Golden Legends Tales of Buried Treasure

This project utilizes a 12 volt submersible water pump (750 gallon per minute), a standard bucket, and an 18 gallon capacity tub. http://www.minnesotagoldprospectors.org/bluebowlinst.pdf Your blue bowl kit can be found at  http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Bowl-Concentrator-Pump-Levelers/dp/B003DWESAK This runs $134, and at the time of publication there were only 10 left. 4 1/2 out 5 stars. I have used one and they are worth the money, as panning dirt is laborious. This device separates concentrates while saving time and energy (labor).

This excerp was taken from  http://www.minelinks.com/alluvial/dry_washer.html This is just a small portion of the information you can get at the link site above. But in the interest of time for those of you who understand the drywasher and what you want to build, here are the important numbers to remember! "In contrast to the single-weave canvas, silk or rayon permits a good extraction of gold, but too much dust goes through into the bellows. Heavier canvas is too tight for good separation. Copper-wire fly screen is used under the canvas. The riffle box is 11 inches wide and 40 inches long and contains six riffles. The slope of the riffle box is 5-1/2 inches to the foot. (Hand-operated machines are usually much smaller and the riffle box is set at a steeper angle than with powered machines.) The gravel and sand are shovelled onto a screen with 3/8-inch openings at the top of the washer. The bellows is operated at 250 pulsations per minute; the stroke is 3 inches. The capacity...

This video offers free construction instructions of a super sucker; if you watch this it does a good job of demonstrating how to make the build. Reed Lukens provides a written set of instructions that are excellent. If you want to learn about gold prospecting, this gentleman has 146 videos.You can skip from one to another and learn a heap of stuff. I highly recommend. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=f8Penqua6R8

I came across a site today that is pretty neat. The site offers free widgets that watch all kinds of things like oil production, oil consumption, platinum prices, gold prices, gold production, carbon immissions. If you are interested in such things, just go to  http://oilprice.com/free-widgets  for free downloads. I was very interested in those having to do with precious metals, in particular, gold. You could say this was a nugget in the rough. It's free, so go prospect. Hope it helps.