12" x 47" Gold Sluice Box with Micro Mat – Fine Gold Recovery & Prospecting Sluice
Take your gold prospecting to the next level with this 12" x 47" Gold Sluice Box with Micro Mat, designed to help capture fine gold, small flakes, and tiny gold particles from gold-bearing sand, gravel, and concentrates.
Featuring a generous 12-inch-wide sluice channel and a 47-inch length, this gold recovery sluice provides an extended processing area for separating valuable gold from lighter materials. The included Micro Mat recovery surface features a fine-textured trapping pattern designed for recovering smaller gold particles that can be challenging to capture with conventional riffle systems.
Whether you're prospecting in creeks and streams, processing classified material, or working with fine gold concentrates, this sluice box offers a practical and efficient gold recovery solution.
Key Features
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12" Wide Sluice Box: Generous channel width provides room for processing gold-bearing sand and gravel.
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47" Overall Length: Extended sluice channel allows material to travel through the recovery area for effective gravity separation.
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Micro Mat Recovery System: Fine-textured recovery surface designed to help capture very small gold particles and fine gold.
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Excellent for Fine Gold: Ideal for recovering small flakes, fine placer gold, and tiny gold particles under properly adjusted operating conditions.
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Gravity-Based Gold Separation: Uses flowing water and differences in material density to separate gold from lighter sand and gravel.
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Great for Classified Material: Particularly useful when processing screened material and fine gold-bearing concentrates.
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Convenient Cleanup: Recovery mat can be cleaned to collect trapped gold and heavy concentrates.
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Versatile Prospecting Tool: Suitable for recreational gold prospecting, creek sluicing, and fine gold recovery applications.
Product Specifications
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Product Type: Gold Prospecting Sluice Box
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Sluice Width: 12 Inches
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Sluice Length: 47 Inches
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Recovery Mat: Micro Mat
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Recovery Method: Gravity Separation
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Primary Application: Fine Gold and Placer Gold Recovery
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Quantity: 1 Sluice Box with Micro Mat
Micro Mat Gold Recovery System
The Micro Mat is designed with a fine-textured recovery pattern that helps create small trapping areas where dense gold particles can settle while lighter material is carried away by flowing water.
Compared to recovery mats with larger trapping features, Micro Mat is particularly useful when targeting smaller gold particles and processing finer material.
Benefits of Micro Mat Recovery:
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Designed for fine and small gold particle recovery
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Fine-textured trapping areas help retain heavy particles
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Well suited for classified sand and smaller gravel
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Useful for processing fine gold-bearing concentrates
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Provides a practical alternative to larger riffle-style recovery systems
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Allows convenient cleanup and collection of concentrates
Important: Actual recovery performance depends on water flow, sluice angle, feed rate, material classification, and gold particle characteristics. No sluice mat can guarantee 100% gold recovery.
Micro Mat vs. Mini Mat – What's the Difference?
Micro Mat: Features smaller trapping areas and is generally better suited for fine gold, small flakes, and finely classified material.
Mini Mat: Features comparatively larger trapping areas and can be a better choice for mixed particle sizes and somewhat coarser material.
If your primary goal is recovering very fine gold from classified concentrates, the Micro Mat is an excellent option to consider.
Ideal Gold Prospecting Applications
This 12" x 47" sluice with Micro Mat is useful for:
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Fine placer gold recovery
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Creek and stream prospecting
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Processing classified gold-bearing sand
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Recovering small gold flakes
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Cleaning up gold-bearing concentrates
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Working fine material from gravel bars and placer deposits
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Small-scale recreational gold prospecting
Tips for Better Fine Gold Recovery
Use Controlled Water Flow: Fine gold recovery often benefits from carefully controlled water velocity. Excessive flow can wash small gold particles out of the sluice.
Classify Your Material: Removing larger rocks and gravel before processing can help improve consistency and reduce turbulence over the Micro Mat.
Adjust the Sluice Angle: Use an appropriate slope that allows lighter material to move downstream while giving fine gold an opportunity to settle into the mat.
Feed Material Gradually: Avoid dumping large amounts of material into the sluice at once. A steady feed helps maintain consistent separation.
Perform Regular Cleanups: Check your mat periodically and remove accumulated concentrates before excessive buildup affects recovery.
What's Included
Please Note: Gold pans, classifiers, buckets, water pumps, hoses, and other accessories are not included unless specifically stated.
Why Choose a 12" x 47" Sluice with Micro Mat?
Fine gold can be challenging to recover, especially when working with lightweight flakes and tiny particles that are easily carried away by moving water.
The combination of a 12-inch-wide sluice channel, 47-inch overall length, and Micro Mat recovery surface provides a useful setup for prospectors who want to focus on capturing smaller gold particles.
Whether you're working a creek, processing concentrates, or refining your gold recovery technique, this sluice offers a versatile option for fine gold prospecting.
Gold Prospecting Equipment at High Plains Prospectors
High Plains Prospectors carries a wide selection of gold sluice boxes, recovery mats, classifiers, gold pans, and other prospecting equipment for beginners and experienced gold hunters.
From recreational creek prospecting to more advanced fine gold recovery, we offer equipment to help you process gold-bearing material efficiently.
Capture more of the fine gold you're working hard to find with the 12" x 47" Gold Sluice Box with Micro Mat from High Plains Prospectors!
12"X47" SLUICE BOX W/ MICRO DREAM MAT.
THE WING NUT PRESSURE CLAMP. 16 Ga. ALUIM. CONSTRUCTION IS VERY STURDY.
Dream Mat Micro Mat is a great beach mat & finishing mat. This mat is capturing uber fine gold w/ very little cons. Makes a great addition to the Mini Mat set up for fine gold recovery.
Miners doing fine gold recovery in Australia wanted a larger version to catch the fine gold from crushing's. We see folks showing off gold in this mat all the time. Its so fun & easy to use!
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