Show off yer sluice

[crazywolfminingco]

i got this little pocket sluice off the auction site.so i made a little kitchen sincker for when i cant sleep and just want to run some cons! lol

 

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[Oregon Viking]

I really like that. That homemade custom fluid bed is wicked!! PLEASE let us know how it works!
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Keene A52P, and cleanup sluice.

 

[Justbent]

It's an evolution.
I had to add the next generation.

 

[Lookin4goaled]

Right off the bat I'd have to guess that is a tad larger than most of the sluices used by the majority of the members here.

Here are a few shots of my humble little sluice I made up from scrap that was on hand in the shop.

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In the shop ready for finishing


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Close up of the header box. You can't see it in the picture but there is a shelf under the screen that directs the slurry towards the front of the box. Inside of header and main box dyed black to help gold show up.


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Up and running. Still need to increase the water capacity for both water available and the amount it moves through the system. Currently it's pumping just under 2000 GPH. I will also be lightening it up with a new stand made from PVC pipe and fittings.

If you don't mind me asking, what kind of pump are you using, where did you get it and how much did it cost?

 

[sideshowmick]

I really like that.
I can't seem to get a lot of production atta this....<img src="http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=926339"/>

I want one of these really bad! How much and where do I get it?

 

[Oregon Viking]

The mini sluice box?
Its called the gold miser, found mine on fee bay. I don't thing they are made anymore.
Great little sampling tool

 

[cmatue1]

 

[sideshowmick]

The mini sluice box?
Its called the gold miser, found mine on fee bay. I don't thing they are made anymore.
Great little sampling tool

Ah.. looks like it would be good for cleaning the sands from my nano gold.

 

[fowledup]

Here is my BGT Prospector and the couple of mods to it. Ignore the hardware cloth as the jury never came back. My hope was that it would act as a nugget trap (that visual thing again). However I'm going to remove it as I would be better off taking a piece twice as wide and attaching it at the top end to aid in the breaking up of clay balls. Second mod. is the legs. I tend to pack way in so I try to keep everything as light and compact as possible. I didn't want to carry or assemble a stand and getting rocks stacked right and stable to support the whole sluice was miserable. Originally I had them on the front as well but that made it so I couldn't dump it into a bucket. So this is the compromise. There is always a rock available to support the front, and I can dump it easily, fine tune and anchor the sluice.

 

[socalocmatt]

Got in some goodies and added to my 12x36 sluice. Put in a 1/8" perf plate going to a 1/4" perf plate that goes to a 1/2" expanded metal. Hoping to test this out this weekend if there is a good enough water flow.

 

[tweeta_bear]

BGT flare!

 

[ssdevilfish]

Lol. Makes my 30 inch royal recirculate sluice look very very small. Lol. Take that monster to the Yukon.

 

[tweeta_bear]

itll be interesting to see ill admit... i cant wait to try it tomorrow.

 

[KevinInColorado]

Having the scoop guiding water to the lower chamber may be a mistake as it will increase pressure thru the tubes and that may blow fine gold out of here trap. Something to keep a eye on.

 

[golden sluice]

Those are the best. I made a small diverter with a sluice wash and It was so far up in the american river I was able to come back to it the next year and continue my hot spot.

 

[ryanonthevedder]

My sluice isn't anything special. Top 4' is yellow cedar which is nice to work with. I run hog mat the full length. The part I am really proud of is the hopper.

Here is the hopper walk around video

 

[wingmaster]

It looks like that the expanded metal in the second pic is in backwards? Might just look like that though?

I'm thinking about using a 1/4 inch stainless organizer thingy as a classifier on my sluice. I am wondering if I set it in the slick plate as the photos show, if it will allow enough water to clear the smaller material without impeding the sluice box. I've got good flow where I will be doing this.

Has anyone else tried this or similair? Good results, bad?
Thanks

 

[KevinInColorado]

It looks like that the expanded metal in the second pic is in backwards? Might just look like that though?

ive seen formal studies showing that orientation of expanded metal doesn't matter at all!

 

[Goodyguy]

ive seen formal studies showing that orientation of expanded metal doesn't matter at all!

You are right when it comes to expanded metal. However "Raised" expanded metal creates a slightly different flow pattern depending upon it's orientation.

Even though I will concede that a lower pressure is still created behind the metal edge of the "raised" expanded metal no matter which way it's oriented, my experiments seem to suggest that when the raised end is slanted forward in the same direction as a riffle a slightly larger area of low pressure is created thus leaving more room for fine gold to settle. Of course the "launch" factor created by the ramp may cancel that larger area out if the flow is too fast.

At any rate I would like a link to those "formal studies" as I would love to "expand" my knowledge on the subject.

Thanks,
GG~

 

[mxer47]

I would like to see that study too, and I will search for it right after I mouth off about something I haven't reviewed all the facts about. LOL. There is a difference between expanded and flattened/expanded metal. I agree flattened is not directional. "Raised" however is a different animal. I would say that either direction might capture the same amount of material but wouldn't exchange the material. It would just pack in. If you carry the theory to its full extent, you could assume that riffles could be put either way. Or for that matter gold hog mats could run backwards. It doesn't ring true to me. Especially when you consider the types of expanded metal in commercial setups.