Make a Gold Catching Sluice Box. Build your own sluice, get better gold recovery 

Thank you P. Ralph I like you and your Hand made pan.....

Valuable information and wisdom, I particularly enjoy the old vintage photographs.

Remember when I told I am getting into prospecting from Kenya? well I did and found some ore in which you can see what I want to believe is gold in and not some pyrite now I am getting a hard time of find anywhere to assay it I intend to do it myself now. Also thanks for the info on sluice box as I am gonna need it soon and all your dedication to improve humanity.

In many rivers you can find some mercury left from other prospectors. I think the plastic is the best matherial for sluicing box

New subscriber here from phillipines sir, your videos inspired me a lot, i will test all what i've learned from your videos, tommorow i will try it on a creek near my barracks, this place is nearby an old volcanic caldera, hoping to find something valueble🙏,,

Thank you

I'd like to use a llama or 2 to carry some of the more awkward and large ramping, then a guy could still carry his food and drink into the back country!

So i was just wandering chris how do you find gold spots i live in the uk and im going looking for gold you know but yeah how do you find gold?

Hi Mr Chris Ralph I need your help in finding the gold

Awesome 👌

nice info fam. class was great today. I sluice out with the Dream Mat. GOLD SQUAD OUT!!!

Cough great job it only took you 11 minutes to start actually describing how to build a sluice , not sure 7 minutes of “why you shouldn’t build it out of wood was necessary, why no “ don’t build this out of cookie dough was included eludes me , but i suspect its going to be in the revised video . I do appreciate your knowledge , and willingness to share it as a precursor to your ever present book advertisement which i assume is largely you writing about writing about writing a book . best of regards ( and such ) into infinity and then some

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Get on with it

Too much history, what I've seen, and theory - not enough "how to make a sluice box". A common problem in most utub "how to" videos.

New subscriber here from phillipines sir, your videos inspired me a lot, i will test all what i've learned from your videos, tommorow i will try it on a creek near my barracks, this place is nearby an old volcanic caldera, hoping to can find something valueble🙏,,

Are you a teacher? The way you explain everything and the way you interact throughout the explanation makes me think you are/would be an amazing teacher 👍

Made my first loose for $12. $10 for matting, $2 for nuts and bolts. $0 for scrap metal in my garage expanded metal from a friend fabrication shop.

Thanks Chris just learning so was very informative .

Your enthusiasm and expertise are unparalleled , and above all your simplified explanation and demeanor make it a pleasure to enjoy!

Wish we had water here lol, love sluicing

You can’t get a car that Carry’s 8 people, gets 45 mpg, does a 1/4 mile fast…Rivian R1S has entered the chat

Motivational lesson for making sluice box

Nice! Your knowledge will be of great help for my new sluice, my 1st one ever, 2023! Greetings from Brazil.

They are usually important information. Thank you for sharing knowledge and giving hope to others. Thanks again and thanks.

You always deliver such great thoughts,a proffesor at heart.Thanks,See ya later.

Today i found my first rich gravel_aur . Wowwww ill send later on . I go back and continuing empty the pocket

Fantastic lesson Chris! Packed with lots info!! Thanks for taking the time to explain all the details of sluice mechanics. Many will benefit greatly ! Best of luck to you !

Wow. Tons of great information sir. Truly greatful you share this with us. Cheers! ❤⛏

Thanks for the class on sluice boxing sir.

i love the prospector community! everyone shares every piece of information they find as they want everyone to be successful

Thanks, you got me excited again!

Does the depth of the water moving through the sluice matter if the speed isn’t too high? I think I heard someone saying that if the water is too deep it interferes with the swirling motion behind the riffles that keeps the heavies tucked in, but personal experience is that that isn’t always the case. I tend to not get too picky with fine tuning my sluice as long as it seems good enough. The theory is a bunch of time wasted getting really nit picky is time not processing material. This means sometimes I’ll go with a shallow flow that might be moving faster and a steeper angle. Other times I’ll have deeper flow with less of an angle. If it’s catching gold small loses are acceptable for time gained. In theory couldn’t the entire sluice be underwater if the flow is still moving material through?

Hi Chris! Thank you for your videos, I learn a lot! i hope I will get to buy your book very soon! I would like to ask you what do you thinl about fluid bed sluices like Bazooka or Goldibox or Recon? Have you tried them?

