>>60559459
I'm not mining really.

what I do is drive out to the mine, go walk around the ore dumps, and look for gold in the leftover rocks. Then I bag up the rocks with visible gold and take them home. After that I roast the rocks and shatter them with water. I then crush them in a pot with an air hammer, and run the crushed rock through a screen to make sure it's small enough to pan.

then I'm just panning it in this tub in my yard. I could take it to the creek but there's a lot of gold in this dirt so I want to pan it a couple times to make sure I got all the gold. Catching it in a tub lets me pan it several times.

after that I pick the gold out of the pan with a snifter and then it goes through a couple steps of cleaning. What's left gets hit with mercury first in the pan and then in a jar and finally in a big bucket. About half of what I'm getting is visible and the other half is being picked up in the mercury.

Later I'll retort off the mercury from the gold amalgam and then clean it all up with nitric acid.

>>60505500
Once I crush the ore I take it out in the yard and pan it out in a tub under the garden hose.

Add a couple drops of dish soap to break the tension and release any floating gold