This is an overview of the Gold Exorcist one that is coming from a doubter of removing gold from material with anything other than a Dredge, Sluice or High Banker. I have been a gold prospector for the past 30 plus years and have done this in the North East (New England Area) in the North West Area as well as California so to say the least I have been around water and have never relied on a Dry Washer.

Two weeks ago a UPS van showed up at the house and we signed for a Box that was smaller than

what we expected, we unpacked it, and in the box was the blower, high banker, and classifier. I looked at this little piece of equipment all shiny and had a little laugh to my self....I did not see how this was going to keep up with us running several buckets of material through it at a time. After having seen Keene and Proline and Promack dry washers this was a lot smaller than what other units were. No chains holding the riffle section, no fans to adjust, this was going to be a snap if it only worked the way it was advertised. Well we proceeded to assemble it- this was a job, YA RIGHT!!!, put the hopper on the legs after sliding them thru the main body this a two minute job. Put the blower hose on the main body and then apply the hose to the blower. That was easy now plug the blower into the outlet and we were ready to go.

The material had been dug and sitting in buckets for about a week in fact I believe that we had the idea that it would show up a day after we ordered it ... Talk about being a dreamer.... So we started with one bucket and then another and another we could not hardly keep up with the "little machine" as soon as we were ready to start another bucket the first one would be finishing. This went on for the full run of all of  the five buckets we had brought back from the claim and the time was about 15 minutes for all five buckets. Talk about size matters not when you are using this machine. Now came the clean up- undo the two snaps, turn the filter upside down into the gold pan and all that was left was about a cup of material. Now the test was in the washing out or panning of the material this was done with little trouble. In less then a couple of minutes and there on the bottom of the pan making what is I guess others would call a smiley face of gold about the size of a dime. This gold was in size from rice to dust with a lot of it being in the dust to pin head size. Now as I stated in the start I was not into the dry washers and had to prove this to my self. So I took the material that we had already run and brought it over to the creek and then went about setting up my high banker which I have modified over the years to get the gold that is just that dust to pin head sized and rice sized pieces that are prevalent here in the Black Hills of South Dakota. This took more time to set up the high banker then the pump and make adjustments to make sure that it was running right. Then I got down to running the material through it all five buckets and it took about ten minutes making sure not to crowd the riffles. Then the clean up and this left me with about two cups of material to pan out. Here is the end of my story. I found 4 little pieces of dust in my pan and as any of you who high bank, dredge or sluice this could have come from the carpet as well as what was missed by the dry washer.

This Little Machine is one of the easiest machines to set up and run and it has made a hard core believer out of one died in the wool water user. We have been running this dry washer for the past two weeks and have yet to be disappointed  by the performance that it delivers.

As a side bar we are not working material that is easy to get gold from. It has several of the things that are called indicators -these being garnet, iron stone, hematite , limestone , and a heavy clay base. It has been a pleasure to use this machine in an area where before we had to run it to water to get the gold and now can run it all right on site. The time taken with running this on a gas blower instead of the electric blower is not much different but the gas blower makes it a lot easier to use remote. So my recommendation is the gas blower if you are not near power and the amount of gas used by the blower will be so little that you won't have to pack more than a gallon in with you for several days use.

Ron, you have made a dry washer that is nothing less that a prime example of where all people who want to design and build equipment for gold recovery should be going. I think that it leads to the computer age of thinking, why own an old 486 when you can own and run at a great price a 4 gig computer. Two thumbs up. Keep up the good work.