When you go gold prospecting there are certain tools that can
help you recover gold faster. So the point of this article will be gold
classifiers used in gold prospecting. Yes you can pan and prospect
without it but if you want to save time and energy and not wear your
arms out you will want to learn about classifiers.
A classifier is basically a screen that can sift materials down to certain smaller sizes. When you are digging and shoveling dirt into a classifier you screen out the twigs, leaves, bullets and larger pieces of rock that you need to throw out because they have no value. This leaves you with smaller materials to examine or pan or run through other devices that capture gold.
Gold classifiers come in two basic colors: black and green. They also come in many screen sizes from 1/2 inch mesh and larger down to 400 mesh which is a fine as talcum powder or ultra fine flour. The reason that this is important is because could you have a valuable gold deposit that is holding millions of ounces of micron gold that can only be seen with a pocket microscope. I know this because I know of people who have found large deposits of micron gold that are being mined right now. This kind of gold looks like sand and cannot be distinguished by the naked eye without a magnifying device. These deposits can be very very rich!
If you are using big digging equipment like a D-9 Caterpillar earth mover to dig your materials you need to use a very large classifier screen attached to a sturdy wood or metal frame that has large heavy wire holes in it. This screens out the bigger heavier rocks and still lets the larger quartz specimen's and nuggets and flakes and fine gold go through the holes into the area where the materials will be processed.
When panning or dry washing, screening down your materials from a larger screen mesh also allows you catch the larger gold particles above the next smaller level. You can pick them out and put them in a container. Many people use small display vials for this so that they can show off their gold. Gold prospecting is fun and good exercise you will find that by using some good gold classifiers that your work will progress faster and you will not tire as fast. Happy hunting and be safe out there!
A classifier is basically a screen that can sift materials down to certain smaller sizes. When you are digging and shoveling dirt into a classifier you screen out the twigs, leaves, bullets and larger pieces of rock that you need to throw out because they have no value. This leaves you with smaller materials to examine or pan or run through other devices that capture gold.
Gold classifiers come in two basic colors: black and green. They also come in many screen sizes from 1/2 inch mesh and larger down to 400 mesh which is a fine as talcum powder or ultra fine flour. The reason that this is important is because could you have a valuable gold deposit that is holding millions of ounces of micron gold that can only be seen with a pocket microscope. I know this because I know of people who have found large deposits of micron gold that are being mined right now. This kind of gold looks like sand and cannot be distinguished by the naked eye without a magnifying device. These deposits can be very very rich!
If you are using big digging equipment like a D-9 Caterpillar earth mover to dig your materials you need to use a very large classifier screen attached to a sturdy wood or metal frame that has large heavy wire holes in it. This screens out the bigger heavier rocks and still lets the larger quartz specimen's and nuggets and flakes and fine gold go through the holes into the area where the materials will be processed.
When panning or dry washing, screening down your materials from a larger screen mesh also allows you catch the larger gold particles above the next smaller level. You can pick them out and put them in a container. Many people use small display vials for this so that they can show off their gold. Gold prospecting is fun and good exercise you will find that by using some good gold classifiers that your work will progress faster and you will not tire as fast. Happy hunting and be safe out there!