Ooh I built a cool one mine I'm a little secretive about thought smal but very effective at helping me prospect

im about to turn my sluice box into a high banker.. I'm going to be using large country street signs, like "road closed" and the arrow signs at turns, they are more than big enough. I'll be using bolts not rivets, with a stong adhesive when needed, and pvc pipe for the water sprayer. I like thhe detail so far ihis video, a little more than half way through.

a generous person. thank you chris

Got the book...almost a Multi-Billionaire now because of the information contained withing the "Tome Of Ultimate Knowledge"...oops I mean "Fists Full Of Gold". Wellll....maybe not a billionaire but at least my Spirit is Enriched by the Book. :D

I'm Jess H. A beginner not knowing nut-in but I'm thinking that "miners Moss is similar to " 3M's Scotch Bright"? No? Also what's your thunk on my new "Garrett GoldMaster 24K ? I gave good $$$ for it new in the box but it's been raining or snowing ever since so we have been chopping at the bit ever since. Also found a " Bounty Hunter Professional" any good ? We are only interested I the Gold :):)

What is your riffles tfay made out of please

Okay, after watching a bunch of your videos and learning you are a mining engineer you convinced me to buy your book. It is done. Next comes the reading. Hopefully this old dog, me, can learn some new tricks. And, yes I am subscribed too.

So there's some decent gold in the southern Oregon coast beaches, still. But it's not worked nearly as much as that Cape Disappointment area in SW Washington, because in Oregon you can't use any motorized _anything_ on the beach (which is all public, state land in Oregon -- every foot of it). Therefore no Gold Cubes or what have you. There are of course little streams cutting across the beach here and there, but if you find some good black sands deposits and there's no creek around, you're out of luck -- no sluice. So I'm thinking one could use a big-ass rocker box. :-) I think such were used for beach mining up in Alaska back in the day. ... Ah yeah, Gnome beach: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/Four_men_using_rocker_to_mine_for_gold_on_Nome_beach%2C_Alaska%2C_ca_1900_%28HEGG_542%29.jpeg Need to find some plans for a big one, to process a lot of sand. Sometimes there's a noteworthy amount of PGMs in those black sands also. And probably some tiny diamonds if one were looking closely (there are diamonds in the northern Sierra Nevada and Klamath mountains, for reasons that remains a bit mysterious).

Hi Chris! Thank you for your videos, I learn a lot! i hope I will get to buy your book very soon! I would like to ask you what do you thinl about fluid bed sluices like Bazooka or Goldibox or Recon? Have you tried them?

Just curious.....do you not have anything under your miners moss? Something for the gold to catch on somit can't wash out under the moss

Anyone know what brought The Gold Deposits into Southern Ontario Marmara, Peterborough area?

I understood what you meant about not making one from wood, but what would your thoughts be on plastic, acrylic for a portable sluice?

Thank you for your input, I injoy your post and information I am looking forward to getting your book I am recovering from a stroke and can't wait to get back to prospecting I am forced in to retirement and I need something to do I have done some dreging panting slusing I have even faond a large deposit of electrictrum that is under a mager freeway.

I wish I would have seen this video a few years ago, when I was trying to make my own sluice box! I FINALLY broke down & purchased one that was mass produced!

Better than the gold pan video but not that good. I will be using wood and sealer. Unless free aluminum falls into my lap.

Do you have a video on making the upper box to make a Jobe 10" sluice with attached legs into a highbanker and/or highbanker combo, like adding in a dredge attachment or garden hose sprayer attachment. Something multiuse. I have a 2" water pump (chinese knockoff), but I'm not getting any younger so I was thinking maybe an electric water pump (probably submersible) of whatever size? Which, of course would be quieter.

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Hi! i don\t see any point to make youre sluice box better than it is.....looks pretty good........and i am going to make my own similar to yourse .....thx a lot for all the info....:)

I have really enjoyed this I’m from Canberra amd just starting out so Thankyou

You'd get more fines if you got rid of the Hungarians except for perhaps the last two if you have nuggets in the area.

