Spiral Wheel Concentrator

Gold Rush Guys November 2, 2011 at 9:13pm

This is my 2 cents.

Forget the Wheels and feeding with a spoon! All the wheels will tell you to classify, classify, classify! The more you classify the more gold you will get! If you have a lot of cons to run, you could spend days classifying, then hours (upon hours) feeding with a spoon!

But a 4 stack Gold Cube, classify to -10 and feed with a scoop! You will get everything from -10 to 200 mesh gold! (200 mesh is more than most dredges will retain anyway.) I classify to 10 mesh because I'm anal. Gold Cube says 8 mesh, BTW.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUlNNIxKjaQ

One of these days, I'll get around to making my own video.

Bucket > Gold Rush Guys November 3, 2011 at 10:59am

Charlotte49er....you sure look an awful lot like "Golden Okie" over at the gpaa forums, The video was good, I enjoyed watching it, looked like the weather was great!!
- Gold Rush Guys > Bucket November 3, 2011 at 2:57pm
  
  No, I go by "Charlotte49er" all all the prospecting or metal detecting forums, even the GPAA Forum. However, I was at the GPAA Gold show in Fletcher, NC a few weeks ago, helping to promote the Gold Cube. When I handed people my jar of 68.4 grams of -10 to -100 mech gold that the Gold Cube has recovered for me since February, peole take notice.
  
  I bought the Gold Cube last December when it first became available. I didn't get to use it until February, due to moving. When I did got to use it, it so impressed me, that very next week, I sold my Spiral Wheel, Blue Bowl, and all my clean up sluices.
  
  I kept a couple of stream sluices, my higbanker and my dredges. As far as clean up goes. Gold Cube all the way.
  - Bucket > Gold Rush Guys November 3, 2011 at 6:19pm
    
    Well you know what they say....word of mouth is the best form of advertising, one day I will try the Gold Cube, but there's not much running water here so I would have to recirculate. I'm glad your happy with it!!

durant August 12, 2011 at 7:13am

Do not scuff up the pan you need it smooth you scuff it you get a nether one just wash it good then use it. I have one and I like it vary much you can set it for the size of gold you are getting, have fun with it. Oh I have the camal

Peter & Lisa August 12, 2011 at 12:50am

Ok, wheel came today, was wondering if I should scruff it up like the gold pans or leave it alone.

kchacha > Peter & Lisa August 12, 2011 at 5:12am

I wouldn't scuff it up, just wash it real well with dish soap before first use. Good luck!

Peter & Lisa August 10, 2011 at 11:28am

my problem with the gold magic wheel was that you have the pull out cup in the center and it does not allow free moving material inside the cup.

Bucket > Peter & Lisa August 10, 2011 at 7:05pm

I've tested it extensively with samples and its never lost a piece yet, wet or dry. Like everything else it takes a bit angle tuning but so far...for my type of desert prospecting, it a versatile, cool little tool. I need something that I can pull out quickly..set up and have running in seconds, same thing goes for packing it up, my type of prospecting is called "driveby prospecting" as I'm cruising on the quad looking around, if I see a wash that looks good I want to be able to run a quick test then get out if there's nothing there, if I'm camping in a spot where I'm not moving around then I use the Desert Fox, and lately I've even swapped that out for the Catch It II water table.
- desertratdan > Bucket August 10, 2011 at 8:00pm
  
  Testing washes out here is exactly what that is made for! Now I know what ya got Brother Bucket! Doh! It finally clicks in my simple military mind just whatyagot! Testing these dry washes out here in the desert is one of the hardest problems we have to defeat. I mean you can dry pan with some good results sometimes and then again some people are experts at that. I don't happen to be one. If it's fine sand I test by winnowing, if there is a breeze, but breezes are sometimes like water in the desert. Yeppers, I do see what I've been missing in my armory and I'm gonna have ta get one!

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