Black Sands Prospecting $24.99 1 pound paydirt

  Ok long version of review. I bought the 1 pound paydirt. shipping was super fast. Opened it up and classified it in my small stack classifiers. screens 10,20,40,60.100. So I end up with 6 sizes of material to go threw.

I pan it all 1 spoonful at a time backpanning it 3-4 times. Yes it does take a while but you get all the gold. By the time you get to the 40 mesh you are glad you are doing it by the spoonful. Lots of black sand , but that is what it is called.

Anyway this prospector found it a blast to work, fun to see color in each spoon. Great product , but you work for everything you get as it should be. Great job guys keep it up. A satisfied prospector.

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  • Nice picture and glad you had fun.

  • so you got .42 at today's price $1078 and now it $14.55

    that's a fair deal

    • Looks like both bags combined yielded 1.116 grams, at $1078 would be $42.96.  Adjusting for the little bit of debris I call it an even $40.  Happy days :)

  • Not enough room to post this on my last post, just my set up.

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  •   Alright folks I did my best to be as thorough and accurate as possible.  I got one bag of the standard $24.99 Black Sands Paydirt and one bag of the $49.99 Select Paydirt.  I am new to panning gold but like my little set up.  As you can see in the pics I have a gold concentrator which I did not use I just set it up so I could have some running water.  I have 3 pans, a small green, a large green and a large black that has the fine traps.  I panned both bags one teaspoon at a time, back and forth from one pan to the other until I was sure I had every last molecule of gold.  The vials are glass and I chose 2 that weighed within a couple 1000ths gram of each other.  I filled them with water, no bubbles and weighed them.

    No gold just water= 11.027 grams.  I understand the factor of water displacement when I add the gold but am not smart enough to account for the differential.  I also had a hard time removing every last bit of black sand from each sample so these figures are on the heavy side but real  close.

    In the final analysis it appears the select bag is a better value.

    Standard bag yielded.  Vial 11.250 grams = .223 grams gold

    Select bag yielded Vial 11.920 grams = .893 grams gold

      I am not disappointed it is a gamble and the way I see it I almost broke even.  What would be really cool is if Black Sands could make random bags with a sweet picker, maybe 1 out of 5 bags with a nice picker and 1 out of 10 or 20 or even 100 with a nice nugget.

    Pic 1 Standard bag

    Pic 2 Select bag

    Pic 3 side by side vials

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    • looks very nice .and you had fun panning that gold  awesome for sure 

    • Hope you had a good time going through it. You might have to go through it a couple times and screen it to different sizes, I don't see much fine gold, there is quite a bit of -50 and -100 gold in it.
      •   I had a real good time.  I spent about 4 hours going through 2 lbs of dirt.  From one pan to the other.  One teaspoon at a time going over each teaspoon about 10x before moving on to the next saving every discarded bit and then going through it another 10x.  I then repeated the process with the next bag.  I have saved all the trimmings and will go through it a few more times but I think the rest is slim pickins.  You are right that there does not seem much fine gold.  I will post anything left behind next week but it will be from both bags combined.

  • after the second panning was just over .42 grams.

  • Did you get through yours yet MDV?
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