Bazooka Gold Trap Dredge?

[PurpleGold]

With the BGT Highbanker lurking on the horizon I started thinking a little bit further. Do you think the Bazooka Gold Traps will ever transform into a dredge? Or do you think a riffle sluice with possibly gold hog matting would still be the best choice to run material in a dredge? I'm just trying to peek into the future

 

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[motohed]

I'm thinking more like the Gold Hog matting . I don't really see how you would benfit from a Bazooka gold trap , after owning one . The consentration area is farely small on the one I have . I think the way you clean them out would be a lot harder on a dredge system .

 

[PurpleGold]

A BGT 48" Miner is a beast. I imagine it being able to be clipped into a floating or standing dredge system. Clean out would be just as easy as if it were in a stream I would think. I'm just thinking a little out there possibly. I am a trekkie.

 

[Timberdoodle]

FYI The "Bazooka " got it's name from the original submersible dredge from Howard Schmidt which looks like a bazooka. He patented the stream sluice after first building the dredge version. Patent US5366092 - Separation of valuable minerals from material found in the beds of bodies of ... - Google Patents some of them are still in use today. Cleanouts were done by removing a plug in the bottom of the trap.

 

[motohed]

FYI The "Bazooka " got it's name from the original submersible dredge from Howard Schmidt which looks like a bazooka. He patented the stream sluice after first building the dredge version. Patent US5366092 - Separation of valuable minerals from material found in the beds of bodies of ... - Google Patents some of them are still in use today. Cleanouts were done by removing a plug in the bottom of the trap.

I thought , I seen something simular on Bering Sea Gold . There was a guying using something he called a Dragon , I believe .

 

[Goldwasher]

There's a reason they never took over the dredging game....they can be made into cool coin dredges for swimming holes.
As far as a sluice conversion you would have to keep debris out of the trap scoop....dredging loosens debris.....the pump requires would be huge.....you could always put a fluid bed on the output of the sluice run...but the gold lost out of dredges would have a hard time settling into the trap