Specs
- Mat type
- Mini-Dredge, Combo
- Cell size
- 1/8", 3/16", 3/8"
- Best for
- Fine gold, Coarse gold & nuggets, High flow & dredging, Highbanking
- Fits
- Gold Fox Mini Monster
Description
Customer reviews
4.0 1 review
First test had great results
Received the Dream Mat upgrade kit for my Gold Fox Mini Monster yesterday and tested it today. One issue in that there were 2 clamp plates shipped with no hole drilled in them. The kit pictured shows there should have been one drilled with a bolt/wingnut. There was also no instructions/pictures/drawings for the clamp installation in the "upgrade kit" so I had to just figure it out the old fashioned way. I did find I could just wedge the clamp in the lower end of the upper portion of the sluice with it overlapping the lower mat and it seemed to work fine. My testing results - I put 2 grams of fine gold in 10 lbs of material and ran it at 51 on the speed controller at 8 degrees and captured all the tailings in a bin at the end of the sluice. After panning the cons, drying the gold, and weighing it I had recovered all of the 2 grams of gold from the mats. Checked all the tailings by wet classifying and manually panning and found NO gold made it out of the mats into the tailings. I was admittedly a little skeptical of the Dream Mat but after todays test I am sold on it for the Mini Monster and it had a superior capture rate over the original matting under similar circumstances. It captured all but a very small amount of the black sands and had a good exchange as well with most of the small pebbles and blonde sands and light material washing off the sluice. I found clean out to be as fast or maybe just a tiny bit faster than the original mats as well.
Read full review by Andy and Barbara - Rubber Ducky ProspectingAndy and Barbara - Rubber Ducky Prospecting
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Behind the product
From the people who invented the Dream Mat
Prospectors Dream designs and makes the Dream Mat, and its team will help you match one to your sluice.
- US Patent 9,168,536The Dream Mat's vortex cell design. See the patent (opens in a new tab)
- Mats made in the USAEvery Dream Mat sluice mat we sell.
- Headquartered in MontanaColumbia Falls. About Prospectors Dream
- 4.7 from 2,500+ reviewsAcross the store. Read the reviews
Dream Mats catch more gold
Prospectors Dream commissioned the test, and the mat tested was the Dredge Mat.
Watch 3 prospectors run Dream Mats
Emily Riedel, Misha Boylan, Internal Compass of NC
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Emily Riedel, Bering Sea Gold. The last four feet of her dredge box, which normally recover under 5% of the gold, caught nuggets up to 7 grams with a Dredge Mat. Watch her test on YouTube (opens in a new tab)
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Misha Boylan runs Dream Mat sluices in his prospecting videos on YouTube and Facebook. Watch him try the Dream Mat on YouTube (opens in a new tab)
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Internal Compass of NC has featured the Trek, Adventure, Bigfoot and Micro Banker on the channel. Watch the Trek video on YouTube (opens in a new tab)
Misha Boylan and Emily Riedel are Prospectors Dream partners: Misha appears in Prospectors Dream ads and has an affiliate code, and Emily tested the Dredge Mat at Prospectors Dream's request. Internal Compass of NC is an affiliate.
