spiral wheel, 100 mesh run set-up

How to set the water and angle to process fines less than 100 mesh

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Spiral wheel
• gold
• prospecting
• black sand
• blacksand

[2maggiemay1]

1 minute ago

I had bought a Desert Fox and tried it, was not to impressed so I gave it away. Our gold is fine and it just does not work for that, If you gold is chunky which it works real good on then you don't need to wasted your money on the desert fox a good old fashion pan works just as well. In my eyes I wasted my money, I gave it away because I didn't want someone thinking I sold them a peice of junk.

But thats my opinon. So good luck

[ok2co]

@2maggiemay1

I mostly agree with you. I would rather pan. I'm making a video on panning 400 mesh material soon. The DF will get all the gold it is said to get. It just has very small perimeters that it has to work in. If your water or angle is off just a bit you will start collecting garbage or loosing gold. I have recovered 200 mesh consistently with this machine, but it also means I will have to run it so slow that it could be done as well panned in 1/4 the time. Remember to classify

[rickheft]

i have a desert fox wheel.and it get's lot's of gold from where i prospect.down to the finest flour that a pan some times doesn't get.but!i run most of my material through a sluice first,{dirty material plug's up the spray on the wheel}but i have just classified to 20 mesh,found lot's of gold,also i don't throw away my 12 minus material either.just through the wheel.but one thing they do not tell you when you buy a wheel ,is the angle setting for most material.

}

[ok2co]

@rickheft The bottom line with any equipment you use is classification. If you have big stuff knocking around the little gold, the gold gets knocked out. If you want a better recovery average, classify. Once you have that accomplished then you can refine the set-up for your equipment. It's all fun, go git some!!!

[mitchellberry]

i saw another video where a guy separated the black sand from blond/gold using a magnet and a bunch of trays. then used the wheel or pan to seperate the gold from the blond sand. Have you tried that?

as for wheels, there's one of a different brand than this that seems to work better. don't remember the brand so i'm of no help. sorry

[ok2co]

The tray guy was me. Removing the magnetics will get you the best chance of recovery. After you have all the cons classified and mags removed, use a pan on +12 and a wheel on -12 to +50 then a blue bowl on -50. Those are the ranges I find most effective. The key though is to classify. If you don't , you will have big rocks bashing around small gold and you will lose quite a bit of it. Classify and remove magnetics and you will get %25 more recovery. Thanks for the comments

[SuBN01z3RaT]

i dont know why but watching that made me wanna throw up lol

[fuugon]

i dont under stand when you talk about concentrate dirt, can somebody explain me please????

[777DARKSTATE777]

@2maggiemay1 did u try the "gold lab" looks promising but slow

[joehast]

I have a Fox and it works great on larger placer, not sure how it would work on 100 mesh, that's what got my attention. I would think a blue bowl would be best for that. I'm very impressed with it. One thing though, the jets get clogged from time to time. If you like a sore back keep panning away.

[2maggiemay1]

I'm not trying to put down DF but it was not what I expected , it was just to slow and don't have the time to just sit there