Build Your Own Gold Prospecting Equipment
Dredging with Levels by Jim Witt, California I found that judging the right angle of drop on my 2" dredge sluice box was to cumbersome and I was often wrong. I often times work alone and could not take the time to watch the pitch carefully so I attached two levels on the dredge that would visually show me when the dredge was level side-to-side ...
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California Dredging Trip to Sierra City, prospecting for Gold …
The increased flow volume was blowing gold right out my sluice box. I was determined to make improvements for 2003, so I built a new sluice to replace the old crash box style unit I originally purchased from Keene in 1978. ... That afternoon, I did get in a couple hours dredging, and did much better at finding gold with the dredge. Ground ...
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» The Size of Riffles
Let's just use the example of a 5-inch dredge. The nozzle-restriction will allow a 4.5-inch rock to be sucked up into the sluice box. And there must …
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HIGH BANKER SLUICE CONVERSION KIT Assembly
Assemble Marlex Hopper Kit to your A-51 or A52 Hand Sluice as per diagram. On the A51 sluice place the hopper over the sluice box and lower it into the sluice making sure that the front edge of the hopper buts up to the ribbed rubber matting. (note the hopper will overhang the edge of the sluice approximately 2 1/4").
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Gold DREDGES for Sale
Keene 3.5 HP Power Sluice & 2.5 Inch Dredge Combo: Keene 1753H Honda Power Sluice & 3 Inch Dredge Combo: Beach Box Prospector Power Sluice by Keene: Power Sluice with 8 or 12 Foot LONG Sluice Box: 6 HP Power Sluice with LONG 12 Foot Sluice Box: Clean Up Concentrator with Keene Miracle Mat (2 sizes) 3 stage sluice FAQ: Dredge …
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General High Banker Instructions
a. Reduce the water flow in the sluice box by closing down the ball valve or in the case of dredging, reduce the engine speed as much as possible. b. Place a pan or bucket at the end of the sluice and pull the riffle locking lever at the end of the sluice box down allowing the riffle tray to lift out. c.
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Small Gold Dredge, Constructive Advice Needed?
I got tired of my almost completely homemade small dredge, constant floatation issues, got rid of my floation setup and sprang for 48 x 9 x9 factory dredge floats from DNK Prospecting in Oregon, but after they got here, I realized I needed a frame to make all the parts go together, as in engine,floats, sluice, etc..DNK had no frame unless …
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A Recirculating Sluice Box for Gold Prospecting
A Recirculating Sluice Box for Gold Prospecting: One of my many hobbies is recreational gold prospecting. I've been gold panning on my vacations for many years. It's a lot of …
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Sluicing 101
Sluicing 101. There are many methods of prospecting for gold in the 1990's. The search for this precious metal includes panning, sluicing, dredging, dry washing and electronic metal detection. Sluice boxes were once built at …
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Boil Box for fine Gold on the Beach
Cleangold sluice & prospectors pan, EZ-Gold Pan, and custom cleanup sluice. Primary Interest: Other Nov 9, 2015 #7 Bonaro said: There was a discussion about boil box tech on here but I cant find it, starting a new one. ... Keene A52 with Gold Hog mats Gold-N-Sand hand dredge Primary Interest: All Treasure Hunting Nov 12, 2015 #11 …
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How To Suction Dredge for Gold: The Basics
Think of a suction dredge as a vacuum cleaner for underwater environments. Prospectors use dredging equipment to draw up wet sand, silt, dirt, or clay. The suction hose moves that raw material from the riverbed to a sluice box that separates out the gold particles. The components of a … See more
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Has anybody made their own dredge?
Jul 1, 2012. #7. Check out some of the gold prospecting forums. Many of them have free downloads of plans to make equipment. Keene or proline are a couple of the major manufacturers of dredge accessories and most parts can be purchased from them. If you want a ready built dredge, try to find one in California.
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How do Suction Gold Dredges Work?
Suction dredges utilize a high pressure gasoline powered water pump to suck up water, gravel and gold and inject this material into a sluice through a header box. The header …
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Product Catalog
provided with a 20 foot long combination sluice, for both gold and diamonds. The diamond portion of the sluice is simple but has a very effective diamond riffle design that has been perfected over 30 years of building for the diamond field dredges in Africa. The gold sluice incorporates our world famous 3 stage sluice design.
