Most of the major manufactured dredges are fairly similar. A gold dredge is designed so that it digs a hole, and that is not always the case with a #2 shovel. The deeper you go, generally, the more gold you find. With a dredge, you are working down, and that is the way any prospector needs to work. The gold dredge has distinct advantages in the you are able to vacuum the material from below the surface of the water in areas to work. Most dredges accomplish this by putting a perforated metal over the first few riffles to classify the material and allow a quiet area for the gold to settle. The plastic pontoons are tough and they give more stability to the dredge which helps in the recovery of the gold.Īn undercurrent box in the dredge is good and is preferred by a lot of individuals. The plastic pontoons are preferred over inner tubes because of the problem of getting air into the tubes and the chance of punctures. If one figures the aggregate size of most gravel in the streams in the Western United States, a 4″ dredge seems to fit the gravel sizes best. The most popular dredge among most dredging prospectors is a 4″ intake with plastic pontoons. A backpack dredge will work an individual almost as hard, if not harder, than will a larger dredge – until you get into the very large sizes of dredges. Unless you have a specific prospecting location in the high mountains or in an area where you must pack in, where a backpack dredge is very good for these applications, you’ll be better off with a larger dredge. Now, a lot of individuals make the mistake of buying a small, backpack-type dredge. A good piece of.equipment to start with would be a 4″ dredge. If you are going out dredging this year, let me tell you what sort of equipment the GPAA recommends. The 200 ounces of gold would be worth somewhere in the neighborhood of $200,000, based on some of the nuggets I was shown. I was talking to a couple of prospectors in Seattle the other day, they told me they got into a deposit in Slate Creek and took out more than 200 ounces of gold last year and worked the entire summer in one area. Many a prospector will head out to the rivers and streams with a gold dredge this summer to vacuum some gold up from the depths of the gravel.
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