Wooden Rain Gutter Sluice Box

This cost around 30 and will get you some good gold if you know where to look.

Wooden rain gutter sluice box.

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. Homemade rain gutter gold sluice part 1 i started with my keene sluice and had buckets of concentrates full of placer gold. I know where to find placer gold and i know how to how to pan for gold. Using simple tools you can design and make your own sluice box and be prospecting for gold in no time.

The bottom of a sluice box is covered with so called riffles. You can save money by constructing your own wooden sluice box. Build your own prospecting equipment. 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.

Cheap sluice box that gets gold. Choose if you want to build a sluice box from wood aluminum steel or plastic. Or attach l brackets or riffles to the sluice to sandwich together the layers of ribbed mat miner s moss and metal mesh. Residential rain barrels range from small 15 gallon models to larger commercial and industrial models that hold up to 5 000 gallons.