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.

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. Quality matting is important not only in a basic sluice box but also for the sluice on a suction dredge. The sluice is placed in a moving stream of water and pay dirt is put into the upstream end of the sluice. 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. If you are using wood make sure you apply silicone to the edges to prevent water leakage. One of the people i follow by the name of alan robertson got me interested in trying this. In years past all sorts of devices besides metal riffles.

Sunny mountain carries a wide variety of sluice box matting. The gold owl story. Fully customizable these mats can be configured any way you want them. We have matting for your highbanker river sluice and gold concentrators.

But you may want to refine it further especially if you are going to use it for different gold prospecting sites. 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. To prevent clogging of the riffles and matting don t feed the riffles to fast. He made a mold using legos.

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. 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.

For the do it youself er this matting will trap all sizes of placer gold from 1 4 nuggets to fine flour. He then made the mat using silicone c. Start creating the frame of your sluice box. This cost around 30 and will get you some good gold if you know where to look.

2 profiles on each mat.