TALEingS

7/30/08

......I recently found about 3 grams of wire gold. It is in a place called Liberty, Washington. The town is an old mining town that has produced for a century. It is not done yet! The locations to prospect are hard to find, the land is all claimed up, but there are still places within the creek that one can get to. A lot of the claims are dead anyway, people come out here, make a claim, and then realize it is hard work. My family has deep mining roots here, I have been prospecting my grandfathers old mines, they have been untouched for 50 years and work as natural sluice boxes on the mine floor. I am a self proclaimed 23 year old geology nut and came up with the theory that it had washed gold over the floor, your tools proved that. Problem is that it is very cold so I only worked 20ft of the 1400 foot shaft. And a power dredge is impossible to get to the entrance, thats why I asked about packing it before I bought.

Craig - Ellansburg, Washington

04/2008

Amazingly, though certainly most welcome, I was able to find some gold on the very first test of the Bluedog unit in a stream with a fair amount of current. It is important to note that I live in Iowa, gold here is primarily glacial in origin and very fine...but it is there and even the Bluedog was able to easily capture it from below the large rock I was working. ……………… I was consistently finding black sands, garnet pieces, and other heavies. It even included some BB shot that must have washed downstream at some point in the past and a very nice piece of staurolite. The Bluedog was definitely picking up the heavies and holding onto them well!

Michael - Iowa
National Treasures Online

7/9/2008

Killer Product, this man is a pro. Lightening fast shipper.
I did a little sniping today with my blu-dog, impressive little unit, well built, had a blast and found some gold.This hose and bucket setup will make great addition, cant wait. thanks

Jason - California

I recovered 12 test nuggets in the sluice box, with one one real flat one that gotten trapped just before the carpet/riffle system but when I was cleaning out the carpet I washed it out by mistake and found it on the driveway with my metal detector. The next test piece of lead was found stuck in the wash tub weld/seam and it never made it into the GOLD-N-ROD. The last test piece of lead was found the next day rattling around in the pump assembly but had not been pumped into my sluice box yet. So that makes a 93% recovery with 100% of the test nuggets accounted for !!!! I till be taking the GOLD-N-ROD up to the Mother Lode this weekend and will report back with my findings knowing that it will be up to the task.

PS: In the photos you will notice that the Grizzly III is on a recommended 12" slope to keep the top expanded metal screens level.

Mark - Redwood City, CA.

03/24/09

Dennis:

I wanted to experiment with your GOLD-N-ROD hand dredge and the SANDMAN attachment on my GrizzlySluice III from Bear Bottom Mining I found a lid from a detergent bucket that fit well over the top hopper when held in place with a clamp. I then drilled a hole in the lid to accept the SANDMAN hose. During testing I found the GOLD-N-ROD to be an awesome pump. I had no problem keeping the Grizzly III fed with enough water/material slurry to the point where the material would move off the secondary expanded metal screen on the GrizzlyIII (This normally has it's own washing step where a bucket of water is dumped vigorously on the screen to clean it) . I then salted 14 pieces of lead that I painted red in about 2 quarts of sand that was placed in a full 20 gallon wash tub.

8/18/09

Hello Dennis,

Thanks so much for the quick reply!
Thanks for explaining the function of the flappers so clearly.
I hope to get out and use the dredge again soon.
By the way the dredge does work great! First time out I did recover a few specks of color.
And that was only on a little better than one collection bucket!

Walt - Greybull, WY

09/02/09

Hi Dennis,

I just recieved the GoldSucker and sat there over an hour admiring the engineering craftsmanship in your item. It`s about the best built and engineered device I've seen on a lot of years. I`am a 68 yr. old electrician and have been prospecting here in Indiana for Glacial gold for a number of years. Real fine gold here but also found 4 small diamonds. I usually build my own equipment until I saw your device. I haven`t see such quality for the buck in years. I hope to retire soon to Dahlonega, Georgia, (The Gold Capital Of The East), and get a few acres on the Yahoola River. The river is the best producer on the whole East coast. In October I am going to Georgia for a week and will use the Fissureman exclusively with my Minelab detector. I will take some pictures and send them to you showing your Fissureman in action. I am going to build a small sluce box to attach to the Fissureman instead of the bucket as I will be pumping a lot of water anyway. ........... Thanks for the great product. Maybe after I retire to Georgia I might sell your Fissureman products locally. There is an unbelievable number of prospectors there what with Dahlonega being a major year- round tourist spot. Well, better go now. Will keep you posted.

Best Regards,
Richard - Evansville, Indiana

Dennis I used the bluedog with the sandman this past weekend for a few hours. Took awhile to figure out that it needed to be primed before it would make enough suction to get the material to the bucket. The river I was in has very course material so it would clog the hose to the bucket.But over all I think it worked very well and I was able to pull a couple of flakes out from under a water filled hole under a rock. I doubt I would have been able to get it with out the bluedog. Since I was by myself and the weather wasn't the best, I wasn't able to get any photos. Hopefully next year I can get some one to tag along and take a few for your web site.

Thanks again
Tracy - Lebanon, New Hampshire

07/06/10

Dennis,
I was able to get out this weekend and use the hand dredge, and loved it. I am using it to clean out those impossible to reach spots and was able to get some gold that I never could have dug out by hand. As the summer warms up and the streams slow down I will move to deeper water to see if I can get some bigger stuff.
Hope you can use these pictures.
Happy gold hunting,

Ryan - Libby, Montana