The Alaska Gold Forums

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...

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

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.

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....

Whoop whoop! Gold keep on motoring into 2024!

Thanks! 4" or 6" pump feeding it?

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....

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)

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.

https://www.westcoastplacer.com/drilling/

I guess these guys would be a option