Nevada Nugget Hunters

Geno from Reno · Joined: 16 Jul 2006 Posts: 57 Location: Reno,NV

I bought the Gold Miner Spiral Wheel this year and I'm not to thrilled with it !!!
It isn't designed for fine gold. Plus you have to classify your material so small that panning is faster and more effective in my opinion. When you classify your material to the right size it does the job of picking out pickers for ya, but blows out the fine stuff.
They advertise it as if you can just go out and set it up in a river and start muckin. Not the case. When you run larger material it loads up and fills the collection cup up with dirt. When that happens you have to run it all over again.
I've tryed everything to get it dialed in for fines but no good results!
I do believe that in the right pay dirt you could make it pay for itself, but plan on going for the long haul for the break even point.
If you have one of these, post some feed back on your opinion or tips.

Geno from Reno · Joined: 16 Jul 2006 Posts: 57 Location: Reno,NV

I've found that the machine does work pretty good at cleaning black sand cons. and in my opinion that's all it's good for.

I should have spent the $300 on a high banker or some other equipment.

Geno from Reno
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