Hi Dan; Thanks for putting the video up - I have a newer version of that table now, and incorporated "vial" traps rather than the slots. One can now simply screw the vials ( 2 ) into the bottom of the table and direct the clean stuff right in ( included with the table ). Another feature is that if you somehow break a vial or don't have any spares, we include "Plugs" that allow sweeping the material into the catch holes. Then it's just a matter of undoing the plug to let the gold drop into a gold pan for suctioning up with a snuffer bottle. We have also made a small adjustment to the texture as well. Remember - proper screening is important for quick cleanup, and when moving the gold, it's best to slow the water a bit as flakes can hydoplane if disturbed. By the way, we now have a Dealer in New Zealand for anyone watching from down under :). Cheers, Bryan
I am still panning by hand... I have tried all kinds of shortcuts. I get a thrill of seeing the gold wink at me I guess. I still feel like its Christmas morning to me with each pan. Filled with promise of a reward for all of your hard work. I am 65 but the child remains...
Hey man I appreciate your videos. I'm an Old Prospector from Colorado who has had to just live life away from my home for the last 30 years, but now I'm preparing to go back for the spring thaw and pick up where I left off 30 years ago PS I trust you haha I believe you are in this for the love of it. Thanks!
I Just came here to leave this comment because i couldn't find all the Easter eggs so i will just leave this message here for my bonus! lol Thank you Dan Hurd!!!
17:20 Here's a tip when adding more material to already cleaned gold. If you don't sweep the gold away or snuff it up, then add all new cons _below_ the gold on the table. That way you don't push gold down the table with new cons.
Dan, looks good but I think that your pan clean-up is what I prefer. March 1 I chopped ice and snow and finally got about a dozen pieces of gold. Winter sucks
Thanks for the demo Dan and thanks for the honest opinion about just rather pan it out besides using the machine. You are right of course, panning is faster and you can get it down good enough to melt it down and move on a whole lot faster. That’s why I like your videos, you give honest opinion on the processes 🙃 Thanks for taking time to show us this.
I really enjoyed this video because I really learned something today, I have some really flat fine gold, I have it in a container. But I can't get it cleaner..... Until I watched your video. I want to thank you for this wonderful information. Thanks. I really hope you have a great day.
My husband and I went rockhounding . We found lot’s of quartz. I decided to look at it with a child s microscope and I saw tons of gold specks. I set a few pieces in vinegar and some withCLR. Little specks of gold powder, like talc was in the mix.
Great video, as always, Dan. Fine gold is a bit like snowflakes, no two particles exactly alike, each with its own unique shape, aspect ratio, etc. and each behaves slightly differently. Surface tension of the fluid can be modified with additives and change in water temperature. I have also found that even non-magnetic black sand is slightly magnetic. I work it wet, dry it and work it wet and dry both before and after removing the magnetic black sand with a magnet. We keep learning all the time. I have a lot of fun showing people how their "cleaned" black sand still has gold hidden inside.
Thank you so much Dan. - This provided an idea that I might be able to make such a table myself. Pretty simple sprayed Bed Liner in a plastic tub/table.... 👍🙃
Nice and smooth!Havent find any gold here yet,but washed Lots of black sands,Will not throw the final panning material anymore,think i was wasting lost of fines,ive just saw them with a lens,a few in each pan,all equal between them,round shaped,with little holes in surface.If i keep a gpod quantity of b.sand,perhaps can get an interesting amount.Thank you teacher! ,
Jet dry must be a agent to lessen surface tension? I was a small offset printing press operator in my youth. We called it making water wetter. Along with the water fountain additives we used alcohol (isopropanol) in small quantities to help lessen surface tension, making “Water Wetter”.
Very interesting process. I like to learn how to use these things and the science behind it. Great as always. Since I’ve started watching you in May I don’t remember having been disappointed 😂 and I have high standards 😂 And don’t mind the people always complaining or insulting or whatever, as long as it is entertaining who cares ?! I’d be happy for you to get a kickback from the people making equipment!
If you liked that Miller table you ought to check out the Martin prospecting Miller table. I won one at a raffle back in 2018 and it works freaking awesome.
