EPDM Rubber Mats: Heavy, flexible, excellent heat, ozone and weather
resistance. Can perform from 200 degrees to -20 degrees. Expected life span
is 5+ years in standard sluicing operations, and 1-2 years in large
commercial mining operations. Weight is approximately 1 pound per foot.
All our mats are 36" WIDE and 6" long. This can be
confusing.
The customer cuts the matting to their sluice width and assembles their
mat to the proper length. ALL our mats interchange with common
interlocking male and female ends.
The Wild Boar mat (Patent Pending) is a low turbulence, but
aggressive scrubbing mat. It is design to be used anywhere in the sluice box
but works very well "up top" and helps break up clay and dirt releasing gold
and heavy metals.
Made from extruded EPDM rubber, the mat is heavy, durable, and can withstand
commercial sluice boxes in all temperature zones.
The mat is sold in 36" widths and the length, as seen above, is
approximately 6". The "Water Flow Locking Connectors", male and female on
each end can be glued, or taped to form a solid sluice mat. (See
SCRUBBER VIDEO)
Let’s explain how we do this and each function of
the mat.
(Get ready for your head to hurt.)
Yes, we used every part of the mat to serve a purpose.
A- Small “V” grooves slightly slow down very heaviest of material before the
lifting phase. Prevents “launching them” into the upper layers.
B- Gentle lift ramp. Not a sharp riffle or edge. This allows us to gently
lift bottom material slightly without “throwing it” upwards.
C- Leveling ramp. Allows the heavies to now be traveling straight down the
bed, vs. traveling upwards. Kind of like driving off a cliff vs. using a
RAMP to jump a row of trucks. (That’s scientific redneck stuff.)
D and E- Combination of gravity drop ledge and gentle vortex. Gold will
immediately fall downward, and a gentle vortex will assist the heaviest
materials downward. The “V” grooves allow open cleaning to remove light
material. Gold now sitting on these grooves, is no longer in the “full
current” of the water flow.
F- Miniature riffles. These mini riffles help catch finer gold particles
that didn’t make the “fall” of the first ramp. They are pulled downward and
stored in the wash holes.
g- Settling steps. These reverse angled steps once again settle material
allowing gold to hold and fall into settle gaps.
Little Hog (UR Mat) -
Under riffle,
expanded metal, finishing, dynamic
matting.
The Little Hog mat (Patent Pending) is a multi-function sluice mat. It is
designed to be an under riffle, under expanded metal, sluice mat, but also
works FANTASTICALLY on its own as a sluice mat or finishing mat for
concentrates.
Made from extruded EPDM rubber, the mat is heavy, durable, and can withstand
commercial sluice boxes in all temperature zones.
The mat is sold in 36" widths and the length, as seen above, is
approximately 6". The "Water Flow Locking Connectors", male and female on
each end can be glued, or taped to form a solid sluice mat.
(See flow rate video HERE.)
The Gold Hog ®
Razorback ™ Medium Velocity Mat
- Designed to work with sluices in a wide range of water flows. This
includes stream sluices that often have trouble creating water speed need
for our other mats. Testing has gone EXTREMELY well in highbankers.
The RiverHog sluice mat is designed for deeper water sluices such as
dredges and commercial ops. However, one great feature is the ability to
"trim" the large riffle to the operator's flow rate. So, it can be adjusted
and used in a wide variety of products. We have even tested this mat in our
mini highbanker with great results. A VERY aggressive face pattern uses a
large riffle to cause traditional "flow interruption vortexes". The drop
chambers and the PRE-RAMP grooves catch gold often before it even hits the
riffle. We recommend that this mat be used in combination with the Scrubber
and Razorback or even UR mat in most dredges. Offering VARYING SURFACES is
the key to great gold recovery.
The Bedrock mat is new for 2013.
It was designed by Doc to add to our current line of mats. The Bedrock
mat is a hybrid mat. It combines a "drop" design with the cleaning and
exchange power of a vortex. This mat LOVES higher water speeds.
Where can you use it?
The Bedrock mat should be used in addition to our other mats and is still
being tested for its full range of uses and flow rates. However current
testing shows it effective in areas that have higher water speeds and
volume. It can be used and mixed in with the Scrubber mat and the UR mat in
areas of the sluice where water is fast. Slow water does not do well
with this mat, such as in stream sluices. There is not enough "energy" to
get the proper exchange flowing.
Less classifying.
Larger rocks and lighter materials simply pass over this mat. If you look at
the design, and imagine water flowing quickly over it, you'll understand.
The only thing that drops are the heavier materials.
Fine gold?
Yes, even to our surprise this mat has the ability to separate out even
super fine gold down to -200 mesh material.
Can I use this mat only?
Doc does not recommend it. Like all our mats he likes to see your gold /
slurry exposed to multiple surfaces. Also, since this mat is such a high
speed mat, he really wants the slurry to have SOME flow interruption.
