Wow! I’m so glad you made this vid! The way you explained how to look for the right places has really cleared that question up for me! I don’t think I will ever look at the river the same again! Please keep these informative field trips coming! Thanks Shane!
I have seen so many videos and posts of people claiming you can't trap gold in black sands when cleaning up paydirt. Nice to see a video showing just how you can trap gold in black sands!
Good use of intuition! Several comments: 1) magnet fishing in a strong current may cause gold to dislodge from your magnetite "cage". 2) repeated dropping of magnetic onto riverbed might also enable gold to escape the magnetite confinement. Based on these predictions, I recommend you magnet fish in calmer pools, and not lift and drop the magnet repeatedly. In fact, I'd suggest you clear away by hand as much coarse rock and then drop the magnet on piled material. Once you have your concentrates, dry and classify them using a screen close to the gold piece size. 1/16" and 1/8" will improve your gold recovery success. Addituonally, appreciate the density contrast between magnetite and gold is a factor of three. That's a contrast comparable of quartz vs. magnetite. When classified well, you will not lose gold so easily during panning. Lastly, I've used the Blue Bowl with very good success to concentrate gold from black sand. Stay curious and have fun!
We are so pumped! 5 days and we will be right about there, panning and sluicing.. your videos really inspired us to dedicate most of our trip to prospecting. Keep them coming!
You may not have found much gold but for the new prospector just now started out you gave them some new tips on where to find gold and what to look for that's the thing that people like you and do that means a lot to them
If no one else mentioned it about the magnet, could surface area be your problem? I mean the video I saw first you used that big brick if a magnet and it was pulling piles of sand on the corners. I get that this one is stronger and all but could that be the issue here?
Nice video. So the idea with the magnet is hoping some gold will get caught up with the black sand? Creative idea, but seems to be a long shot. The magnet does tell you where the gold might be under the water.
I was up that way yesterday and didn't know where we could get into the creek. (We had been run off some property outside Rollinsville earlier in the day.)
Yeah, you are allowed to prospect everywhere between tunnel 1 to the 119 intersection. Any other places are off limits to the public for prospecting, as far as I know. Thanks for watching! atb -KG
This test was a great idea. It's gt me thinking of a controlled test (using the same material). Easier to do with a high banker but maybe a tub under the end of the sluice, to catch the tailings, would allow for that material to be also put in an open top container and be checked with the magnet. The depth of material would just have to be approximately how deep you would go into the sands and gravels on the bottom of a stream. I think the light stuff that would blow right on over the tub in the sluice tailings, would be less prevalent at the stream bottom (assuming big water flow like you have there). So I think what you would have for tailings and what's in the mat would be somewhat like what you would be sifting through with the magnet at a stream bottom. The advantage being you have a controlled amount of gold and black sands, lead, etc. in each test. Just an idea.
Love you videos, you are the reason i got into panning just got a garret set. hopefully my paydirt arrives tomorrow. your 75 videos on paydirt have finally made my way through so i should be a pro first time. LOL keep up the great content
I liked the way you sped up your first sluice of dirt..fastest sluicing ever! Haha! Wish we had an abundance of gold over here, but there have only been traces of gold in Codorus Creek apparently you can't just go pan, you have to wait until they open it up for gold panning..which isn't very often I don't think. I wish I had my gold pan here..it's still up in Washington. Great video as always man! Keep them coming!
The magic of movie editing, cool right?! I'm originally from PA, I know there's gold in NEPA too. I never tried prospecting there, but I plan to on my next trip back east.
The underwater footage was awesome! I wonder if it would be possible to make a gold trap somehow out of PVC pipe and a rope. Drop it in the river then return in several weeks and see if it accumulated anything inside. Probably have to cap the end and drill some strategic holes in it. It would be sweet if it worked and very little effort was involved.
They way you test it is to pick an area, magnet fish the area. Then sluice the same area. See what you grabbed with the magnet and what you missed with the magnet in the sluice.
A theory for the reason that you captured more gold with the Harbor Freight magnet than you did with the fishing magnet has to do with gold being diamagnetic (repelled by a magnetic field) and the magnetic field strength differences (gauss) of the magnets. The fishing magnet is probably rated n52 which is very powerful. While this is fine for attracting the black sand (magnetite) it also repels the gold more. The HF magnet is much weaker and while its strong enough to attract the sand it is not as strong at repelling the gold as the n52 magnet. Also the force, thus speed, of the sand traveling towards the fishing magnet would be faster there by displacing water at high speed away from the magnet thus blowing out the gold similar to a sluice when the water is traveling too fast to be caught.
I reload shotgun slug rounds for target shooting, and I never would have guessed that’s what that chunk of metal that you found was, had you not mentioned it.
Yeah I was able to tell because there were actually "rifling" marks on the sides of it from when it was forced through the barrel. Thanks for watching!
