Wood can still be used to make a homemade sluice box, but the downside is that they will be quite heavy, especially after they have been in the water for several hours, as they will absorb water which will add even more weight.
Aluminum is the ideal material to use if you want to build your own sluice box. It is lightweight, and will be much more portable than a heavy sluice made from wood. And unlike steel, an aluminum sluice box will not rust. Some modern sluice boxes are made from plastics, but this is not really an option for the average prospector.
The standard design of a sluice box is very simple, and has not really changed much over thousands of years. They basic design is to lay the box in a stream or river, parallel to the flow of water. Gravel is shoveled into it at the head of the box, and the water moves the material over a series of riffles which help to separate out and capture the gold.
My hunting partner had a small Estwing Rock Pick and a flat-blade screwdriver, while I was lugging around a huge pick as we fought our way through heavy manzanita bushes. One thing that will speed up the recovery of targets is to attach a very strong neodymium magnet to the head of your pick. The Apex Picks already come with them attached. On the others, I would recommend buying one on Amazon and adding them to your pick. The magnet will snag iron targets while you are digging, saving you valuable time.
The neodymium magnets are currently the strongest out there. Most of the serious gold prospectors I know have several different picks that they use depending on the area that they are hunting. The downside of using a larger pick all the time is the weight, so if a smaller pick will do the same job that a larger pick will do, then you might as well use one that is a bit lighter.
In fact for casual prospecting, even a small pick will do the job just fine. In very shallow bedrock, consider just carrying a Estwing Rock Pick, screwdriver, and a few simple crevicing tools. You might find that a big heavy pick will do you no good in shallow bedrock, and a small rock pick will do a much better job of pulling smaller nuggets out of bedrock cracks.
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