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Sluicing the Ark River, CO, with Matt -- 7 Mar 15 8030 0
Started by randywitham@centurylink.net
Hey GPAA Gold Prospectors...
Well, we FINALLY have had the snow stop falling for a few days now.....and a warming trend, so a new prospecting friend Matt from Leadville, Colorado, and I hit the Arkansas River on the GPAA Arkansas Groups claims block for a little afternoon sluicing fun in the bright High Colorado sun yesterday...
We met about 11AM as the morning was a bit nippy, at 9 degrees F at my house, hoping the sun would warm the ground, make diggin' in the river bed possible.
Walking th...
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08 Mar 2015 08:32 AM |
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RDH Prospecting 12 Mini Sluice 5949 0
Started by deddy@sbcglobal.net
RDH Prospecting mini Sluice
Specs: Size is 12'L x 3' W x 1 inch high sides. It weighs 1 lbs. It has black ribbed matting. The box is a strong .063 gauge 5052 aircraft aluminum.
I saw this on the internet and thought I'd give it a try (14.95 10.00 S/H). Tried several ways to setup in the kitchen sink until I found one that worked. There was just one problem. Towards the upper left in the stock photo you can see a silvery line towards the end of the sluice...
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12 Feb 2015 11:48 PM |
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Setting up a recirculation sluice 9633 4
Started by tpleibel@gmail.com
I am trying to find out if I am setting up the sluice right. I have never really sat with someone and been shown how to properly set up the sluice.
Here is the video I made of it running this afternoon: http://youtu.be/ViFbMOrtw9o
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by joseph Loyd  12 Feb 2015 05:38 PM |
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Power Sluicing 6264 0
Started by phillips2316@gmail.com
How many GPH does it take to properly run the Keene header box and the A52 Sluice I have set up a recirculating power sluice and I would like to know what size pump I should use I know 2000gph isn't enough and a 1.5 hp is too much... I am thinking 3000, but I only want to buy it once and I want it to run on my little generator. I have found a 1/3 hp 3000 gph dirty sump pump that I think is perfect it'll run on my generator for sure but will it push enough water What do yall think
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01 Jan 2015 11:28 AM |
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Small sluice 7328 2
Started by jb32748@gmail.com
Does anyone have any info on the small sluice that is sold in GPAA store Is it real small or Thanks in advance.
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by JACK BROHAMER 26 Nov 2014 02:54 PM |
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How I approach a creek. 11629 11
Started by matt@rtmdesigns.com
I approach a creek like this:
Say I start in an area that I've confirmed gold, even just a speck or two...
I pick a spot as a central area and move out in a small radius from that point and down repeating the process till I have a large diameter hole a foot or two or three feet deep or more.
I examine the material as best as possible in each layer and removing all large rock/slabs that I run into. Then scoop the loose material and sluice.
I see where I am digging and h...
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by JAMES PEACE 09 Oct 2014 07:11 AM |
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Need good place to sluice near Laughlin NV 4623 0
Started by greenfield21650@yahoo.com
Need to find a place to go sluicing near Laughlin NV, Bullhead AZ. does anyone have any suggestions Going the beginning of October for mini vacation.
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14 Sep 2014 09:20 PM |
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1 Replies and 5991 Views
Alabama Gold Camp 5991 1
Started by mdnewberry5000@gmail.com
Anybody been to the Alabama Gold Camp lately
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by Tim Leibel 21 Aug 2014 06:27 AM |
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2 Replies and 9691 Views
Cache Creek, CO with Mats & Family -- 16 Jul 14 9691 2
Started by randywitham@centurylink.net
Hey GPAA Gold Prospectors...
I had the opportunity to guide a gold prospecting adventure for a family visiting the U.S. from Sweden yesterday.
Mats and his family were in the U.S. two years ago on another 2-week visit, but this time wanted to focus on the intermountain region of Utah and Colorado. Well, July in High Colorado is a perfect time to see the 14ers, hike, camp and yes.....gold prospect! :wink:
I coordinated with Mats several months back to lead a prospecti...
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by RANDY WITHAM 09 Aug 2014 06:31 PM |
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Cache Creek, CO Sluicing with Shane -- 4 Aug 14 7821 0
Started by randywitham@centurylink.net
Hey GPAA Gold Prospectors...
Yep, yet one more highly successful prospecting/panning/sluicing trip up to Cache Creek with Shane from Texas...
We met about 8AM in Granite, CO, at the public pullout and I drove us up to the BLM property across the highway. I stropped at the 1865 Granite Cemetery and explained some of the history, the lay of the land the valley, the old timer's hydraulic ops...
Up at the placering area parking lot we suited up, got our equipment, water, food, sunblock, bug...
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04 Aug 2014 07:18 PM |
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More Sluicing Cache Creek, CO with Ron -- 31 Jul 14 7654 0
Started by randywitham@centurylink.net
Hey all you GPAA gold prospectors....
Yep.......one more quick Trip Report of my latest exploits with Ron up at Cache Creek, Colorado.....a BLM managed property...just West of Granite, Kolorado.
