Gold Prospecting & Mining Equipment Plans
First of all, many thanks to my friends over on the GPAA forums for some of the links posted on my website.You may also want check 2 great books of DIY prospecting equipment plans by: Sam Redding:
Sam Radding's Book of Plans 1
Sam Radding's Book of Plans 2
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Shaker Tables
Shaker tables do a great job of cleaning classified concentrates.
- The British Geolocical Survey has this hand-powered shaker table. This is very cool !!
Rocker Boxes
Rocker boxes are cheap and easy to build, easy to operate and good at getting fine gold. They're also a lot quieter than dredges, highbankers and other power equipment but is also quite dusty....LOL
- Rocker Box - PDF file of rocker box plans hosted at the GPAA site.
- River Rocker - Another PDF, from GPAA.
Gravity Dredge
The gravity dredge is basically a suction dredge without motor, or pump, no moving parts, etc. They rely on gravity to build a head of suction. They aren't all that portable, relatively inexpensive and they work really great for finding gold.
- Gravity Dredge - plans, and tons of information for more advanced operations.
- Gravity Dredging for Placer Gold has an explanation on simple gravity dredging.
- Simple Simon is another take on building a gravity dredge, this one with bucket header box and sluice box setup.
Sluice Boxes
- This Wet Willie sluice combo unit .
- Several sluice box designs A must see.
- Two more sluice projects described and with pictures.
- A poop tube (Henry Henry) and a wooden sluice setup can be found here.
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Several sucker plans can be found at
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Highbankers
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How 2's
How To Claim Gold Mining Rights To Us Government Land
Very Little Is Known About How To Do This, So Theres Tons Of Potential For This. Interest Ranges From Land Rights Speculators, To Outdoors Types, To Families Wanting To Secure Their Own Vacation Spot To Use For Camping And Gold Prospecting.

