help me with my sluice please

[TankerRobbie]

ok so i have VERY FINE gold in my material im running, is my water flow to slow? do i just wait for all the blond sand to wash out or do i shut it down and try and pan it?

 

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[B H Prospector]

Your sluice should be set at 1" drop per 1ft of sluice. 48" would be 4" drop. Your material should clear the black mat at the top in 15 to 30 seconds. If longer than that either water flow or volume is too slow. Faster than that flow is too fast or volume too much. By the looks of your pics you are running too flat. Hope this helps.

Good Luck!

BH Prospector

 

[TankerRobbie]

Thanks BH right now i have about a 3inch drop so ill try and speed it up a little now running like this should all the blonde material run off?

 

[TankerRobbie]

i increased the slope and deff saw a difference in how fast the material processed, cleaned out had a good layer of concentrate that was loaded or appeared to be loaded , end result got a bunch of black sand and a few tiny specs so i dunno

 

[juneaupanner]

Well u have 30 posts so u should at least have an idea far as what to do goes. Not trying to be rude whatsoever but you should take that sluice out of your garage do some test panning. Once you find some good dirt start running material thru that thing. P.s. dont claim jump and dont pack buckets of dirt to your vehicle to run unless theres no water :-) good luck!

 

[Jason in Enid]

If its all tiny gold, I would ditch the riffles and use just expanded over carpet.

 

[socalocmatt]

If its all tiny gold, I would ditch the riffles and use just expanded over carpet.

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If you only have flour gold in your area then go for either expanded over carpet or moss, or expanded over ribbed matting

 

[B H Prospector]

Sounds like you got it goin. Good luck!

 

[TankerRobbie]

Well u have 30 posts so u should at least have an idea far as what to do goes. Not trying to be rude whatsoever but you should take that sluice out of your garage do some test panning. Once you find some good dirt start running material thru that thing. P.s. dont claim jump and dont pack buckets of dirt to your vehicle to run unless theres no water :-) good luck!

I understand the concept, but being this was my first time running the sluice the skills to apply to the operation weren't there, that's why i asked. im not afraid to ask for guidance when i need it. secondly there are no claims as im in NY so nothing to jump, and thirdly when the temps aren't hovering around the freezing mark here ill be more than glad to go out and do some test panning but for now my garage will work fine especially since i bought the bag of sand from home depot so i can practice on something that will have black sand and colors in it but thanks for you concern and not so constructive criticism

 

[TankerRobbie]

Jason , Socal thanks. i didnt think about losing the riffles but its worth a shot right? kinda wish i would have bought a longer sluice now to be honest lol, buuut i do have a model to base one of my own construction off of lol *future project*. i took some of my fines to the head of the geology dept at the local college he liked what he saw but says i will need at least a small vial in order to assay it and determine if its actual gold or not. id put a pic up but like you guys said its very fine stuff