Also I cant seem to find a crevicing tool.. I have searched online and nothing besides the little spoon tools. I think you mentioned a prospecting shop out there once?
awe dude. you seemed so bummed the magnet didnt out compete the sluice... ( i was,i just bout 400$ worth of n52 for gold fishing myself) i prospect clear creek a few times a week below tunnel 1. now im going to use my n52 magnets to make a filter on my sluice to pull out the black sand before it clogs my riffles so i can run more material before cleaning the sluice. love your videos! keep doing cool stuff!
great concept and well done, would've been interesting to compare the weight of gold verses the time spent. I realize this would take longer so that you had a weighable amount. I would think that the magnet might lose a lot of gold if you continually stir the stuck black sand by pressing it into the ground when there is already some stuck to it. You've inspired me to try it here in NC, though we have more garnet sand than black sand
As I was pushing the magnet back down into the ground I was thinking the same thing, I'm probably losing some gold. But, it's the way I did it, and that's what i'm running with. Good luck in NC with this! Thanks for watching! atb -KG
Hey . You make me home sick. I was raised on Robinson hill rd. Used to pan Clear Creek. But now I am in Washington state. Thanks for your videos . Awesome
I enjoyed watching your videos, very down to earth. It is like I`m with my young uncle who goes around and doing what you were looking for. I miss him. he sounds like you are and always having fun even when he just telling stories.
I have seen some videos where people put a magnet under their high banker. The problem they all seemed to have was the black sand clogging up the sluice above the magnet. This created a sort of black sand bar or damn, disturbing the flow and ability for even regular mats to work right. It builds up so fast it's just too impractical. It does seem like a magnet might find a use in future sluice design though.
Thank you, I seen the video where Ray sent you some pay dirt from Michigan, I live in Michigan also and soon be heading up to the mount pleasant area where he sent you the pay dirt but I will be doing the rivers and streams. If I find any evidence of gold from that area I will send you another bag like Ray did. I have a gold rush nugget bucket , and just bought that new gold claw pocket one for the final shake down. I might get a slice like yours, believe it or not we have some really fast moving rivers here in Michigan that I think would be perfect. Should I stay away from the folding slice boxes? People say the ones that don't fold are better, what do you think?
Technically you can make a sluice box out of a piece of corrugated plastic pipe and it would work just fine with the correct water flow. Good luck in Michigan with the gold!
@@Klesh I thought it looked familiar. Didn't know the fishing pressure was as heavy as it looks in the video. Lots of split shots and other miscellaneous fishing stuff.
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Awesome channel, thanks for the information. Greetings from Sweden.
Would love to see what you could’ve done with a simple hand suction dredge or a dredge of any size in that location. That was a lot of black sand for 20 mins sir on the magnet.
Try working with this. A little more expense involved perhaps, but not really that much at all. A small high banker, with 12 volt battery operated pump. A $20 dollar magnet from Harbor freight. A sheet of thin steel plate about 2 Ft long to place over riffles (Height to be determined) Cookie sheet might do. This is why! I see a common mistake that nearly everybody makes in dealing with magnets. They are expecting the magnets to capture the magnetite and iron. My current experiments have to do with what I guess I would call the magnetic 'Zone'. If you hold a magnet over Black Sands and then lower it, the closer it gets to the sand, the less the sand weighs as it is affected by the power of the magnet. Indeed, it is possible to nearly 'zero' out the weight of the sand before the magnet is close enough to capture the sand and coat the magnet which will then need to be cleaned periodically. Instead, mount your magnets just above that 'Zero Weight' point, and let the current move the nearly weightless sands down the riffles and off the end. The lighter blond sands are all that's left to deal with, and a water flow over those can be adjusted to the very least that is needed. The specific weight of gold being so much greater, you should be able to keep your riffles clear of all but gold and garnets in most streams, and at a huge reduction in the flow of water passing over riffles, thus leaving the riffles clear, all the gold passing into the sluice box captured. You really do not know how much that is going to be, because you've been flushing it out to keep riffles clear of black sands. Take thin sheet metal, place heavy magnet at one end away from where you feed material, and it will magnetize whole sheet strong enough for your needs. As material approaches the upper end of sheet it will be affected by force of magnet, but as it travels down sluice closer to the position of the magnet, the force affecting it will increase, so you must have the magnet raised higher at that point to keep a steady, even force affecting the black sands all the way to end of sluice. Hope that's not too confusing. You need a 12 volt pump to control water flow to as little as may be to move the blond sands. That flow may be as low as 25% of normal. Incline of box may be less as well. Records show men working the gravels along a major river in my town a hundred years ago were taking .5 to 1.5 troy ounces of gold a day using rocker boxes and burlap trying to capture gold like talcum powder. Bet I can do better with this method. If all works out, I may jump to a 5" triple sluice by mid Summer Fortunately, it's only two hundred yards from my driveway! Wish me luck!
