It cost right at $35 with shipping included in that price. You can run it right on a water hose or if you want to save water, you can easily make a recirculating system. It is made from a good ABS plastic and uses a drop riffle system.
I used it the first time with a known amount of gold flakes. I had ordered Alaskan paydirt off ebay and panned it before receiving the concentrator. I saved all the dirt and then counted out 18 flakes of gold. Since the concentrator runs into a bucket, I was not worried about losing flakes. If it missed and blew out, I would just pan the bucket.
So, all set up and threw the flakes into the dirt then I mixed it up very wet. Set up the concentrator like shown in the videos on the Cal. Sluice Box page and started spooning in the mix. This went fairly quickly too. Did a clean out when all the dirt was gone. Cleaned out into my pan. Normal panning but did not use jetdry on this. I recovered all 18 flakes! Actually, I could see most of the flakes while running the concentrator and none were past the 5th drop riffle. Yea, this thing works.
This is my goto tool if I have to carry buckets home from normal car trips and I will use it to concentrate down anything from a sluice. For $35, I don't see where you can go wrong in buying this.
I like it so much that I also ordered a Jr. Sluice Box from them to put in my pack to save weight over my Aluminum 2 foot sluice. The Jr. Sluice Box cost with shipping a whopping total of $30. Yup, low cost and light weight. I cant wait to get this out into the field to test it for myself. Reviews of it that I have seen show it to be another good product to have in your prospecting arsenal.
Edit: Adding a short video I took while I was double checking some paydirt I panned out. Just a little demo of how the concentrator works.
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