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After a while, Peterson went to clean up the sluice, having to remove the box’s screen. As he tried to pull it off, it jammed, then popped free and headed downstream.

Rieck’s company makes modern sluice boxes, dry washers and other equipment for recreational miners. ... Rieck says the gold mining equipment he makes accounts for about 20% of his business.

Some may add a sluice box to the process, which uses a stream’s natural flow and a series of ridges to help sort out gold. Serious prospectors sometimes employ motorized equipment, like dredges ...

WORLAND — West River Prospecting Supplies is a business born out of a lifelong passion for prospecting, mining and the history of those practices throughout the United States.

The rig weighs about 240 pounds dry, and 265 when soaking wet with a sluice box attached. The rubber tires allow for the machine to be maneuvered from place to place without much hassle.

You don’t need a license to pan for gold in Wisconsin, just a pan, shovel and "a will to be happy with little," an Abrams prospector says.

SULTAN, Wash. — With gold at sky-high prices — an ounce goes for about $1,700 - plenty of people are taking up that old venture of gold panning.