I was expecting a tutorial on how most people use a sluice box, followed by maybe a list of parts needed to make a basic box and then maybe different ways prospectors ramp up a sluice boxes and what those results are. I wouldn't know what I'd consider most important until I've used one.

Hello sir like your info and education on how to find gold and diamonds how can o get in touch with you to show you wat I have and see if u can give me ur opinion?thanks

I'm slowly finding out how great of a geologist/ Prospector you are. I have made the decision to buy your book. Thank you for the knowledge. This is my winter job and every little bit helps.

I think this methode is way better than crushing rocks in mills and stuff like that, all what you need is to learn geology lessons

I made a sluice box to use in the garage. I can bring the material home. How hard is it to clean the miners moss?

1. Acquire the skills to find gold. 2. Have all equipment.

So dose anyone know if there may be trace amounts of gold I the Clinton river I’m mount clemens mi or Clinton twp /sterling hights Michigan

Thanks Chris. Good information. I have gold pans and scoops for metal detecting, but have not sluiced. I think I might look into it. Thanks!

Chris, Did I miss where you discussed angle? Or just judge it by the way the material moves through. I'm classifying some hard rock Powder. Can I run minus 100 through the sluice? Slower water? On angle someone said 1 to 2 inches a foot? I've got some small silver or platina( Little silver.) This is soooo small. I think it's mostly silver. Maybe the way I pound it. I have a much bigger pounder and pot. But my best material is minus 100 and plus 100 /minus 80. Do you have a good silver flux recipe? I read add some flour for a little carbon to keep the sliver from burning up. I'm getting too much temp. I'm going to slow it down and ease into it. I'm still worried about the Soda Ash burning up my silver or platinum. That or lye/ sodium hydroxide is the sodium chemicals I mentioned.. It thins and makes the smelt less acid. But I have heard that it harms silver and platinum.( Probably because sodium boiling point is before gold and silver. melts. Or very near that.) I need a good silver flux recipe.. Thanks for the great videos.

funny your sluice is alot like mine !!!!! Good video

Good sir. I am planning a trip to Okanagan-wenatchee national forest this june. I am going to try the american river and bring a small sluice shovel and pan. Ive seen theres a hill there named gold hill and a gold mine up river from me. Are these good signs of a gold filled river/stream/creek? I know of a couple youtubers down river from my intended search area that have found small specks and flakes. Also when digging for paydirt do i dig as deep as i can? I know im supposed to hit bedrock. Is it obvious when u hit bedrock?

I'm going to use hard plastic 😊

I'm wanting to build a gold rocker box what would you use for matting and would you put riffles and if so what kind of riffles

Well presented but too long - way too much superfluous fluff

Thanks for all your knowledge and help I read your book your book it’s my prospecting bible Went out yesterday to a place you had mentioned to go to and did well only had my gold bug pro a classifier and my Garrett super sluice pan Now it’s time to step it up and get me a sluice . already have my next trip planned Once again thank you 🙏 appreciate your time, knowledge and help !

I’m going to try and build my first sluice out of wood with recycled materials in order to understand how to build them. Plus it’s free the way I’m doing it, yes I don’t live in a gold producing area but hey we’re is the fun in that.

Brilliant thanks Chris, we have bought plastic ones that match our grader and pans. It has riffles but I’ll be adding matting and EML so it’s more like yours.☝️👌

Chris...Hello my names Mikeand I'm from Canada...Sutton..Quebec...I'm in need of professional advice. How can I send you pictures of my finds.

I have tried a frisbee for a gold pan

I commented on Chris's latest video about sluicing. I had just started using my Keene and I knew I was losing the fines and nothing I tried was improving the recovery. . . . . So I came back to this video and decided to customize my box with the collection of only fine gold or "Flour Gold" specifically in mind . . . And I added 2 grams of fines to various different pay dirt varieties I encounter in CA, NV, AZ, and even the glacial till of Northern Michigan. with the help of this video, I am proud to say that not only was I able to get over 90% recovery on some off most difficult PD, but I was able to pull a few grams out of the back yard tailings I have accumulated over the last couple years. Without watching Chris's videos repeatedly, I was ready to just mothball my sluices and go back to the pans.. Many thanks to you Chris. You Da Man!!

