Diy Sluice Box Matting

Quality matting is important not only in a basic sluice box but also for the sluice on a suction dredge.

Diy sluice box 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. Fully customizable these mats can be configured any way you want them. One of the people i follow by the name of alan robertson got me interested in trying this. To prevent clogging of the riffles and matting don t feed the riffles to fast.

Lay down the ribbed mat as you first layer in the sluice. We have matting for your highbanker river sluice and gold concentrators. 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. Cheap sluice box that gets gold.

Fexible versatile slice mats. Everyone will tell you a small one will drop gold out the back but if you build it right then it wont. But you may want to refine it further especially if you are going to use it for different gold prospecting sites. The sluice is placed in a moving stream of water and pay dirt is put into the upstream end of the sluice.

Start creating the frame of your sluice box. 2 profiles on each mat. If you are using wood make sure you apply silicone to the edges to prevent water leakage. In years past all sorts of devices besides metal riffles.

Dec 15 2012 very cool sluice box matting. We carry miracle mat vortex dream mats v matting gold hog miners moss and gold catching carpet. This cost around 30 and will get you some good gold if you know where to look. He made a mold using legos.

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. Sunny mountain carries a wide variety of sluice box matting. He then made the mat using silicone c. For the do it youself er this matting will trap all sizes of placer gold from 1 4 nuggets to fine flour.

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