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Alluvial Gold Prospecting
AM Alaskan Flare and a newbie prospector
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<blockquote data-quote="elbowgrease" data-source="post: 48058" data-attributes="member: 233"><p>Casper in the picture above, the bottom end of your sluice appears to be sitting too deep in the water. Ideally, where sufficient natural drop in the creek height is not available you want to build up a rock wall so that the exit end of the sluice is not sitting deeper than the entry end whilst still achieving the 1 inch drop per 1 foot of sluice length.</p><p></p><p>If you can get the angle right without burying the exit end of the sluice you'll find they'll never clog up like you are describing (and what looks to be happening in the photo)</p><p></p><p>The Angus Mackirk stream sluice series seems to be better in slower conditions of where adequate angle is more difficult to achieve when compared to the AU trap series sluices, however I personally run a Mackirk "Boss" AU trap and find so long as I spend enough time getting the sluice setup right it's unbeatable with recovery and you can feed material through quite quickly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="elbowgrease, post: 48058, member: 233"] Casper in the picture above, the bottom end of your sluice appears to be sitting too deep in the water. Ideally, where sufficient natural drop in the creek height is not available you want to build up a rock wall so that the exit end of the sluice is not sitting deeper than the entry end whilst still achieving the 1 inch drop per 1 foot of sluice length. If you can get the angle right without burying the exit end of the sluice you'll find they'll never clog up like you are describing (and what looks to be happening in the photo) The Angus Mackirk stream sluice series seems to be better in slower conditions of where adequate angle is more difficult to achieve when compared to the AU trap series sluices, however I personally run a Mackirk "Boss" AU trap and find so long as I spend enough time getting the sluice setup right it's unbeatable with recovery and you can feed material through quite quickly. [/QUOTE]
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Gold Prospecting
Alluvial Gold Prospecting
AM Alaskan Flare and a newbie prospector
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