Cleaning fine gold from black sands. Method #3 (The Backwash)
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- Backwash method of cleaning gold from black sands. Quickly strips away the black sands from the gold leaving pure gold behind.
Lesson on how to clean gold from black sand concentrates using just simple gold panning technique. This video is part of a series where I teach three techniques of cleaning your gold, #1 Simple panning, #2 the Tap method, and #3 the Backwash. Learning the correct gold panning techniques will help prevent losses when recovering your gold from your concentrates. Recovering fine gold from heavy black sands can be a challenge. Follow these gold panning tips and you can recover your gold with almost no losses.
Stay tuned for the fourth video in this series where I show how to pan for gold and use the "Backwash & Tap" method to separate fine gold from black sand.
This video is produced by Dan Hurd, Prospector, Miner, Teacher and TH-camr, as part of his TH-cam channel based on educational videos about gold mining, gold panning, prospecting, rock hounding, and mineral collecting.
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I already have gold fever and this incredible video definitely does not lower my fever temperature. Well done, sir.
The only cure for gold fever is gold, but it is also the cause so good luck lol
Thanks.
Correct! (he he)
Gold is like heroin. The more you do it, the more you want.
Come on folks, Dan has shown you where, how to, and now clean your gold. The thing's I have learned from his patreon site has increased my gold take. Thanks Dan for patreon.
Thanks Barry
One has to like how the black sand lines up for you waiting to be sucked up. Great video. Thanks.
Yes, very convenient.
so far I am doing the right method thanks Dan for reconfirming that I am doing things right I had mediocre success over the weekend but am now confident that I am cleaning up correctly
I'm glad to hear that you are doing it already. Glad I could help even if it is just to confirm your methods.
I love how simple you make this all look.
This method is by far my favorite one! Little trick of mine, i stick a rare earth magnet underneth the pan so i did not have to use a suck out the black sand... but i like the fack that you take it all out. Il try this next summer if i can find some more gold spot very rare in my region. Thank’s again for thoses great video...
Awesome video, been fighting micro-wire gold this is the technique I used to separate the gold from the sands, with a little help from a tap here and there. Patience is key to any success.
This series was perfect!!! Thank you!
I have two buckets of classified material (down to 1/8") and wasn't sure which method would be good for it. I tried panning, but since I am a beginner with only you tube as my source of information it is pretty difficult to figure it all out. With these videos, now I have something to work on in my spare time. Thanks again and keep on making these great videos.
Glad you find them useful!
Thanks for the long patient backwashing tutorial! My backwash technique has greatly improved, and for the first time I believe that I actually managed to seperated all my fine gold from the sand. Before, I had been really struggling with seperating my fine gold --- and was already panning the same sand for gold for the third time!
Great video. Who'd have thought it's easier to pan away the black sand from the gold than pan the gold away from the black sand.
Wow wow wow !!
I thought I knew what I was doing and you just destroyed that 😂
Great, so instructive thanks ! That’s the best how to series of basic gold cleaning on youtube ! And I watched them all. Thanks for that Dan !
I hope it is all helping.
I hope you take this as the compliment I truly mean it as: Watching your videos, with your infectious happiness and patient explanations, you have a very Bob Ross vibe. Pleasant, happy, chill.
Except his crazy hair was on the opposite side. ;) best wishes!
Ha! Thanks!
Whaaw buddy great technique i didn't knew ... well done , you have very good tutorial skills .
Explained very clear and understandable for non Americans 😎👌👌💪
Thanks that was the best demonstration of the backwash I have seen. Awesome video thanks
You are welcome.
A master Gold Wrangler has weighed in : D My eyes like the color of that Falcon finishing pan going to get one of those soon. Thanks Dan Hurd!
The pan works great.
It is a nice colour! Dan and I both tried a pink pan once and struggled to see the gold - there just wasn't enough of a contrast there. Interestingly enough though, Dan's dad preferred the pink pan as he is colour blind and thus the contrast was fabulous.
