Gold Rush Nugget Bucket Panning and Prospecting Kit with Military Style Metal Folding Shovel (Yellow)

It WORKS!!!Our first time using the Gold Rush Nugget Bucket, I shoveled in a bunch of sand and gravel from a creek, ran a bunch of water though. Then I picked out some really nice quartz rocks to save and polish someday. I took the concentrate that was left in the clear bowl and added it to my pan. I repeated the process for my wife and then we both started panning.I couldn't believe it...I found a little tiny gold flake! I showed my wife and she got very intense and determined swirling her pan. I was praying that she would fin something or this might be a one time venture. After another few minutes, she jumped up and said she too found GOLD! She was beyond excited!!!While we were panning the concentrate, our 2.5 year old was panning the sand from the creek and having a blast!We were looking for a fun family activity that gets us and the kids outside away from phones, tablets and TV - The Gold Rush Nugget Bucket is now our new, fun family weekend activity.It comes with one pan, which is good for a medium size person, so we bought a large Dad size pan and a little tiny 8" pan for the kids, so we can all pan together at the same time.The product itself is very well made and durable feeling for a plastic item, I was impressed. Everything fits perfectly and snugly.Aloha!!!

First off, let me say I'm very impressed with this product. I live in Colorado, and therefore I was looking for something that would help me get all that fine flour gold. I'm sure there are better, more efficient products towards that end, but not without spending several hundred dollars more.My experience with the nugget bucket has been very good. Everything fits together perfectly, it stacks with other five gallon buckets, and it seems quite durable after knocking it around for a bit.As for functionality, I was amazed at how good the nugget bucket is at concentrating material. I ran half a five gallon bucket of dirt I got from the South Platte and had too much black sand in my pan to see the gold! Once I used the magnet provided and split the concentrates into two pans I had about a dozen small gold flakes! This really impressed me because some of these flakes were truly tiny, and the bucket still got them.On the downside, the bucket really does not handle clay well, but I haven't really found an inexpensive system that does. Also, the classifiers need frequent cleaning as rocks get stuck in them. You also have to be careful about keeping the bucket level. That being said, it's still ten times faster than just panning.Also, customer service is excellent. Before I bought the nugget bucket I sent them an email, which they responded too with more information than I knew to ask for within two hours.

We love how simple the Nugget Bucket is to use! Unlike a moody sluice, it doesn't have to be a perfect angle and doesn't require a perfect stream flow. We are catching gold with it! YAY! But, we quickly discovered that the included screens are pretty bad. The all-plastic screen construction allows pebbles to become stuck in the screen, clogging the holes. Luckily, we already had a higher capacity, heavy-duty set of wire classifiers that kind of fit in the top of the bucket. We use those instead with good success. The included pan is also a bit disappointing. It has a very glossy texture unlike the more grippy matte finish more serious gold pans have. So yes, room for improvement. That said, we're catching all kinds of gold, from flour gold to rolly little chunks to big, fat flakes. When we clean up for the day, we pan out not just the clear cup, but also the contents of the outer yellow bucket just in case. Occasionally we do find gold in the outer bucket if we've been running at a wild angle. We plan on buying a "Backpack for 5 Gallon Buckets" (also on Amazon) so we can carry more gear or have hands free for difficult slopes.

Last week my son and I spent a couple hours at the river classifying dirt into buckets, then hauling it home to pan in the garage. Today we took the Nugget Bucket to the river and moved the same volume of dirt in about 20 minutes, concentrating it down to a single pan. In fact, we concentrated several samples and had time to pan them at the river and got in trouble for not bringing concentrates home for mom! Next week, dear.There is a rhythm to the work cycle you should be realistic about. You will spend a minute lathering 3-5 shovelfuls of dirt into the upper screen. You will then take a minute or two rinsing that payload with a bucket or two of water and cleaning out the classifiers while the water drains out the funnel. You will then repeat that cycle several times before panning the concentrate: lather, rinse, repeat. It's perfect for large sampling, but don't confuse or compare it with production mode river sluicing for instance.And finally yes, we found what little gold there was at this spot, but the bucket was pulling in lots of beautiful black sand, so I know it was working as it should. I like having everything contained in this single 7 pound bucket that I can easily carry by its handle, rather than remembering to gather and fighting to carry buckets, classifiers, pans, and shovels

I love this bucket, it is super easy to use and makes the outing fun for kids! The only thing I don't like about it is once rocks get in the basket it is hard to remove the basket from the bucket. I just bring a flat head screw driver along and no issues, but annoying none the less. The kids love it (ages 14 and 10) because one can be shoveling and the other can pan. The way the filter system catches the dirt at the bottom is simply ingenious.

This is a fun thing but the bucket broke and I only used it once or twice. The company sort of wants you to jump through a few hoops for a replacement on anything, pics etcetera... I just used gorilla tape and moved on from their customer return process.

I was hesitant about buying this but I did anyway and glad !It arrived today and i just used it to go through some of my old tailings that I knew had a lot of super fines , it caught the vast majority !Can't wait to take it out on the road

SOOO COOL!! We bought it for my 7yr old sons birthday and it's the coolest thing ever. Easy to set up and easy to use. If your kids like watching the popular gold dredging shows, hook them up with their own:)

Good product. Wife likes getting out and looking through pay dirt. Arrived on time.

Fast shipping but had to pay customs before I could collect package, which i wasn't expecting. Great product but it is a little expensive for what it is but nonetheless made my husband happy.

Awesome product