New sluice

[ProspectorPete]

I tried out my new Gold Rat custom river sluice on the weekend up in the high country and I love it.
Spent most of Saturday getting 2 x half 20ltr bucket of classified material from bedrock right at the camp site, never realised how time consuming it would be classifying. The bedrock was between elbow and armpit deep and cleaned out as much as I could, even managed a good amount of clays from under the gravel between the rock, the day was getting on and my hands were bleeding from rock cuts so I set the sluice up with what I thought was good flow and proceeded to start running the cons, had to re-adjust a few times to try and get the material flowing correctly. In the end I managed 8 spec's from both buckets, I know I had flow issues, bad panning technique and was getting a bit tired by the end of the day so I probably did well to get the 8 spec's, only 2 were visible and needed the loupe for the other 6, also the fact that this spot is probably receives a bit of attention from other campers/prospectors so next time I will have a much better plan of attack and not be so lazy and impatient, run some test material first to get flow right and put pan at the end to see if anything is getting through.
I'm wrapped with how the sluice turned out, big thanks Dustin. I'll attach a shoulder strap before the next outing so I can load up and hike in to an area that's seen less attention.

 

[Goldtarget]

Great review. Good ground good kit and a bit of dedication will have the desired result. Thanks for the share.

 

[raizo]

Nice looking unit! What sort of GoldHog mats have you got in your sluice? What's under the expander metal?

 

[Mackka]

Hey Pete I also have bleeding arms and hands,every time I get near my roses and guess what, no gold there either! Mate on a serious note, more power to you. Keep going and you will be rewarded. Best of luck.
Mackka

 

[ProspectorPete]

thanks guys.
raizo, there's miners moss under the mesh and the goldhog matting is part Bedrock 2.0 hybrid but not sure which one the other part is.

 

[MJB]

Great stuff Pete, that Sluice from GoldRat looks the goods. Nice and long , there is no way any gold is escaping that !

Keep at it and best of luck for your next trip.

Cheers

 

[Goldtarget]

Bit hard to see on my phone and maybe you already did it, have you taped the sidewall of the mats? With the length of that sluice and configuration it probably won't matter about sidewall gold creep but it will happen.