This is a short clip showing a small setup up I put together. Light enough to be packed in and set up in an hour by one guy. The water source is a 6.5 Hp 3" pump pulling water from the Fraser River. I'm working a bank in an old growth stand between Hope and Yale, British Columbia. I've constructed a small grizzly / derocker to classify the materials down to an inch or two. I'm running an 8' sluice box at 250 gpm. Miners moss, expanded steel and a slanted rifles are catching everything from flakes down to fine flour (200 mesh + ) This placer claim has seen generations of miners from the late 1850's on. My tailings pond flows through what I suspect is an old Chinese cut. There are several km of flume trenching feeding their old workings. There are leftover shacks and shafts on the 50 plus acres and signs of larger scale machine mininig from the 60's or 70's. I had to remove 8' of old Fraser silt overburden to find the first showing of black sands and gravel in this location. You can see some of the pit in the background. I'm about four feet into the gravels and the gold flakes are getting larger. ...

• published: 04 Aug 2013
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