![]() Below pic is close up of the schist I have blasted clean & washed out. See more ideas about gold prospecting, gold hands, gold mining equipment. As you can see in the above pics this bedrock would be under water in a flood & the schist fingers trapping this gold in its cracks & cleverage. Explore Jaco Delports board 'Gold hand suction dredge' on Pinterest. The fine gold would have tended to be carried on further down stream in a flood. Had low expectations as to it working figuring if it did work it. The gold here was generally of a chunkier, coarse flat nature & not so much fine. Well here it is all put together and ready to go. The gold in the pan in the above pic is the result from a couple of hours of doing that crevicing & cleaning out of the schist bedrock in the others pics from a river in Central Otago in the south island of NZ. Generally I just shovel straight in to it & hook the motor/pump up to the spray bars. This was the first time I used it with the ply board on the front to take my 2" suction nozzle hose set up. Like the little high banker above & below. I am a fan of making as much of my own gear as possible. ![]() Always a pleasure to share what little I know & have learnt from others & also by experiance. ![]() G'day Hoser John, Yer mate.Kiwi as in NZ (New Zealand) Great site here. ![]()
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