azdigger Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 Heading to Gold Basin today for some drywashing or running a recirculating sluice.Got to get some cons so I can try out my new Miller table.Report when I return. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomH Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 Hope it works out for you Rick. Tom H. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ahorton10 Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 Good luck out there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azdigger Posted March 5, 2016 Author Share Posted March 5, 2016 Found a little and I do mean "little" bit...I think the Recirculating sluice was not set up right.Going to go again but will take my drywasher if we don't get a lot of rain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomH Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 Good luck!Dont think the rain thing is going to happen.Tom H. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisski Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 When I use a recirculating sluice, I need to muck out the water a lot. For every five gallons of dirt I run, I get a gallon of muck. The set ups I run have a bigger bin where the sluice dumps the tailings and the top of it goes into a smaller bin where the water pump takes it up to the sluice.I also bring a lot of spare water. The smaller set up I take at least 25 gallons of water. Each bucket of dry dirt I dig will suck up about two gallons of water when it goes through the sluice. That the muck I dig out and the tailings I remove, all absorbs that water disappears quickly.I was panning at lynx creek before and found I had smaller gold floating in the mucky water I was trying to pan, so I take as much care as I can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 When I use a recirculating sluice, I need to muck out the water a lot. For every five gallons of dirt I run, I get a gallon of muck. The set ups I run have a bigger bin where the sluice dumps the tailings and the top of it goes into a smaller bin where the water pump takes it up to the sluice.I also bring a lot of spare water. The smaller set up I take at least 25 gallons of water. Each bucket of dry dirt I dig will suck up about two gallons of water when it goes through the sluice. That the muck I dig out and the tailings I remove, all absorbs that water disappears quickly.I was panning at lynx creek before and found I had smaller gold floating in the mucky water I was trying to pan, so I take as much care as I can.Sounds like a big PITA....No thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boulder dash Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 Just use a drywasher, if properly set up recovery easily exceeds wet pain in the but methods. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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