Tried a gutter for a sluice box

Excellent tutorial on the how's and whys of having and possibly building a sluice box. A couple of thoughts from my experience with using various boxes for over half a century now may not be amiss here in your comment section. First thought, though perhaps I might have missed you mentioning this, is that you should explain that you want all catchment features like the riffles and even the expanded metal ribs to lean downstream, which then provides an eddy pocket behind them that is best for capturing gold. The Hungarian riffle, which you do mention but do not really describe, is an extreme example of this principle, and as such works really well. Next up is "riffles" running parallel to the water flow, which you mentioned as something the Oldtimers did, but you rather dismissed it as wrong thinking ... but it is not wrong when properly understood and used. Typically made from wooden poles in the old day, while angle iron or other bar stock is more typical today, what it does is allow larger material to be more aggressively shoveled into the head of a sluice, catching larger rocks and holding them so the mud and gravel on them can be washed off, while at the same time acting just as boulders do in a stream, as eddy causing gold traps. They also function as a "Grizzly" in that the material you shovel in on top of those captured rocks is more thoroughly broken up and washed off without causing any harm to the sluice itself. To be effectively used, it needs to be in a fair-sized sluice, and should probably be no more than about 1/4 of the length of the riffle section, right up at the head of the sluice where the water first gets channelized immediately after the funnel section. Hope my explanation here is understandable, and that you and others are able to grasp this concept, as it is actually a valid technique with good reasoning behind it! Cheers, Daniel

A lot of nice info Chris thanks for posting this.

Hello Chris, @22:50 you mention that you glued it down. Why not fix it with a clamp on each side? I used 2 small pieces of 90 degree angle alu profile to make 1 clamp, drilled 2 holes through both pieces, leaving a small gap the thickness of the side of the sluice between the 2 then in 1 hole bold them together, in the other hole put the metal pin through down vertically. at the bottom fix a small alu strip, ready is your clamp. then just slide over the side of the sluice to hold down your matting. no need to drill holes in your sluice, easy to remove, and hold down the mat perfectly, I use it in my sluice, works great! BTW, why is there a riffle all the way at the end of your sluice? that's not catching any gold, is it? Many thank for uploading your tutorial about the sluicebox all info helps to better understand!!

I prospect. Your a good source of information…. One of the best. I just wish there was a cliff note version. Cut the bullshit and you’ll get more likes. Fuckin brutal dude…. Halfway through and we still haven’t got to the build. I think you should have expounded more on the history and evolution aspect. More on the physics too.

Sent me quote of sluice box

Garnet and iron blocks my rifles up a lot we have huge amounts of pig iron here but nice platinum along with some very shiny gold not a whole lot though but deep in the crevices so panning here is a waste of time unless i remove some over burden to expose some hard packed kobles if I pan that I usually find a small piece but if set up my banshee system I get through to the good stuff quite quickly

Chris hi,very good and educative,especially for us in Africa,though hadn't ever thought doing so,now you force me by your teaching to go and start it,thank you Chris hope get more in future. Is the box suitable for crushed mountain rocks?

Great job on this lesson .. i have recently been watching alot of your content and subscribed . The more i watch your content the more i see that you have a vast understanding of gold prospecting over many many years and across many forms of prospecting.. you dont just apply one form you have practiced multiple methods and also with your degree i value your opinion very highly..if you have time to awsner a few questions on a setup im trying to build it would be much appriciated.... i have been prospecting in new england for roughly 4 years and have found a good amount of gold in multiple rivers and streams even know new england is not known for high concentrations of gold... the gold i normally see is usually half grain of rice sized down to super fine.. the issue i have is i have a tendency of feeding boxes very fast and lose alot of fine gold ...i dont want to slow down the way i feed it so i need a bigger box and a different configuration that will handle throwing more material in... they currenty dont produce an off the shelf for what i need... im thinking 8 foot.. i built an 8 foot wooden box similar to what you did and used it for a year strait when i first started and found more gold then i do now with my store bought...so im a firm beliver the longer the box the better it works when feeding it fast...it also has to be portable because i hike into very remote areas to prospect... my solution is to make an 8 foot aluminum box that can be disassembled into 3 parts for easy backpack transport....it has to catch regular sized gold but i also have several blasting quarrys nearby and would like to run their tailings in search of the really fine stuff coming out of the blasted granite ledge so the box must be higher production but retain the super fine that i expect to find at those blast sites... im aware no box catches 100 percent do to different flow rates for different sizes of target capture but i think i have an idea that might work for both....after watching 100s of hours of vidieos on alot of different box setups for different applications and 100s of hours for different matting setups i realized the boxes they use at the beach for super fine gold are wide slow moving non agressive vs rivers are very aggresive riffles for larger gold.... so my plan is to make and combine both... start with a 4 foot long 8 inch wide top section ...this is for narrow deeper water and will have agressive bottom riffles then flair it out to another 4 foot section that widens to 12 inches to widen the flow and slow it down for the fine gold... do you have any suggestion on configuration? water flow?? Type of lineing in each section?? Matts ..moss? Smaller riffles? Do you even think it will work the way i think it will as far as increased gold capture?? Im confident i can make the 8 foot aluminum box but im not sure if all the energy to make an 8 foot flair out box will increase my fine gold capture but still allow me to run it quickly??? Thank you in advance for any input you may have and i apollogize for making you read this long message about my crazy folding 8 foot catch everything sluice..

