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I didn’t show classifying, but this was 3 buckets. Not dredging

@@IowaGoldProspectors I've tried looking into it online for places or the history of the gold rush. The only thing I've found is just that people were camped up and down the Iowa River. Other than that I guess I'm asking Google the wrong questions. Thank you for your time and information. I've looked at maps of where the ice age ice lobe was over Iowa. So I guess I'll keep checking new spots. Until I find something that looks that good. All I've found is micro gold And only a few specs. Thanks again

Your first mistake is believing that the gold rush up in that area was real. It was not. There are plenty of good places up there, but you are looking in the wrong place. And you were looking at the wrong information.

​@@IowaGoldProspectors I don't know why you are saying I left your channel. I don't expect you to give me your gold spot. I really appreciate any info or pointers you can give me. Knowledge is power that is why I try to learn something from everyone.

After a year of research of the final location, we were at and possible new areas. Would you go back with a single larger Dredge? I believe Austin and Mike would go.

The question is do you?

I would, after a year or two of researching, we should be able to come up with a few spots to hit that would be a game changer.

Well, I make mine shorter than they probably should be. You want your nozzle sticking out a little bit further than your high-pressure line coming into it. That way you have a little bit of reach into the material that you’re sucking up. Your nozzle should probably be 12 to 14 inches on each side of the bend.

Me and Jeff took a break on the last day and we sent the two younger prospectors out to Dredge on the last day. They did a pretty good job for a 2 1/2 inch Dredge.

We worked two areas last week, one for four days and one for two days. The latter area proved to be a better location. But that is how it goes sometimes. There’s always next year.

Well, I’m back home now. That was a Indiana trip. I plan on going back there next year. I’ll have a different set up. And I will do a lot better than I did this trip. It’s hard to go to another state and be on the gold right away, especially if you’re trying to figure it out all by yourself. That was a trip with four Prospector/Miners but we did pretty good. And found a very good spot there at the end of the trip.

@@IowaGoldProspectors yea man it is very hard to figure out all by yourself but when the learning period end you will have lot experience

First trip to Indiana to figure things out. Next trip, I’m gonna steal all their gold.

It sure is!

That’s the hard labor of Austin and Mike. But they did real good on.

What film? or dredge?

I used to GoPro camera that is waterproof and that’s how I filmed underwater

@@IowaGoldProspectors both I guess, is it legal?

I didn’t take a scale with me on that trip. I have no idea could’ve been half to 3/4 of a gram. That was a year ago up on lakes superior

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I have hand tremors, about eight years ago, I dumped a gram and a half of gold as I was trying to dump it onto a scale. Some of it dumped on the scale, some dumped on the keypad some dumped a little bit on the table and the rest dumped out into the carpet. I haven’t been real excited about weighing gold since. I just put it in viles look at it and then go find more.

@@IowaGoldProspectors oof 😬🫠

Yes sir🫡

I did exactly what I tell other people not to do. Too much hose between the pump and the suction nozzle. Too much hose between the suction nozzle and the sluice. And tried to pump it too high out of the water. Other than that, I had blast. Learned a lot of things, one thing I need air. It’s been a great time and Jeff had fun. The two younger guys had a great time also.

I was a hot week in Indiana 🥵but very fun and a little gold.

Thanks, Mandy you’re correct on that

@@IowaGoldProspectors 🤗

Thanks gold squad

Thanks

@@IowaGoldProspectors make more content man we want to see more

I’m gonna set cameras up today.

Ring finger on my right hand was hyper extended by this nozzle three months ago. It’s still hurts bad.

Bigger pieces than I can find in Iowa, but not so plentiful. So we’re gonna try some different spots today. I feel a little physical exhausted. I don’t know if I’ll make it out to the river today. I slept for 10 hours

Yeah, I need to get my photos of gold found posted.

Looks like you need more suction😊

@user-ps9to2el3t yeah you got that right. I didn’t have the time to have my set up made like I wanted it to. I was running out of time.

I have about a quart of cons to go through. I’ll finish that up this evening so I can post video of all the gold I found in the location I was working. It’s kinda hard to come into another state and work a location that you’ve never been to.

I was too absolutely exhausted yesterday to go through my 1/2 gallon of cons.

Thank You Marie.

Thank you, Mr Foxen!

Thank you, sir,. We’ll have to do some prospecting together sometime.

3/16’s

I would think, depending on the gold size in your area might be determine how large you have the holes, but that punch plate on my sluice doesn’t go all the way down to the end so if nuggets were rolling down the punch plate once they dropped into the dropout zone. They would stick and not move.

@@IowaGoldProspectors I noticed that. Looks like a very nice setup.