Thanks Dan!! Looking forward to the next one👍🏼
Thanks again Dan . I think this will be my preferred method .
Thank you Dan for the demonstration. I appreciate your time and effort. Great video, I'm never disappointed with your channel. Happy panning.
Thanks for your Kind words. I'm so glad you like it.
Fantastic video Dan! I’ve learnt so much from your expertise! It’s tedious work cleaning up the cons but I will have enough to keep me busy during the winter months and watch more of your videos! 👍
Another great video Dan.
fascinating series Dan, best tutorial on youtube! thanks.
This set of videos are some of your best.
Thanks for saying so. I was a bit bummed out seeing it has got very few views compared to other videos I have done.
I think over time you will see it rise dramatically. Each section was very concise and instructive. Big thumbs up!
I agree with Jim - these are solid videos about the fundamentals of panning that every prospector needs to know.
Do not be disheartened - often the tapes with the most views are related to greed - tapes that reveal where to go whether intentionally or not often score well
As usual Dan, I love your work. Simple to understand, easy to follow video. Definitely my preferred technique.
The next video comes out Wednesday where I put all methods together.
Thanks Dan for taking us through these steps so helpful.
You are welcome.
Great informative series Dan. Well done.THANKS
Your welcome. Hope it all helps.
Rewatching again. Found gold on property, glacial till, hard pan, clay. Was shocked to see black sand then the few fine flakes of gold with my very first pan. May take me a year to collect a gram. lol
These videos have been a great help. Thank You.👍👍
Great video! Thanks for sharing.
Great Job sir. Way to go!. You Rock!
Great info! Thanks, Dan! Now, if this guy in Michigan could just find a good, affordable, worthwhile claim, I could put some of this know-how to use!
you help me so much thank you for all these videos you show step bye step processes how to do everything it helps so much i live in Indiana we dont have very much gold but i have found a few flakes and some shinners
Great series i was watching from the beginning on the Thompson. Been saving my black sand forever
Don't save too much, it can be a daunting task to deal with too much at once.
Though it would be good to have enough so it kept you busy over the winter when you can't get out prospecting and you've got the fever
That is a great video thanks for all the good information
Great video!! Always very informative!!
Thanks, I hope it all helps.
Nice 👍 job Dan!
Informative and educational as always Dan.Thanks ,David from the UK.
You are welcome.
VERY GOOD Dan
Thanks
Great the back wash at last😁
Hope you enjoy!
very good video !!! i learn so much from you ! Thank you !!
Greatings from Venezuela!!!...Dan, finally saw the third method...thank you!!! those are very useful when you are just with the basic equipment out on the river!!! very interesting & nice!!!
I hope it all helps.
Excellent demonstration 👍😬
Thanks
Nicely done!
Thanks
Well, that made me feel good Dan! The only difference in how I do it, I have not used a snuffer to suck up the line of blk sands. Good idea!
Sometimes I just wash it off the back edge of the pan.
I am new to this and I find your videos very helpful! Thank you!
You are welcome
I have never used this method, I like it, I am going to give it a try. Thanks for the video.
You are welcome, hope it works well for you.
Great instruction and video series Dan, thanks! HH
Thanks
Hello Dan, yes, separating gold and finding gold is a tedious thing. Thank you for pointing. greetings Goldjunge Tom
always great to hear from my German friend.
Great video Dan. It is getting cold in Colorado and your video just makes me want to get out and prospect on the river. Lol Maybe I'll make it out again before it's too cold. peace out
Getting cold here too.
Dan Hurd what are your thoughts on winter prospecting in the cold? Is it worth it?
Absolutely! I love getting out in the winter. Only one did I fall through the ice and land hip deep in a freezing cold river. Getting out of that was a bit ugly and DAMN was I cold!
Great demo Dan, Time to get back to the Fraser ! Need more Gold!
I have a video from the fraser of last weekend's trip ready for production. It should be out next week.
