the Wild Boar) is designed to help break up clay and dirt, releasing gold and heavy metals. ![]() The Gold Hog Low Turbulence Scrubber Mat (a.k.a.It is made from extruded EPDM rubber and is heavy, durable, and this patent pending mat is able to withstand commercial sluice boxes in all temperatures. It performs the best with water flows over 1,000 gph and is desgined to be an under riffle, under expanded metal sluicebox mat. The Gold Hog Under Riffle Mat is a multi-function "active" mat that constantly exchanges materials for heavier ones.If you're looking for BIG performance in a small package, this classifying highbanker / trommel is for YOU! Ships FREE to continental USA. Choose your color from drop down menu below: black, lime green, red, forest green, or blue. Total weight is about 30 pounds, so it is very portable- take it just about anywhere! This is a complete unit that is ready to run on your battery. The consumption rate is 6 amps per hour one battery runs both pump and trommel drive. A deep cycle marine battery (also NOT included) will run this highbanker / trommel for two days without charging. You will need a pump that is 12 volt 2000 GPH and 3 feet of 1 1/8'' flex hose. Scroll to bottom for a description of each type of mat. Inside the sluice are 5 different Gold Hog brand mats in this order: UR, Scrubber, Razor, Down Draft, and Bedrock. The bottom sluice box is 36'' x 8'' x 3'' and includes light weight leg attachments with four corner adjustments. You will need a pump that is 12 volt 2000 GPH and 3 feet of 1 1/8'' flex hose 4 foot wire leads with soldered copper battery clips.The wire connection point on the trommel motor is sealed water tight with clear silicon.Motor drive has adjustable tension spring.Unique spray bar that runs inside of the barrel to spray the material while it tumbles as well as supplies water to the hopper.Top box is 21'' x 7'' x 3'' with 1/4'' classifying plate.5'' diameter x 16 inch length trommel barrel with classifying screen.The hopper is 16'' x 13'' x 6'' so you can feed it with a shovel.Gold Trommel with Xtreme Omni wash system (triple angle) and quick flush drain, aluminum and steel construction. ![]() Dave McCraken uses this principal on his over under setups for fine gold recovery ( in up to 8 inch size dredges) and with my own experience with this setup its pretty lethal on the fine gold.Looking for a versatile gold mining machine- classifier, highbanker, trommel- that will get the gold? Want one light-weight machine that will do it all? Check this out! Use as a highbanker or switch out the top box in minutes and install the 5 inch trommel. The only exception I see with rubber matting being of benefit in a dredge is deep V matting with raised expanded metal on top of it particularly in the under sluice. My experience with it in a dredge environment is that due to the large volume of water in a sluice and the lack of pitch control in the sluice does not favor gold recovery compared to traditional recovery techniques such as Hungarians, expanded metal, carpet, miners moss etc. ![]() Its use in a cleanup sluice where one can have fine control over all a number of parameters (pitch, water speed, slurry size, classification etc) might be OK. The use of very scientific jargon and clever marketing when its products are described by its maker I think tends to rope people in that and the ability of its makers to control very closely its feedback rings alarm bells for me especially when they control the whole manufacturing chain. They tend to edit any negative feedback on their websites as pointed out by the bloke above. Gold hog matting I find is a bit like snake oil. I would recommend that peeps use a combinantion of riffels and the matting, with say three or four proper riffels at the head of the box to catch the heavies followed by the gold hog matting, unless of course you like losing 25% of your hard won gold. It was a short test, with the total gold found being 3.2 grammes, of which 0.7 grammes was caught in the keene sluice.Ĭonclusion, you cant run exclusively gold hog mates as your heavy gold is being blown over the matting and out the back, contrary to all doc assurances and tests. Gold hog matting used was 900mm long made up of ur, bedrock and motherlode profiles, and I though it was running great and particularly enjoyed the not having to pan so much tailings, That was until, i popped a keene sluice on the end to see how well it was really doing and the results were surprising, the cunky bits that just passed the got throw the screen were all found in the keene sluice with some fine, and the gold caught in the goldhog matting was mainly fine, less than 2mm in size, to ultra fine. I recently made some changes to my dredge, using gold hog matting to process the the slurry passing a 6mm screen.
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