Wooden Rain Gutter Sluice Box

Using simple tools you can design and make your own sluice box and be prospecting for gold in no time.

Wooden rain gutter sluice box.

I know where to find placer gold and i know how to how to pan for gold. Or attach l brackets or riffles to the sluice to sandwich together the layers of ribbed mat miner s moss and metal mesh. Water flows through these riffles and any heavy material including gold falls to the bottom of the box while the water and any lighter materials including sand is washed away. Residential rain barrels range from small 15 gallon models to larger commercial and industrial models that hold up to 5 000 gallons.

Build your own prospecting equipment. This cost around 30 and will get you some good gold if you know where to look. Building a sluice box for gold prospecting is a fairly simple project and is a fun way to spend the winter in preparation for the mining season. You can save money by constructing your own wooden sluice box.

The bottom of a sluice box is covered with so called riffles. Cheap sluice box that gets gold. Rain barrels which are especially useful for lawns and gardens during droughts or periods of water restrictions can be made of plastic ceramic wood stone or metal pick the type that matches your home s exterior style and meets your water saving needs. Everyone will tell you a small one will drop gold out the back but if you build it right then it wont.