What if..............

[Chaos]

Sounds like a toilet.

[charlotte49er]

Gold Prospecting, lke just about everything in life is a numbers game.

The more dirt with gold you can process, the more gold you will get.

At best, you can pan maybe a 1/4 ton of dirt a day.

Then you move up to what is known as a sluice. With a sluice, you have to classify your dirt (week out the big clumps and rocks) then run through the sluice box. Then you take what's in the sluice and pan that. You mgiht be able to process a 1/2 ton of dirt a day.

Then you move up to a highbanker. With a highbanker, no need to clasisfy, it does that for you. You just shovel rocks, dirt and all and it does the rest. BUT, you still have to pan what is in the highbanker at the end of the day. IF you're lucky, you maybe able to process 2 tons of dirt a day.

Dredge, depends on the size. My 4" can probably process 4 tons of dirt a day! Now you still have to pan what the dredge collects, but with the Sluice, Highbanker and Dredge, they have eliminated most of the dirt to begin with. What you are left with is mostly gold and magnetic black sand.

Of course, each time you move it, the equipment costs go up, a lot!!

Gold Pan: $15

Sluice: $100

Highbanker: $600-$1400

4" Dredge: $3000-$4000 (And these guys wanted me to give mine to them to use for free or at most, 10% of the take! :smilielol5:)

[Kevin Greene]

The alternative is they're panning. They should be glad to offer you a cut for making their lives easier.

[jasonluckydog]

What if they would trade sex for the machine? How about that.

[Happy Panther]

Is there any market for dredge porn?

[jasonluckydog]

Is there any market for dredge porn?

did you not see deliverance?

[Chaos]

Dredges, Banjos, Buttsecks