Ron & I wanted to work a new dig spot......well, new to us...........a dig spot that Dave & Wayne had started and opened up a bit previously. We were told of endless nuggets, pickers and soooooooooooooo much color that one just had to sample some of this amazing dirt, sluice and go home r...
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03 Aug 2014 04:13 PM |
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1 Replies and 7840 Views
Sluice box tip 7840 1
Started by rockkingron@gmail.com
Those who run a sluice box in a creek or stream will find this tip very helpful. Ever notice how heavy and awkward it is to lift a sluice box full of cons out of the water Do you ever wonder how much gold blew out the back end when you started to lift the box out of the water and you saw everything start boiling backwards Take a piece of wood that is 1/2 inch thick and cut it to fit the inside square part of the box at the very top end. Drill a 1/8 inch hole at t...
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by Tim Leibel 25 Jul 2014 05:26 AM |
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Randy Slucing Cache Creek, CO with Dave -- 4 Jun 14 11154 3
Started by randywitham@centurylink.net
Hey GPAA Gold Prospectors...
Had to let the paint on my master bedroom walls dry a day, so I hit Cache Creek to get out of the house and prospect for some GOLD...
My plan today was to try and find a new dig & sluice spot, as my favorite spot has been hit real hard in the past year by anyone and everyone trying to do the same thing...........find some gold. With the feeder creek by the placering area parking lot all but cut off, it's forced many a gold seeker out into th...
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by RANDY WITHAM 14 Jun 2014 05:03 PM |
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Hello 8679 2
Started by tedrone1968@live.com
I am new to this and we have been panning and sluicing in UT and we have found nothing we are wanting to go to Nevada for something bigger then nothing . We are 1 hr and 20 from Las Vegas we don't mind driving where would be a good place to start in Nevada. Thank You
Ted Banrett
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by WALTER EASON 12 Jun 2014 06:43 AM |
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long tom 7524 1
Started by davidaleessr@hotmail.com
any thing special to do in the quincy ca area
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by ARTHUR WAUGH 03 Jun 2014 11:32 AM |
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Randy Sluicing Cache Creek, CO with Ron -- 29 May 14 9225 2
Started by randywitham@centurylink.net
Hey GPAA Prospectors...
Yep, another Trip Report on Cache Creek.....in 'High' Colorado. I hit the creek with my friend Ron who drove up early out of C. Springs to spend the day with me washing some 'dirt'.
We met at the BLM placering area parking lot about 7:15 AM, loaded up and hiked over to a spot we worked together last year. I was surprised to see how many prospectors were already up at Cache Creek camping, prospecting, as many of the camping sites were full of trailers,...
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by ADAM HANEY 31 May 2014 01:54 PM |
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A little gold from sluicing this weekend. 9283 1
Started by matt@rtmdesigns.com
We worked the same hole as previous times and tried some new area after relocating our dam upstream quite a bit.
This is what we got from sluicing over the holiday.
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by RANDY WITHAM 30 May 2014 10:18 AM |
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Prospecting the Ark with Wiley, Red & Mike Pung - 2 May 14 10863 6
Started by randywitham@centurylink.net
Hey GPAA Gold Prospectors...
Well, I had a nice 1 1/2 day visit with Mike Pung, 'Red' Wilcox and Wiley as they made their was back home to Denver/Oklahoma from the Las Vegas Gold Show. They were out demonstrating their Gold Cube and Goldbanker Units to the masses and looked me up here in Buena Vista, hoping for a little prospecting fun and gold.
Thursday afternoon was thankfully the last of 4 straight days of strong, cold winds and Friday proved to be a awesome Spring day...
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by joseph Loyd 28 May 2014 11:34 AM |
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Sluicing my way from GJ to Steamboat, C. 4471 0
Started by Foster@gwtc.net
I have renewed my GPAA Membership and am looking forward to exploring for gold with my son. We leave South Dakota on June 7th and are heading to see my daughter and son-n-law. Yep grand kids too. for a day or two, and then getting busy pursuing the G dust. Going thru Delta and over to Granite and then up to SteamBoat. Looking for Gold the whole way. Anybody know of any good adventurous sites, that my son and I can hike into or drive up to. He's the hiker and I'm the panner. Can't wait to get int...
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27 May 2014 06:05 PM |
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Randy Sluicing Cache Creek, CO -- 22 May 14 9250 2
Started by randywitham@centurylink.net
Hey GPAA Gold Prospectors...
I took a few hours to run up to Cache Creek, CO, just West of Granite, CO, on Forest Road 398 and check things out. Hadn't been up there since last Fall and wanted to see if there was any snow still on the ground, how the creek was flowing, etc.
Well, got to the Granite Cemetery on FR 398D off FR 398 and not a soul in sight in the entire valley at about 10 AM. A few violet-green swallows flying overhead and a LOT of snow still up on the tops of Huron Pe...
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by Frank Foster 24 May 2014 11:50 PM |