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When all 3 boxes are cleaned out, it's roughly 2.5 gallons of concentrate. The majority of the gold in clear creek is as fine as flour. Before leaving the creek I rough panned 2 handfuls of the concentrate. There was two flakes, very rough and chunky which is an encouraging sign. Unfortunately I don't have pics of the actual recovery as I haven't processed it. The bucket is all I have to show at the moment. I'm sure there's not a fortune, but certain there is enough to make me want to keep at it.
Over all the trip was a great success. Last time out the impeller for the water pump failed and took considerable work to repair. The repair worked well. Additionally I added a wet suit heater since the last outing. That water is pretty cold and takes a lot out of you to work in it. I added about 5 ft of stainless tubing inside the muffler for a heat exchanger and plumbed some fittings to connect a rubber hose which gets shoved into the wetsuit. It worked pretty good and I'm pleased.
Maybe I can get out again before the creek freezes over.
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90 300TE 4-M
Turbo 103, T3/T04E 50 trim
T04B cover .60 AR
Stage 3 turbine .63 AR
A2W I/C, 40 LB/HR
MS2E, 60-2 Direct Coil Control
3" Exh, AEM W/B O2
Underdrive Alt. and P/S Pulleys,
Vented Rear Discs, .034 Booster.
3.07 diffs 1st Gear Start
90 300CE 104.980
Milled & ported head, 10.3:1 compression
197° intake cam w/20° advancer
Tuned CIS ECU
4° ignition advance
PCS TCM2000, built 722.6
600W networked suction fan
Sportline sway bars
V8 rear subframe, Quaife ATB 3.06 diff
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