You even went out a bought a brand new brush to use! Well, if not, it's fairly new. And, you bought the best brush possible, PURDY, the only brush as a paint contractor I would use. I was shocked when you dumped out the gold to weigh it!! Didn't look like there was that much before removing it from the table, but there was!!
@@jimgriffiths9071 It looked it but, sometimes old soldiers are the best soldiers! Amazes me what kind of garbage they sell us these days. Specially made to get you back to the store.
Hi Dan. I'm starting to get the impression that searching for gold is more a reason to get out in nature and enjoying the out doors rather than a big money maker. Nothing wrong with that. The finding of gold just helps to pay for the hobby. I'm a little concerned when you roast or have lead in the process that you are subjecting your self to hazards.
Thanks for posting your videos! I have learned a ton from you and now have gold fever. Once the weather changes i will be making some trips into the Olympic Mountains for iron ore, gold, and jade to hopefully make a knife from. Thanks for being an inspiration! You Rule!
i like to use a credit card for these, im paranoid that the gold might get trapped between brush bristles and i like to feel like a mobster cuttin up lines of coke. also dan if you end up seeing this, we would all appreciate a video on smelting gold out of different pyrites and other minerals that you must smelt.
That's really cool if the dirt you're getting has that much super fine gold in it. I would rather just relax and do some panning. Have a good night and prospect on.
Hey Dan, back in the late '70's ,early '80's i used to have what was called a "Miller Dredge". It was in fact a table. It had a slate top. About 4' long with little grooves in the top part and down at the bottom 2 or 3 sections of "grizzled" screen and below that a copper amalgam plate, with a mercury catch box below that. It was a great machine for recovering fine gold. I used it to survive on in Fairplay, CO. all summer, fall, and most of one winter. I was wondering if this is the same "Miller"?
Back in the late '70's I visited Mr. Miller I Sacramento and watched him demo a table for me, back then I didn't have enough money to get one. If you have any pictures or videos I would love to see them. videos that would be great.
@@danholman5282 Back then Dan, we didn't think about videos or pictures. I wish I had now. All the finds i had would have made for some truly exciting videos. Seems like back then, gold found me. However, the old CMJ magazines would have some good photos of it. Late '70's early '80's. That thing was absolutely great for fine gold recovery. I used it extensively in CO and actually sold on average 1.5 ozs. p/m. Worked it all the way into early Feb. Cold at 10503'.
Wow looks like a lot of fun thank you for sharing I have a river by where I live supposed to have a lot of gold in it I hope to buy a pan and go looking I enjoy your videos trying to learn from you thank you for sharing
How cool. I need to get a Miller table. I have a lot of fine flower gold in black sand that is impossible for me to gather.thanks alot for the idea. Keep up the good work. Sincerely yours Joe Chavez. Flip. flop. Joe.
You basically have to use one of those to get anything out of the river near me, it's all super fine flour gold below the dam. Once I get my new car (new to me at least.. planning on a Mini) I want to take a trip up to Auburn and try up on the high side of the Bear River or even the American. I've seen some videos of people checking cracks up there and finding some pretty good sized nuggets, even now. I've got to get a new pack before then though.. mine kind of broke on me, but then it was free off of facebook so.. what can you expect? I'd love to send you some bottles of the cons from the river down here and see you work them, it's so fine and there's so much black sand and zircon powder in it that it'd be interesting to see how you'd cope with it :P
Great video, Dan! Thanks again for sharing your passion for prospecting with others. Have you thought about putting together a DIY Miller Table video for your channel? They're easy to build and there seems to be a lot of interest on here.
Nice piece of equipment but i just adapt my little highbanker to do the same job. I just leave out the exspanded metal and miners moss slow down the water flow and my deep groove matting does a great job of cleaning up my cons that is heavy in black sands.
Thanks, Dan. Love your videos, especially the ones where you're teaching the kids how to mine. Does Canada offer gold mining as a vocational education course in high school?
personally Dan, I really enjoy your equipment reviews. i had just found out about this clean up sluice and also found your video helpful. Too bad your gold is huge compared to what i have to deal with. -50 to - 500!
