miner right there - Gold Father is a beast!
Right!
BIG GOLD ... hell yea... I like your attitude. ... and that's all you ghost town gold miners ever look for is holes.
Please consider using a flat-bladed shovel to scrap the black sand from the blonds. Your buckets will contain more high-grade material.
If you're just using v rib matting, I would go more like a nome beach box. 2ft. X 8ft.
Awesome! Glad to see it working great!
Fill your wagon up and the bucket up
ditch the buckets and just fill the trolley with sand
That's what I'm talking about.
Mix your sand with water before you run it through the sluice. Also smaller handfuls and let it clear up before the next handful. Hopefully this helps.
and tilt the shovel into the water to dilute it a bit more..
AZ miner here! Great job! Idea you might try? So instead of walking to your spot to get material. Find spot next to sluice and go straight to bedrock. Spend time flooding and sucking with hand vacume.i bet there is good gold on that bedrock. Cut a 12 foot x12 foot right to bedrock. I thinking a hand pull vacuum my brother had one and it pulls hard. Thanks
I appreciate it, unfortunately there is no black sand on this section, I’ve spent hours testing right here. However the storms often push the black sands around so it could happen.
Nice and wide. QUIT BEING LAZY. It's the ONLY reason your out there. I've got a 9x24 sluice in the back seat of my pickup, but sadly I've been lazy too.. but being a trucker, time off is limited. I'm in the Medford area.
Ooohhh that’s the best area in this state! I hope to do some sniping down there
@@Goldhunter7769 West of I-5.. or the Jacksonville and beyond or so I've heard.. Applegate lake area is supposed to be real good.. but alot of private property too.
There are harder ways to get $70!
Water will get scares, build a short wider flat box box it out use run off to run sulice . Flow at the end of sulce was great
I’m already thinking about cutting The GoldFather right down the middle and having a 8 ft run which is the maximum legal limit for beach sluice at 12” wide
how is that bad? u maybe had 6 fully full buckets in all . u made 60 usd for 6 buckets.. u can fill 6 in less than 10 minutes if u fast and want it. and not lazy. i can do over 1000 buckets a day like this that is sun up to sun down. lazy people don't get the good money but for real u did well for the 6 fully buckets.
Thanks, but it was 14 buckets 3/4 full
I agree about the big shovels but u need a partner and keep the material flowing in the slues .but as soon as you quit feeding the box gold is blowing out the hole time you are away.by having someone feeding willy
That’s a good point, this gold is like stardust it’s so fine. SO FINE in fact when I move it out of the pan it leaves a streak like paint!! Must be brushed out with small paintbrush.
Do you need a volunteer to help you? I’ll work for free. It’s an itch that needs to be scratched for me.
You’re always welcome!
This comment is late asf but i will say try to do little less scoop size if you do to much at once the same will fill the groves before the gold gets there and will go over the ridges riding on the top
Yes you are right. I was definitely shoveling in too quick.
Looks like Seven Devils way side. Or Whiskey run
@@charlieperry26 close! Merchants beach!
Good job bro
Thanks BRO
4:25 yer joking, right ?
200 plus. With the extra sand in the actual cart. The black sand weighs approximately 100 lbs per bucket. It’s incredibly heavy
Good stuff
Thanks for watching and heavy pans!
muchas gracias por el video !!!!🙏
@@RodrigoF777 De Nada!
15,000 views. WOW
Right!
Nice gold father, but even better sweatshirt. GO SEAHAWKS
Tailing tray see how much your lossing
I was thinking about that, there are some losses but there was little to no gold in the last foot of the sluice so wither the gold is floating or I’m catching most of it.
That said, I should have gotten more gold for 14 buckets. Next time I’ll stick to my good spot ALL THE WAY DOWN THE BEACH LOL
Test pan along the way never know what you might find
I reckon with the matting you have in that box ( v's too shallow ) , and running at that flow speed of water , i'd guess you are probably losing around 30 - 40 % of gold getting blown through the sluice still caught up in the sand .
I would try a drop in riffle bank ( maybe 3 riffles mid sluice ) with some strips of miners moss intermingled to help break up the flow and help the gold drop out of the sand .
Hard to find , but there is also some super deep V mat you can get which will catch gold better as the sand runs in and over the V's breaking up the flow .
I like the wide sluice setup , being able to shovel in , my setup is more long tom style .
Another thing was how quickly and how wide the water runs through there I would definitely get more buckets fill up what you're planning on running and then run them all at one time this way you have eyes on your sleep all the time and you can pick up and clean up right from when you're done clean out your sluice and go
What type of matting is in there?
Low profile corrugated vinyl
You could run a golc cub off that too
That’s a good point, good flow just a long haul for the pay
1st time seeing your stuff liked it you could fit 3 buckets in that cart just saying lol 🎉
You make that sluice or buy it?
Oh I made it, for cheap too like $50
Oh nice job!
nicely done ✔️ and thank you for sharing the adventure and information 😀
I follow the flour gold wizzard, he uses a recirculating sluice, based on what he got, he made around $ 6 a bucket, can't really say how long it took him to fill a bucket slep it back and process, guessing it was 15 minutes. Gonna guess he was getting around $24 per hr working time. If you could eliminate the bucket slep time, you could process way more material .... if 1 person could do 100 buckets a day @ $6 bucket that makes it a nice little paying hobby !
