Goldblitz Universal Mark II

Included in delivery:

• Universal II sluice box (25cm) with Miner's Moss and TopGold expanded Metal
• optional: Additional Riffle-Frame 25cm
• optional: Exchange butterfly nuts with star handles

Recommended accessories:

• Henderson type hand pump with optional T-pick-up
• one of our racks (ligth, heavy-duty or Felsenspinne = Rock Spider)
• Sandbags twopack
• Sandbags fivepack

Basic Principles:

With 100cm length and 25cm width (with demounted funnel: 70cm), the Universal mark II sluice is remarkably smaller than the Elvo III. The Universal II was designed for prospecting and exploration purposes. The throughput is limited against the Elvo III and, because of the reduced width, we cutted back our claim to the quality of the current inside the sluice (but only a little! See my book for further infromations, available only in german until today). For the Material, we use the same high quality aluminium as for the Elvo III and also the whole inlay is quite the same (laser cutted and CNC bended frame, Miner's Moss, expanded metal out of aluminium). On top, we added the TopGold expanded metal to this sluice to the basic configuration. We think, we should compensate the smaller width with the better expanded Metal, so you get an overall very balanced sluice! This should not receive the impression, that the Universal II does not have the same Quality in recovering gold as the Elvo III! No! The only difference is the slightly better handling of the Elvo III and the larger throughput. If you'd like to work with a friend, you should definetly choose the Elvo III.

basic configuration

• The rectangle shaped rubber mat at the inflow of the sluice body was replaced by a broad riffle rubber mat, to make the clean-up of the sluice easier.
• The sluice is equipped with the TopGold expanded metal, which was developed togeather with our expanded metal supplier. Besides the fact, that any expanded metal fixes the carped or minder's moss below it, we added another important functionality: The comb-shaped material generates hundrets of micro-vortices, which work exactely like the big riffles, but only for small flitter shaped gold.
• The frame is made out of a thin (1,5mm) aluminium sheet, it is strong and rigid and presses expanded metal and miner's moss tightly to the bottom of the sluice. It is very lightweighted and shows, what is makeable with engineering compared to the use of simple welding constructions out of heavy steel.
• The optional and additional riffle-frame comes with three extra riffles to generate huge vortices if you have enough water and/or strong current. Of course, the dedention storage was increased, so it is perfect for using it in areas with lots of black sand or together with machines. You may order this fram as a spare part but together with a sluice, it is cheaper to use the option below.
• The large gap between first riffle and begin of the frame serves as the primary gold deposit which is lager than 5mm.
• Designed to be laser cutted. This sluice (and all its forerunners) were not bend from scrap metal in a garage but manufactured in a modern batch production process. Several hundrets of Elvo sluices are used within the creeks of the world. It meets the highest requirements both concerning quality and design. We guarantee the availability of spare parts for a long long time.
• Demountable construction: you can dismount the funnel with four screws within seconds, reducing the overall length to 70cm.
• The funnel is completely covered with rubber mat. The rubber mat has two functions: fisrt to prevent the funnel from beeing bulged by larger stones and second to hold back finer gravel for a short periode of time to allow a constant material flow to the sluice body.
• Clamping construction of the frame makes it very easy to open the sluice for clean up. Since we do not have a bridge like connection between the frame tops (we just do not need it), the size of the stones is only limited by the gravity of the planet, you are working on ;-)
• The deposit systems inside the sluice is optimized for gold flitters, since nuggets are not really a challenge, aren't they? The sluice will not return any gold flitters which are caught in the miner's moss, so you can showel the whole day without any clean up needed.
• All gaps are closed usind outdoor silicone made in germany. All gluings are done with industry used contact adhesive, resistant to water and sunlight. We experienced the very best!
• We use aluminium instead of steel to reduce weight whereever we can. If you apply a little engineering to it, it has the same strength as steel (see planes or zeppeline). Rust is not our friend! Only our screws are made out of steel, but we do not use it for expanded metals or frame construction.

The sluice will be delivered with the standard frame, but can be optionally equiped with the riffle frame.

Description of the options:

• Extra Riffles Frame: Frame for strong current, extra deposit space and huge vortives. Mighte be helpful in muddy environment.
• Exchanging butterfly nuts with star handles: Although we are using butterfly nuts German style (compared to the American style: larger 'wings'), the use of PA covered star handles makes it easier to setup and, maybe only a side effect, look somehow better (in my opinion).

Description of accessories:

Henderson type hand pump: See shop item 'Henderson Pump' for further details of the item itself. The pump is the most important tool if you are working on bedrock: first, you free the bedrock my filling all the gravel in the sluice box, second, you vacuum the bedrock with the pump. Here you will find most of the gold, if gold has nugget shape and all your lager findings will be in the pumped material. If you are using the showel only, you defenitly squandering gold!

We strongly recommend the usage of a rack if working with the sluices. See here for a selection of available recks. The rack makes it easy to adjust the rigth position of the sluice and everybody who is sluicing in a "civilized" creek knows, what I am talking about: the heigth of the water is sometimes changing very fast and frequent. with a rack, it takes secons to adjust these changes. Also the primary setup of the sluice is reduced to seconds. Another advantage is, that you can place the sluice directely in the stream, without any dam. Never walk without!

You should also consider the use of sandbags, which are very handy if used with a rack and the sluice. The sandbacks gives a perfect area of support for the funnel. Also, no water will flow under your sluice so you can use the all water for the sluice. The sandbags are available as twopack and fivepack.

Hint:

The usage of this item and many more principels of goldpanning are described in our goldpanning book, wich is available only in German at the moment. If you are interested in translating it to any language and sell it outside Germany-Austria-Swizerland, please contact me!