That's a really cool idea with the "magnetic zone" to eliminate the black sands. Must be cool living right near a place to find gold! Thanks for watching and the comment -KleshGuitars
if u dont have access to a river but know some one who has taken out a pool and used alot of store bought sand that is a definet spot to pan for gold. i use a gold cube 4 stack to trap fine gold which eliminates the floating gold issue and i found more gold in my back yard in michigan where a pool used to be then in this entire vid remember any store bought sand could have gold in it cause most sand in store comes from California.
Hi Klesh I appreciate how Honest of a guy you are and would love to see you do a blue bowl and spiral concentrator video :) I have a blue bowl but the ground is a bit frozen right now :(
I'd like to also. Right now I don't have the space for that equipment so can't really do that type of video for you. Soon I hope to get a bigger place and have a garage or room full of prospecting gear and things for these types of requests. Thanks for watching
Sorry for the late comment considering the age of the video Next time. Would suggest you use the magnet in the same location as you shovel the dirt to sluice As it would be a fairer comparison
Hey! you are the man it works I just pan the material and yes gold by the magnet now I'm going to go later today but this time Whit a stronger and biger magnet I'm going to hit my spot and I'm excited cause I think that I'm going to get alot more and faster using the magnet then throw the black sand on my Black Magic Gold Fine Recovery, you should get it cause that's the fastest way to separate the black sand from the gold even the smallest specks would stay, thanks I love the magnet by the way happy new year...
I believe the reason you are only getting a small amount of flake gold is small particles hang onto the magnetized particles you are picking up and not larger pieces which would fall off. Get a better sluice that you can put more through which would help you find more gold quicker. Good luck.
You should try your original spot to see if the magnet powers make a difference. Also your protective layer of jb weld may be interfering somehow. Possibly try a different protection method. Anyways great video, it would be awesome if magnet fishing gets dialled in for good gold.
ok... two channels of aluminum that clip together however you want and the magnets attached however you want on the underside of one of the two pieces of aluminum.. now run it like any other sluice box. when your done running material, unclip the two pieces of aluminum, this separates the magnets from the black sands that serve as riffles for the gold to be caught in. Now you have the concentrate you want and much more gold.. your welcome
did you know that there is gold on old Lowry air base? I got pretty gold nuggets at the north end of the north south runway There is a small stream that runs through area.It goes under the road through a culvertand should have gold in it chevk it out. I got nice gold back years ago when I worked at Lowry
I just decided to go where the heavies have dropped out of the water for this video. Ill try finding a pay streak in another video. Thanks for watching!
must compare apples to apples, while your comparison is active stream to crevasse. I believe it would have been better to done crevasse with a shovel then around the area with the mag to see what the shovel missed.
All gold in clear creek (in the gravel bars, inside or outside bend) will be flakes/flour gold. All is considered "float gold" regardless. Even deep in crevices I find mostly float gold, almost never anything bigger. Thanks for watching
What could be extremely helpful to you is called a pin pointer. It acts as a metal detector. It is used with a metal detector it does just that it pin points you to the object being metal /Gold. Ive used them myself. Battery operated. There is no reason it can't work for you. It's a winner. You got to check out this guy hes 's called Aqua Chigger on TH-cam hes big into metel detecting mostly civil war artifacts, he has a lot of helpful ideas. He snorkles , magnet fishes he finds cell phones gold rings, civil war rifles, shells, civil war belt buckles , expensive sunglasses you name it. Got to check him out. He now is expending into other topics. And making a series in the UK. You could find more than gold out there. Artifacts of all kinds a lot went on out there. Do your homework. I would if I live out there. Me I'm looking for Indian arrowheads and artifacts, gold too so im paying attention to you. I live near where Indian tribes were known to live. I found things before I had an idea to look for them. I was just looking for interesting rocks. Ok wishing lots of luck. Will be checking in on you to see what you find....
I didn't realize this so I just did some research on it. Depending on impurities within it, some natural gold is weakly diamagnetic, however, if it contains manganese or other ferrous material as an impurity, it can also be paramagnetic. The gold I was able to retreive.... it's not repelled quickly enough to prevent it from becoming trapped in the magnetic black sand. It may also be a bit paramagnetic. At least that's my hypothesis on why I'm able to still get it trapped in the black sand. Thanks for watching! atb -KG
study up on the content of the gold in the streams your checking and stick to streams with gold that has a paramagnetic capability instead of diamagnetic?
