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<blockquote data-quote="Ditherer and Son" data-source="post: 198711" data-attributes="member: 394"><p>G'day mate,</p><p></p><p>The old Ditherer and I use Gold Hog matting in our Hogwash. </p><p></p><p>The first thing I will say about it is that it dramatically cuts down on the amount of material you have to pan through in a cleanout. It is actually possible to see the gold in the matting while the highbanker is running (between shovel fulls) and this is a nice incentive to shovel harder. </p><p></p><p>The matting does like good water velocity to work properly and we've always run an old river sluice with miner's moss at the bottom of the highbanker at a lower angle to slow the material down and catch anything that the gold hog misses. We have found now that we can run for much longer between cleanouts as the gold hog just doesnt really fill up with much except gold (which is nice)</p><p></p><p>As far as not being suited to Australia, gold is gold, and water is water.</p><p></p><p>Beware though that clay materials in clumps will wash straight over gold hog and only deep traditional riffle stand any chance of holding the clay long enough to release any gold trapped inside the lumps. So gold hog works best with well cleaned gravels.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ditherer and Son, post: 198711, member: 394"] G'day mate, The old Ditherer and I use Gold Hog matting in our Hogwash. The first thing I will say about it is that it dramatically cuts down on the amount of material you have to pan through in a cleanout. It is actually possible to see the gold in the matting while the highbanker is running (between shovel fulls) and this is a nice incentive to shovel harder. The matting does like good water velocity to work properly and we've always run an old river sluice with miner's moss at the bottom of the highbanker at a lower angle to slow the material down and catch anything that the gold hog misses. We have found now that we can run for much longer between cleanouts as the gold hog just doesnt really fill up with much except gold (which is nice) As far as not being suited to Australia, gold is gold, and water is water. Beware though that clay materials in clumps will wash straight over gold hog and only deep traditional riffle stand any chance of holding the clay long enough to release any gold trapped inside the lumps. So gold hog works best with well cleaned gravels. [/QUOTE]
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