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Are you in an area known for alluvial gold? If theres no gold, theres no gold. If no one before you has found gold on your stretch of river,.. well good luck. There should be gold there from before the dam was built even in the minutest amount. People are great at extracting gold but when it reaches a point of diminishing returns the smart people move to a more productive area. If you are like ...
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Here's a video showing how I've redesigned and made my monster 4" manual gold pump/dredge. I have a previous build version of this 4" manual gold pump on my youtube channel but due to trial & error, I have improved upon the previous design to make my 4" manual gold pump lighter, lose less material and create a smoother suction vacuum.
The fine gold model used slanted riffles (as did the one I rebuilt), and the model for coarser material used riffles that were parallel to the stroke. I do not remember exactly what angle the angled riffles were at, but I might have that info somewhere. I think the BGS unit was about 10* off the stroke line. Also, Wilfley's table was not ...