Fortune & Glory - Angus MacKirk cleanup sluice

[DennyDucet]

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[detectoraid]

Not near enough water flow, in a drop riffle laminar flow is the key to fine gold recovery.

You should not see "waves" in the sluice. More water less angle!

[dwoodorama]

By the way, loved the video. Where did you get the pump and hoses for your recirculating system. Every pump shop I go to wants to sell me a pump that would run a fire hose

Thanks

Dave. 

[kurtnfredrickson]

@dwoodorama I ordered the pump online from West Marine. It takes 4 D cell batteries. It works well enough and its very portable. There is no pressure but it works to recirculate. I originally bought it to run my Blew Bowl but it wasn't quite strong enough.

[DennyDucet]

Angus Mackirk sluices are the finest made. I love mine, and plan on ordering others in the line up. No carpet or moss, E-Z cleanup. The design is incredibly thought out. His drop riffles, as well as the nugget traps and boiler boxes built into each sluice really trap 99% or 100% of the gold. His new AU trap is awesome. I use the Explorer and am ordering a GrubSteak.

[NowLifeStarts]

Forget all those sluice's with indoor outdoor carpet, screens, and all the other bullshit. Angus Mackirk sluice's kick ass for the simplicity of cleanup.

[kurtnfredrickson]

@NowLifeStarts I really enjoy the McKirk lineup. I'm off to Alaska this weekend to run my high banker again. Keep an eye out for new posts.

[otivaeey]

haha I can see you are pretty addicted to gold

[AnasaziAl]

Very well made video, although a minor point, the pickers are placer, too, unless you dug them out of a hard rock mine. I have the small Angus flair sluice and it's great for back packing and can also be set up as a concentrator, although the "California Bucket Concentrator" works just as well and only costs $20.

[kurtnfredrickson]

@AnasaziAl

True on the placer gold.

I like the Angus sluices. They work well. Al you need is gravity, water and a rough surface and your set.

[BluegrassRiver]

Well done. Perhaps the four or five pieces got through because you ran the water too long after putting all your cons in? By the way they are riffles, not 'rifles".

[PandoraLeigh]

How much water do you need to run your pump for this operation?

What would you recommend classifying to before running through a a low velocity clean up sluice?

[kurtnfredrickson]

@PandoraLeigh

the pump runs on about 2 gal per min. Not a lot. I classified as much as possible. I classify then pan what didn't go through the screen. Generally the clean up sluice is for small stuff. Gold larger than the head of a pin can generally be panned out easily. This sluice is mostly for fine gold. It worked well.

[qakaos]

Great Video, Very Informatative!

Just curious what angle you set the sluice up on?

I purchased the same unit last week, keep finding ironstone sitting stuck in the grooves, (a real pain to pan latter)..

Maybe I need to classify my material down further first?

[kurtnfredrickson]

@qakaos Classifying is always good. Black sand can be removed with a magnet. I installed threaded rods by drilling holes in the sluice. Then I ajust the nuts on the back until I get a good discharge of black sand, while retaining gold in the top riffles. It's trial and error dependingbon your non gold material. Good luck.

[MegaFORGE]

LOL! looks like you need a clean up kit for your clean up kit.looks like a black sand beach in your pan.

[kurtnfredrickson]

I know it looked like there was a lot left, but most of that was settled in the bottom of the sluice. Most of the gold, even the very small stuff was in the upper two or three rifles. Had I snuffered that out it would have looked a lot cleaner. It's all experimental anyway.

[paganknight]

Im not impressed. there was way too much blacksand left over to call it an effective clean-up sluice.

[secretscot]

Are you crazy???

The gold is clearly visable - what more do you want???

[kurtnfredrickson]

I did put some larger pieces in there, but it was hard to see that a lot was very small and the sluice did catch that in the first few rifles.

[kurtnfredrickson]

A strip of ribbed rubber matting would probably do a better job, but for a small sluice it works well to get the majority of the junk separated.

[combatwombat71]

Got to love Angus MacKirk gear. I have their big river sluice and it works well here in Australia. My mate uses the mini Long Tom and that works superbly too. Cheers - Rob

[kurtnfredrickson]

I picked up the classifiers in Japan for $1 each. They are used for gardening. They work great.

[colby620]

where did you get the classifiers? I love em.

[scorpiotoyou]

nice recovery, and well made video. wish you are around when i dont wish to edite mine..lol

[exanchorite]

That recipe almost looks edible. MMM yummy gold.