Diy Sluice Box Matting

Lay down the ribbed mat as you first layer in the sluice.

Diy sluice box matting.

The sluice is placed in a moving stream of water and pay dirt is put into the upstream end of the sluice. Cheap sluice box that gets gold. We carry miracle mat vortex dream mats v matting gold hog miners moss and gold catching carpet. In years past all sorts of devices besides metal riffles.

This cost around 30 and will get you some good gold if you know where to look. Fully customizable these mats can be configured any way you want them. 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. Start creating the frame of your sluice box.

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. Gold owl sluice matting. Everyone will tell you a small one will drop gold out the back but if you build it right then it wont.

Choose if you want to build a sluice box from wood aluminum steel or plastic. He then made the mat using silicone c. Fexible versatile slice mats. Sunny mountain carries a wide variety of sluice box matting.

We have matting for your highbanker river sluice and gold concentrators. To prevent clogging of the riffles and matting don t feed the riffles to fast. 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.

For the do it youself er this matting will trap all sizes of placer gold from 1 4 nuggets to fine flour. He made a mold using legos. The gold owl story. If you are using wood make sure you apply silicone to the edges to prevent water leakage.

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.