Gold Hog®

Vortex Matting  vs. Gold Hog UR Mat

This question comes up ALL the time. So, let's deal with it now and give you the results of our testing.

1- Vortex matting falls within the same class as our Gold Hog matting. We consider it an ACTIVE sluice mat. It is excellent for the recovery of small gold. It works well in lower water volume situations, but strong water flow WILL "over clean" the matting and cause loss of heavy material retention.

2- Vortex matting is rather inexpensive. (A good thing.) it is mass produced as a "conveyor belt" and like other mats, converted over to our industry.

3- It should be used when trying to focus on SMALL / fine gold, but should not, and can not retain medium to larger size gold, or flat gold that is approximately wider than 3 mm or roughly .125 inches. (1/8")   

4- It should NOT be used in high water volume sluices. Volume over 1500 GPH will over clean the Vortex matting. It is an excellent concentrator matting when used in low volume machines like the GOLD CUBE.  

Gold Hog UR Mat:

As you can see from the image below, the Gold Hog mat is designed to hold BOTH large and small gold. It has MULTIPLE chambers and each one focuses on holding different size gold.
Our matting EASILY holds gold nuggets and flakes that are 1/4" wide or larger. 
However, it also holds fine gold very well too. We have easily caught gold particles smaller than 1/100" and had little to no losses when exposed to high flow rates.   

The MULTI-CHANNEL design BURIES gold deep inside low flow chambers and holds it very tightly.

The higher the water flow the better....

Video...

Vortex Matting vs. Gold Hog matting. Learning when to use what.

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