Cool video Dan! I like to see gold, your mini miller table works great! I use a gold hog multi sluice to clean up my concentrates, it works great also and it catches fines under -100 mesh. But anyways great video as always and keep them coming!!!
Interesting. I've asked more than one manufacturer of mining equipment if they had a miniature sluice I could run at home to clean up fines and none of them had any suggestions.
@@Danhurd bet they do. Just no one I talked to was ready to steer me there. Mining equipment manufacture, like a lot of industries, can be very competitive.
good morning again sir dan hurd, I want to ask that little machine of the black scorpion where the one looks for is that they only come out as toys, nothing of that machine, to know its value because I am very interested, when I look for gold I get a lot jagua or black sand, as they call you, what good to have one of those, well I'll keep watching your video is very interesting, another question, you wear a wedding ring, your wife because you do not take her to your walks, they say women give luck, thank you very much for this video and be able to learn more greetings from Colombia
Hi Dan; Thanks for putting the video up - I have a newer version of that table now, and incorporated "vial" traps rather than the slots. One can now simply screw the vials ( 2 ) into the bottom of the table and direct the clean stuff right in ( included with the table ). Another feature is that if you somehow break a vial or don't have any spares, we include "Plugs" that allow sweeping the material into the catch holes. Then it's just a matter of undoing the plug to let the gold drop into a gold pan for suctioning up with a snuffer bottle. We have also made a small adjustment to the texture as well. Remember - proper screening is important for quick cleanup, and when moving the gold, it's best to slow the water a bit as flakes can hydoplane if disturbed. By the way, we now have a Dealer in New Zealand for anyone watching from down under :). Cheers, Bryan
I want a bottle of Dan's enthusiasm.
Got a little chuckle out of seeing the dining room table underneath your setup. Your wife sure loves you!
She sure does! Miller table is still on the kitchen table and I got a bit of a look this morning.
I am still panning by hand... I have tried all kinds of shortcuts. I get a thrill of seeing the gold wink at me I guess. I still feel like its Christmas morning to me with each pan. Filled with promise of a reward for all of your hard work. I am 65 but the child remains...
Can't beat panning by hand and the thrill of it all
Hey man I appreciate your videos. I'm an Old Prospector from Colorado who has had to just live life away from my home for the last 30 years, but now I'm preparing to go back for the spring thaw and pick up where I left off 30 years ago PS I trust you haha I believe you are in this for the love of it. Thanks!
Slow but fun. I can picture doing this in winter, with a fire going in the shop. Which is still better than working.Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching
Nice demonstration of the Black Scorpion miller table, nice clean up of some fine gold. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks!
I Just came here to leave this comment because i couldn't find all the Easter eggs so i will just leave this message here for my bonus! lol
Thank you Dan Hurd!!!
I have NEVER seen a miller table used before!! Glad you did this video.
The builder has to be very pleased with your presentation, awesome as all ways, thanks Dan!
My friend, you have much more patience than I ever will.
I like the Miller tabletop setup.
Thanks!
Thanks for letting us into your world.
You're welcome!
@@Danhurd Hi Dan what vibrates your table?
@@paulvogler1306 Nothing is vibrating this
I really enjoy your work Dan Keep up the good work!
Those cons were pretty ultra rich! Lots of fines
They were!
17:20 Here's a tip when adding more material to already cleaned gold. If you don't sweep the gold away or snuff it up, then add all new cons _below_ the gold on the table. That way you don't push gold down the table with new cons.
Dan, liked the Miller table. The way it washes away the black sand from the gold is wow!
I was pleasantly surprised
My precious Dan, very good, another INCREDIBLE perfect prospecting experience. Hugs
Thanks!
Dan, looks good but I think that your pan clean-up is what I prefer. March 1 I chopped ice and snow and finally got about a dozen pieces of gold. Winter sucks
Yeah, I really enjoy panning. Though my youngest enjoyed using the miller table
Thanks for the demo Dan and thanks for the honest opinion about just rather pan it out besides using the machine. You are right of course, panning is faster and you can get it down good enough to melt it down and move on a whole lot faster. That’s why I like your videos, you give honest opinion on the processes 🙃
Thanks for taking time to show us this.
