![]() ![]() The principal behind the sluice box is the same no matter what design is used. The pioneer prospectors found that a rough wooden sluice with raised wooden slats worked best and was easy to build. Many different types of riffles were tried, stone, logs, grass, sticks, etc. _ Early Sluice Boxes Įarly sluice boxes were nothing more than wood or fine clay troughs. The waterfall effect "scrubs" lighter rock from the low pressure zones leaving the gold behind. With the High Production Sluice Box we take advantage of a slowing current dropping more gold, just like in nature. If we watch nature, she will vary a stream or river in many ways from rapids to waterfalls, bends, wide parts in the stream, back eddies, whirlpools and so on. There is no flow difference from the start to the finish. The difficulty I have with 98% of the sluice boxes out there is that they are built straight. This mainly refers to "fines" the box will catch. Many companies make claims on the total percentage of gold their sluice box will recover. Finding the hidden pockets where the gold lays, searching specific areas in the deserts and working high benches. If most of the coarse gold near the surface has been found, (best estimates are 55 - 60%) there are only three choices left for the coarse stuff. As long as you are out there gold mining, please allow me to shave some time off your search for gold. ![]()
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