Diy Sluice Box Matting

The sluice is placed in a moving stream of water and pay dirt is put into the upstream end of the sluice.

Diy sluice box matting.

Lay down the ribbed mat as you first layer in the sluice. The gold owl story. 2 profiles on each mat. Start creating the frame of your sluice box.

Gold owl sluice 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. Sunny mountain carries a wide variety of sluice box matting. He made a mold using legos.

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. Fully customizable these mats can be configured any way you want them. We carry miracle mat vortex dream mats v matting gold hog miners moss and gold catching carpet. One of the people i follow by the name of alan robertson got me interested in trying this.

If you are using wood make sure you apply silicone to the edges to prevent water leakage. From low profiles for fine gold to aggressive mats with riffles for course gold you have every option. We have matting for your highbanker river sluice and gold concentrators. Choose if you want to build a sluice box from wood aluminum steel or plastic.

He then made the mat using silicone c. To prevent clogging of the riffles and matting don t feed the riffles to fast. For the do it youself er this matting will trap all sizes of placer gold from 1 4 nuggets to fine flour. Everyone will tell you a small one will drop gold out the back but if you build it right then it wont.

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. Cheap sluice box that gets gold. Dec 15 2012 very cool sluice box matting. In years past all sorts of devices besides metal riffles.

But you may want to refine it further especially if you are going to use it for different gold prospecting sites.