Very nice miller table demonstration Mr. Hurd. Thank You!
You're welcome!
I live in Pittsburgh pa and I can't look for gold but watching you is like being there. Thanks
You're welcome!
I love this video! Placer gold is tough to pan out so I’ll definitely be adding a Miller Table to my setup soon! Thanks Dan!
Thanks for all the info and tips. Keep up the good work. Love your channel.
Thanks!
Use a brush with natural fiber so the gold doesn’t get caught up in the brush , horse hair brush would be a good choice
Dan I always enjoy your program thanks for the very important tips and keep up the good work!
I heart the Miller table and blue bowl. Thanx 4 sharing, buddy. As always, good gold.
Thanks!
Right on Dan another fun video. Thanks for the time and effort you put into it. So enjoyed to watch 😁
You're welcome
I really enjoyed this video because I really learned something today, I have some really flat fine gold, I have it in a container. But I can't get it cleaner..... Until I watched your video. I want to thank you for this wonderful information. Thanks. I really hope you have a great day.
Glad you enjoyed it!
My husband and I went rockhounding . We found lot’s of quartz. I decided to look at it with a child s microscope and I saw tons of gold specks. I set a few pieces in vinegar and some withCLR. Little specks of gold powder, like talc was in the mix.
Great video, as always, Dan. Fine gold is a bit like snowflakes, no two particles exactly alike, each with its own unique shape, aspect ratio, etc. and each behaves slightly differently. Surface tension of the fluid can be modified with additives and change in water temperature. I have also found that even non-magnetic black sand is slightly magnetic. I work it wet, dry it and work it wet and dry both before and after removing the magnetic black sand with a magnet. We keep learning all the time. I have a lot of fun showing people how their "cleaned" black sand still has gold hidden inside.
"We keep learning all the time" - isn't that the truth!
I love the use of the brush.
Thanks!
Casey Johnston a sharp edge foam stain brush works excellent also
Thanks for another great video Dan
You're welcome!
Thank you so much Dan.
- This provided an idea that I might be able to make such a table myself. Pretty simple sprayed Bed Liner in a plastic tub/table.... 👍🙃
Awesome!
Nice and smooth!Havent find any gold here yet,but washed Lots of black sands,Will not throw the final panning material anymore,think i was wasting lost of fines,ive just saw them with a lens,a few in each pan,all equal between them,round shaped,with little holes in surface.If i keep a gpod quantity of b.sand,perhaps can get an interesting amount.Thank you teacher!
,
You're welcome!
great demonstration
Very nice compact miller table! Cleaning those cons making the step easier for me! I like a challenge:)
I was pleasantly surprised by it.
Hey Dan love your videos I would love to see you breaking Courts rock and using a shaker table ! That’s really cool
Hi Dan very interesting Black Scorpion Table nice work!!!; )
Thanks!
The miller table works fantastic but the royal manufacturing table is pretty slick too! I have a demo of it posted.
Very nice video!
Thanks!
Just received mine today thx for the advice
Jet dry must be a agent to lessen surface tension? I was a small offset printing press operator in my youth. We called it making water wetter. Along with the water fountain additives we used alcohol (isopropanol) in small quantities to help lessen surface tension, making “Water Wetter”.
Thanks for the beautiful vid Dan much love to you and your family
Glad you enjoyed it!
Have to brush those happy little gold flakes...! :) Your awesome Dan. Love to video...keep it up, your a great teacher....
Thanks!
Very interesting process.
I like to learn how to use these things and the science behind it. Great as always. Since I’ve started watching you in May I don’t remember having been disappointed 😂 and I have high standards 😂
And don’t mind the people always complaining or insulting or whatever, as long as it is entertaining who cares ?! I’d be happy for you to get a kickback from the people making equipment!
Thank you!
Hi dan another great interesting video thanks for posting ,wow you have some cool toys and some nice gold aswell 👍👍👍
Thanks!
If you liked that Miller table you ought to check out the Martin prospecting Miller table. I won one at a raffle back in 2018 and it works freaking awesome.
Watched many of your vids. Informative as always.
Thanks!
Cracking vid. Though that brush. Was awaiting on you saying. "We'll just put a little tree in. Here And maybe a bush. Little footpath" ☺
Ha!
