Rain Gutter Sluice Box

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.

Rain gutter sluice box.

The sluice is made from a flat section of gutter extension. With slot or hole to accept hose from pump. It even beats out a lot of the other much more expensive gold recovery equipment. Homemade rain gutter gold sluice part 1 i started with my keene sluice and had buckets of concentrates full of placer gold.

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. A plus gutter systems is now offering 5 and 6 inch box gutters in a seamless form. 2018101313 october 2018 0823 pm. 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.

That is primarily why there are so many different sluice box designs. I made the first one this summer and it caught good gold. The ends caps on plastic gutter install much easier with soapy water. Massive dams rain gutters storm drains and windshield wipers it s all around us all the time.

Submersible 100 200 gallon per hour pond pump or similar. Two to three feet in length fitted with ribbed black matting. The bottom could be used for the rain gutter as riffles in catching gold. Anyone make a vibrating sluice box page 1 do it.

This meant countless seams or breaks in the gutter system as well as a very expensive installation. When it comes to gold panning and prospecting those who learn to control the water best will yield the best results. Until now if you wanted a box style gutter they had to be made in a metal shop in 10 15 foot sections. Basically a sluice box is a long narrow box with a series of obstructions called riffles in it.

I know where to find placer gold and i know how to how to pan for gold. End cap for the gutter. If you make one please make sure to let me know how it works out. Or attach l brackets or riffles to the sluice to sandwich together the layers of ribbed mat miner s moss and metal mesh.