Prospecting Equipment Terms
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CLASSIFIER: A screening device used to process larger size materials from a body of ore, gravels or concentrates, Classifications is often done with various size mesh screens.
DREDGE: also called a Suction Dredge is a Machine designed to suck up submerged material from a streambed and wash them through an attached sluice box at the waters surface.
DRYWASHER: A machine designed to process dry placer materials with out the use of water. This Machine usually uses air currents and vibrations to separate lighter material from heavier material.
GOLD PAN: A device used to to help in the separation of gold from the lighter material. The gold pan is one of the most widely used pieces of equipment used today. it comes in various shapes and sizes.
GOLD SNIFTER: A handheld plastic suction device used to extract the gold from your pan, or a crevice in the streambed.
GRIZZLEY: A classification device used to stop large boulders and rocks from being dropped into a recovery system usually on a dredge.
HEAD OF BOX: The top end of the slucice box where the material is shoveled into.
HEADER BOX: The top most section of the Sluice box that is designed to slow down and spread out the materials evenly over the classifier as it enters.
HOOKAH-AIR SYSTEM: The air breathing system used on most dredges to pump air to the divers by a compressor through an airline.
HUNGARIAN RIFFLES: Concentrating-type riffles which are found on dredges and sluices today.
HYDRAULIC CONCENTRATOR: A sluicing device that can be used as a production or sampling maching. It has a very wide range of variety in its ability to process material from a streambed, and its a perfect piece of equipmetn for the one man or two man operation.
JET: The part on the suction dredge that water is pumped into which creates suction up through the suction hose
PLUGGER POLE ( JAM ROD): A long thin rod made of a variety of materials to unjam plugs in the dredge.
PRIMER: Is a device on the suction dredge that connects the water pump to the water. It is set up to be filled with water and can be easily primed from the surface.
RETORT: A device that is used to extract Mercury from gold or other materials once the amalgamation process has been completed.
SLUICE BOX: A device shaped like a trough where where water and streambed material are washed. The Sluice has a series of baffles and riffles lying along the bottom edge to capture gold as it passes through.
