Why Every Dry Blower Owner Ought to Purchase an SDC2300

Why Every Dry Blower Owner Ought to Purchase An SDC 2300

Many decades ago, before the advent of the modern metal detector, there were very few ways to work dry alluvial gold gravel deposits where water was not accessible, with the most common of these old time methods being the dry blower or dry washer as it is known here in the states. One of the big problems with them is the prospecting of large areas because setting them up and processing gravels for a test takes some time. Here is where the modern metal detector shines. A metal detector can cover large areas quickly looking for nugget patch concentrations. The SDC 2300 is an excellent choice for quick patch hunting and allows the detection of even patches where most of the gold tends toward the small side.

This summer I’ve been using my SDC 2300 for patch hunting and cleaning and just recently found a couple concentrations of small nuggets a few hundred yards apart. I recovered nuggets from these patches as small as 0.03 to 0.05 grams (some very small gold indeed), but I still wondered if there was even smaller gold present as well in the gravels of these nugget patches. Every gold detector has its size limitations, and even though the SDC 2300 can detect some very small gold, there are always gold particles which are smaller. So I decided to bring in my dry blower to try out the gravels in these patches and see what they would produce. The experiment was quite the success, and in just a few days of work, I was able to dig an additional 16 grams of gold, an amount better than half an ounce. This nearly doubled the 20 grams I got with my SDC 2300, for a total of 36 grams, 1.15 ounces.

I think anyone who owns a dry blower ought to purchase an SDC 2300 as it will make you much more productive in your dry washing and prospecting efforts. The two pieces of equipment are a perfect complementary match for each other. The SDC 2300 allows you to quickly cover a large amount of ground patch hunting with confidence that you won’t be missing any smaller nuggets. The SDC 2300 allows you to identify the boundaries of a gold patch when you locate one, so you can work the best ground and not waste time on processing lower grade gravels. Using an SDC 2300 from time to time while you are in the process of dry washing allows you to stay in the richer gold concentrations, so you can work the best gravels.

I am confident that there are a lot of patches out there like the two I worked which can produce good nuggets to the SDC2300, and then significant amounts of additional fine sized gold by dry washing the patch gravels afterward. I am sure there are many patches like this in Australia and the western USA, but I am equally sure that there are also patches like this to be worked in places like West Africa and Mongolia as well. The SDC 2300 turns out to be not just a great tool for recovering nuggets directly, but also a great tool for recovering additional gold indirectly with equipment like a dry blower – and that’s why everyone who owns a dry blower out to get themselves an SDC 2300.

Here are 36 grams of California gold – on the right of the coins, 113 nuggets detected directly with the SDC 2300 totaling 20 grams, and on the left, 16 grams of gold found with the dry washer / dry blower in patches found by the SDC 2300. There are some nuggets which were found with the dry washer that are large enough to have easily been seen with the SDC 2300, but they were too deep for the detector to see them. As the ground was dug up, the dry washer captured them.