Diy Sluice Box Matting

To prevent clogging of the riffles and matting don t feed the riffles to fast.

Diy sluice box matting.

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

Fully customizable these mats can be configured any way you want them. If you are using wood make sure you apply silicone to the edges to prevent water leakage. Lay down the ribbed mat as you first layer in the sluice. 2 profiles on each mat.

Fexible versatile slice mats. 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. In years past all sorts of devices besides metal riffles. Dec 15 2012 very cool sluice box matting.

Gold owl sluice matting. 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. One of the people i follow by the name of alan robertson got me interested in trying this.

This cost around 30 and will get you some good gold if you know where to look. 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. For the do it youself er this matting will trap all sizes of placer gold from 1 4 nuggets to fine flour.

We have matting for your highbanker river sluice and gold concentrators. 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. Choose if you want to build a sluice box from wood aluminum steel or plastic.

Start creating the frame of your sluice box.