I have a 12-ft long aluminum brake that I can make any sluice box I want with but mostly I designed small little cleanup sluices but I don't sell them I just make them for myself

This is the best, most detailed explanation I have seen so far about making a sluice box. I am trying to capture fine flour gold from black beach sand. I am having a hard time coming up with the best mat for this purpose. Its almost like trying to make a finishing sluice but for large quantities. Any suggestions on the best mat/combo?

Best explanation!

I see people all the time go out and buy all the latest and greatest gadgets to catch the gold. And I always tell them everything will catch. Just learn how to use it. And 99.99% of the time you have to pan to get all the gold. So learn how to use what you have and you'll be better off. I love all your "how to " videos " you " have been in my tool box for about 8 yrs now. Thx for your series Chris

Oh Chris I made a cool synthetic one there where some Mozambiqueans that used superglue and Glas and rubber tube to make there own divng goggles I figured out thair secret and there goggles lasted for years I took rubber sheet and designed my own rubber mats and I must say I ran it for two years and I'm stil using it that Is in my first sluce system I built it started out as a smal high banker and it slowly turned into a smal floatation dredge🤣and that proto typ survived two robberys couse to the robbers it looked like scrap at the time and it has some history I use pool hoses on my dredge and it is stil so evective I love prospecting thanks Chris your a legend love your videos I'm learning so much

Nice 👍 video thanks 🙏 for sharing my friends have a wonderful day

im a fan of the dream mat for high banking tailings from old mines ect..i used my buddies and you can run that stuff hard and the cons are so little. not so good for gems. but where im from...outside of those types of situations... dredging is legal and really the only way to make it worthwhile.... and i dont trust any of those expensive mats for that. i want my riffles

Hi Chris. Thank you for the great info. I'm in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan area. I have an old Keene A52 Sluice with miners moss from when I was stationed in Alaska. In your opinion, would using one of the matting systems be an improvement for capturing flour gold? For some reason, removing the riffle section does not make sense to me. I feel it acts a a scrubber to break up clay.

Chris, I was wondering, have you ever seen a sluice fabricated out of stove pipe? Yes I know it will probably rust away unless its stainless, but I'm curious as to how well that would work.

nice one.

Good morning, Ralph! :-) Interesting video, as always! Thank you! In Italy, we use pretty shorter sluice boxes, because, as you well know, the gold will be catched into the first two or three traps. But I can see, all over the prospecting sites, sluice boxes one and a half meters long, really bigger than yours!!! I think it is quite useless, and just funny... :-)

funny how you've become one of the old timers with all the knowledge thanks for the share gold is where I'm headed I just enjoy the learn and the subject

Thank you for sharing your knowledge, love your vids. You have taught me so much, cheers mate from Australia.

Very helpful information sir thank you very much👍

Hey Chris ! Really Do Appreciate Your Very Informative Video's Just getting Interested in Gold Prospecting ! Live In Weiser, ID, 60 Mi. North of Boise, ID ! Lots of Rivers ! Live right next to the Snake River ! Thanks So Much ! William B. Scott

Thanks for the info... I'm new into this and the panning only is killing me.. lol...

Good video 👌