drop riffle sluice

Here's a quick video showing a nice little piece of gold which got caught in the top riffles of my sluice when I was out prospecting last weekend. I was running my sluice directly off a little waterfall and it wasn't set up right at all but there was no other option where I was working so when...

There were some who were curious whether the slotted riffles were capturing most of the gold (doing the work) in the Gold Well sluice. A picture is worth a thousand words. For those curious then what the horizontal slots are there for, they are 'mixing wells' that allow the heavy and light...