Rain Gutter Sluice Box

The bottom could be used for the rain gutter as riffles in catching gold.

Rain gutter sluice box.

The sluice is made from a flat section of gutter extension. Until now if you wanted a box style gutter they had to be made in a metal shop in 10 15 foot sections. This meant countless seams or breaks in the gutter system as well as a very expensive installation. 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. The bucket sluice concentrator is made from abs plastic to take the abuse of your gold mining activities. A plus gutter systems is now offering 5 and 6 inch box gutters in a seamless form. With slot or hole to accept hose from pump.

Anyone make a vibrating sluice box page 1 do it. 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. A beckett 120 volt submersible pump 130 gph maximum. Or attach l brackets or riffles to the sluice to sandwich together the layers of ribbed mat miner s moss and metal mesh.

The ends caps on plastic gutter install much easier with soapy water. Two to three feet in length fitted with ribbed black matting. When it comes to gold panning and prospecting those who learn to control the water best will yield the best results. 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.

It even beats out a lot of the other much more expensive gold recovery equipment. 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. End cap for the gutter. I know where to find placer gold and i know how to how to pan for gold.

Basically a sluice box is a long narrow box with a series of obstructions called riffles in it. Massive dams rain gutters storm drains and windshield wipers it s all around us all the time. Homemade rain gutter gold sluice part 1 i started with my keene sluice and had buckets of concentrates full of placer gold. That is primarily why there are so many different sluice box designs.