Dip Box

In areas that do not have enough water to sluice in, and in places where the ground is too flat to allow a good enough slope for a sluice, you may opt for using a dip box if you are not able to get ahold of a rocker. To explain it in a simple way, a dip box is merely a short sluice that is placed over legs making it around waist high. A screen is placed over the head of this sluice and it takes care of sorting the gravel. The slope depends on the height of the front legs and the hind legs.

A pail is then used to dip the water and gravel inside the dip box and then it runs down the slope and the gold gets concentrated inside the sluice. Although it kind of is a unsophisticated way of obtaining the gold, it can be effective in certain types of situations. Many people have made these on their own and they work when other kinds of sluicing cannot be done.

Puddling Box
Gold cannot always be found in gravel and sand, sometimes it is found in clay. It is sometimes a bit difficult to recover gold from clay in a sluice because the clay often times balls up and rolls down the sluice. The clay balls sometimes pick up gold that has already been concentrated and can make you lose a good amount. Because of this it is very essential in this kind of operation the clay gets broken up. You can do this in a puddling box that consists of another sluice attached to the head of the other sluices in line. When it is in operation it is similar to a Long Tom and the material can be broken up with a rake, fork etc.