Great panin vid Dan This is personally my fav way of panning cons I also like panning my line of black sands instead of sucking it up but same ider 👍backwashing all day long😂
thats a awesome technique
Thanks
Cool. That answers my question.
That was awesome
nice concept
Hey Dan!
I also found this quite useful! I can through this acknowledge my own technique from this. Awesome!
Just getting into gold prospecting and what I've found is that one cannot have to much cons in the pan because it will fill up the pan's flat bottom, leaving no room for any of the techniques other than panning.
Thanks!
Also, yes, I'm a subscriber... :)
I use that and the tap ;-) great demo.
Wednesday's video shows them together.
Dan your another Einstein !!!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Quite interesting thanks.
Most miners never take us all the way thru the process.
For whatever reason.
I hope it all helps.
Good stuff again dan..!
I think here in the UK Iv been casing super super ultra fine stuff in my cons that I just don’t need to bother with..
I hear ya. Sometimes on the river I see the last 20 or so specs and think, they are so small why bother. Other days I grab them all.
Thx again Dan, I was doing this wrong the whole time lol.
Hope it helped.
nice blue bowl!
Dan I don't see you use sluices and highbankers much but was wondering if you could explain the differences between them and why some guys are just shoveling materiel through them and others are just trickling their dirt through slowly. does it make any difference on the amount of gold collected, VS. the time involved. etc. etc. just something I wonder about and thought if you were interested it would be nice to get your take on this subject. by the way love the cleaning gold series, top notch!
A sluice usually is referring to a "River sluice" placed right in the river flow. A high banker is a sluice that is powered by a water pump away from the river. High bankers usually have a hopper setup that can classify materials automatically where river sluices usually need the material pre-classified. Too much material in a river sluice can often overload it and that is why people feed it slowly. Highbankers are far more forgiving and can usually take much more material thrown at them much faster. And on the same dirt, a high banker will usually get more gold because it can process more material.
thanks a lot i learned some thing new great video :)
You are welcome
That is more or less the way I do it so I can't wait to see the other methods! That said the best way I have found is teach the kids when they are young and make the clean the cons so i have more time to drink beer! LOL! See you in the next video!!
I like your style!
damn Dan yo make great videos!
Thanks!
Great vids on technique! Loving them!
You seem to get "better" consentrates than we have in Norway though.
You get lovely gold&black sand.
Here you seem to end up with something red/black and you are lucky if there is gold hehe.
I think the reddish stuff is a lot of Scheelite which apparantly is common here and has a density of 6. (Even greater than Pyrite with 5!)
In a microscope it looks like you have a concentrate of gemstones and they wash about the same as the Pyrite so you can't really separate it easily.
Funny enough it responds to tapping and you can even get the Scheelite to climb out of the black sand a bit like gold does, only not as pronounced.
Some video tips on how to deal with different type of ground/sediments would be awesome!
How does anyone give this or any of your videos a thumbs down?! Great video Dan👍
Thanks. I think it is the same few people on each video that give me the thumbs down. Guess you can't please everyone.
some people cannot become famous for anything so choose to become infamous
It definitely will !
;)
Greatings from Venezuela!!!...Dan, I just finally Bought my two "first gold pans" obviously here in Venezuela is kind of difficult to find them and buy them also!!! But I already have one 14" with the three semicicles in one side and the oposite with a kind of canal made alike over the surface....and the secons is very similar like the Garret Super Sluice Gold Pan....not like it exactly, but it has three rifles deep in one quarter and the oposite side another quarter wit a fine multiple paralel riffles....Know i am anxious to find a spot here around Tachira were I live!!! Because I know nothing about finding gold....Just I guess must be around... I wish I would know more about geology!!! Just grab samples when I visit some special places with water colored like greens and reds....(Think they are mineralized) around Mineral Charcoal Mines and coming the stream around thermal waters....I think could find something, like gold or silver or any gem stones!!! Who knows!!! I will keep watching your videos!!!
Applause!Surgeon firm hand!I'll better try with magnet ,ja jaThank you peoffesor,that was a jewel!
