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The Missing 5 Percent

Posted by Howard Hadsall on September 24, 2012 at 2:30pm

 Ted  ( aka  Mtau )  Ask me a couple days ago how efficient the Barbie sluice was and just guessing told him about   95 %. I have been saving the material I have been running the last two weekends to rerun10493340888?profile=original

Thats 3 and 1/2 buckets of muddy stuff that was run once thru the Barbie sluice, So sunday I set up the big sluice at the house to recircuilate10493341688?profile=original

carefully breaking up any clay balls and running slow took about 4 hours to run all the mud back thru10493342263?profile=original

I know the sluice is catching well when steel shot sits on the top of the first riffle10493342092?profile=original

So Heres thge MISSING 5 PERCENT !!!10493342494?profile=original

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  • Howard Hadsall October 1, 2012 at 3:40pm

    Yes Ted the first vial I brought home 3 years ago just had one little Fleck in  it but that was enough to give me the GOLD FLU !   With a little study and help from you and all the others here the Vials look a little better now.

                                                                               THANKS!!!

  • mtau October 1, 2012 at 3:30pm

    Looks like you're right Howard. The time spent rerunning your tails would be better spent running more material. But I'll bet that in the not to distance past, you would have been happy with the top bottle. lol   Ted

  • Howard Hadsall October 1, 2012 at 1:00pm

    Or maybe going out and finding more Gold Maurice    Laughing Here !!!

  • Maurice Austin AKA2centsgoldless October 1, 2012 at 12:54pm

    Dang Howard. Seems to be working very well for you. Now just think of all the things you can be doing instead of double checking the Barbie sluice. Mowing the lawn, washing the car, repainting the rooms that should have been done already, dishes LOL

  • Howard Hadsall October 1, 2012 at 12:37pm

    Once again I saved all my material Saturday and reran it at home to double check the Barbie sluice's recovery the Vial at the top is what it missed on the first run the one on the bottom is what we cleaned out saturday   don't think I will haul the mud home any more !2960233389?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024

  • Howard Hadsall September 24, 2012 at 6:14pm

    Thats my thoughts too Ted on site I was feeding dry material classified at 1/4" the second time I ran it at home it had been sitting wetted over night so the clay had a chance to soak a while all in all I wasn't unhappy about the recovery.

  • mtau September 24, 2012 at 5:55pm

    Nice Howard: I would guess, from as course as the gold is, that it was carried out by the clay. Looks like the "Barbie" is doing a good job.  Ted

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