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How to Set Up and Use a Gold Sluice Box

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   Updated on December 29, 2022 * John has prospected for gold in Arizona 10 years. His experience taught him to deal with the terrain, heat, and gold fever. He makes tools. Mini sluice assembled   About Gold Prospecting Materials With gold-prospecting, trial and error are important to developing technique. It may be hard to find gold, but not because of the sluice setup. If the material you are shoveling onto the sluice opening is all being washed away, you need a smaller angle of submersion. If nothing is being washed away, you need a lower angle. Somewhere in between these extremes is the best adjustment. This article will cover how to set up a sluice along with a bit of its history. Stream Sluice Setup Water should enter the wide end of the sluice. It is frequently made of metal but might also be of wood or plastic. It is the wide end and quickly tapers to the width of your riffled material. Weighting down your sluice may be necessary. The sluice will be carried downs...
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Spiral Wheel Gold Panning Machines: Automated Gold Recovery

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  Updated on August 28, 2023 John has been prospecting for gold in Arizona for 10 years. His experience has taught him how to handle the terrain, heat, and gold fever. The Gold Miner Spiral Panning Machine with Action Packer A Spiral to Keep You Busy If you're having trouble relaxing and are always looking for a way to make a little money like me, this discussion may be for you. Recreational gold prospecting has taken off as a hobby throughout the United States. It is a great pastime for one person and can also be a wonderful family activity. I tend to spiral out of control if I'm not working. I get panicked and don't know what to do with myself. — Rose Byrne The Theory Behind Spiral Panning Like many machines used to separate gold from paydirt, the spiral wheel uses two forces to deposit gold into a little plastic pail suspended by a handle behind the spiral. The spiral is powered by a small 12V motor (about 12 revs a minute) and water is sprayed onto the spiral near the s...
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Arizona's Invaluable Cornish Gold Miner Connection

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  Updated on March 30, 2024 John loves writing about Arizona, gold prospecting, and stories of treasure. Beyond finding his gold, he likes reading about others' quests. Copper, gold, and silver were a boon for Cornish miners in 1850s Arizona. | Source A Bit of History Cornwall is a county in Southwest England in the United Kingdom surrounded by water. The English Channel is to the south, and the Celtic Sea is to the west. Arizona is very dry and bordered by no oceans. Cornwall has historically been 99% White British. Arizona has historically had a broad ethnic spectrum: 43% White and 50% Hispanic, with Native Americans, Blacks, and Asians making up the balance. It would seem that the two states have had little in common. But that would be misleading. In the 19th century (the 1830s -1840s), hard rock miners from Cornwall emigrated to the western United States and Mexico to find their fortune. During the last half of the 19th century, 20% of the male population went abroad. Disease,...
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San Xavier del Bac Mission and the Esmeralda Mine

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  Updated on November 5, 2023                                                         * John has prospected for gold in Arizona 10 years. His experience taught him to deal with the terrain, heat, and gold fever. He makes tools. The sheer size of the mission with its white stucco makes it a grand sight from a distance (The White Dove of the Desert). Lost Silver Mines Some of the fondest recollections of my youth are trips from Tucson, AZ, to Nogales, AZ, when out-of-town visitors arrived. My sister and I would choose which of the broken crayons we would each take for the ride. We would very carefully fill a Band-Aid metal tin with all of the fractured crayons we would need to color our drawings as we traveled south down the highway. There were rocky mountains full of old mines, mostly silver, and mesquite-speckled verdant hills on either si...
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