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[Eyeball]

A simple sluice,
I am a Canadian, but spend a lot of time in the US.

I'm wondering where to shop for a simple backpackable sluice with matting and expanded metal, that can be run in the creek or by pump.
There are models available online, but I wanted to be able to actually buy it in Canada rather than online.
If nothing shows up here, I am next going to check out Cabela's in my US travels to see what they have for stock if any.
Can anyone chime in to direct me to an area within maybe 400 km of North Bay? (Toronto, Sudbury and Ottawa triangle.)
So far, I have done most of my buying online, but I am fed up with the shipping practices and costs as most of the hobby stuff I do comes from the US.

If any of you have one parked not using it, I'd be interested to buy if possible.

I drive a truck mostly in the West and South West US, and can't really spend a lot of time searching for things physically.

Thanks, eyeball.

 

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[arizau]

A simple sluice,
I am a Canadian, but spend a lot of time in the US.

I'm wondering where to shop for a simple backpackable sluice with matting and expanded metal, that can be run in the creek or by pump.
There are models available online, but I wanted to be able to actually buy it in Canada rather than online.
If nothing shows up here, I am next going to check out Cabela's in my US travels to see what they have for stock if any.
Can anyone chime in to direct me to an area within maybe 400 km of North Bay? (Toronto, Sudbury and Ottawa triangle.)
So far, I have done most of my buying online, but I am fed up with the shipping practices and costs as most of the hobby stuff I do comes from the US.

If any of you have one parked not using it, I'd be interested to buy if possible.

I drive a truck mostly in the West and South West US, and can't really spend a lot of time searching for things physically.

Thanks, eyeball.

As far as Cabelas......Order and do an in-store pickup from a store along your route to avoid shipping costs, etc. https://www.cabelas.com/content_popup.jsp?pageName=InStorePickup. Other than that there are numerous local prospecting shops all over the west that are not necessarily online vendors. Google for the dedicated shops for the various cities along your route. I have seen prospecting supplies in local hardware stores in gold country too. Just have to check around since they are not regular catalog items for the major stores like Ace and Tru Value, etc.

Good luck.

 

[akflyer]

Pretty easy to make your own and order some goldhog matting.

 

[KevinInColorado]

Just buy an Angus Mackirk. They are made in Canada by a Canadian company.

 

[wildminer]

If you travel I-5 Armadillo Mining store is right on the freeway at the north Grants Pass exit. Should be room to park your truck. Internet search for inventory and phone number. Sam will be very helpful.

 

[arizau]

If you travel I-5 Armadillo Mining store is right on the freeway at the north Grants Pass exit. Should be room to park your truck. Internet search for inventory and phone number. Sam will be very helpful.

Ditto that ^^. I always make it a point to stop when I am up that way.

 

[Eyeball]

As far as Cabelas......Order and do an in-store pickup from a store along your route to avoid shipping costs, etc. https://www.cabelas.com/content_popup.jsp?pageName=InStorePickup. Other than that there are numerous local prospecting shops all over the west that are not necessarily online vendors. Google for the dedicated shops for the various cities along your route. I have seen prospecting supplies in local hardware stores in gold country too. Just have to check around since they are not regular catalog items for the major stores like Ace and Tru Value, etc.

Good luck.

Thanks for the input Arizau,
I got to order in a folding sluice as that interests me, I am fairly busy when I'm out trucking, between getting up and motoring down the road and work, I put in my 11 hrs of on dury and driving and trying to have a bite to eat to boot, it gets so that I' m beat at the end of the day, it is too much to hope to get to a decent shop most of the time.
I should get to know a few sooner or later and things will become easier.
Thanks for the reply, eyeball.

 

[Eyeball]

If you travel I-5 Armadillo Mining store is right on the freeway at the north Grants Pass exit. Should be room to park your truck. Internet search for inventory and phone number. Sam will be very helpful.

I know exactly where you mean, but I have not been out that way for a good 15 years now, I used to pick up plywood in Ugene and G Pass for home but that's a while ago.
Now I haul mining equipment to Nogales (that country makes me drool), Elko and Carlin, NV, Sparks and Reno, and a few more places out in Utah.
All good places to be for prospecting and swinging a coil.
cheers, eyeball.

 

[Eyeball]

Just buy an Angus Mackirk. They are made in Canada by a Canadian company.

Hello Kev,

It was exactly that Angus Mackirk sluicebox I was looking for, but they're all sold out where I try to order from or they won't ship to canada.
The next stop at a Cabela's where I frequently stop or reset will have a pre-ordered Angus sitting there waiting for me.
That will give me two of them, one for at home to wring out dirt I bring in and one for with me in the truck, to use where I get out and play for a day on a reset.
Thanks for the mention, eyeball.

 

[Eyeball]

Update;
I found the Mackirk people thanks to your comments Kevin, got me hunting for them and I bought the second one from them (sidekick ll) and some other gear.
Thanks, eyeball.

 

[oneguy]

You'll absolutely LOVE your Angus(s)…………...

 

[Duckshot]

Glad you got a sluice, drop riffles like the angus mackirk are my favorite. Easy to make a drop riffle in wood. Just make a couple shallow passes with your circular saw The type of riffle shown in the video above are called Hungarian riffles. Also very easy to make.

 

[Duckwalk]

I would also confirm that Angus Mckirk Drop Riffle is the way to go for ease of use and travel. Catches the large and small just the same as anything else. Ive used them myself.

 

[Eyeball]

You'll absolutely LOVE your Angus(s)…………...

Lol...the postal strikes have it in chains in Montreal.
I should eventually be able to hug it and assure it that it is now safe!
Merry Christmas!

 

[Eyeball]

Glad you got a sluice, drop riffles like the angus mackirk are my favorite. Easy to make a drop riffle in wood. Just make a couple shallow passes with your circular saw The type of riffle shown in the video above are called Hungarian riffles. Also very easy to make.

Hey Duckshot,

That video brings back memories of BC, panning the Marble river River on Van Island in the seventies and consuming exorbitant amounts of "Rayonier" beer lol (the brewery strikes caused us to order it in from Washington ), and having results to boot.
Love the feeling of nostalgia, best time of my life.

Thanks for the memories,...la lala...la lala...🎵🎶
Have a wonderful Christmas!

 

[Duckshot]

Merry Christmas to you too Eyeball! : )

 

[63bkpkr]

I've not seen this video for some time but as I watched the prospector make planks from the tree I realized the potential of what he was doing. The planks are building materials for more than just a sluice box like think the roofing materials for a comfortable better than bushcraft dwelling. One starts with crude and works up to approximately comfortable. Thank you for the repost!.............63bkpkr

 

[Duckshot]

I've not seen this video for some time but as I watched the prospector make planks from the tree I realized the potential of what he was doing. The planks are building materials for more than just a sluice box like think the roofing materials for a comfortable better than bushcraft dwelling. One starts with crude and works up to approximately comfortable. Thank you for the repost!.............63bkpkr

The ships that brought honkeys to to North America were built with split planks, broke off with wedges. They didn't have circular saws until a couple hundred years later.

Funny thing I heard about America- When the early English settlers got here they did not seem to know how to build houses without hewn logs. No log cabins They were pegging mortise and tenon joints instead. Takes a heck of a lot more time to post and beam frame out a house than it does to stack and daub logs.

 

[63bkpkr]

Technological advancements are amazing! Mix mud and clay with dead weeds (straw) and build something with it. It takes a spark of an idea to begin the leap forward to sluice boxes, highbankers, airplanes, spaceships & satellites that are entering deep space. And all I want to do right now is go backpacking............63bkpkr