Gold Mining - Power Sluicing and Booming in California

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Using a Keene High-banker modified to use with a 3" Hydro-Force Suction Nozzle to Power Sluice and Booming in Northern California before dredging season began 2010. I used it with a 6.5 hp Honda motor full throttle to pull material up the dirt wall.

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[GoldenGooseBC]

Good looking set up. What was the total lift to the box - about 6 foot or more? Did you feel that you could go deeper yet? Did you find that there was surging when you were not adding water from the spray nozzle and sucking in more air?

[bearkat4160]

@GoldenGooseBC

Yeh; about 6 feet. Could go maybe 2 more feet deep and keep good suction. The nozzle actually runs well when not sucking pure water as it is designed for dryland dredging. Thanks...

[GoldenGooseBC]

@bearkat4160 thanks for the reply. Do you have an estimate of how many cubic yds you were able to put through on average per hour? Looks like it was nice tight material with the odd cobble thrown in.

Is your 6.5hp running a dredge pump and is that a 1.5" supply line to the nozzle? How much layflat hose before the hard hose feeding the nozzle?

Thanks for sharing, Greg

[bearkat4160]

@GoldenGooseBC - Greg, Not sure how much material per hour, but it would do as much as I could stuff through it. Yes, the 6.5 is my dredge motor and pump with a 2" line out to nozzle. Saw a dude try a 1.5" line and did not work well with a 3" nozzle. On that operation I had 50 feet of layflat to 20 feet of hard hose running to nozzle.

[cptcosmo]

Is this claim 15-A? Signed, New 49er Member #2326

[bearkat4160]

@cptcosmo

It is about 5 miles from there, on private property.

[kimdaviscali]

@SWMMI I use a Heckler Fabrication 10" wide by 10' long sluice system with an over under (lower section for fines).

[kimdaviscali]

Looks sweeeeeet... I also have the same nozzle that I use here in British Columbia on several of my claims...

[ArizonaBob]

PS...A great big crow bar would rock that bank:) Great vid...I watched it again :)

[SWMMI]

I think it's a good idea to have overlapping sluice boxes. Hold them fines.