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Hi Ted

I use a sluice too, so far. I feel I may be missing out if I don't get as many opinions as possible. The sluice system I am using was supposed to pick up 100 mesh but with some tests and by seeing gold close to the bottom of my sluice I feel I am losing too much. I also feel I spend too much time cleaning matting and doing clean-outs. 12 hours per cleanout. clean-outs are every 150 yrds and I should be doing it sooner as my sluice gets full of blacksand. As you know, doing a clean-out is time consuming not to mention the concentrate time. At the moment I use 2 spiral wheels.
Also if I want to see what my grades are I have to wait three days to get results.
I was lucky enough to see a great system running this summer. The miners were kind enough to run around 20 bank yards while we were there. Within an hour after they finished, we spent time talking and looking around during that time, they had the results of what they just ran. They used a 42 'jig system for primary recovery and a cleanup jig for secondary recovery. With a vibrating table for final recovery.
That was great!

Soo I am pretty much sold on that type of system but I want to know what else is out there. My eyes are wide open now that I have seen what they have.
Ken