Quote Originally Posted by armygreywolf View Post
Rinse and strain, once your back to product in clean water add a few drops of jet dry, which is a surfacant and will break the tension without having to deal with emulsification.

After than you should be able to pan off the super fines and suck them up manually along the line you create while panning.



Next time, when dealing with black sand, try screening it dry first. Run each mesh minus on it's own starting with the coarse and working down, when they are uniform you can get the gold off WAAAAAAY easier. Hope that helps.
This came from a 10 lb sample that I first crushed in a pipe with a base welded onto it then using a heavy steel shaft, did not crush as fine as I had wanted but this was the first float to come off. I'm going to ball mill the sample again, I want a very fine powder.

I do not want to pan, this is leading to a flotation cell to recover values.

With a bit of vigorous shaking the globules did break up, just thought it was an interesting photo and had to share.

Will not get into details on the process's used but will post any images of interest.