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So ............ Which comes first - the chicken ( with "documented evidence and proof" beyond reproach) or the egg (something new that the inventor makes certain claims as to recovery improvements)? Ever use extruded or cast rubber mats? Who decided to try them, found them to be VERY good at recover...

"For what it's worth I have had a company that was prospecting in the area for hardrock deposits ask permission to do soils on my claims. While some of the samples came back an anomaly none threw up any big red flags." Dick, I have seen the same sort of thing happen at a friend's claim a few years ...

Robin Grayson - or SteppeGold as he was known here - is a "Blast from the Past" for us old timers who faithfully read and re-read all his postings. He is a British born Geologist who (back a few years ago at least) lived with his family in Mongolia and worked in many different locations in many diff...

Pickaxe,
One other aspect of the punch plate is that it shears off almost all the down stream force of the water/slurry and redirects only some of the flow downward to slowly wash the undersized material from around the denser Gold.

Just as GWiz has many, many years of experience doing these old things using his rewarding, traditional, ways, many of us only see those old ways as just OLD, inefficiently developed things that came about from the random efforts of desperate and usually unskilled novices. Nowadays we evaluate those...

Here are two guys working in interior Alaska who are dropping a shaft this winter. Something those who are interested in drift mining might find interesting.

https://youtu.be/tAeFy0-NLus?si=HVo91oxK4OUFvRur

Doc, over at Gold Hog, had a few tutorial videos addressing fine tuning a box with mats to maximize recovering many different Gold sizes all the way down to fly poop. Slowing and / or flattening the water and sluice, it turns out, isn't as critical as controlling by pitch the water speed over certai...

All your 8 points seem solid there. I suspect that all the classified material drops down and the punch plate slows the water flow just enough that the lighter material is slowly washed out from under the plate but that the Gold (possibly even Platinum and maybe even Lead) have just too much heavine...

Now Pickaxe, something to consider: Going to very dry locations to search could well be quite rewarding in results - however - just like the puppy chasing it's own tail - What are you going to do if you catch that tail? :roll: If you do find something of certain interest remember to factor in (under...

Me too on that rubber mallet, Gabby. I have found that sometimes a couple of smaller pebbles will also jam together to make a plug-up. Rubber hammer and light Rat, Tat, Tat will re-arrange the little pebbles to wash through. If it is a toggle situation with a single rock the jarring often frees it. ...