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Sluice Boxes

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Utilizing a sluice box is among the easiest methods to prospect for gold. You do not require much equipment to effectively operate a sluice. Sluices are run by nature, all you'll need is gravity. Another great thing about them, there are no motors. All you hear would be the sounds about you and the water because it flows over the riffles and creates little eddies permitting the heavier gold to settle. Portable sluices are an excellent way to move quite a lot of material with minimal effort. Sluice box prospecting is definitely an enjoyable method to spend some leisure time productively. They are very lightweight and may be utilized virtually anyplace you find a creek.

Since they are not power driven they don't disturb the environment they are lightly regulated. Since they have no motor, there's no reason to carry gasoline, they do not smoke and there is no annoying noise to bother others who might be attempting to appreciate the outdoors along a creek.

Discovering the suitable water flow and speed for your situations is completely essential. It could be difficult and may require you to block the flow of water in the inlet of your sluice, or feed extra water in. This can be achieved by creating a small dam with rocks within the creek or river bed.

Gold; as I'm sure you know, is heavy. It's heavier than the rocks and just about every thing else that occupies a stream or riverbed. So gold will sink down to the bottom. Being that gold is so heavy it can take fairly a bit of energy to move gold nuggets down a stream. So what moves gold down the riverbed? How about a spring thaw or some heavy rains. You can scout a good area when the river or stream is low, just look for deep pockets where the present stream slows or even backs up and creates whirlpools, these are the locations that the gold will drop out of suspension and sink towards the bottom.

Some creeks or rivers may have what is called a 100 year flood. Throughout these floods, massive boulders and rocks might be carried along way and deposit new layers of hardpack containing good gold.

Not just rocks get carried along but gold. Heavier than everything else, gold will rapidly fall towards the bottom at the initial opportunity settling behind riffles within the creek. Everywhere water flows you will find riffles. Rocks, sand and gravel bars, bridge footings, tree stumps, curves within the creek. Even when water flows via culvert pipes and canals you will find irregularities that cause natural riffles to form. So when a prospector goes out to prospect behind these natural riffle traps, that is going to become the most profitable areas.

After completing your mining day, the sluice is taken towards the side and also the materiel under the riffles is taken out and placed in a gold pan or bucket. The last of the remaining gold bearing material might be taken home where the extremely tiny gold flakes known as flour gold is extracted further using fine gold recovery equipment.

Proline Small Sluice Box

Our Price: $104.95 In Stock

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High quality, professional 30" sluicebox for serious gold recovery.

Proline Medium Sluice Box

Proline’s medium sluice box: At 36 inches long and 10 inches wide, it is excellent for gold recovery, yet still compact enough to be easily carried.

Proline Large Sluice Box

Proline's largest sluice box features a wide flare, hinged riffles, ribbed matting and more.

Folding Sluice Box

Our Price: $119.95 In Stock

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This 50 inch folding sluice box from Royal Manufacturing folds up small enough to fit in a 5 gallon bucket or backpack.

Power Sluice Adaptor Kit for Folding Sluice Box

Our Price: $164.90 In Stock

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Complete adaptor kit to turn a Folding Sluice Box into a 12v Power Sluice, including hopper, stand, pump and hose.

Stand for Folding Sluice

Our Price: $45.95 In Stock

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This is a stand for the Royal Manufacturing Folding Sluice Box

Folding Power Sluice and Stand

Our Price: $279.95 In Stock

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Built on the popular Folding Sluice Box, this complete folding power sluice set-up includes sluice, stand, pump, hopper, etc, complete and ready to run.