I just discovered this guy on YouTube a week ago he's funny and he shows how to pan for gold using Home Depot sand =)
That's just what I was looking for this morning: another way to spend $15 and hours of labor to get fifteen cents worth of gold.
It's not much different from those kiosks that let you choose an oyster and open it for the pearl inside. Chris
I was at the county fair when I was a kid they had these glass tanks with salt water and oysters in them each tank had different prices to pick I choose the $7.00 tank when they prayed it open we discovered that it was a big black pearl worth $168 they put it on the record board and I mounted in a gold ring band for mom what a day .
a lot of work for so small gold. I did some panning in Jamestown California. it is very hard work. very hard on your back. fun but do not expect a lot of gold. you get gold fever but then your back says no more. lol
I have done it, seriously - and sitting in a snow melt cold creek all flipping day is not for the faint of heart. But when you see colour in the pan it is a unique feeling.
Nail a sheepskin to a board and shovel gravel to wash through it, you can shift far more dirt. When you get fed up or the skin has so much gold trapped in the hairs, burn it and the gold is in the ashes.
I would post the exact same thing although substitute " frying pan hot desert on an ancient river bed". I still have buckets in the back yard, waiting for the drought rules to lighten so I can wash the sand and the lawn. IT has never paid for the gas for the truck or the pain of the back, but every few years, I forget about it and take off.
Awesome!! I have a stream about 20 minutes from the house that I can pull some color out of. It makes a fun day. It's a lot of work, but there is nothing like pulling gold that no other human has ever touched before. Plus it all add's up, and it's better than wasting away the day playing video games or watching tv.
Dinner on the house . https://au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/food...ds-rare-black-pearl-seafood-pasta-washington/ http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens...s-a-rare-purple-pearl-in-her-dinner-1.3466146 http://nypost.com/2016/02/25/woman-finds-600-pearl-in-her-dinner/
There was a tv show on urban mining and this guy was on it. Reminded me to dig up the story. http://nypost.com/2011/06/20/got-his-mined-in-the-gutter/