You even went out a bought a brand new brush to use! Well, if not, it's fairly new. And, you bought the best brush possible, PURDY, the only brush as a paint contractor I would use. I was shocked when you dumped out the gold to weigh it!! Didn't look like there was that much before removing it from the table, but there was!!
Yup, he had a pretty new brush, but that battery was an old soldier!
Yup - new brush! And it was the only clean one I had on the shelf
@@jimgriffiths9071 It looked it but, sometimes old soldiers are the best soldiers! Amazes me what kind of garbage they sell us these days. Specially made to get you back to the store.
@@Danhurd Well my friend, you simply can't go wrong with a Purdy.
Bob Ross of prospecting!!
Thanks!
Hi Dan. I'm starting to get the impression that searching for gold is more a reason to get out in nature and enjoying the out doors rather than a big money maker. Nothing wrong with that. The finding of gold just helps to pay for the hobby. I'm a little concerned when you roast or have lead in the process that you are subjecting your self to hazards.
It is really about being outdoors. I am very careful with the smelting process.
@@Danhurd Thanks. I just found your link up top, answers a lot of questions.
Thanks for posting your videos! I have learned a ton from you and now have gold fever. Once the weather changes i will be making some trips into the Olympic Mountains for iron ore, gold, and jade to hopefully make a knife from. Thanks for being an inspiration! You Rule!
Gold fever is spreading
Dan Hurd exellent and interesting information, thank you, God blees you. 🙏🇨🇷🙋♀️
Thanks!
i like to use a credit card for these, im paranoid that the gold might get trapped between brush bristles and i like to feel like a mobster cuttin up lines of coke.
also dan if you end up seeing this, we would all appreciate a video on smelting gold out of different pyrites and other minerals that you must smelt.
good vid. seems to work very nicely thanks for showing
Thanks for taking the time to watch!
Those are extremely rich cons! I am working with extremely micro size flakes on my final cleanouts, no bigger than a baby flea!
I like to see all the different types of equipment in action, and who cares if you get a kickback?
Thanks!
Fun video. I have never had the pleasure of using anything but a pan yet. But then all my panning experience is summed up in a couple of grams lol.
Can't beat panning
That's really cool if the dirt you're getting has that much super fine gold in it. I would rather just relax and do some panning. Have a good night and prospect on.
Thanks. Nothing beats panning
I really enjoy to watch gold
Me too
The pocket sized analytical balance is very cool! Accuracy depends on not using it in your pocket. XD
i wouldnt worry about the few trolls, all yr subs know diff and like your content
Hey Dan, back in the late '70's ,early '80's i used to have what was called a "Miller Dredge". It was in fact a table. It had a slate top. About 4' long with little grooves in the top part and down at the bottom 2 or 3 sections of "grizzled" screen and below that a copper amalgam plate, with a mercury catch box below that. It was a great machine for recovering fine gold. I used it to survive on in Fairplay, CO. all summer, fall, and most of one winter. I was wondering if this is the same "Miller"?
Back in the late '70's I visited Mr. Miller I Sacramento and watched him demo a table for me, back then I didn't have enough money to get one. If you have any pictures or videos I would love to see them. videos that would be great.
Yes it is.
@@danholman5282 Back then Dan, we didn't think about videos or pictures. I wish I had now. All the finds i had would have made for some truly exciting videos. Seems like back then, gold found me. However, the old CMJ magazines would have some good photos of it. Late '70's early '80's. That thing was absolutely great for fine gold recovery. I used it extensively in CO and actually sold on average 1.5 ozs. p/m. Worked it all the way into early Feb. Cold at 10503'.
Wow looks like a lot of fun thank you for sharing I have a river by where I live supposed to have a lot of gold in it I hope to buy a pan and go looking I enjoy your videos trying to learn from you thank you for sharing
Gold fever is spreading...
Quest 2 Wells the more vids you learn from the easier it is....
That is a great little contraption...
I was pleasantly surprised
What else are you going to do in the Canadian winter. It may not be that harsh BC but good time to filter out that gold.
