- Empty your dredge's concentrates
into a tub.
- Rinse all carpets into the
tub
- Pour tub's contents into a 5
gallon bucket - be sure to rinse tub into bucket
- Fill tub with fresh water
- Take your 10 and 20 mesh screen
put inside each other so the 20 mesh is on the bottom
- Pour excess water out of 5 gallon
bucket
- Take three handfuls of cons and
put in mesh screen.
- Work until all small particles
are through the mesh.
- Pour contents of 10 mesh screen
into a gold pan. This is where your nuggets will be.
- Work the dirt in the 20 mesh
until all small particles have dropped through screen.
- Pour contents into another gold
pan. This is where your pickers will be.
- Repeat until you have gone
through your concentrates.
- Pan out nugget and picker
pan.
- Pour excess water out of
tub.
- You can pan out the light sands
from the cons in the tub - pour your pan into another 5 gallon bucket.
Repeat until you have reduced your concentrates. However I
usually just use the gravity bowl to wash out the light sands.
- Run leftovers through gravity
bowl and get your gold.
- You also can run these
concentrates through a smaller screen and run each set of cons through the
gravity bowl to separate the fines from the small gold. (This
method seems to get the most gold)
The better you classify the
more of your gold you will get.
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