So, how much rain does it take to cause a major movement of gravels in a stream and redistribute the gold? The technical answer is enough water to move the bed load of the river.

These are entry-level machines designed with gold prospecting in mind and with the ability to handle mineralized ground and see nuggets of a grain or so in size, perhaps smaller.

George was considering filling his dredge floats with closed-cell foam, ensuring that there would be no area available within each float for flooding.

One of the first things we did while looking at buying the equipment was figuring out how it would dovetail into the milling process we already had in mind.