Great demo on the miller table Dan. I must say I will never use one for my gold it's in to a pan to be cleaned but the table works a treat..
Thanks!
How cool. I need to get a Miller table. I have a lot of fine flower gold in black sand that is impossible for me to gather.thanks alot for the idea. Keep up the good work. Sincerely yours Joe Chavez. Flip. flop. Joe.
Awesome!
That is so cool. I really do love your videos. Wow.
Thanks!
I'd like this equipment more if was green...no big deal.
The fines would show up better, and if you're old like me, it helps!
Love you channel!!!! I have never been gold panning before but would love to!!!!
Thanks!
I made one of these this morning
Lol, It's Miller Time! Cooking with Dan!
Yup!
Cool video doing good job Dan
Thanks!
I love my Millers table !
I was pleasantly surprised with this one
Great video, great table. Thx for sharing.
CR
Thanks!
Seeing a lot of gold moving down. You've really gotta be on top of that.
Yup
You basically have to use one of those to get anything out of the river near me, it's all super fine flour gold below the dam. Once I get my new car (new to me at least.. planning on a Mini) I want to take a trip up to Auburn and try up on the high side of the Bear River or even the American. I've seen some videos of people checking cracks up there and finding some pretty good sized nuggets, even now. I've got to get a new pack before then though.. mine kind of broke on me, but then it was free off of facebook so.. what can you expect? I'd love to send you some bottles of the cons from the river down here and see you work them, it's so fine and there's so much black sand and zircon powder in it that it'd be interesting to see how you'd cope with it :P
Great video, Dan! Thanks again for sharing your passion for prospecting with others. Have you thought about putting together a DIY Miller Table video for your channel? They're easy to build and there seems to be a lot of interest on here.
Probably not
Cool 👌 was wondering, could you spin the mix of black sand and gold in a centrefuge to separate the heavier gold from the sands 🤷
Nice piece of equipment but i just adapt my little highbanker to do the same job. I just leave out the exspanded metal and miners moss slow down the water flow and my deep groove matting does a great job of cleaning up my cons that is heavy in black sands.
Nice!
Nice looking pile o gold
Thanks!
Thanks, Dan. Love your videos, especially the ones where you're teaching the kids how to mine. Does Canada offer gold mining as a vocational education course in high school?
I created the course for our district. It's considered a science class
You are the man love your videos
Thanks!
personally Dan, I really enjoy your equipment reviews. i had just found out about this clean up sluice and also found your video helpful. Too bad your gold is huge compared to what i have to deal with. -50 to - 500!
Would you recommend a blue bowl or Miller table?
Cool video Dan!
I like to see gold, your mini miller table works great! I use a gold hog multi sluice to clean up my concentrates, it works great also and it catches fines under -100 mesh.
But anyways great video as always and keep them coming!!!
Thanks!
Helpful video
I really liked that table. Was trying to read the label, but was too blurry. I'll keep digging then....
Tables like this can be found at any prospecting store
@@Danhurd You were right. I found one here in Langley, at a reasonable price. Just keep the videos a coming and I'll like them all. Cheers
Interesting. I've asked more than one manufacturer of mining equipment if they had a miniature sluice I could run at home to clean up fines and none of them had any suggestions.
Most prospecting stores should carry miller tables
@@Danhurd bet they do. Just no one I talked to was ready to steer me there. Mining equipment manufacture, like a lot of industries, can be very competitive.
Awensome Dan !
Thanks!
Great video, are there ripples in the bed of the table?
Good going 4 gold dan.
Thanks!
Nice looking gold dan 🌾👀🌾
Thanks!
Hallo why you dont use the soap on the miller table? Or dont need?
Love it . great video
Thanks!
Much love
good morning again sir dan hurd, I want to ask that little machine of the black scorpion where the one looks for is that they only come out as toys, nothing of that machine, to know its value because I am very interested, when I look for gold I get a lot jagua or black sand, as they call you, what good to have one of those, well I'll keep watching your video is very interesting, another question, you wear a wedding ring, your wife because you do not take her to your walks, they say women give luck, thank you very much for this video and be able to learn more greetings from Colombia
Around $200
work real good for e scarp
I'm not sure!
Good job
Thanks!