Lol,,, just dig anywhere you want to dig,,, use a hoist to move the big rocks out of your way and have a ball.... simply hook one end to a good anchor point tie a good rope around the rock you want to move,,,, and jack away.... be sure you know how to tie knots,,, or your rope will be ruined
Ok you said the gold isn’t worth much,,,, I get angry when I see people digging pay dirt and using a high banker , throwing material on the classifer that is set on a very steep angle. When they put it on the classifer and it falls off so fast there is no way they are not loosing gold,,,,, PEOPLE USE A LONG SLUICE 6FT AT LEAST..... LET THE WATER CLASSIFY YOUR MATERIAL....
they say only two percent of gold is in nugget form. so we are all collecting dust, waiting for luck to bring bigger pieces . i just subscribed if you get a chance check out my channel QUEST FOR DETAILS , I think we all need to support eachother and keep it growing, good luck ,ill be watching!!
Wow! I’m so glad you made this vid! The way you explained how to look for the right places has really cleared that question up for me! I don’t think I will ever look at the river the same again! Please keep these informative field trips coming! Thanks Shane!
I have seen so many videos and posts of people claiming you can't trap gold in black sands when cleaning up paydirt. Nice to see a video showing just how you can trap gold in black sands!
Thanks for the comment. I checked your TH-cam channel and website out, i subbed and look forward to your next video reviews! atb -KG
Good use of intuition! Several comments: 1) magnet fishing in a strong current may cause gold to dislodge from your magnetite "cage". 2) repeated dropping of magnetic onto riverbed might also enable gold to escape the magnetite confinement. Based on these predictions, I recommend you magnet fish in calmer pools, and not lift and drop the magnet repeatedly. In fact, I'd suggest you clear away by hand as much coarse rock and then drop the magnet on piled material. Once you have your concentrates, dry and classify them using a screen close to the gold piece size. 1/16" and 1/8" will improve your gold recovery success. Addituonally, appreciate the density contrast between magnetite and gold is a factor of three. That's a contrast comparable of quartz vs. magnetite. When classified well, you will not lose gold so easily during panning. Lastly, I've used the Blue Bowl with very good success to concentrate gold from black sand. Stay curious and have fun!
Thanks Daniel Karner glad you enjoyed it!
We are so pumped! 5 days and we will be right about there, panning and sluicing.. your videos really inspired us to dedicate most of our trip to prospecting. Keep them coming!
I'm glad my videos are inspiring you, for sure! If you see me on the river come say hi. Thanks for watching! atb -KG
just started watching your videos after i stumbled on them. they are great and very interesting. thanks and you have a new fan from ireland.
Awesome thank you!
You may not have found much gold but for the new prospector just now started out you gave them some new tips on where to find gold and what to look for that's the thing that people like you and do that means a lot to them
If no one else mentioned it about the magnet, could surface area be your problem? I mean the video I saw first you used that big brick if a magnet and it was pulling piles of sand on the corners. I get that this one is stronger and all but could that be the issue here?
Nice video. So the idea with the magnet is hoping some gold will get caught up with the black sand? Creative idea, but seems to be a long shot. The magnet does tell you where the gold might be under the water.
Yeah at the very least the spots where I get more black sand will tell where the gold is hiding. Thanks for watching
I was up that way yesterday and didn't know where we could get into the creek. (We had been run off some property outside Rollinsville earlier in the day.)
Yeah, you are allowed to prospect everywhere between tunnel 1 to the 119 intersection. Any other places are off limits to the public for prospecting, as far as I know. Thanks for watching! atb -KG
This test was a great idea. It's gt me thinking of a controlled test (using the same material). Easier to do with a high banker but maybe a tub under the end of the sluice, to catch the tailings, would allow for that material to be also put in an open top container and be checked with the magnet. The depth of material would just have to be approximately how deep you would go into the sands and gravels on the bottom of a stream.
I think the light stuff that would blow right on over the tub in the sluice tailings, would be less prevalent at the stream bottom (assuming big water flow like you have there). So I think what you would have for tailings and what's in the mat would be somewhat like what you would be sifting through with the magnet at a stream bottom.
The advantage being you have a controlled amount of gold and black sands, lead, etc. in each test. Just an idea.
Thanks WhoWouldWantThisName for watching!
I got so excited for the magnet. I have several types of massive ones for magnet fishing. Oh well, fun video!
Glad you enjoyed the video.
I always enjoy your adventures..............and thank you for taking me with you.
Thanks Erna Bueing for watching!
Congranualtions on the 1 k subs!! you guys are a great distraction to the day.
Thanks for watching! -KleshGuitars
Love you videos, you are the reason i got into panning just got a garret set. hopefully my paydirt arrives tomorrow. your 75 videos on paydirt have finally made my way through so i should be a pro first time. LOL keep up the great content
That is awesome!
I liked the way you sped up your first sluice of dirt..fastest sluicing ever! Haha! Wish we had an abundance of gold over here, but there have only been traces of gold in Codorus Creek apparently you can't just go pan, you have to wait until they open it up for gold panning..which isn't very often I don't think. I wish I had my gold pan here..it's still up in Washington. Great video as always man! Keep them coming!
