Rain Gutter Sluice Box

I made the first one this summer and it caught good gold.

Rain gutter sluice box.

Submersible 100 200 gallon per hour pond pump or similar. This meant countless seams or breaks in the gutter system as well as a very expensive installation. The ends caps on plastic gutter install much easier with soapy water. With slot or hole to accept hose from pump.

Or attach l brackets or riffles to the sluice to sandwich together the layers of ribbed mat miner s moss and metal mesh. 2018101313 october 2018 0823 pm. The bottom could be used for the rain gutter as riffles in catching gold. Homemade rain gutter gold sluice part 1 i started with my keene sluice and had buckets of concentrates full of placer gold.

Anyone make a vibrating sluice box page 1 do it. End cap for the gutter. It even beats out a lot of the other much more expensive gold recovery equipment. Massive dams rain gutters storm drains and windshield wipers it s all around us all the time.

If the sluice is placed in a running stream of water and gold bearing gravel and dirt is fed into the upstream side the heavy minerals including gold get caught in the eddies created by the riffles and the bulk of the lighter material gets washed through the box and out the end. Until now if you wanted a box style gutter they had to be made in a metal shop in 10 15 foot sections. A beckett 120 volt submersible pump 130 gph maximum. I have previously made a similar rain gutter sluice using ribbed matting but that only seemed to trap the finest of material due to the matting used so this time i figured i d use tried and tested matting to ensure the gold sluice will stand the best chance of finding gold from the material as possible.

Two to three feet in length fitted with ribbed black matting. That high banker was made by greg wilson the son of the owner of the shop called prospectors home from memory mr wilson started the paramatta prospecting club which may be be the one still going today in western sydney i still have my high banker which has a 2 inch dredging attachment the riffles are a lazy. When it comes to gold panning and prospecting those who learn to control the water best will yield the best results. The sluice is made from a flat section of gutter extension.

The bucket sluice concentrator is made from abs plastic to take the abuse of your gold mining activities. If you make one please make sure to let me know how it works out. The specially designed drop riffles allow for easier and faster gold recovery than you could ever hope to do with a gutter sluice or panning by hand. Basically a sluice box is a long narrow box with a series of obstructions called riffles in it.