You are very welcome.
I was always told as a kid it’s not good to backwash but now they’re wrong it is good to backwash
Ew! ;)
Interesting I never seen it done like that before
Always good to learn new things.
Sir, Dan Hurd, You're so kind in sharing it to others, those 3 methods you teach is i thought would materialized in gold panning, but how can i have those kind of fan you used in 3 methods including that thing that you used in sucking remaining blacksand, l'm from the phillippines n idon't think its available here. Thanks a lot sir for giving us big opportunity to have another source of living.
A wide bottom pan is needed for that method.it's canny frustrating trying to do it with a 10" Garrett with a 3" bottom😨
I agree, I show using the smaller pan in the next video. just not enough room for that line to form right.
Hey ho Dan. Now I know how to do it. But I need a place here in Germany to find gold. Not much around here. Maybe down south near the alpes. Thank you for sharing. Greetings
You are welcome. I hope you find that gold.
Thankyou Dan for another amazing tutorial! You make it look sooo easy. I have a question, i'm a newbie to panning, and i see alot of people using a magnet to pull the black sand from the blonde sands. Gold is nonmagnetic. Why not use a magnet to seperate the black sands from the gold? Is it because the gold is so fine it would be suspended and carried with the black?
If thats the case should you never use a magnet to clean your paydirt in a pan? You expertise is greatly appreciated)))
How wonderful and Beautiful to watch.
What I thought was backwashing was just blown out of the Universe.
I somehow learnt that the wave was a swirling wave brought about by a swirling action.
It appears that you do not swirl at all - but the pan movement is TOTALLY a sort of pivotting action - Is that correct ?
I quite enjoy watching Craftsman that are amongst the greatest in the World at their particular craft , regardless of what that particular craft be.
You SIR are That Craftsman at backwashing. p.s. (You are pretty good at making interesting video tapes as well lol)
Thanks for your kind words. Yes is is just pivoting the pan back and fourth to get a straight wave going back and forth.
I went outside to have a go and could not get even close to what you were achieving - in fact I may as well tried with no water and would have got a better result - do you have a video demonstration apart from this one ? - OR I can wait until your next video comes out would be better - Is it possible to learn over the Internet - I want to be beautiful to watch too :(
I know nothing about panning.
My question is, is the black magnetic sand worth anything? Obviously the gold is worth money.
I had a friend give me some equipment years ago, and it's just been sitting ever since. Seeing you do this is making me curious and wanting to try and find some gold. I live in the Black Hills mountains in Custer SD area. I know there is gold here (Homestake mine). I've never found gold and I don't know what to look for in an area that may have gold in it.
You have some awesome content and it's teaching me tons of knowledge. Thank you
This is a method i use in the glacial gold i get. Most of the gold is powder and tons of black sand very difficult panning.
It works great doesn't it.
@@Danhurd yeah it does its been the only technique i have found short of a expensive finishing machine i cant afford. Just very time consuming when you have developed 3 or 4 gallons of black sand concentrate. I have reconfigured my little highbanker into a recirculating concentraor that really helps but thats alot of work to get set up then take it down again for field use.
I use the gold cube when I have high volumes of cons. It laves me with a cup or two of super cons to pan out.
@@Danhurd yeah my partially home built highbanker i designed it to be able to convert it into a super concentrator. It works really well but alot of work and time to change it and set it up. If the results were better it would be worth it but mining glacial gold in Ohio is pretty slim pickens. I still enjoy getting out though and the mystery of what may be in that next pan. My best find was 2 baseball size pieces of Nephrite jade. That was a good day.
I use the back wash all the time it the best I think love your videos keep it up just a quick question have you ever looked for slumacs gold
Nope, never headed out into that country. It is not far away. But never been there.
@@Danhurd ok I just thought it might be close to you and maybe following the wash upstream you might of found it lol
how new is that pan looks very smooth. as when i try this i always get black sand.
