I use both but would never give up miners moss in my dredges I do use vortex in my upper sluice on my 4" over and under box but for the lower box it's moss and deep V because it just holds more material with less scouring and where I am the fines are always in the bottom box and are very susceptible scouring out and I just can't afford to loose them. Now the upper box however rarely sees much fines so the vortex mat serves well to catch the gold that gets by the classifier and since it holds very little material it keeps the over all weight of the sluice down. so give my moss nope not me :)
I'm not familiar with it. I have what came with my Keene and BuckaBilly sluices. Is it worth a try or just another gadget? From some of the replies I've read I might get some for cleaning my camping cookware.
I find it like many others well worth the investment. I personally have a Buckabilly and the only thing I did to it was to put vortex matting in it. Ken AKA Mountainman has posted some great pictures of it. The only true way to get carpet TOTALLY clean is to burn it. IMHO Vortex matting you unroll it in your bucket and you can see if it is clean or not. You have to wait till carpet is dried fully then strech, pull, and I personally was amazed to see how much material was left in it after (what I thought) a good and through cleaning.
I am a placer miner,not a dredger. There is no way I would replace nomad style matting for anything that leaves my fine gold exposed to the abrasion taking place in the riffles. Think 8000 pounds of water with several thousand pounds of gravel per minute grinding down the box and over your gold. Then think small silt/clay balls grabbing at the gold as they travel by. Then think turbulence caused intentionally by riffles and unintentionally by larger particles. I want my fine gold hidden deep in the mat and I'll take a little more time to wash the gold out of the mats and find the finest in the thin mud layer on the sluice metal bottom under the mat.
When I clean up I have my mat cut in pieces a little narrower than the box so I can spin them around and slap them in the bottom of the sluice which has a little water going through. They come clean pretty easy.
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There are many types of vortex, look for deep pile. It's all conveter belt. Use your own judgement before you buy.
Seek suppliers who will sell remanents
I use both but would never give up miners moss in my dredges I do use vortex in my upper sluice on my 4" over and under box but for the lower box it's moss and deep V because it just holds more material with less scouring and where I am the fines are always in the bottom box and are very susceptible scouring out and I just can't afford to loose them. Now the upper box however rarely sees much fines so the vortex mat serves well to catch the gold that gets by the classifier and since it holds very little material it keeps the over all weight of the sluice down. so give my moss nope not me :)
You send it to me, PM me and I'll send you the address.
I'm not familiar with it. I have what came with my Keene and BuckaBilly sluices. Is it worth a try or just another gadget? From some of the replies I've read I might get some for cleaning my camping cookware.
I find it like many others well worth the investment. I personally have a Buckabilly and the only thing I did to it was to put vortex matting in it. Ken AKA Mountainman has posted some great pictures of it. The only true way to get carpet TOTALLY clean is to burn it. IMHO Vortex matting you unroll it in your bucket and you can see if it is clean or not. You have to wait till carpet is dried fully then strech, pull, and I personally was amazed to see how much material was left in it after (what I thought) a good and through cleaning.
Well, I'm a dredger, and you can keep your vortex matting . I'll keep my moss and mat . Yes I have tried it ..
At least burn the old miners moss to get the gold stuck in it.
I use the matting above ( up stream ) the riffles and moss, with an expanded metal overlay of the matting.
I'll take all of your moss that you aren't using. ; )
I am a placer miner,not a dredger. There is no way I would replace nomad style matting for anything that leaves my fine gold exposed to the abrasion taking place in the riffles. Think 8000 pounds of water with several thousand pounds of gravel per minute grinding down the box and over your gold. Then think small silt/clay balls grabbing at the gold as they travel by. Then think turbulence caused intentionally by riffles and unintentionally by larger particles. I want my fine gold hidden deep in the mat and I'll take a little more time to wash the gold out of the mats and find the finest in the thin mud layer on the sluice metal bottom under the mat.
When I clean up I have my mat cut in pieces a little narrower than the box so I can spin them around and slap them in the bottom of the sluice which has a little water going through. They come clean pretty easy.
guess i'm on a different page also don't any idea nor what it looks like.Vortex Matting?? compared to minners moss??
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