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YIKES! Great link there, LEONARD!

Leonard, that is really obvious where the dredges worked. Just on the SE corner of the town of Fairplay there is a VERY obvious bunch of them.

I have met Jim's "Rock Man" - and he is every bit exactly as Jim has described him.

A major asset to any mining operation as well as a valued friend.

Joe

OK, even though I don't use the beach box at the moment I am curious about that "Triangular" deal. Would that be regular woven wire screen mounted 45 degrees to the water flow making a diamond shape? Something else? What sized classification would "Properly" seem to suggest? Small, Medium, Large or ...

Anyone Else? Certainly the conditions of your individual areas make for a wide range of site specific set-ups, so lets hear about them. We all can learn from what you have found in working your Neck of the Woods. While I often have a lot of clay in the soil where I work it does (with certain excepti...

Jim,

Not a Gold Cube - but rather I use - a Gold Hog Highbanker.

Yes, I have seen photos of that style of expanded and know that it came very highly recommended. As I remember it, the problem was availability at the time - so, possibly that has changed since then. As to a shovel-in highbanker or river sluice not being optimum for it's use - possibly a smaller siz...

Directly under the stem on the very bottom is a small depression.

Look in there, Jim, just keep looking until you find it.

Joe

Sunscreen is what I have heard it called.

Hey There Slatco! Just what I thought - "Different Horses for Different Courses". It would seem to me that the riffle side profile (with the traditional 17 degree up turn?) would give the slurry flow a rise, and then a dip down between riffles - resulting in some scouring of the lighter materials do...

OK, enough of the 'ole "I just don't have time to post" thinking. Lets try this one on ------- What kind of riffles/catchments do you use in your box and why do you use what you do? For me - it's usually Gold Hog mats. The various "riffle" shapes really do well for where I work, which is usually jus...