Since we cannot get out into the field to prospect properly right now, figured we'd share with you a piece of equipment we use for testing in our garage and also in the field for hard to get to places. Its great for hiking in, testing several locations and then coming back with larger...
Doc, as far as I've watched, is kinda close as to exactly which mix of mats he uses in his sluices. I'm building a "copy" of his 8" wide multi-sluice - only 60" long. This allows 3 "zones" of 18" (3 sections of 6" wide mat - for example) that will be swappable - to test the recovery rates of...
Here's a video describing how I have made a narrow river /. stream gold sluice. This gold sluice has been made with a combination of Vortex, Hi-Low & Gold Hog Razerback & Scrubber mats. The sluice is made of 2mm Aluminium which I had made & shaped at a local steel fabricators and the mats were...