How to Make a and Operate a Sluice Box

This is the youtube video I made for the sluice box hand operated system.


I think it's always important to test innovations. My exploration of the entire stream bed is possible by bringing a bucket and shovel and searching for areas where gold may have settled into sand bars, bottoms of small water slides or bends in the stream bed.

Watching Gold Rush Alaska has inspired me to check out nearby areas which yielded gold in the early 1800's, but were abandoned due to the California and Alaska finds.