Hydraulic Sluice Box Riffles
Each pipe has two rows of holes.
Hydraulic sluice box riffles. Neodymium magnet sluice box the goldymium sluice box has no riffles. My new gold well 6x36 inch vortex drop riffle sluice box with extras. Manufacturer s information on pumps. To keep your riffles from filling and packing with material hydraulic riffles are the way to go.
Optimum slope of a sluice slope of a sluice is generally in the range of 1 3 cm 1 2 in to 3 8 cm 1 1 2 in per 30 5 cm 1 ft depending on the size rock in the feed. Sluice mat fine gold sluice matting motherlode mat duration. A sluice box is like a long tray which is open at both ends. Most will have riffles spaced evenly along the length of the sluice usually every few inches perpendicular to the length of the sluice.
How to design hydraulic riffles sluices. The outside diameter of the tubues is 3 4 the hidraulic riffles need 5 gpm of water and 3 6 psi. The vortex drop riffle sluice thinks it is a concentrator and is truly new and improved technology. Gold well 6 inch vortex drop riffle sluice box duration.
To move the larger rocks down the sluice requires a steeper slope or more water both of which cause greater gold losses. Daniel schweinert 7 503 views. A 6 inch sluice should have a water flow of 12 and 30 gallons per minute. The design has 3 pipes across the fluid bed.
How to size a sluice box. Gold mining west coast new zealand mobile rotary gold screen 5 footer gold recovery plant duration. I have a simple fluid bed sluice plan but some information is missing. Sizing the material prior to introducing it to this system is very critical for these to work properly.
New hog pan. Water flow through the sluice should be between 2 and 8 gallons per minute per inch width of sluice. Michael mcmillan 43 496 views.