The magic of movie editing, cool right?! I'm originally from PA, I know there's gold in NEPA too. I never tried prospecting there, but I plan to on my next trip back east.
That was pretty cool I did see the other magnet for gold video do you only have the 2 videos on magnet fishing?
I have a handful of magnet fishing videos. You can just type "kleshguitars magnet" in youtube to find them
The underwater footage was awesome! I wonder if it would be possible to make a gold trap somehow out of PVC pipe and a rope. Drop it in the river then return in several weeks and see if it accumulated anything inside. Probably have to cap the end and drill some strategic holes in it. It would be sweet if it worked and very little effort was involved.
You do a very good job explaining everything in your videos, thanks.
Thank you ieat caribou!
They way you test it is to pick an area, magnet fish the area. Then sluice the same area. See what you grabbed with the magnet and what you missed with the magnet in the sluice.
Good Idea Michael T Shue Studios! Thanks for watching!
I enjoy your vids. Looks fun
Thanks yeah it's fun, just a bit cold. Even in the summer.
You do a very good job explaining and showing!!! Love your videos!!!❤️ I’m a beginner so helps a lot!!!
Glad my videos are helping you, that's awesome.
A theory for the reason that you captured more gold with the Harbor Freight magnet than you did with the fishing magnet has to do with gold being diamagnetic (repelled by a magnetic field) and the magnetic field strength differences (gauss) of the magnets. The fishing magnet is probably rated n52 which is very powerful. While this is fine for attracting the black sand (magnetite) it also repels the gold more. The HF magnet is much weaker and while its strong enough to attract the sand it is not as strong at repelling the gold as the n52 magnet. Also the force, thus speed, of the sand traveling towards the fishing magnet would be faster there by displacing water at high speed away from the magnet thus blowing out the gold similar to a sluice when the water is traveling too fast to be caught.
I reload shotgun slug rounds for target shooting, and I never would have guessed that’s what that chunk of metal that you found was, had you not mentioned it.
Yeah I was able to tell because there were actually "rifling" marks on the sides of it from when it was forced through the barrel. Thanks for watching!
Also I cant seem to find a crevicing tool.. I have searched online and nothing besides the little spoon tools. I think you mentioned a prospecting shop out there once?
Sarah Renee I believe the youtuber named Two Toes sells tools. Try sending him a PM
He has an EBay store and they sell tools on EBay too do a Search.
our trip is in 4 days.. no time for online orders at this point
Sarah Renee try looking at Pinch Bars at ur local hardware
Sarah - Yes Gold-N-Detectors in Golden, CO. They sell crevicing tools! Tell them KleshGuitars sent ya! Thanks for watching! atb -KG
Could banging it around from place to place be knocking the gold out of the black sand?
Yes it can
awe dude. you seemed so bummed the magnet didnt out compete the sluice... ( i was,i just bout 400$ worth of n52 for gold fishing myself) i prospect clear creek a few times a week below tunnel 1. now im going to use my n52 magnets to make a filter on my sluice to pull out the black sand before it clogs my riffles so i can run more material before cleaning the sluice. love your videos! keep doing cool stuff!
Hey, it's all good! Good idea you have there, good luck! Thanks for watching! atb -KG
Interesting look at two different methods! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching! atb -KG
Thanks D Wing for watching, I appreciate your support buddy!
great concept and well done, would've been interesting to compare the weight of gold verses the time spent. I realize this would take longer so that you had a weighable amount. I would think that the magnet might lose a lot of gold if you continually stir the stuck black sand by pressing it into the ground when there is already some stuck to it. You've inspired me to try it here in NC, though we have more garnet sand than black sand
As I was pushing the magnet back down into the ground I was thinking the same thing, I'm probably losing some gold. But, it's the way I did it, and that's what i'm running with. Good luck in NC with this! Thanks for watching! atb -KG
That was a cool video!
Thanks!
Hey . You make me home sick. I was raised on Robinson hill rd. Used to pan Clear Creek. But now I am in Washington state. Thanks for your videos . Awesome
I enjoyed watching your videos, very down to earth. It is like I`m with my young uncle who goes around and doing what you were looking for. I miss him. he sounds like you are and always having fun even when he just telling stories.
So I'm going to Denver Colorado on Labor day.....so can I prospect anywhere on Clear Creek that I like? also what about Arapaho Bar?
Not anywhere, but from tunnel 1 to intersection 119 on route 6 is OK on clear creek. Arapahoe bar is good as well. Thanks for watching!
I have seen some videos where people put a magnet under their high banker. The problem they all seemed to have was the black sand clogging up the sluice above the magnet. This created a sort of black sand bar or damn, disturbing the flow and ability for even regular mats to work right. It builds up so fast it's just too impractical. It does seem like a magnet might find a use in future sluice design though.
Thanks WhoWouldWantThisName for watching!