That’s a good point! I’m still fine tuning the process and regrettably, we cannot use any motorized on the beach
Well done Dude!!! That sluice looked badass as a waterfall!!! 🤘
Looks like a spot I know near Gold Beach. Great job on the gold !!
just wondering if the gold mit shop vac attachment wouldnt be more productive ? Sure you have to lug a shop vac and generator, but because it doesn't need water, you haul it to where you need, so no back n forth to the sluice, or do a recirculating pump version. Currious to see what would be more productive ?
Great idea but any and all motorized outlawed here
Hell ya man! That gold father is killer! I've been working on a 12 ft x 18 in sluice myself.... Trying to do it all at no cost....3 years in, all I need is mats..lol😂
Depending on mats you want, I went to American floor mats online and got mine for only $20 plus shipping. That sounds like a monster LoL
Always test pan before you haul it !
Yes you are right and I did much test panning down further where I know good gold is there.
I’m making a separate video of only test panning that beach soon.
Awesome ! You are the Man 👍
thats an awesome turn out for a beautiful sluice! loved it!!!
Thanks!
Glad I found your channel. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
So interesting. I would love to live in a part of the country that has native gold. I visit my sis in WA and bring home buckets and buckets of sand from WA - MT. Just had triple bypass, so panning is on hold for a while. Can't wait til I can get at it. More power to you and your sluicing. Enjoyed your video.
Thanks ! And wish you good health and blessings!
Good video, that was a nice amount of gold. I noticed you weren't test panning in the different areas you were digging. It might make a big difference. The Gold Father did a great job!!
Right! I have done some test panning there but not all areas. Very soon, I’ll be making a separate video test panning a half mile of that beach. Thanks for watching!
Love the sound
Great video. I agree, my favorite part of this "hobby" is being where the people aint. Having to do it in a crowd would ruin it for me.
Thanks! I get out once a week with my work schedule and I look forward to it!
Great video! About $5 per bucket is rich sand. You could build a second box (about 1” or 2” inches wider than the first one for nesting purposes of transporting one box inside the other) being another 4’ feet for a total of 8’ feet of sluicing length.
~Dream Mat has a mat style for sale called Cape D Mat.
~Washington Beach Mining sells the Sawtooth Mat.
~There is another mat called Devin VDR (Vortex Drop Riffle) Mat for micro fine gold.
~I have not tried either one but I would like to know how they work before thinking of buying either one of them.
Roy, set up properly with the optimal flow rate, I've found that a 4 foot sluice length captures 95%+ of the gold. I've done the exact thing you mention, nesting a second 4 foot section for 8 foot total sluice, and the bottom half sluice captured less than 5% of the gold, probably closer to 1% to 2%. For me, it just doesn't pay to have to haul around and set up that lower half. Of course I was using the Sawtooth Mat you're referring to sold by Rob of Washington Beach Mining. But I didn't buy it from Roy because I'm the manufacturer of that mat and sold it wholesale to Roy. It was a 4-TPI version that I had a literal ton EPDM Extruded back in 2010 and it took Roy and I until this summer to completely sell out of our inventory on that mat. While I'm not planning on having any more of that mat manufactured I have been experimenting with a similarly designed oleophilic silicone mat that is a lot more grabby to gold. The gold just sticks to the fumed silica impregnated silicone and won't let go. ETA for the new Sawtooth mat is sometime later this summer or fall of 2024.
@@Timothy-McNultyI'm trying to educate myself for an occupation on the beach of Nome. With fine gold being all about the numbers did you feed the same amount through your 4ft sluice as the 8ft? Because I'd would imagine the lower 4ft run should allow for you to run heavier than you ran with just the top 4ft. AKA overfeed lol. But getting more gold because of the 2nd 4ft.
So I'd assume one could get another 20%+ with the 2nd mat as long as you run 20%+ more material. Or just enough so you don't see a thick black line running down the center of your box.
I imagine a typical beach box being 24x48. Or a long tom 12x10ft. Both work fine I'm sure but it's the amount one can run in the amount of time given that matters correct?
I have 2 feeders that I intend to use so my box can constantly stay fed. I'll use electric pumps so I can set up in the pay to reduce transportation time. As of now I spend most of my time on the beach just watching my machine run from the comfort of my folding chair.
I'd love to have a 24in x 96in box to overfeed underneath my feeders. Then I could run the numbers needed to make a dollar.
Right now I'm making a 24x48 miller table. Go big or go home right...
Would love to try that .. thanks for filming your process.
Thanks!
high hopes... that's what keeps us going back..
happy hunting
Thanks !
Use a hand sand worm pump on the bedrock. Would maybe well worth it.
Good idea, I’ll have to try that next time if I can make some water pool up there. Thanks for the idea!
Great video, The gold father is a beast!!
Thanks! Yeah it is
@@Goldhunter7769 I am in Washington now But grew up in the Lebanon area. I still visit a lot. I would love to come up, and maybe hit the beach this summer. Also, I have a ton of stickers if you ever want to do a swap. just need your mailing info.