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.

In years past all sorts of devices besides metal riffles. Sunny mountain carries a wide variety of sluice box matting. The gold owl story. We carry miracle mat vortex dream mats v matting gold hog miners moss and gold catching carpet.

We have matting for your highbanker river sluice and gold concentrators. Everyone will tell you a small one will drop gold out the back but if you build it right then it wont. Gold owl sluice matting. He made a mold using legos.

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. But you may want to refine it further especially if you are going to use it for different gold prospecting sites. Choose if you want to build a sluice box from wood aluminum steel or plastic. Cheap sluice box that gets gold.

One of the people i follow by the name of alan robertson got me interested in trying this. Fully customizable these mats can be configured any way you want them. Start creating the frame of your sluice box. Lay down the ribbed mat as you first layer in the sluice.

The sluice is placed in a moving stream of water and pay dirt is put into the upstream end of the sluice. This cost around 30 and will get you some good gold if you know where to look. Quality matting is important not only in a basic sluice box but also for the sluice on a suction dredge. If you are using wood make sure you apply silicone to the edges to prevent water leakage.

Fexible versatile slice mats. He then made the mat using silicone c. To prevent clogging of the riffles and matting don t feed the riffles to fast. Dec 15 2012 very cool sluice box matting.

2 profiles on each mat.