Cleaning fine gold from black sands. Method #3 (The Backwash)

Backwash method of cleaning gold from black sands. Quickly strips away the black sands from the gold leaving pure gold behind.

Lesson on how to clean gold from black sand concentrates using just simple gold panning technique. This video is part of a series where I teach three techniques of cleaning your gold, #1 Simple panning, #2 the Tap method, and #3 the Backwash. Learning the correct gold panning techniques will help prevent losses when recovering your gold from your concentrates. Recovering fine gold from heavy black sands can be a challenge. Follow these gold panning tips and you can recover your gold with almost no losses.

Stay tuned for the fourth video in this series where I show how to pan for gold and use the "Backwash & Tap" method to separate fine gold from black sand.


This video is produced by Dan Hurd, Prospector, Miner, Teacher and YouTuber, as part of his YouTube channel based on educational videos about gold mining, gold panning, prospecting, rock hounding, and mineral collecting.

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