Gold Rush Nugget Bucket (Pink with Folding Shovel. As Seen on Shark Tank!

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

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.

This was a fun purchase. I bought this to spend some quality time with my two kids. We found a stream in Northern California gold country and started panning. We have no previous experience and the only preparation was watching two videos from from the manufacturers web site. Within twenty minutes we found some gold flakes.The bucket/sieve system works well. An earlier reviewer complained about the cost for primarily plastic components - that is not what you are buying. What you are buying is a very well thought out system to concentrate the sand and reduce some of the effort in panning for gold. I imagine that if you wanted to take up panning as a hobby, this will make your time much more productive.For me, we came back with a few flakes. The kids were excited about the afternoon. They didn't even notice that I slipped in some lessons about geology, geography, and California history as we panned. They are excited about getting out to the creek again to pan.

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!!!

The item works like it says it works. Unfortunately i have not been able to find any gold with it b/c of water levels are to high to get in area's where gold can be found, but the item works well. I have even found a compatible sluice box that would be a great addition to the Gold Rush Nugget Bucket, its called The Gold Cube. It is good with pay dirt that has already been sifted excellent item to have if u want to find alot of gold in a short amount of time on just simply sifting through the rocks and placing the fine material in a bucket then running that entire bucket full of fine material through The Gold Cube for much better results. This concept would save u much time and effort. I would recommend to try some test pans first to make sure u are looking in the right area then proceed on sifting a bulk amount of fine material.

It's a neat little rig, but I honestly expected it to come with like a fair sized book of instructions but instead it came with a url on the side of the bucket to go watch videos to learn how to use the product. The videos are not specific. It never mentioned anywhere that it has to be completely level and sturdy, it never said what kind of "pay dirt" goes into it, we tried sand and clogged it right up. It so didn't say how fast or by what quantity should you add the water. And it should have come with two pans. It also should have come with instructions of how to pan and also should have said somewhere that this is basically glorified panning. Or panning with like quadruple the steps. I bought this expecting like a sleuce box in bucket form and it is not that.

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:)

did not meet my expectations and certainly not for the price

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.