Been using this lately. I'm in heavy heavy blks
It works great doesn't it?
Hey dan nice video, that’s my personal favourite way to pan my cons. We’re you required to do any archaeological surveys when trying to obtain your skidsteer mine permit? Thanks
No, I think I got in before things got strict. My plans did go off to a first nations ???? something. They replied with a report showing a ancient trail in the area, But gave approval fairly easily.
WOW! That is really quicker than the other methods!! Thanks teach! :-)
So do you classify your cons when do this? Thanks again. :-)
You can, wait till Wednesday's video when I put it all together.
@@Danhurd Sounds good thanks Dan.
Dan great advice!😀
Do you repan that black sand in the snuffer just to test your method?
Questions
Hard rock veins low temp volcanic.
Has gold ever Ben found with cinnabar side by side?
Did old miners lie and say there gold mine was a cinnabar mine to hide from government maybe have there gold refined in mexico or Canada?
Did they find gold after distillation?
Is this even possible?
What happens in the oxidation zone?
I simply wish to increase my knowledge and understanding I'm into placer gold not hard rock but knowledge is power and well its interesting to wonder about.
How did you ever get that pan seasoned? I bought one recently to use for this exact purpose, but I've washed it with Dawn dish soap multiple times, scrubbed it, even used 99% IPA, and the water still sheets off of it, which ruins the whole process...
Is a magnet a useful tool for removing some of the black sand? In my mind i see it working but there is very little black sand up here for me to play with. I also never really see anyone doing it so there must be a problem with it.
I have a video on using a magnet to remove black sands. It works, but does have it's problems. th-cam.com/video/Qjel7A_x_Tc/w-d-xo.html
@@Danhurd Thx for the link.
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If you buy a claim from someone that has hours logged on it, are those hours still valid or must you work the required 12 yourself after purchase?
If they logged it already, they still count. If they give you proof of those hours, you can log them.
panning gold on dining room table dosent piss off the Mrs? lol
Why not just heat it dry and use a strong magnet. if some small gold gets trapped in the sand just shake it back out. of course you have to put the magnet into a small plastic cup or jar. magnet goes in bottles work best then put that in the pan and pick up the sand, shake it then hold it over a wast container and pull the magnet out sand falls off. Repeat as needed`
Dan QUESTION: When you sift your cons at first what size mesh do you suggest. ?? Where I live we have small stuff. But just wondering what are best ways to classify ?? THANK YOU!!
I would say min 20 mesh
DAN DAN THE ANSWER MAN !! Thank You !!@@Danhurd
You are welcome
Backwash yeah bouy
Yeah Bouy!
@@Danhurd love your video's. Yeah bouy
Thanks
On all three of these, the final close-up of the gold still showed a few black specks. Is that still black sand, or something else? Would repeating these clean-up steps remove this?
Ya, trying to keep these videos to a reasonable length I have not been to picky about the final absolute cleaning. I could get them cleaner.
And I would, at some point, like my kitchen table back.
I cleaned it up tonight!
Now on the otherside.... white silver colored pyrite and stacks of flaky silver asbestos looking material on the rocks??? Couldn't find a handful of blk sand if my life depended on it there. Also copper mining in this area
Really? I though Black sand was kinda universal and everywhere. Interesting.
@@Danhurd in that area of that mine there wasn't much black sand to be found.
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Dan, I would love to send you some ores samples of bedrock from my yard. There is no visible gold, but quite a bit of iron visible.
Iron is a good sign, but not a sure thing for gold.
Backwash? Yuk... lol... You're back panning :)
Will there be an episode on gargling?
gargling?
Ha! Gargling does sound intriguing and much more appealing than backwashing.
@@daynahart3236 lol
Dan what is your opinion on a fine ( powder) gold “Miller Table”? Gold from Fraser River.
They work - but slow
Ahh bugger!! 🙂
So what would you recommend?
@@hollyreimer4313 I usually pan out all my cons
You look Irish or Scottish bt you sound like and American 🤑