

High Plains Prospectors offers an extensive list of gold prospecting equipment. We serve as one of the largest dealers of prospecting equipment and supply in the country. We offer a variety of gold sluices suited to any material you need to process. In addition to gold sluices, we offer other gold prospecting...



Gold Sluices, Sluice Mats and Accessories Sluice boxes have been used for hundreds of years to process a lot of paydirt in a shorter amount of time than hand panning. Sluice boxes work by washing material over riffles and matting. Washing gold paydirt over riffles breaks up the dirt, introduces bubbles and creates a lot of turbulence.











There are many different types of gold sluices and brands from which to choose. Sluices come in a variety of sizes, most with gold-catching matting, carpeting or miner's moss in the bottom that you need to clean up at the end of the day. Other models contain no matting or carpets but can still catch fine gold.



The gold sluice box is an efficient alternative to panning for gold, allowing the prospector to quickly sift through a much greater volume of sediment. Although many affordable varieties are available to purchase, they are even more affordable to build. With a little knowledge, skill, and creativity, a prospector can build a custom sluice box from ...













Great range of gold sluice boxes to suit the beginner and experienced prospecting alike. From kids sluices and backpackers to large volume 12 inch recirculation sluice set-ups. Gold Rat Metal Detectors is located 6/50 Freda Street Upper Mount Gravatt. Gold Rat Engineering is located 4/16 Redcliffe Gardens Drive Clontarf This is where you will ...













Once you have your sluice box set up the way you think it ought to be, it is a good idea to run a sizable portion of gold-bearing material through the box and then pan some samples of the tailings. If you do not find any gold in the tailings, you are set up properly. If you are finding gold in the tailings, some changes are in order.













Gold sluices have been around for hundreds of years and may be old technology but the mats and miners moss that go in them are not. Sluice mats and miners moss use cutting edge technology and materials to catch the most gold possible. Most sluice boxes will have riffles in the sluice run to give the water turbulence.




