![]() ![]() 7 full hours no breaks included (9 hrs with breaks) of shovelling each day. ![]() 1 hour to map the dig out with a gold probe. I can get about an ounce a day if you average it over 5 days in spots on the river. Look at it under a scope and you'll see the float gold is very tiny platelets which gives it a lot of surface for its weight compared to if it was a ball. Using liquid dish detergent in your dredge will increase your take four fold. Flour gold floats due to waters surface tension. Rough your pan up a little with fine sandpaper before you use it. There is a neat old dredge rotting on the banks of the Sask river by Frenchmans Butte from the big ol' dredging operation from long ago that's worth studying. Usually in the top 2 inches of the bars if it is at Devon because of all the dredging that went on. There is only flour gold that I know of in Alberta. I have a pretty effective little dredge and a micron seperator from GoldFinder out of St. ![]() The battle river has some in spots but I've not spent enough time with research there to make much hay. I've found it in certain washes around Norgeg. I haven't gold panned or sluiced for about 10 years but I used to do well in the North Sask River by Devon, by Deer creek bridge, by Pine Island (not the island itself since it is a protected historic site, old fur trader fort) and a couple other spots on the river. ![]()
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