I need 5 gal. Buckets or Cat litter tubs w/tops

[charlotte49er]

Do you send them the buckets and they fill them up with dirt/water? How does this work?

If I can get at a place on my powered chair, I'll dig and put it into buckets. If I can find someone (I think I made a pretty good contact last night at the meeting.) I'm so generous LOL, I'll let him go into the water and dig the dirt.

I'm buying what's known as a Classifier. It sifts out the rocks from the dirt and hopefuly Gold! Then you take that dirt and run it through a sluice with water. This has troughs in it to catch the gold. Gold being heavier than dirt, settle in these toughs. Then you take that and either pan it, or there are other machines that further removed the dirt and what you are left with is good clean gold!

I can do this at home, (classify, sluice, pan) or you can do it out in the field. Right now, I've done a small amount (3 pound bag) (of DIRT guys!)at my apartment.

Sounds like alot of work for little reward, but at $1300+ an ounce, you never know. Just ask a fisherman/woman on days they don't catch anything, if it's worth it. So far, I've never been skunked. (Knock on wood!) And that's from buying paydirt through ebay.

[BMorgan]

Have you janitorial supply places around town? You may pay slightly more, but you will get a more durable bucket (Lowes and Home Depot are about 60 mil, where the standard are 90 mil).

[charlotte49er]

Have you janitorial supply places around town? You may pay slightly more, but you will get a more durable bucket (Lowes and Home Depot are about 60 mil, where the standard are 90 mil).

I got on-line to Little Hardware & Granger Supply, but neither really list what they have. They just list catagories.

When I co-owned a construction company, we threw away 100's of empty sheetrock mud buckets.

[TarPanther9180]

I'm not buying this dirt stuff. My guess he is going to cement someone's feet in them and throw them in the bottom of a lake somewhere (or ocean)...mobster style.

[charlotte49er]

I'm not buying this dirt stuff. My guess he is going to cement someone's feet in them and throw them in the bottom of a lake somewhere (or ocean)...mobster style.

I do have a few candidates for that as well. The problem is always getting them to stay still till the cement sets up. Even Quickcrete takes a while to dry in a 5 gal bucket.

But no, really (wind, wink, nod, nod) it's just for dirt! (Did you like my Monte Python ref?)

http://www.felixpaydirt.com/motherlode.html#m_bag

[Hawk]

wait a minute....you buy dirt on Ebay?

that has to be a pretty lucrative business!!!!!

[charlotte49er]

wait a minute....you buy dirt on Ebay?

that has to be a pretty lucrative business!!!!!

It has Gold in it. It's just not any old dirt.

There's GOLD in that there dirt! As Tom Massey might say. (Gold Fever TV show.)

That's why I need the buckets. I want to partner up with someone and dig my own dirt to run through my equipment. I have panned 3 small bags of dirt so far and have gotten gold in all 3. (These weren't the $95 bags that are on the link I posted.) These were $10 bags. At $1400/once, it doesn't take much to pay for the bag.

Gold bearing bags of dirt (Paydirt) are a lucrative business on ebay.

Some Sellers "Salt" their dirt. I personally stay away from them. They claim that add gold flakes to their dirt so you will be sure of getting some. That usually tells me that they just take regular dirt and throw some flakes into it. To me, that's not paydirt.

I always look for the sellers that at least claim they are selling the same dirt that they use to pan. (Some states have a limit on how many months you can actually dig for gold on federal land.) So some miners will go in and dig buckets of this up. What they don't run through their equipment, they sell. By that time, the digging season has began again.

[Hawk]

good luck to ya....maybe I've turned a little sceptic...but buying dirt with gold in it sounds like a pretty good scam....pretty easy for me to go through it first and take out the good stuff...leave a few flakes in it to keep someone interested!!!

but...like you say...at $1400 an ounce, it don't take much and it gives you something to do and get excited about...thats worth something right there.

[PanthaSan]

"Two pounds of rich Alaskan concentrate are packed into each bag of the Motherlode.

Buy as many bags as you want."

So that's what AK has been up to.

I wonder how much some Californy dirt will go for. I can get lots of that for free...

[charlotte49er]

good luck to ya....maybe I've turned a little sceptic...but buying dirt with gold in it sounds like a pretty good scam....pretty easy for me to go through it first and take out the good stuff...leave a few flakes in it to keep someone interested!!!

but...like you say...at $1400 an ounce, it don't take much and it gives you something to do and get excited about...thats worth something right there.

That's why I stay away from the sellers that openly claim they "salt" (add gold to) their dirt.

Out of the 3 small bags, I not only have found Gold flakes, but I also found a decent Garnet. With the new maching I have coming, I will be able to cappture more Gold. I missed a lot of gold "dust" from hand panning. (Now called Gold flour.)

Flakes are nice, but what you want are nuggets!

This is why I need buckets. Sometimes you don't have access to water. Especially out west, where they are dry leakbed & streams that are rich in Gold. Fill your bucket then take it to where you ahve water. Gold is very heavy mineral, and it's easy to use water to seperate it from dirt.

[charlotte49er]

So that's what AK has been up to.

I wonder how much some Californy dirt will go for. I can get lots of that for free...

California, Alaska, Arizona are 3 great state to find gold in! Especially out in the desert where you have dried up creek beds. The old time miners were looking for nuggets. They didn't care about the little stuff.

And they are still around if you are lucky enough to find them.

But most the finds are in this range and smaller.

[PanthaSan]

I see this scene a bunch where I live but it usually involves Mexicans and grapes. And NOBODY is sitting down.....

[charlotte49er]

I see this scene a bunch where I live but it usually involves Mexicans and grapes. And NOBODY is sitting down.....

:smilielol5:Fruit and vegetables don't pick themselves! And you know Americans aren't going to do it for what they get paid!

Prospecting for gold is a lot like farming. Many do it, but very few making a living at it! (Why do you think they call then "Hobby Farms"?)