Nice experiment!
Thank you Stephen Fuller!
You should use the time digging and sluicing combined versus the same time spent with the magnet in basically the same location.
Thanks David Raye for watching!
What brand and model sluice box was that? Great video by the way going to start hitting the rivers and creeks here in Michigan.
It's a Keene 3' sluice. Thanks and good luck!
Thank you, I seen the video where Ray sent you some pay dirt from Michigan, I live in Michigan also and soon be heading up to the mount pleasant area where he sent you the pay dirt but I will be doing the rivers and streams. If I find any evidence of gold from that area I will send you another bag like Ray did. I have a gold rush nugget bucket , and just bought that new gold claw pocket one for the final shake down. I might get a slice like yours, believe it or not we have some really fast moving rivers here in Michigan that I think would be perfect. Should I stay away from the folding slice boxes? People say the ones that don't fold are better, what do you think?
Technically you can make a sluice box out of a piece of corrugated plastic pipe and it would work just fine with the correct water flow. Good luck in Michigan with the gold!
Thank you! Really enjoy your videos keep it up!!
Thanks
Is this anywhere near the town you live in?
Yeah It's right down the street
@@Klesh I thought it looked familiar. Didn't know the fishing pressure was as heavy as it looks in the video. Lots of split shots and other miscellaneous fishing stuff.
Awesome channel, thanks for the information. Greetings from Sweden.
Always fun exploring rivers in hunting for things in the rivers great video keep them coming later
Thanks glad you liked it Crazy Mator!
Would love to see what you could’ve done with a simple hand suction dredge or a dredge of any size in that location. That was a lot of black sand for 20 mins sir on the magnet.
Good Idea Eric Honaker! Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the videos, highly entertaining...
Thanks DavyLee Ballou glad you enjoyed it!
Good job, you’ve earned another sub.
Thanks for watching
Good video man. Beautiful area Thank you for sharing. Peace ✌
Thanks Paul Howard glad you enjoyed it!
Very interesting video. Learning thanks to your postings.
Cool! I'm glad you enjoy them.
Was this in Clear Creek, Arkansas??
Nope, Clear Creek Colorado!
Ain't shit for gold in Arkansas lol
Good stuff!maybe if u were to try a bit longer in different places all over the river u might get a result with the magnet.
I'm sure I would too, especially if I found a pay streak~! Thanks for watching! atb -KG
Try working with this. A little more expense involved perhaps, but not really that much at all.
A small high banker, with 12 volt battery operated pump. A $20 dollar magnet from Harbor freight. A sheet of thin steel plate about 2 Ft long to place over riffles (Height to be determined) Cookie sheet might do.
This is why!
I see a common mistake that nearly everybody makes in dealing with magnets.
They are expecting the magnets to capture the magnetite and iron.
My current experiments have to do with what I guess I would call the magnetic 'Zone'.
If you hold a magnet over Black Sands and then lower it, the closer it gets to the sand, the less the sand weighs as it is affected by the power of the magnet.
Indeed, it is possible to nearly 'zero' out the weight of the sand before the magnet is close enough to capture the sand and coat the magnet which will then need to be cleaned periodically.
Instead, mount your magnets just above that 'Zero Weight' point, and let the current move the nearly weightless sands down the riffles and off the end.
The lighter blond sands are all that's left to deal with, and a water flow over those can be adjusted to the very least that is needed. The specific weight of gold being so much greater, you should be able to keep your riffles clear of all but gold and garnets in most streams, and at a huge reduction in the flow of water passing over riffles, thus leaving the riffles clear, all the gold passing into the sluice box captured.
You really do not know how much that is going to be, because you've been flushing it out to keep riffles clear of black sands.
Take thin sheet metal, place heavy magnet at one end away from where you feed material, and it will magnetize whole sheet strong enough for your needs. As material approaches the upper end of sheet it will be affected by force of magnet, but as it travels down sluice closer to the position of the magnet, the force affecting it will increase, so you must have the magnet raised higher at that point to keep a steady, even force affecting the black sands all the way to end of sluice.
Hope that's not too confusing.
You need a 12 volt pump to control water flow to as little as may be to move the blond sands.
That flow may be as low as 25% of normal. Incline of box may be less as well.
Records show men working the gravels along a major river in my town a hundred years ago were taking .5 to 1.5 troy ounces of gold a day using rocker boxes and burlap trying to capture gold like talcum powder. Bet I can do better with this method.
If all works out, I may jump to a 5" triple sluice by mid Summer
Fortunately, it's only two hundred yards from my driveway! Wish me luck!
That's a really cool idea with the "magnetic zone" to eliminate the black sands. Must be cool living right near a place to find gold! Thanks for watching and the comment -KleshGuitars
if u dont have access to a river but know some one who has taken out a pool and used alot of store bought sand that is a definet spot to pan for gold. i use a gold cube 4 stack to trap fine gold which eliminates the floating gold issue and i found more gold in my back yard in michigan where a pool used to be then in this entire vid remember any store bought sand could have gold in it cause most sand in store comes from California.
