Gold Prospecting & Placer Deposits by Adam Koch

Author:Adam Koch
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gold, howto, guide, mining, prospecting, dredging, metal detecting, fossicking, panning, sluicing
Publisher: Adam Koch

If the river is large, deep, or slow, the only gold you might find will be flour: Colors so small that it will take millions of them for the ounce and they will only be found in the first couple inches of material on the beaches, shores, and of course the bars. Digging down will not yield any significantly bigger gold either because such rivers lack the power to move large gold and deposit it. Despite the size of the gold, beach placers as they are known have been profitably mined with the proper equipment such as a beach box. It may be small but some areas have an extreme concentration of flour gold which would surprise you how fast it adds up. Anywhere that you see “bands” or lines of black sand concentrated along a beach, this is where any such flour flood gold will be found. The material is extremely dense and is a lot of work even for a skilled gold panner to process. When you see this type of gold for the first time you will understand why the old timers liked mercury! The only other options really are to smelt or use a shaker table for the concentrates.

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