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<blockquote data-quote="bend" data-source="post: 334740" data-attributes="member: 4811"><p>Generally i find a miller table to be faster than a blue bowl, though I've only used DIY versions of either. A good miller table can be made with a sheet of glass and some chalkboard paint by the way. Both need classification, a kitchen sieve will work in a pinch, but the finer the better.</p><p>20 pieces of flour would be barely a trail in the pan, are you working surface layers or digging down to bedrock/clay layers? In any case I wouldn't work that with a pan, a sluice if you have sufficient water flow would do alright though if you can't get onto anything better. Those sort of values are best approached as a bulk processing exercise, but are sometimes a good indicator of better values nearby.</p><p>I'd poke around nearby and see if you can't pick up a decent tail in the pan, or a few pickers, then work there if you're only using a pan. Go deeper if you can, and work out to deeper, faster moving areas toward the centre of the flow. It takes a lot of force to move gold, remember it's lazy and doesn't want to go far, so unless you're on top of the source the larger bits and the bulk of the fines will be where there's enough flow to to put them there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bend, post: 334740, member: 4811"] Generally i find a miller table to be faster than a blue bowl, though I've only used DIY versions of either. A good miller table can be made with a sheet of glass and some chalkboard paint by the way. Both need classification, a kitchen sieve will work in a pinch, but the finer the better. 20 pieces of flour would be barely a trail in the pan, are you working surface layers or digging down to bedrock/clay layers? In any case I wouldn't work that with a pan, a sluice if you have sufficient water flow would do alright though if you can't get onto anything better. Those sort of values are best approached as a bulk processing exercise, but are sometimes a good indicator of better values nearby. I'd poke around nearby and see if you can't pick up a decent tail in the pan, or a few pickers, then work there if you're only using a pan. Go deeper if you can, and work out to deeper, faster moving areas toward the centre of the flow. It takes a lot of force to move gold, remember it's lazy and doesn't want to go far, so unless you're on top of the source the larger bits and the bulk of the fines will be where there's enough flow to to put them there. [/QUOTE]
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