AuMINIMayhem
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We'll see how well this works..
I'm building a very small micro sluice to hopefully find a way to capture those floaters and fines that just go bye bye down the streams.
I'm machining a piece of aluminum in this order .001" steps at .050" increments over an 18" piece. Then it will be mounted at a slope of between 1 and 5 degrees. Obviously the water will have to pass over it at but a trickle, but this is going to be a very specific design for trapping micron sized gold in the field. If it works on a small scale I'm going to go big and actually take it out to the field and try it.
While I'm thinking of it, I could really use a couple of pounds of cons that have the very fine gold in it that cannot be captured with a blue bowl, spiral wheel, etc etc..
Anybody have anything like this that would either normally throw away or leach that they'd be willing to throw a couple pounds my way? I'm willing to toss a few bucks your way.. I'm not rich, but most people on here are realistic about what they would charge, so I'm not too worried about that..
I was bored at work and got inspired by a post somewhere in one of these forums where they were talking about gold so small that it just floats by... so I got to working
If this works, my intention is to make a liner for a wave table that has these .001" steps to help trap the fines.. I may even go as far down as .0005" (easily done... we routinely machine material within .0001")
Thanks,
Derek
I'll be posting my progress and pics as I move forward...
I'm building a very small micro sluice to hopefully find a way to capture those floaters and fines that just go bye bye down the streams.
I'm machining a piece of aluminum in this order .001" steps at .050" increments over an 18" piece. Then it will be mounted at a slope of between 1 and 5 degrees. Obviously the water will have to pass over it at but a trickle, but this is going to be a very specific design for trapping micron sized gold in the field. If it works on a small scale I'm going to go big and actually take it out to the field and try it.
While I'm thinking of it, I could really use a couple of pounds of cons that have the very fine gold in it that cannot be captured with a blue bowl, spiral wheel, etc etc..
Anybody have anything like this that would either normally throw away or leach that they'd be willing to throw a couple pounds my way? I'm willing to toss a few bucks your way.. I'm not rich, but most people on here are realistic about what they would charge, so I'm not too worried about that..
I was bored at work and got inspired by a post somewhere in one of these forums where they were talking about gold so small that it just floats by... so I got to working
Thanks,
Derek
I'll be posting my progress and pics as I move forward...