Gold, that precious material, which man has for thousands of years used for different purposes, thinking that he was divine, that he had powers. In the most modern times gold was, and I say was, a value with which to speculate, is used as a hedge against the dollar, against interest, but with the appearance of the criptomonedas its use seems to have been in the background.
My experience as a gold "seeker" has been very fun, very productive and above all an experience that I will repeat whenever I can. I have the gold rush !!!!
It all starts this summer, on vacation in my cousin's village, a village where the Romans built mines for the extraction of gold and that over the years have been abandoned for their low profitability. The mines do not give gold but the streams still have gold deposited from the trawling of land from the mountains. In those streams we are going to look for the coveted metal.
Material we need for extraction.
A sieve, important for separating the stones from the earth and some rafts (those plates)
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As you evolve you are buying tools to be more productive. At the beginning with the batting plates you can get material, but when you want to process much more material you have to step forward and buy a lock to sift more dirt and get more material.
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Material of support, a shovel, some pallets (small shovels) to go loading the cubes.
Let's start steemites, for gold!
It is a lottery to find an area with material, we have searched in several sections of the river and we have not got anything of anything, we are guided by manuals of internet and even of the series "the fever of the gold" to find the best zone where we believe that There may be gold. The gold is heavier and it is deposited in the curves of streams, between the rocks, it can be in the old channel .... the drought makes its havoc, in the end as I said a lottery that when it touches ...
In this area you have to make a hole until you reach the bed of rock, black earth.
Here we remove the remains of earth that have been deposited between the rocks.
We screen material
We already have two buckets of ground ready to process.
We install the lock, it has to have a proper inclination and a constant water flow, we take advantage of the strength of the stream to do the work. Too much speed or too much inclination will cause the golden dust to escape.
The lock has a mesh (green) and some blades to separate the larger material and the fine is deposited inside.
We started processing the material we had in the prepared cubes. We pour it slowly so that the water gives time to clean and that the heavier material stays in the lock. It is an important moment, there is no hurry to finish.
The remains that remain in the bottom must be thrown there may be the best.
Once sieved in the lock, pick up the green mesh, clean it and sift it with the rafts.
But we got an amazing surprise, something we did not expect. Gold!! gold!!! naked eye !!! Can not be, excited we did not give credit to what there was. We had found a real gold nugget.
For a second I had a hard feeling to describe, which may be the one that the old gold diggers had when they found a nugget, it was something special, that I will never forget.
Here the Nugget in the punt, pointed with the finger so that you see how beautiful it is
After getting excited about the discovery, green mesh and hit the debris left in the esclusa.Para find the smallest gold is necessary to use the pan, sluice leaves us remains of dirt and dust separate them with punt. It's a process where the experience of use is important, you risk throwing all the work done
After a good cleaning Appears what we were looking for, small nuggets or gold dust !!!
as you can see are like grains of sand, when making circular motions with punt those grains of gold and weigh more settle at the end while the rest of the grains With the movement they are still moving.
To collect them we use a pear to absorb them
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After taking out many, many cubes of earth, give groped to find a good area the results are spectacular for two rookies looking to find gold as fun as family entertainment, because sometimes we accompany our children and participate. A different hobby, summer and that whenever I can repeat.
We do not care how much we take, the pot is the result this summer, many days and that gold will not do anything special, it's a fun activity, if over the years he gives us to make us a gold tooth each and I will tell you and do a post about the process. XD.I hope you liked the post, photos owned by @richar.