Still back-breaking work, but a step up from only a gold pan! If you have a very limited budget and want to move the most gold possible, a good sluice box will set you back about $100 dollars. You also still need to shovel the gold bearing material into the sluice box, so the amount of material moved per day is probably limited to about a 1/2 to 1 full yard a day. Instead of constantly bending over in the river and swishing and swirling the pan, you let the river do the washing for you! A sluice box works in conjunction with a creek or river and doesn’t work without a moving water source.ĭisadvantages: Since you need a pretty good stream of water to operate a sluice box, it limits you to working directly in a creek or stream. However, a sluice box does the work of washing the material for you. There are approximately 400 standard gold pans to the yard, so I would say working a 1/4 yard of material a day with a gold pan would be working pretty hard! Mini sluice boxĪdvantages: Light, cheap and very easy to take into the field (same benefits as a gold pan and classifier screens). On top of that, a gold miner using only a gold pan will only move a limited amount of gold bearing material. Since it’s a great tool for cleanup or to prospect for gold, pretty much ever gold miner owns one.ĭisadvantages: A gold pan is the slowest method of gold mining and used together with picks and shovels can be back-breaking work. If you have a very limited time or budget, this is your best bet. Let’s examine the advantages and disadvantages of each piece of equipment of mining equipment : Gold Pans and classifier screensĪdvantages: Light, cheap and very easy to take into the field. I actually have all the above mining equipment available to me to use when I go gold mining. “The more material you move, the more gold you find!”įrom this statement, it would seem pretty obvious that you should always use the gold mining equipment that moves the most material, right? Well, before we examine this statement, let’s take a look at the different mining equipment: On top of that, sometimes the good mining locations are pretty far away and by the time you get to the property you might only have a couple of hours to gold mine! I would say it’s pretty common to hear this statement:
If you’re a amateur gold miner like me, you only gold mine on weekends.
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