It works really good when you have good water flow. I tend to take it with me a lot half the time I don’t have the water flow and it just stays in the pack. It takes a little doing sometimes to rake those rocks off but I find it’s nice sometimes if you don’t want to classify bucket after bucket. If that’s something you’re gonna want to do take a piece of cardboard and get it in there and cut a design out with the cardboard first and then transfer that design to a piece of punch plate. It makes a nice template.

All the rivers around here have been flooded all year

@@IowaGoldProspectors Same here. Now the mosquitoes are horrible. I’ll wait until this fall to start up again. Good luck on the pontoons! 🍻

Yep thank you I ordered a 5 inch hose from JME here about three weeks ago. There’s gonna be at least a 5 inch dredge put on that. Here a couple years ago I bought a 4 x 3 off of ebay. I’ve been thinking about some kind of a radical dredge I could build with that size of pump.

I finally got my hose in this week. 5 inch hose seems massive.

Hello Jacco, how have you been?

@IowaGoldProspectors I'm good brother...bizzy

not too awful large hair to begin with, but I don’t wanna have to make another set. I do have larger set ups plan for that set of floats.

Hello Beautiful, I love that name kind of secretive. I was wondering what you did today. I forgot all about the waterpark. I hope you had fun.

Man, if this was in California, I wouldn’t be working a 55 hour a week job. Nope, not California

Yeah, the gold really looks nice. It’s really easy to find. I probably won’t be going back up the lake Superior anytime soon though.

@@IowaGoldProspectors where is your secret spot? I’m headed there now. 😂😂

@lisashelton5468 Well, that last part that you said wow about that’s up on Lake superior. That was a vacation spot and if you were actually going up there, I would tell you where to go. But down here in Iowa I have too much time and effort, searching for those hotspots to just give those away Miss Lisa.

I think I could do that for you let me look at what video or photo you were looking at

All right, I remember this location. I think what I’d like to do for you is go back out to that location here in the next couple of days get some more pieces. Because what I have been doing, is adding all mined gold together in a vile. That’s Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan’s upper peninsula, North Carolina, Colorado gold. Where I had retrieve this from the river has just crested a week or so back I should be able to wait out to that gravel bar. It’s gonna be covered up with at least a foot or two of water. I should still be able to pan some gold out. I have a Tomlov it’s kind of like a microscope with a 10 inch screen. I can zoom down and give you some close-up video or photos.

Leave me an email or someway to get a hold are you are you on Facebook?

@@IowaGoldProspectors Sounds great! We are trying right now to find places that will give us permission. I have invented a very new and unconventional suction dredge system that I need a property owner to give me written permission to use there(DNR requirement). I want to put together a sort of Iowa gold map eventually. I have a list of places I'm trying to get access to for just that purpose. We're still new to this, but I am trying to get a boat here too because here in Iowa it's about a million times easier to get to anywhere on a river using boats since there's not public access everywhere like out in BLM land.

Before you get all excited about going up these rivers and streams in your boat, you need to know where you can step out and where you cannot. There are locations in our rivers and creeks that the landowner owns the bottom of the river so if you step out of the boat onto the alluvial soil in that water way you are trespassing. Read the law. Read Iowa code know what meandering and non-meandering streams are. I film everything in 4K. And I upload It on RUclips I’ve been doing 4K for about two years now. Here are a couple of months ago I uploaded a magnified view of some gold that I got that day or that weekend using a Tomlov microscope. This is that video. ruclips.net/user/shorts8IEFvWQ07Yg?si=y-scwU6LPmqJt11w

Well, it’s our chosen hobby, Larry, I was gonna give you a hard time until I seen who wrote this to me.

Larry, I wonder if you think I show all the gold I find?

No I dont think you do. I also dont think you record every trip.

@larryfoxen9236 I actually do record every time I’m out it’s very rarely in the last 12 years have I not recorded. My earlier videos were just crap. You know I have tremors in my hands and it is taking me a long time to figure out that I needed a freaking tripod. There’s a lot of video that I just can’t do anything with because I’ve watched other Shakey videos and it’s just very annoying. But just about every time I’m out I record I haven’t really been posting anything since about February. There’s a lot of things that have just thrown me for a loop, and I’ve kind of gotten almost tired of prospecting And mining because of it. My biggest enjoyment is looking for gold cause you just don’t know if you’re gonna only find a few specs, or hit a pocket or hit a picker or hit little Iowa and Nugget. And prospecting in mining can take you all across the country and even around the world if you have enough money to travel there.

How have you been lately Larry?

