Diy Sluice Box Matting

Everyone will tell you a small one will drop gold out the back but if you build it right then it wont.

Diy sluice box matting.

This cost around 30 and will get you some good gold if you know where to look. The sluice is placed in a moving stream of water and pay dirt is put into the upstream end of the sluice. For the do it youself er this matting will trap all sizes of placer gold from 1 4 nuggets to fine flour. In years past all sorts of devices besides metal riffles.

We have matting for your highbanker river sluice and gold concentrators. To prevent clogging of the riffles and matting don t feed the riffles to fast. One of the people i follow by the name of alan robertson got me interested in trying this. The moving water washes the dirt through and out of the sluice while the gold which is much heavier than the rest of the material is caught behind the riffles or in the matting.

It is a good idea to experiment with different water flows angles of the sluice box riffle types and different matting to increase the fine gold recovery. The gold owl story. Dec 15 2012 very cool sluice box matting. Choose if you want to build a sluice box from wood aluminum steel or plastic.

Gold owl sluice matting. Fully customizable these mats can be configured any way you want them. From low profiles for fine gold to aggressive mats with riffles for course gold you have every option. We carry miracle mat vortex dream mats v matting gold hog miners moss and gold catching carpet.

2 profiles on each mat. Once you ve constructed the box added some sort of matting material and have riffles in the box you ve basically got a sluice box that is ready to use. But you may want to refine it further especially if you are going to use it for different gold prospecting sites. Lay down the ribbed mat as you first layer in the sluice.

Fexible versatile slice mats. He made a mold using legos. If you are using wood make sure you apply silicone to the edges to prevent water leakage. Sunny mountain carries a wide variety of sluice box matting.

He then made the mat using silicone c.