Bunnings sluice

[Golddiggergirls]

Well done Reeks, thanks for the post...!

Cheers,
Bec. (Golddiggergirls)

 

[Syndyne]

What a beauty Reeks!

Anything that portable/light that catches gold gets a big thumbs-up from me too!

Good 'ol Bunnings. I could live in that place! lol

All the best,
Shauno.

 

[Colmaca]

Nearly same inside my upgrade version as out mount Isa way water is hard to find

Not shore about the angle I will try some I have not tried it yet

 

[Reeks]

Awesome Colmaca, do you have any pics of the mat arrangements?
I ran mine at a very low angle, yours looks around 1 in 4.

I have a video of mine working but it is on my phone, Nugget how do i upload a vid?

 

[Colmaca]

I used same mat as you on the second 1/2 but couldn't find the blue you used so I used some black round matt .

I just ran a test with 500 grams sand/crushed pyrite ore and the only bit gold I got .28 gram a little 2 big as it never went trough the sieve. I sieved the sand chucked my gold in and poured it in . It was caught in the 2nd run of large matting as shown in picture . I panned the rest no other gold was expected

 

[GoldStreak]

Now that's some great portability!! Great job with that Reeks, it seems to work really well.

Cheers, Paul.

 

[Colmaca]

Here a few small bits I found I think I lost a few in the panning process there very tiny . this was my 1st time panning as well

 

[WalnLiz]

Great effort for the first time panning mate...like I always say, I've never seen bad gold.

Keep it up and I'm sure the number of flakes will start to multiply.

Cheers Wal.

 

[willo1]

It goes to show that you don't need to spend a fortune to get in the game. It's great to see the ideas and visions of others. Great ideas Reeks and Colmaca. Good luck to you both.

 

[onespecSteve]

Thats awesome mate. No need to buy expensive stuff when you can do it yourself

 

[BigSam]

Brilliant, Well done!

 

[Colmaca]

I made a new one on weekend

since I got 2 I just used both. The mats are the same I just added the top so I could tip my stuff in without missing

Water is not in good supply out here so I need to pump it

I put some more in today and found more pictures below

 

[Heatho]

Well done.

 

[onespecSteve]

love it, great job mate

 

[gavfromoz]

I love the unique ideas that comes to the forum, I may look at this as I don't have a sluice for Nundle as yet. Fantastic idea and better still, when it works. Well done

 

[Guest]

Very cool.

Joe

 

[Sparra]

Why do you cut the holes in the grate on top or why do you even need them???

 

[Reeks]

I did it so i could see if the matts were cleaning out properly and not blocking up.
The grate holds the matts down and into the shape of the grate.
Reeko

 

[Wally69]

Thanks for sharing Reeko, thought it should have a crack at my first sluice.

Just tested it with the garden hose, works great. Can't wait to get to some gold bearing ground to give it a real test.

The guys at bunnings would only sell me a meter of rubber matting so had to come up with something different (cheaper) at the top end, seems to trap the heavies quite well.

 

[Reeks]

Looks good Wally. What is the funnel head made from?
Not sure where your from but i got my gear from Tuggerah bunnings.