How Do You Clean A Gold Sluice?
Okay, you’ve spent the past couple of hours digging up the riverbed and dumping the gravel, sand and hopefully gold, into your gold sluice. However, material has built up in the sluice box on the downriver side of the riffles about halfway to the next riffle. You know that that means it’s time to clean your gold sluice. This is not the time to rush. In fact, you want to take it easy, hold the sluice firmly and keep it level. If not, you could easily dump out what you’ve worked so hard to acquire. Prepare a cleaning station by setting up a Rubbermaid storage tub. Fill a 5-gallon bucket with water and set it next to the tub. Place the gold pan and snuffer bottle, a small bottle with the long nozzle that can be used to suck up small grains of gold, within easy reach of the tub. Now you’re ready to for the sluice box. Move aside the rock or stone from the top of the sluice box, if you’ve used one to keep the box from tipping over. Slide a 5-gallon bucket carefully over the downstream end o