I think that needs about 8°

I am so sorry that I haven’t noticed your comment. I’ve taken a break from RUclips. Got a little burnt out raptor flares a awesome tool. I’m actually looking at mine right now if you put the extension on the flare, you can easily run that is a 3 inch Dredge. I know Doc says maximum 2 1/2 inch but that I don’t think he takes into the account of the extension on the lower flare. But you can easily run 3 to 4 guys shoveling into that.

TJ,, gold in Iowa is found in rivers and creeks. You want to look at the inside bends you’re looking for gravel and bigger rock called cobbles or boulders. If you find a creek or river, that has a lot of boulders or rock in it. That might be a good place to check for gold.

This is gonna be pumped into my raptor flare with extension

Well, that is the alternative. I’m trying to get a 5 inch put together. I just about have everything ready to go. I have a 5 inch hose on order and they’ve been sitting on it. I’m hoping it’s been sent. They were able to process my money within minutes, but as far as getting it shipped out they seem to be dragging their feet. So I have five weeks left before I leave and if I get my 5 inch done that’s what I’m taking. For some reason if I don’t get it done I will be taking the raptor flare with extension and running it.

Yeah, just a little bit ago he was showing me his concentrates from Wisconsin. Still in his garage.

It kind of all depends, on the suction nozzle at the point where the pressure incoming water tubing is welded onto the suction nozzle. There is a reduction in pipe size. What that reduction does is increased pressure at that location going in to the nozzle. That reduction is restricting the flow of water thus increasing the pressure. You can have whatever size input, water, plumbing you want but it’s hard to tell by the outside what the restriction is.

I’ve seen some suction nozzles that are pretty decent in size and they have a tiny little pressure in-line tube. Personally, I like having a larger tube or a pressure in line to whatever size comes off the pump. That’s what I want welded onto the suction nozzle tubing. I believe that gives me more strength if I have a 3 inch nozzle. I’ll have a 2 inch pressure in tubing welded onto that main body assembly. That doesn’t mean I have 2 inch Diameter of water coming into that nozzle. At the point that that incoming pressure tubing is welded onto the main body. I will have a reduction right there. For a 3 inch nozzle your minimum needs to be .75 or three-quarter inch reduction. I usually run a larger pump so I increased my reduction size just slightly maybe to 7/8 or 15/16. That is just something I do. It creates a stronger, sucking nozzle. I know some people reduce the size of the reduction in Jet. That’s why I build my own.

That reduction will determine what the throttle setting of your pump needs to be.

Oh, one last thing it’s very easy to make your own suction nozzle. All you need is the components. They’re easy to find a drill and a welder. And the determination to accomplish this task. I would rather match a suction nozzle to my pump than to wonder if the nozzle I buy is going to work right.

@@IowaGoldProspectors Thanks

That was just a dusting of small gold blown up on a magnifying device.

@@IowaGoldProspectors I know, just asking how much it weighs.

Well, there’s a chemical recipe for that. I think it involves fluoride Hydrogen peroxide and dawn dish soap. I got that Recipe somewhere in a folder on my laptop. Give me a day or two and I’ll look for it and if I can find it I’ll send it to you.

@@IowaGoldProspectors Oh, thank you so much! I am having this problem here and wondering how to melt tons of clay LoL

Well, I tell you what I got my laptop out but the battery’s dead and I cannot for the life of me. Remember where my plug is. It’s an older laptop is the problem. So I googled a few things and I tell you you’re just gonna have to dig through it because I don’t think there’s really a good solution to dissolving a large quantity of clay. I do recall that. Recipe for clay be gone, has fluoride and hydrogen peroxide as the two chemicals that it takes to dissolve clay added to water. I tried this out probably eight years ago. I think I got one tube of cheap fluoride toothpaste, and one bottle of hydrogen peroxide and mixed it with 1 gallon of water and tried it in a 5 gallon Bucket with some clay material it wasn’t a magical potion. It did not do anything close to what I needed it to do. But if you get on Google and search what dissolves clay, you’re gonna come up with two items, fluoride and hydrogen ions. I don’t think there’s a really good solution to your problem, unfortunately.

@@IowaGoldProspectors Oh, nice! I saw many videos from prospectors in Brazil and they told the same thing: they "skip" the clay. I know the slaves here in the 1700's did that too but they used to stop when the first layer of clay was reached: But the theory says there are more layers of gravel below, another layer pf red though clay and the final rich gravel. I hope this is what I will find underneath. I had a sample where I found 15 small pieces, then when I took a 20 kilogram bag to analyze trying to break the clay... nothing was found, I think the clay took the gold away. That's my experience for the last days...

Not bad, not bad at all

Thank you, Sir