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Gold Sluice Box Design
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. Although many affordable varieties are available to …
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Water Board Explores Suction Dredge Mining in Wild Rivers
The Water Board is seeking public comments on the draft general permit and regulations through March 8, 2021. The good news is that the Water Board is proposing to prohibit suction dredge gold mining on most rivers which are polluted by toxic mercury – a legacy of the state's historic gold mining era. Mercury was used to separate out the ...
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US judge rules against Idaho suction-dredge gold miner
A U.S. District Court judge last week ruled Shannon Poe of Concord, California, violated the Clean Water Act on the South Fork of the Clearwater River when he suction dredge-mined 42 days in 2014 and 2015. Suction dredge miners use an underwater hose to suck up gravel and sort it for gold in a sluice box mounted on a watercraft.
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Submersible Sluice Box Modifications
Now we are trying to upgrade the sluice because where we dredge we could find larger nuggets. Im thinking of placing a section with taller riffles like in the picture with the rails only going half way or 3/4 of the sluice and leaving the same size riffles or making it bit larger at the end of the box for the larger nuggets.
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Help on Highbanker to dredge conversion (Sluice setup)
Our dredge setup uses a converted sluice box (10" wide) with a homemade high banker box at the head of it. We dredge with a 3" nozzle, which I realize is smaller than your 4". Here is the key point I want to share: Your setup should be able to catch gold whether you use expanded metal, miner's moss, riffles of various heights.
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sbm/sbm making a sluice dredge gold.md at master
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Building a dredge from scratch?
Piece-o-cake for a little dredge. Take two 4x8 sheets of 2" styro insulation and cut it into eight 1' x 4' pieces, then glue six pieces together with Gorilla Glue to make two 1'x1' x 4' blocks. - done. To secure a frame and to protect the bottom when you drag it around, first glue a 1' wide peice of 1/4" plywood on the bottom of your ...
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2 Powerful Backpack Dredges For Ultimate Portability & Power
Backpack dredges contain all the equipment necessary to dredge for gold in streams, ponds, and lakes. Some of these are equipped with suction hoses, while others have power jets. These typically weigh 50-75 pounds, making them easy to carry over rough terrain. ... A backpack dredging system is an affordable way to sluice gold in …
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home made sluice for fine "flour" gold
Apr 7, 2011. #1. home made sluice for fine "flour" gold. After alot of perserverance searching for any color what-so-ever I finally found a place that showed a few very small faint gold color that was too stubborn to be washed away with the black sand in my pan!!!! Anyway I kept searching around this same area hoping to find something a little ...
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Suction-dredge gold miner working Idaho river fined $150K
Suction dredge miners use an underwater hose to suck up gravel and sort it for gold in a sluice box mounted on a watercraft. The sediment is discharged downstream.
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Searching for gold in Michigan's rivers | Great …
Hobbyists mostly pan, sluice or dredge for gold. Panning, the most common and cheapest way to get started, is simply sifting through sediment with a pan. Sluicing involves placing a box in the water to …
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UNDERWATER gold dredge ***HOW CAN I BUILD …
As such, one option is to make the hole and clean out the overburden with the subsurface dredge and then clean up the exposed bedrock with a surface dredge. Last thought - there used to be somebody from New Zealand who made electric subsurface dredges that had an internal underwater sluice.
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Plans to design and build your own gold prospecting …
Miners have been making their own sluices since the days of the gold rush. Here is all the information you need to design and build your own homemade sluice box. This is just the piece of equipment you need to prospect in the desert for gold. There is a long tradition of home built dry washers.
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What is the deal with suction dredge mining?
Suction dredge mining is a form of recreational gold mining that utilizes a high-powered floating vacuum. The miner dives to the bottom of the stream and uses a hose to suck up gravel and sediment. The dredged material (sediment, gravels, rock, and water) is then discharged through a sluice box on the back of the floating dredge, capturing the ...
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Keene 2.5 inch Dredge 12" box (FREE SHIPPING)
FREE SHIPPING SPECIAL!: 2 1/2 inch KEENE Pontoon Dredge with an optional air compressor. The 2.5 Inch Ultra Series has set a new standard for smaller size dredges. The unmatched performance of this new dredge system is designed for those who operate in extremely remote and challenging locations. It can be easily transported and quickly …
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How Does a 4-Inch Suction Gold Dredge Work?
Step 3: Watching the Sluice. As you suction up gravel and water below the surface, solids will enter the sluice by way of the header box. While seasoned prospectors with smaller dredges may leave the sluice area unattended, having a buddy with you is a good idea for a dredge of 4 inches or larger. Most of the gold you'll find will be ...
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