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by Slatco
Fri Jan 19, 2024 3:42 pm
Forum: Gold Prospecting Forum
Topic: The necessity of Nugget Traps?
Replies: 3
Views: 942

The necessity of Nugget Traps?

Been pondering this question this winter. Are nugget traps really required? I don't use them however I am not in a nugget gold area so I can't say for sure that I need one (maybe I would get nuggets if I had one lol). In my experience it seems like the 1.5" angle iron sluice section catches anything...
by Slatco
Tue Jan 16, 2024 5:34 pm
Forum: Gold Prospecting Forum
Topic: Mining Videos Thread
Replies: 19
Views: 2842

Re: Mining Videos Thread

Video of some guys in Alaska building a cabin and then they go off and check out a placer op for a day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5km7nMBwIzU&t=486s
by Slatco
Tue Jan 16, 2024 5:28 pm
Forum: Gold Prospecting Forum
Topic: Starlink system
Replies: 18
Views: 3613

Re: Starlink system

THanks for the feedback Chicken. I cancelled my Xplorenet and am ordering the RV package of Starlink as I have a couple minesites and I will take it from site to site to use as needed.
by Slatco
Mon Jan 08, 2024 10:49 pm
Forum: Gold Prospecting Forum
Topic: Big Nugget Gold!
Replies: 8
Views: 1735

Re: Big Nugget Gold!

Nuggets.... Biggest one I have ever found was less than 1 gram.... Just a byproduct of the ground I am mining. Guys upstream find up to 10 grammers but not where I am at....
by Slatco
Fri Dec 22, 2023 2:49 pm
Forum: Gold Prospecting Forum
Topic: Christmas Candles!
Replies: 3
Views: 768

Re: Christmas Candles!

Whoop whoop! Gold keep on motoring into 2024!
by Slatco
Wed Dec 20, 2023 2:48 pm
Forum: Gold Prospecting Forum
Topic: Trommel Rebuild Project
Replies: 11
Views: 4284

Re: Trommel Rebuild Project

Thanks! 4" or 6" pump feeding it?
by Slatco
Tue Dec 19, 2023 10:26 pm
Forum: Gold Prospecting Forum
Topic: Trommel Rebuild Project
Replies: 11
Views: 4284

Re: Trommel Rebuild Project

Hey Chickenminer what do you think the slope degrees were that you ended up with on the hopper? I am reminded of a post I saw about plumbing and if the slope is too steep the water flows too fast to move the solids....
by Slatco
Fri Dec 15, 2023 4:46 pm
Forum: Gold Prospecting Forum
Topic: Circuit Breakers and GOLD prices!
Replies: 3
Views: 875

Re: Circuit Breakers and GOLD prices!

I love these recent prices! Sold my last bit of gold for $2,777/oz CAN.... Economics for scaling up the placer mine are starting to look favorable! (Not quite enough to quit the day job steady income lol)
by Slatco
Wed Dec 13, 2023 8:46 pm
Forum: Gold Prospecting Forum
Topic: New Blood
Replies: 6
Views: 1538

Re: New Blood

Hi Joe/Chicken- Started recruiting and even though most of my contacts are BC miners and not Alaska, alot of what we talk about is universal to placer mining.