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I recently purchased the Gold Miner Spiral Panner, I researched it and the Desert Fox and opted for the Gold Miner's features. I must say my first impression was...WOW, it's small. So small in fact, you can purchase optional shoulder straps to backpack it into remote areas and carry the battery and 3 gallons of water.

 Setup was quick and easy, I had it setup and ready to connect to power in less than 5 minutes. I purchased a booster charge pack from Walmart for $49 and had charged it overnight. I poured the water into the container, made sure the catch bucket was in place, (looks like an ice bin), put the catch up on the back, hit the power adjusted the water so there was no splash, and put a scoop of dirt in, a few adjustments and I had it running pretty good.

 Now, after I'd ran about half of my dirt, I'd not seen any gold going up through the hole, so I stopped it, poured the muddy water out of the catch cup and the smile came, there was gold, quite a bit of gold actually so I put it back and continue the run. With the 1.5 gram nugget I found during the classifying I ended up with 3.54 grams.

I'm waiting on the delivery of Camel's Classifier set and look forward to going through all the dirt I've saved from previous bags I've bought and I have 2 five gallon buckets of stuff I've sucked up out of the Llano river, one bucket I'm really anxious to check, I found a huge cup where the river had ran before, the cup was filled about knee deep of warm water, to one side of the cup there was for lack of knowing what else to call it, an area cut back into the rock like a cave. I filled the entire 5 gallon bucket full of the stuff along the edge of this "cave".  And man did it smell, thought I was back in the Navy cleaning bilges...lol.

When I get everything up and going, I'll make sure to get pictures of both the Gold Miner and the results and post them all here.