Dr. Sluice

[golden optimist]

Rick, Dr. Sluice, joined Randy and I for some fun. Rick has an unusual way to run a sluice. It really works great. I've seen days that he has gotton more gold with his sluice then we did with our 4" dredges.
Here he is all set up.

Dr. Sluice at work

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Taking a little break while the water does it's work.

Letting the sluice clear

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He has a special classifier right on the front of the sluice. Also, notice the rock try alowwing use of smaller rocks to hold it in place. Sometimes there just aren't any correct shaped rocks to span the sluice.

Home made classifier

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You just load it up with a shovel full and then splash water over it using the shovel to wash the sand and the gold through.

Ready to wash the fines through

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After the fines are washed through, remove the classifier to dump it. While it is off, you can inspect the rubber mat for the gold that shovel produced. Very handy for sampling

Dumping the coarse stuff

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Checking the mat.

Mat inspection

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[golden optimist]

Here's a short video of his classifier. http://golddredger.com/ricksadapter.wmv

[geno]

HMMM.. that looks like the way I'll be going in the future.

[C-17A]

Leonard, Rick,

Great pics!

Neat to see us all there sluicing for CO flood gold.........

Thanks too for the sluice setup hints,

Can't wait to get out there some day soon.

Ramdy "C-17A"

[h20prospector]

Would his contraption, which classifies at the top of the sluice, would work/fit a Keene A52?

[russau]

anything will fit when you make it fit!

[h20prospector]

anything will fit when you make it fit!

I believe you have commented on a couple of previous occasions that making things often times are better than making a purchase. What are your suggestions to someone who does not have the skills to fabricate something such as this, other than buying it?

h20prospector

[COArgonaut]

If you are not up to fabricating everything that Dr Sluice uses, you could do what Dr Sluice did and buy the parts.
He has a screen that fits over the top of the sluice that he can pile smaller rocks to hold the sluice down. This screen can be bought at any Home Depot or similar store. Go to the paint aisle and get the screen used to paint with a roller from a five galon bucket. They cost less then three bucks.

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They real trick is to use it, and play with it. That is the part of what Dr Sluice has that you can't make or buy. He has an uncanny knack- eye ball a stream, dig there. He gets good gold often. But, not every time.

Good luck!

ed

[h20prospector]

Ed,

Thank you for the information. I'm able to follow what you suggested fairly easy. It's not so much the knack of doing something, as forming the ideas, especially when you've been a paper pusher (accountant) as I have for over 46 years. Also being 63 makes things a challenge, but following suggestions and ideas listed here is, like I said earlier, fairly easy. Again, thanks for your suggestion and idea. For those of you wondering - since he's an avid fly fisherman, he probably ties his own flies. Not! - that's what friends are for, isn't it?

Pat aka h20prospector

[russau]

now that im retired ive become a paperpusher myself! i gotta push the waste cans out to the street for pickup and then push em back when empty! heck im getting pretty good at it now and ive stopped spilling the trash when im in a hurry!