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"Placer gold recovery and prospecting equipment, a brief description: Placer Gold trommels or wash plants are machines used to separate auriferous (gold bearing dirt, sand and rock) materials by size. A trommel uses a rotating cylinder with many holes of a given size to separate smaller gold bearing material from the larger rocks. The auriferous material is loaded into the gold trommel via a hopper, the material is sprayed with a water jet as it passes into the rotating cylinder drum to help loosen the different materials. Any rocks larger than the holes cut into the  cylinder will be forced on through the drum onto the tailings tray to be deposited onto the coarse tailings pile. The smaller gold-bearing material will fall into the sluice box below, where the black sands and gold are trapped while the remaining waste travels out the lower end of the box onto a fine tailings pile. This process is repeated until the sluice box is full and needs to be cleaned. The black sand concentrates and gold are flushed from the sluice box into a container and then panned or run through a gold screen or a concentrator to further separate the material."    Lynn McCormick