Second Step:
Feeding the Sluice Box

You can place the gravel with gold inside the upper side of the sluice box very carefully in regulated quantities. Don’t load up a bunch of gravel inside the sluice box all at once; this needs to be done slowly. The gravel needs to be placed inside the sluice box at a rate that will not over load the riffles. In order to know if you have overloaded the riffles you can tell by checking if you can see the top crest of each riffle bar; you should be able to see these to know you have not overloaded it. If you are putting too much gravel in at one time you will not be able to see them and need to slow down on it a little bit.

Unfortunately what occurs when the riffles are overloaded is that you end up losing gold. Every time a new load of gravel is dumped into a sluice box with riffles that are overloaded the gold in that gravel will wash right over the material that is clogging the riffles and will release itself at the end of the sluice box. In conclusion, don’t overload them if you do not want to lose gold.