Nice - yeah check my "Gold Propsecting @ Home Depot" video..found gold there too!
Thank you, I learned alot from this.
Thanks Sara Matlock glad you enjoyed it!
Hi Klesh I appreciate how Honest of a guy you are and would love to see you do a blue bowl and spiral concentrator video :) I have a blue bowl but the ground is a bit frozen right now :(
I'd like to also. Right now I don't have the space for that equipment so can't really do that type of video for you. Soon I hope to get a bigger place and have a garage or room full of prospecting gear and things for these types of requests. Thanks for watching
"NO enjoying nature, in nature."
Sorry for the late comment considering the age of the video
Next time. Would suggest you use the magnet in the same location as you shovel the dirt to sluice
As it would be a fairer comparison
Good idea!
whats state are you in
I am in Colorado sir.
Hey I need to try the magnet next time I go and I'll let you know how I do
Definitely let me know thanks for watching
Hey! you are the man it works I just pan the material and yes gold by the magnet now I'm going to go later today but this time Whit a stronger and biger magnet I'm going to hit my spot and I'm excited cause I think that I'm going to get alot more and faster using the magnet then throw the black sand on my Black Magic Gold Fine Recovery, you should get it cause that's the fastest way to separate the black sand from the gold even the smallest specks would stay, thanks I love the magnet by the way happy new year...
I believe the reason you are only getting a small amount of flake gold is small particles hang onto the magnetized particles you are picking up and not larger pieces which would fall off. Get a better sluice that you can put more through which would help you find more gold quicker. Good luck.
That's correct!
Nice man look like an awesome day to be out there
Always! Thanks for watching! atb -KG
Can the neodymium magnet be purchase at Alibaba online shopping
Probably
Yes, it is. Haha!. That would be awesome! Can't wait to see what you find! Thanks for the replies!
Right on!
Great video
Thanks for watching! atb -KG
Get yourself some felt soled wading boots and the rapids will be much easier.
Good idea, Thanks for watching! -KleshGuitars
You should hike up rock creek and try there. In the swasey recreational area.
Ill check it out, thanks for the suggestion and thanks for watching! atb -KG
Doing some field work🇵🇷
Cool you get dinner after working hard
Oh yeah
A little Gold is more Gold! Try the other spot. Thank you and take care. Paul.
Will do (actually, already did, check my latest video!) Thanks for watching! atb -KG
Cool beans good try. 👍🏻. Well a little is better then nothing.
Thanks, yeah I'm happy as long as I'm out there! Thanks for watching!
You should try your original spot to see if the magnet powers make a difference. Also your protective layer of jb weld may be interfering somehow. Possibly try a different protection method. Anyways great video, it would be awesome if magnet fishing gets dialled in for good gold.
Check my latest video , I go back with the Big magnet to the original spot! Thanks for watching! atb -KG
King_Of _Collect
in my area in ireland there is tons of gold waiting to be panned
Maybe I should come to ireland!
Kevin, I plan on visiting Ireland in the spring of 2019. I’d be honored to go prospecting with you.
I'm out in golden I'll be behind tunnel 1 today !
NICE! any luck?
Yes I'll be uploading my movie in a couple days !
Sorry took 4 months to reply, but I watched your video, good work man!
Hey I just got back from hunting gold I try the magnet but I need to clean it up and I'm hopping to find color I'll let you know
COol let me know!
the magnet needs grooves to catch it trap it jb weld too smooth sir
ok... two channels of aluminum that clip together however you want and the magnets attached however you want on the underside of one of the two pieces of aluminum.. now run it like any other sluice box. when your done running material, unclip the two pieces of aluminum, this separates the magnets from the black sands that serve as riffles for the gold to be caught in. Now you have the concentrate you want and much more gold.. your welcome
Thanks Jake Smith for watching!
You gotta try this tool...Mother Sucker Hand Suction Dredge for getting Gold from Rivers and Creeks.
Cool thanks!
did you know that there is gold on old Lowry air base? I got pretty gold nuggets at the north end of the north south runway There is a small stream that runs through area.It goes under the road through a culvertand should have gold in it chevk it out. I got nice gold back years ago when I worked at Lowry
Thanks for the suggestion, I will check this out ASAP. Watch for a new video coming in 2 or 3 days! Thanks for watching! atb -KleshGuitars
HD very cool 👍
Thanks glad you enjoyed it!
Still a cool video keep them coming
Thanks for watching! atb -KG
Thanks man, thanks for watching
Dude- I don't care what you're using- you're on the wrong side of the river! Nice tight bend on the other side...
