About the gold sluice, well I know I don't just speak for myself when I say that heading out into the outdoors with gold pans and a gold sluice is my favorite pastime. Just being outside enjoying the wilderness is such a relief from our everyday busy lives we live. Throw in a gold pan and gold sluice into the equation and you have the makings for a very fun and could be very profitable day. That's right profitable, a day in the right creek or river with a sluice box will usually send you home with some of that heavy gold stuff. The use of a sluice box makes it way easier to recover gold than a gold pan and makes for a greater recovery. There are several types of gold sluices but they all work and do the same thing that is, COLLECT GOLD.
In order to use a sluice box it is important that you know how one works and how one is made. You may ask yourself what is a gold sluice so if you read along I'll tell ya a little bit about one. A sluice box can be made out of wood, aluminum, plastic or steel. The most common boxes are made out of aluminum. Basically you need to make a 4 foot long channel about 10 inches deep and 18 inches wide. Then you'll need several slats of steel or aluminum or whatever material you're using to make riffles witch are set at 45 degrees that run the width of the channel and held in place by a rail on either side. Welding them is the best way to keep them there. Make the riffle assembly removable from the channel so it is easy to clean and easier to uncover all your gold. Another thing you can do is lay a length of miners moss underneath the riffle assembly to help catch gold as well, this works really well.
The next thing you need to do is find a creek or river that you think is gold bearing. Now that you found one place and position your gold sluice box in the water (using rocks or small logs)at the correct angle and use the flow of water and gravity to your advantage while you just shovel material into the top of the sluice. When placing a sluice box i the water the angle of the box needs to be 1 inch of drop for every foot of sluice box. This angle will help the tailings to move down the box. It is also the proper angle for the gold to settle into the riffle trays. A 48 inch gold sluice requires almost 4 inches of drop between the flare at the top and the end of the riffle tray.
Just writing about the gold sluice box is giving me a little gold fever.
I hope you enjoyed this reading and if you would like to read up some more on gold sluices you can visit http://gold-sluice.com/.
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