Diy Sluice Box Matting

We have matting for your highbanker river sluice and gold concentrators.

Diy sluice box matting.

Gold owl sluice matting. 2 profiles on each mat. Everyone will tell you a small one will drop gold out the back but if you build it right then it wont. Quality matting is important not only in a basic sluice box but also for the sluice on a suction dredge.

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. We carry miracle mat vortex dream mats v matting gold hog miners moss and gold catching carpet. He then made the mat using silicone c.

Cheap sluice box that gets gold. This cost around 30 and will get you some good gold if you know where to look. 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. Fully customizable these mats can be configured any way you want them.

If you are using wood make sure you apply silicone to the edges to prevent water leakage. Sunny mountain carries a wide variety of sluice box matting. Lay down the ribbed mat as you first layer in the sluice. It is a good idea to experiment with different water flows angles of the sluice box riffle types and different matting to increase the fine gold recovery.

Choose if you want to build a sluice box from wood aluminum steel or plastic. In years past all sorts of devices besides metal riffles. Dec 15 2012 very cool sluice box matting. One of the people i follow by the name of alan robertson got me interested in trying this.

Start creating the frame of your sluice box. Fexible versatile slice mats. The sluice is placed in a moving stream of water and pay dirt is put into the upstream end of the sluice. To prevent clogging of the riffles and matting don t feed the riffles to fast.

The gold owl story.