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hi heavyd
awhile back I posted a photo of my sluice box setup at home cant find it on the forum or my computer
but what I have is a long sluice box fixed to the wall of my shed I put the garden hose in one end for water flow the box has no riffles but some coarse matting or grass as known in the trade I just trickle the concentrate in the top end and let it work very slowly to do 30lts would take me a couple of hours but still quicker than panning at the end I wash the mat and end up normally with a pan full to pan
make sure the flow is low so as not to flush all the gold through and don't put to much in at once keep and eye on the matt half way down the box if there is colour there you are putting to much through or the water flow is to high
the box is made of wood nothing fancy and is about 1.5m long
need any other imfo give me a yell

Thanks for the advice guys, Richmanpoorman, where could I buy the matting from?

Cheers

The ribbed carpet they use for boats is good to if there is black sand present which there probably is seen as how its cons ur wanting to run I would think it better than the rubber Matt

Thanks for the advice. I went for the boat type synthetic carpet, then used a fridge magnet to remove most of the iron sand and managed to get a lot of the other fine stuff out just gently swirling the pan. I have included a couple of picks of what I have got out so far, can anyone advise me on how clean what I have got is and if I could expect to clean it up further? cheers


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It does look pretty clean if you can still see a bit of sand in amongst it simply blow on it gently most of the lighter stuff will blow away leaving the heavy gold

Yeah , that turbo trommel saved the day. Not.

If they hadn't had Mitch along with them they'd have had another loser year, especially since Todd is both stupid and an egomaniac.

First, they have the big blue beast up and running, but no dirt to run through it, and over at the other site they've got stockpiles of dirt and no machine. Sigh. Truck some across you idiots! I was screaming.

And then all these times they find they're "losing half of their gold out the back end of the sluice".

Gaa. You haven't lost it, you idiots, it's on the ground accumulating somewhere. For chrissakes go find it, and put it back through the machine! $10 says some of the locals sneaked back onto their claim after they'd left for the winter, and scooped all the gold out of their tailing race.

Now you've got me started.

Hi guys, Oroplata. I have to agree with you 110%. Todd Hoffman was such a clown that I gave up watching the series. How can anyone be soooo stupid time & time again. I felt sorry for Dave.

HeavyD, You may be right in what you say about Todd Hoffman. Funny how the guys were all mortgaged to beyond the eyes balls, supposidly, & yet they rock up with all this new gear. If he was acting as an idiot so we could all shake our heads at the stupidity of it all then he would have to be making good money out of the show to portray himself to the world as such a clown.
Any way....on another note to do with your concentrates clean up. Be careful with the magnet as fine gold can & will get caught up in amongst the iron sands leaping up on to the magnet. Especially if you are getting a bunch of sands on to the magnet in one hit. Do the operation with the sands covered with water & wave the magnet over the sands from a distance so only a small amount at a time attract to the magnet. Hopefully any gold will drop away while the sands pass through the water. Have a look here at Hatters clean up sluice. Hopefully yours will look like this :)
http://www.paydirt.co.nz...0_The-Golden-Fleece.aspx

Good luck out there

JW :)