How To Make DIY Gold Hog Gold Sluice For Narrow Streams

[Goldgrabber]

Here's a video describing how I have made a narrow river /. stream gold sluice. This gold sluice has been made with a combination of Vortex, Hi-Low & Gold Hog Razerback & Scrubber mats. The sluice is made of 2mm Aluminium which I had made & shaped at a local steel fabricators and the mats were off-cuts from someone else's sluice build, the other person had no use for them but they were the perfect size for what I wanted to make so the materials for this sluice haven't cost a lot at all.

This gold sluice has been specifically made narrower than most sluices because I already have a gold sluice for general working conditions, this gold hog matted gold sluice has been made specifically to run in narrow streams and burns, where a normal size/width sluice would not fit. 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.

[Ridge Runner]

Hi Goldgrabber

  I can tell you how to make a Chinese Sluice that will get the gold and it won't cost over 5 to 10 dollars. The Chinese used this home make sluice when they didn't have nothing else. 

  It will take about a hour of your time to make it.

Chuck

[Rick Watkins]

Nice job looking forward to seeing it work.

[Sourdough Scott]

Just remember, narrower the sluice, the faster the water will run thru it. And possibly lose some fines.

[tvanwho]

Does anybody know how well the Keene Miracle Black mat works vs Gold Hog matting vs the traditional miners moss and riffles in a small 2 inch dredge or stream sluice?

Thanks.

 

-Tom

[Goldgrabber]

The speed of the water going through this shouldn't be a problem as its designed for use in very narrow streams which don't have large water flows going down them, can't wait to get out and use it and see how it performs