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How to break sticky white clay down
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<blockquote data-quote="BourndaBoy" data-source="post: 458665" data-attributes="member: 12715"><p>it has been mentioned before I tend to find the white and grey clay worthless and orange clay to be very payable.</p><p>I usually run a fluid bed sluice all day carting buckets from the hole I am digging. As I run the material it self classifies the gravels but I am usually left with clay chunks.</p><p>Those chunks I bucket up and leave until last. first reason, the clay clogs my fluid bed and stops it from catching the finer gold, equals many clean ups and wasted time. 2nd reason I found a relatively quick way to deal with it. The trick I have found is to add very little water to the bucket at a time. Use a glove ( I tend to work in sharp shale areas) and mix until the water has been incorporated, add more water and repeat a few times. eventually you will end up with a runny clay mix that has minimal clumps. At this stage I flood the bucket with water and give it a good stir. pour out straight away leaving the heavys in the bucket. you will often get some chunks still in the bucket but simply repeat this process once more. final step is tp pan off or run the the remaining gravels or put thru the sluice</p><p>I regularly do this with around 10ltrs of clay in less than 10 minutes, sometimes I have found more gold doing this than from working flood gravels.</p><p></p><p>hope this helps someone</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BourndaBoy, post: 458665, member: 12715"] it has been mentioned before I tend to find the white and grey clay worthless and orange clay to be very payable. I usually run a fluid bed sluice all day carting buckets from the hole I am digging. As I run the material it self classifies the gravels but I am usually left with clay chunks. Those chunks I bucket up and leave until last. first reason, the clay clogs my fluid bed and stops it from catching the finer gold, equals many clean ups and wasted time. 2nd reason I found a relatively quick way to deal with it. The trick I have found is to add very little water to the bucket at a time. Use a glove ( I tend to work in sharp shale areas) and mix until the water has been incorporated, add more water and repeat a few times. eventually you will end up with a runny clay mix that has minimal clumps. At this stage I flood the bucket with water and give it a good stir. pour out straight away leaving the heavys in the bucket. you will often get some chunks still in the bucket but simply repeat this process once more. final step is tp pan off or run the the remaining gravels or put thru the sluice I regularly do this with around 10ltrs of clay in less than 10 minutes, sometimes I have found more gold doing this than from working flood gravels. hope this helps someone [/QUOTE]
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