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GoldCube beach cons cleanup.......
He recovered just over 2 OZ.

https://youtu.be/qs1D6OfvD48

Hey Jim.
Glad you had a good trip and good to see you made it back home safe and healthy.
Did you make it down to Bisbe by chance while you were there.... HUGE old open pit copper mine and an interesting town ...
Some rock shops there with some incredible specimens too.

Joe, you can greatly increase thru-put of beach sand with a properly sized section of triangular profile screen. When flow across is properly adjusted, the blonde sands fairly skate across the top. Only allow heavies thru. And the profile screen is non-blinding. I would like to see this profile scr...

I finally made it up to cape disappointment .... What a beach. Black sand was 2 feet thick where we were digging ... In 2 days of light work we moved about 65 gallons of black sand and recovered a little over 3 grams of fine beach gold. My sluice consist of 1/8th inch punch plate from the hopper , m...

A little beach gold from Cape Disappointment, Washington... Jim...

Also a test regarding attachments.

Hope all is well with you and yours.

Hmm well no image I get an error parsing server response...

Nice gold there Jim.......

With the knowledge and equipment available today there really is no need for the forbidden element. My mining is pretty much restricted to beach mining anymore... when I can.... and I routinely capture extremely fine gold with very little loss. I can recover gold down to -300 mesh.... Probably even ...

I heard of a guy that had a sample of his tailing pile assayed..... came back at 15+ grams per ton.... I tried to contact his since he was having difficulty capturing the fine gold and offered my assistance. I have not heard back from him ...... Too bad because I can capture fine gold and this could...

I understand Jim.....
I am in Oregon and it isn't getting any better here either ....
And like you the years are catching up with me and there are many things I can't do like I used to.
Hang in there buddy..... We're rootin for ya.

With commiefornia being the way it is......... WHY do you live there Jim?