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                           Saturday with unsettled weather all around Redding decided to test the EZ sluice that I had bought months ago and being  parcial to my jobe 10 inch had never used so off to the local creek I went only 15 minutes from the house is a seasonal creek that the winter storms always brings fresh gold to.

                          I set the little sluice up on a side run off as the creek was too high to set it up there I had good flow and classified my material ( Dug from behind rocks in the creek ) at   1/4 inch the derections for the suice showed to pour the material from the bucket into the sluice " I DIDN'T " I just scooped it in as I was afraid to have it blow straight through the sluice  tis pretty short. Feeding it a rate i felt comfrotable with the mat section caught gold material started filling up between the first two riffles material flowed fairly well across the second two the lower riffles flowed well, I saw very little gold on the second mat and none on the last mat section.

                         There are two sections of miners moss under the two sections of riffles these seamed to load up with sand when feeding although the first section was showing fine gold when I cleaned it the second section might have had some but i wasn't apparent.

                                                          OVERALL THIS LITTLE SLUICE CATCHS THE GOLD !!!

       1  Its light,  small,  easy to carry

       2  Very quick and easy to clean out

       3  for where I was working the flow and conditions I was quite pleased with its gold capture

      4   The only down side I found was I had to feed it slower than I'm use to but then I didn't follow the dieections

           Maybe it can run faster I just don't like to lose gold !!!