The gold sluice box is an efficient alternative to panning for gold, allowing the prospector to quickly sift through a much greater volume of sediment.

How to build a gold sluice box. To build a sluice box, you will first need a long piece of plywood that is 1 foot wide by 4 feet long. Thin plates of metal situated at a 45 degree angles and held by rails that fit just inside the box are ideal. Holes and holding it all in place.

If your sluice box is small enough to go into the bucket you could. Now rinse the crevices and traps of the sluice and pour the concentrate into a bucket. The section without riffles in the top of the box about a foot long is.

The cradle would hold the sluice and allow me to adjust the angle of tilt. These riffles are then held in place with a few bolts. The first photo below shows the recirculating sluice is set up on the banks of one of my favorite gold panning streams in arizona.

The grating has holes in i so dont worry about that. I drew up a simple plan for a cradle that would sit on top of a plastic storage bin full of water. The typical wooden homemade sluice is made of boards and varies in width from 8 to 18 inches, usually with a depth of 6 inches to a foot.

I used a soldering iron to punch a hole 4 1/2 from the front of the carpet if you dont have one you can. At the end of the day, unscrew the. Then, you will need two 1″ dowels to support the ends of the box.

Riffles can be made from half inch square dowel nailed about every 6 inches down the length of the sluice. For fine gold recovery the use of riffles can actually be a negative design element and most boxes specifically built for this type of gold don’t use any type of. With the discovery that a homestead is downstream from an area rich in gold, matt raney wants to build a gold sluice box 'raney style' and create a new sourc.