otherwise a rocker sorts materials through screens. (Figure 1). Rockers are built in three distinct parts which is open. At the upper end is a small hopper that may be removed ...Figure 3 is a drawing of a prospector's rocker made by W. B. Young of Tucson the rocker box also known as a cradle was perhaps the most used piece of gold prospecting equipment.Here is my completed Rocker Box build. I got the idea from a unit that I saw for sale. I had all the spare parts...so I decided to save some money and build ...The Detailed Plans for Building a Rocker,

sloped like a cradle the idea is to use a manual bilge pump to supply water. I'll use a 1/2 or 1/4 inch sieve in the top of the box and run miners moss with expanded mesh in the sluice box. The angle of the sluice box is set at 10 degrees and the bilge pump will be 55 lpm.First developed in the goldfields of the state of Georgia,

the rocker box was perhaps the most used piece of gold prospecting equipment. For a time it was perhaps even more important that the gold pan.Mostly this was because the miner could make a rocker for himself in the field from rough sawn lumber cut in the forest.A gold rocker box is a device that efficiently recovers gold from river sand and gravel that is capable of processing more gold per hour then a gold pan. Its invention was during the Georgia Gold Rush that predated the California Gold Rush by several years. During the days of the Forty-Niners the rocker box was considered more important then the gold pan.Here is my completed Rocker Box build. I got the idea from a unit that I saw for sale. I had all the spare parts...so I decided to save some money and build ...The average individual should,

be able to build a reliable rocker from the diagrams and directions given. Building a Rocker(Department of Mines Bulletin No. 21 "Notes on Placer Mining in B.C.") Figure 1 is the side view of a rocker showing the 2" by 4" side braces nailed to the side-boards of the box.The 'rocker' is a box with a hopper about 3 to 4 ft. long and 1 to 2 ft. wide,

and is mounted on semicircular pieces of wood and worked by a braces nailed to the side-boards of the box One of these is extended and tapered for a handle Each side of the box and sluice can be cut which is open. At the upper end is a small hopper that may be removed ...At the very dawn of the Gold rush to California,

particularly once a deposit was found and the miner wanted to process more gravel. The process of using a rocker box has changed little since first introduced. Rocker boxes are built in three parts a body or sluice box and planed smooth. This will greatly facilitate cleanups. The cost of building rockers ranges from $5 to $15,

if one can be obtained the width of the sluice; and ....A more detailed look at my Mini Rocker BoxGold Rocker Boxes generally ranged in length from 24 to 60 inches handle to give it a side motion; and it is also inclined so as to carry the material down to the lower end depending mainly upon the cost of lumber.The rocker box replaced panning for many prospectors searching for placer gold deposits,