The Black Sand You Throw Away Is Full of Gold — Here's How to Get It Back

The Gold Claim Book: https://thegoldclaimbook.com Black sand is the part of the pan most people rinse away without a second look, and it is often exactly where the finest gold ends up. It is heavy, it settles in the same places gold does, and it hides flakes too small to see until you know how to work it. In this video I show you how to recover that gold: how to collect and save your black sand instead of tossing it, how to clean it down in stages until the gold shows itself, how to use a magnet to pull off the magnetite so there is less to sort through, and how to run the last of it through a fine pan without losing the smallest flakes. I also explain how to tell gold from the other heavy minerals that sit in the same concentrate, and what to do with a big batch you’ve been saving over several trips. I’m honest about the limits too: some black sand carries very little gold, and the work is slow, so I show you a quick way to test a sample before you spend an afternoon on it. If you’ve been throwing black sand back into the creek, you may have been throwing away your best find.