The Gold Webb vs. a Miner’s “Unpannable” Concentrates | Goldbay

Rod has been mining gold professionally for about 30 years and he’d already panned these sluice box concentrates as far as he could take them. He called what was left “virtually unpannable”. So I showed up at his house unannounced with the Gold Webb, a gold concentrator he’d never seen run before and asked if we could try it on his own mine material. This is Rod’s first impression of the Gold Webb and I wanted the test to look like a real sluice box cleanup - not just a carefully screened demonstration batch. The concentrates include mixed-size rock, black sand and heavy material, with pieces up to roughly half an inch. Rod reckoned sorting through that can by hand might take him most of a day. He’d tried other ways to separate this kind of stuff and wasn’t convinced the Gold Webb would hold onto the gold. We even ended up with a $10 bet over whether it would work. You can watch the water jig the concentrates through the Gold Webb’s clear tubes while the lighter material washes through. Rod gets his first look inside the machine and spots gold! Then we clean it out into a pan and look closely at the small gold flecks still mixed with the heavies. The can is run through at around 11 minutes and 20 seconds on the video clock, but the cleanout and final pan come afterward. I haven’t got a weighed gold yield or a tested recovery percentage for this run. What you can see is how this actual unscreened mine concentrate behaves, what Rod thinks of the machine and what’s left to inspect at the end. If you’ve ever taken sluice box concentrates as far as you could with a gold pan and still suspected there was fine gold hiding in the black sands, tell me how you’d finish the cleanup. Would you keep panning, sort it by hand or try a concentrator? For another look at the Gold Webb and how it performs, watch my other video here:    • The Gold Webb: 95% Fine Gold Recovery on t...   Chapters: 00:00 Rod’s 30 years of mining and the leftover concentrates 00:29 His first look at the Gold Webb 01:13 Running unscreened real-mine material 01:55 How the Gold Webb jigs in the tubes 03:26 Mixed-size rocks and difficult cleanup 03:50 Rod says this could take all day 04:19 From Rod’s sluice box 05:24 Will the Gold Webb keep the gold? 07:11 Watching the tubes work 08:27 The last cup of concentrates 09:59 Heavies settling in the bends 11:16 The whole can has gone through 11:35 The $10 bet and Rod checks for gold 12:21 Cleaning out into a pan 13:50 Inspecting what remains 14:30 Looking for fine gold #GoldWebb #GoldRecovery #goldpanning Shop Goldbay paydirt and products: https://goldbay.com/ Join the Goldbay Private Reserve for early access to self-collected specimens, sales, auctions and behind-the-scenes updates: https://conmigo.chat/dl.html I’ve been chasing gold since I was 11 years old. I’ve sold natural gold, nuggets, rare specimens and paydirt since 1999. Nowadays I'm lucky that I get to follow my dreams and mine full time. My hands-on experience spans gold prospecting, hard-rock mining, metal detecting, gold recovery, ore processing and crystallized gold specimens. I've also appeared on National Geographic’s Meltdown, demonstrating how gold recovery works in the real world. On this channel, I follow gold from the first signal on the metal detectors to the final result - discovering pockets and veins, extracting gold-bearing quartz, testing equipment and recovery methods, crushing and processing ore, cleaning specimens and establishing what the recovered gold actually weighs and what makes a natural specimen valuable. If you watch gold mining, gold prospecting, gold panning, metal detecting, ore processing or gold recovery, subscribe for real discoveries, measured results and the complete story behind the gold!