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Individual prospectors and minor miners have devised various techniques over time for recovering gold dust, flakes and nuggets from placer (river) gravels. Many of these require water access; thus making these methods applicable only when running water is available in… Read More »An Introduction to Placer Gold Recovery Methods

A trommel is a rotating drum used to sort materials by size. This process allows smaller gravel and fines to fall through to a sluice while larger rocks move on to further processing steps. Before feeding into a trommel, grizzlies… Read More »What Does a Gold Trommel Do?