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Cement sluice box idea
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<blockquote data-quote="SWright" data-source="post: 406876" data-attributes="member: 1541"><p>G'Day all</p><p></p><p>Not a bad idea, but also not a new one. Old timers called it Dry-Stacking. You would clean out a dry creek to bedrock and pile wash dirt from elsewhere above an area that has been lined with box riffles or even just woven branches. Cover with clean rocks and wait for the flood rains. Go back and take out the rocks and pan the bedrock. This idea is so old it has become legend. One lot of people did the above but then lined the section of creek suitable to trapping gold with sheep skins. Weighed them down with rocks and stacked wash dirt at the head. When they pulled one lot out a particularly rich area the fleece was covered in gold because the gold sticks to the fleece because of the lanolin in the wool. Bloke who discovered this and raided the place was a Greek called Jason. </p><p></p><p>Araluen</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SWright, post: 406876, member: 1541"] G'Day all Not a bad idea, but also not a new one. Old timers called it Dry-Stacking. You would clean out a dry creek to bedrock and pile wash dirt from elsewhere above an area that has been lined with box riffles or even just woven branches. Cover with clean rocks and wait for the flood rains. Go back and take out the rocks and pan the bedrock. This idea is so old it has become legend. One lot of people did the above but then lined the section of creek suitable to trapping gold with sheep skins. Weighed them down with rocks and stacked wash dirt at the head. When they pulled one lot out a particularly rich area the fleece was covered in gold because the gold sticks to the fleece because of the lanolin in the wool. Bloke who discovered this and raided the place was a Greek called Jason. Araluen [/QUOTE]
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