There are several folding sluice boxes on the market. They function just like a regular sluice box, but have features that allow them to be either folded or broken down. There is one big advantage to this type of sluice box, and that is portability. Functionally, a folding sluice works no differently than a regular […]
A shaker table is specialized equipment that operates on the gravity principle just like most other gold separators. When properly adjusted, it is able to separate the composites of the concentrates according to their weight and size. This highly efficient separation is made possible through the major components of the machine such as the deck […]
Panning gold can politely be described as an incredibly tedious process. This is definitely true if you are using a pan for final cleanup of concentrates. If you’ve got buckets full of black sands that you need to get the gold out of, you need to find a way to speed up the slow and […]
The Gold Cube is an excellent piece of gold prospecting equipment, designed to cater for the modern gold prospector’s needs. It was invented by Steve Wilcox and Mike Pung. Necessity was the driving force behind the invention of the Gold Cube, just as with most inventions. Separating gold from fine sand is a real struggle. […]
With most gold mining operations being small, one to two person jobs, finding the right equipment to match the particular needs of the location is vital to increasing the chances of getting what is needed. This means that the equipment needs to be easy to use and maintain while performing a job on location to […]
Classifying is a simple process that is often overlooked by gold prospectors. It is a relatively simple step, but it does take some extra work to do. Basically, you want to remove any larger waste material from the gravels that you intend to process for gold mining. So you may wonder what the reason would […]
There are a whole lot of options out there today when it comes to gold prospecting equipment. There are new designs and different tools that are coming out every year, designed to help miners find more and more gold. Getting the best equipment for the job will help you find as much gold as possible. […]
Highbanking has become a very popular way to prospect for gold in recent years. There are a couple different reasons for this. First, highbankers are an excellent tool since you can move quite a bit of material through them in a day of mining, and they work great at capturing gold. The other reason that […]
Sluice boxes are probably the best tool for the average prospector to find gold nuggets. This is because they are simple, inexpensive, and effective tools used to recover gold from a creek or river. While gold pans are certainly the most popular piece of equipment for finding gold, sluice boxes are designed to process a […]
Hydraulic mining was used extensively during the early years of the California Gold Rush and is still done to a lesser extent even today. Within the first few years of the initial discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill, most of gold placers that were easy to workable were already claimed. There were still many areas […]