I just decided to go where the heavies have dropped out of the water for this video. Ill try finding a pay streak in another video. Thanks for watching!
Those sinkers were thrown there
8:35 black sand painting :0
Cool!
Good idea the problem was that river to much force go to a slower place u will win...am sure let's go
Klesh NO GOLD Guitars
Thanks for watching!
must compare apples to apples, while your comparison is active stream to crevasse. I believe it would have been better to done crevasse with a shovel then around the area with the mag to see what the shovel missed.
Yeah, there's really no perfect way to compare since it's all luck anyway..but was still a fun video to make. Thanks for watching
I'd put the magnet in a plastic bag. then it is easier to clean.
Nice video
Thank you Old Pelon!
Somebody should tell this guy that gold isn't magnetic
Why should somebody tell me something I already know?
Buy a Gold Cube! Seriously worth wild.
Thanks Joshua Espinoza for watching!
NICE VIDEO
Thanks for watching! atb -KG
Thanks I appreciate that Louis
I don’t understand why you are on the outside bend in the river? Nothing but flower gold.
All gold in clear creek (in the gravel bars, inside or outside bend) will be flakes/flour gold. All is considered "float gold" regardless. Even deep in crevices I find mostly float gold, almost never anything bigger. Thanks for watching
Id love to get in there with a dredge
Yeah me too, that and get way down to bedrock!
the west mayo and monaghan supposed to be geologist did some surveys
Thanks for watching!
What could be extremely helpful to you is called a pin pointer. It acts as a metal detector. It is used with a metal detector it does just that it pin points you to the object being metal /Gold. Ive used them myself. Battery operated. There is no reason it can't work for you. It's a winner. You got to check out this guy hes 's called Aqua Chigger on TH-cam hes big into metel detecting mostly civil war artifacts, he has a lot of helpful ideas. He snorkles , magnet fishes he finds cell phones gold rings, civil war rifles, shells, civil war belt buckles , expensive sunglasses you name it. Got to check him out. He now is expending into other topics. And making a series in the UK. You could find more than gold out there. Artifacts of all kinds a lot went on out there. Do your homework. I would if I live out there. Me I'm looking for Indian arrowheads and artifacts, gold too so im paying attention to you. I live near where Indian tribes were known to live. I found things before I had an idea to look for them. I was just looking for interesting rocks. Ok wishing lots of luck. Will be checking in on you to see what you find....
Thanks SANDY BROCKMEYER for watching!
im gonna drive.
sweet
look at the blacksand man awesome
build a dam for your sluice box.
You need to go to Washington state
On the Columbia
River
Just returned from filming my Washington State episode. Video will be up on Patreon within a week.
gold is diamagnetic which means a magnetic field repels it
I didn't realize this so I just did some research on it. Depending on impurities within it, some natural gold is weakly diamagnetic, however, if it contains manganese or other ferrous material as an impurity, it can also be paramagnetic. The gold I was able to retreive.... it's not repelled quickly enough to prevent it from becoming trapped in the magnetic black sand. It may also be a bit paramagnetic. At least that's my hypothesis on why I'm able to still get it trapped in the black sand. Thanks for watching! atb -KG
It’s not that gold is magnetic. With gold and black sand if your mag grabs a bunch of sand some of the small flakes of gold get trapped in the sand.
study up on the content of the gold in the streams your checking and stick to streams with gold that has a paramagnetic capability instead of diamagnetic?
'splain the magnet please. Gold isn't a ferrous metal. The black sand evidently has iron in it, but where's the gold?
The idea is the gold gets trapped in the wet black sand when using the magnet.
proportional force
Thanks John Gould for watching!
Lol,,, just dig anywhere you want to dig,,, use a hoist to move the big rocks out of your way and have a ball.... simply hook one end to a good anchor point tie a good rope around the rock you want to move,,,, and jack away.... be sure you know how to tie knots,,, or your rope will be ruined
Thanks William Coley for watching!
Gold isnt magnetic ?
Correct!
Why dose it say magnet fishing for gold
Im gonna start panning for gold soon
The magnet is for collecting black sand and trapping the gold inside it. That's how I'm able to get gold with a magnet.
KleshGuitars k ty
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Thank you Wil Bradford!
dredge.
Ok you said the gold isn’t worth much,,,, I get angry when I see people digging pay dirt and using a high banker , throwing material on the classifer that is set on a very steep angle. When they put it on the classifer and it falls off so fast there is no way they are not loosing gold,,,,,
PEOPLE USE A LONG SLUICE 6FT AT LEAST..... LET THE WATER CLASSIFY YOUR MATERIAL....
Thanks William Coley for watching!
they say only two percent of gold is in nugget form. so we are all collecting dust, waiting for luck to bring bigger pieces . i just subscribed if you get a chance check out my channel QUEST FOR DETAILS , I think we all need to support eachother and keep it growing, good luck ,ill be watching!!