How Do You Make Gold Panning Equipment?
To pan for gold, you need a gold pan and a sluice box. You use a gold pan, which is a metal or plastic pan you buy at a mining store, to swirl water slowly to separate gold from other heavy metal. A sluice box helps you work more dirt while panning for gold. Sluice boxes are made from a simple design that mimics how gold is trapped naturally in streams and rivers. Evenly spaced riffles inside the sluice box act as barriers to water flow and cause eddies. Heavy minerals mixed with gold drop into these eddies and stay behind the riffles. Buying a sluice box from a retail store can be expensive, but for much less you can build your own lightweight sluice box that you can pack easily to areas you are interested in prospecting. Cut both seams on the side of your plastic pipe with your knife. Your pipe is now split in two. Set one half aside for a replacement part, and keep the other half for this project. Use your skill saw or hand saw to cut your 2-by-4 to 4 feet in length. Lay your 2-by-4
