Grub stake complete

I have completed gathering my grub stake and am just waiting for my Cleanup Buddy and a Jardine riffle. The Jardine riffle is advertised to help collect the fine flour gold that mixes in with the heavy iron black sand and is difficult to separate. Usually, these black sand remnants from the pan are separated from the larger picker gold and saved for later.

The plan is to save a bucket of black sand from the season and use a small Cleanup sluice for the final cleanup, usually making a day of it with a refreshing beverage.

The flour gold is produced by thousands of years rolling around in the rivers, crushing and grinding it down into a powder. There is an entire gold industry just mining the flour gold from the Bering Sea. The job of the Jardine riffle is to collect the flour gold that my highbanker might miss. I'll post a few links if you're interested.