Description
The Gold Cube Golden Rule Clean Up Pack is the starter kit for classifying your concentrates: the ring, two jars, and the four mesh screens that do most of the real work, in a unit that fits in your glove box. Gold is heavier than everything around it, but that advantage only pays when the material in your pan is all the same size. That is the Golden Rule, a term coined by Mike Pung: when everything's the same, gold rules. Most prospectors never classify because dragging a stack of sieves to the creek is a chore. This is the kit that removes the excuse.
Why the Clean Up Pack, and when to step up to the Pro Pack
The Golden Rule comes in two working kits that share the identical ring and jars. The Clean Up Pack gives you four screens, #16, #30, #50 and #100, which is the span that covers most routine cleanup: coarse enough to pull the trash off the top, fine enough to size the placer gold you actually find. Choose it if you are new to classifying, want the hardware in hand for a modest outlay, or already own a few loose screens. Step to the Golden Rule Pro Pack if you work flour gold or run a Gold Cube, because it carries all sixteen screens from #4 down to #400 with no gaps in the range. There is no wrong door here: every one of the sixteen screens is sold individually, so you can start with this pack and add sizes as your ground demands them.
What a mesh number actually means
Almost nobody explains this, so here it is plainly. The mesh number is how many squares there are per inch of screen. A #16 screen has sixteen squares per inch. A #100 screen has one hundred. The higher the number, the finer the screen and the smaller the material that passes. Sorting concentrates into piles of like-sized material is what lets gold's weight separate it out for you.
| #16 | Your first cut. Takes the coarse waste and gravel off the top so you can see what is left. |
| #30 | The everyday working size where a lot of placer gold sizes out. |
| #50 | Fine sizing. Separates the smaller gold from the sand it hides in. |
| #100 | The fine end of routine cleanup, before you are into true flour gold. |
What is in the Clean Up Pack
| 4 mesh screens | #16, #30, #50 and #100. All clearly marked. |
| 2 plastic jars | Catch the material that passes; swap ends and keep working. |
| 1 ring | The center piece. Unscrew the jar, drop in a new screen, screw it back on. |
| Screen material | Stainless steel, so a wet screen is not a rusted screen next season. |
| Size | Small enough for a glove compartment, replacing sieves you would otherwise haul in the truck bed. |
| Expandable | Takes any of the sixteen Golden Rule screens, #4 through #400, bought individually. |
How it works in the field
Unscrew a jar, slip in the screen you want, screw it back down, and shake. What passes drops into the jar below, the oversize stays on the screen, and you move to the next size. There is no stack to assemble and nothing to lose in the grass. The ring and jars in this pack are the same ones in the Pro Pack, so nothing you buy here becomes obsolete when you add screens.
Pairs with your Gold Cube
Gold Cube says it plainly: a Gold Cube turns roughly a thousand pounds of material into a couple of pounds of super concentrates, and those super concentrates are a perfect match for the Golden Rule. If you are running a Gold Cube 4 Stack Deluxe or a Gold Cube 3 Stack Deluxe, the Golden Rule is what finishes the job the Cube starts. Note that a Cube's concentrates run fine, so heavy Cube users often want the finer screens the Pro Pack carries.
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