Diy Sluice Box Matting

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.

Diy sluice box matting.

For the do it youself er this matting will trap all sizes of placer gold from 1 4 nuggets to fine flour. Dec 15 2012 very cool sluice box matting. Sunny mountain carries a wide variety of sluice box matting. We carry miracle mat vortex dream mats v matting gold hog miners moss and gold catching carpet.

Cheap sluice box that gets gold. 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. He then made the mat using silicone c.

From low profiles for fine gold to aggressive mats with riffles for course gold you have every option. Start creating the frame of your sluice box. But you may want to refine it further especially if you are going to use it for different gold prospecting sites. 2 profiles on each mat.

If you are using wood make sure you apply silicone to the edges to prevent water leakage. 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.

Everyone will tell you a small one will drop gold out the back but if you build it right then it wont. To prevent clogging of the riffles and matting don t feed the riffles to fast. 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. Choose if you want to build a sluice box from wood aluminum steel or plastic.

Lay down the ribbed mat as you first layer in the sluice. Gold owl sluice matting. Quality matting is important not only in a basic sluice box but also for the sluice on a suction dredge. The gold owl story.

In years past all sorts of devices besides metal riffles.