Gold Shaker-Sluice Demo -- Prospecting and Extraction 

Thanks, Dave! -- Dave

Thanks so much! Рад, что вам понравилось!

Yes, I found it a bit onerous at first. Not ideal, but I consider it much easier and faster than cleaning out the mats on a sluice box and it should work in a continuous process. Anyway, I'm still playing with the idea. -- Dave

I have a mat that is much better at the final separation. The mat shown in this video will be used for the initial separation and then the second mat is used to further refine the flour gold. I'll be showing the complete process in an upcoming video. Thanks for the comment! -- Dave

@@orophilia i imagine a 'mini-'shaker' style of groove system would fit the bil for the better seperation desired and output without need of snuffering at the end ...

@@1Search Hi Robert, Could be. There are endless variations to this idea. -- Dave

​@@orophilia so would the final variant of the finishing mat be a narrower grove? Can't wait to see the final finishing small shaker table video. Thanks for sharing your time.

That's quite an interesting question! No, I haven't tried running it dry but that would be fun and it might work. -- Dave

Hi Dennis, not yet, but I'll get them up soon. -- Dave

@@orophilia Thanks Dave

Good afternoon! Thank you. -- Dave

I love to experiment, so I may try making a version of a vortex mat. I have other mats that work well for the final separation step, leaving much less unwanted material. Thx! -- Dave

@@orophilia You should try once adding so much material that the top vortexes fill completely with gold. I find that my mats don't let the gold past first set of vortexes until they are full. The black sand is exchanged for gold continuously. In my classifying sluice I find gold a few rows down probably because it sometimes takes a bit to settle through the material flowing across the screen. With very fine gold I expect you need to use quite small vortexes otherwise you would have room for too much material in the pockets as you say. That wouldn't work well as a cleanup system. Out in the field however it is amazing how long one can run without cleaning up when the mats exchange so well. It is more a matter of nerves than actual capacity. One can't resist the urge to have a look.

@@1kreature Howdy! Yes, I agree. I'm finding that the entire table can be filled with fine, heavy black sand and as long as the sand is liquefied the fine gold will drop to the bottom of the first or second groove. It's quite surprising. I'll have a new video soon with an interesting new mat. -- Dave

I don't want the material near the edge because with this mat it can fall off the edge and end up in the tailings tub. (It's not quite wide enough.) Next version will eliminate this. -- Dave

@@orophilia I see. I also have an issue with material getting down the edge and getting UNDER the mat. Perhaps gluing a 8mm wide thickness strip of neoprene along each edge will prevent it.

@@MohammedNovalija Yes, that's a good idea. I'll try it on this mat. -- Dave

I never made a drawing for this little table, just winged it one afternoon in the garage. It's really simple to make. Please ask questions.

I'm sorry, but I'm not interested in forming a business.