Keene A51

[Sample Pan Dan]

When my wife and father in law started asking what I would like for my birthday, I told them a sluice box. I had a few in mind, at reasonable prices, and smaller for smaller water. I guess my father in law figured bigger is better, so I'm the proud new owner of an A51! Now to hope I can move rocks and damn up my creek enough to get proper flow... :-)

 

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[goldog]

I run mine deep too. Seems to do the job.

 

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[Sample Pan Dan]

Thanks guys, I can't hardly wait to feed this thing some gravel... Gonna be a couple weeks though as I'll be traveling, but Im honna get to do a little panning in Ga with an old friend of mine.

 

[Sample Pan Dan]

Told you guys I'd be panning in Georgia, here's a little taste from today.

 

[davidb]

Color looks really good congrats

 

[Sample Pan Dan]

Thanks David, here's a clean up picture

 

[Sample Pan Dan]

So I took the new sluice box out yesterday, did some sampling I some new areas, but mostly wanted to check out setting up and adjusting flow. I should have brought a little plastic. The area I was digging near wasn't quiet enough water even after moving rocks.
I found more/ better flow as I headed back to the truck so I did a quick test. I know I shouldn't have been shoveling directly into it for best recovery, again this was a test in an area I have tested that proved no gold, just wanted to see how well the sluice would clear the material. As fast as the flow is here, I kept a large volume I black sand in the matter of about 10 minutes.

http://youtu.be/NGaPsEb_vNM?sc

 

[TheNewCatfish]

For climbing up and down canyon walls, or battling your way across boulders as big as VW's, nuthin beats the good ole' poop tube sluice for conveinience. You can get a 3 foot section at Home Depot for $5 dollars. It's light as a feather and it's so cheap you don't have to carry it back out. Leave it in your camps' rubbish pit and cover it up with a shovel of dirt when you go. A sewer pipe sluice is also flexible. You can bend it around a rock in a creek instead of digging the rock out to accomidate a rigid aluminum sliuce box. I used to carry a small back-pack sluice, until i saw these plastic sewer pipe sluices being used in the field by other prospectors.

 

[DizzyDigger]

You can get a 3 foot section at Home Depot for $5 dollars. It's light as a feather
and it's so cheap you don't have to carry it back out. Leave it in your camps' rubbish pit and cover it up with a
shovel of dirt when you go.

With all due respect: If you carry it in, you carry it out.

If you go and bury a 3' chunk of plastic pipe anywhere near a rivers edge,
the next high water that comes along will blow it right out of there and blast
it downriver somewhere else, or the thing sits there for an eternity.

I see an awful lot of that kind of garbage every year because it ends up on
my beach. Every Spring and Fall the river (that my home sits high on the bank of) runs
at flood level, and later when the water drops back I get out a couple of large trash bags
and pick-up the trash that the river dug up from campsites, etc. and then redeposited on
the riverbanks.

Last year a buddy of mine found over 90' of 4" flexpipe that someone had been using
to illegally gravity dredge an active salmon spawning stream. This is the type of thing
that the F&G Dept's often find, and odds are they've got a worse attitude for prospectors
from then on, and it's double-hard to change minds once they've already been made up.

 

[Sample Pan Dan]

Thanks Dizzy, agreed. We should strive to leave the wild places cleaner than when we found them.