A wash plant is a piece of equipment used to wash desirable grains off gravel and rocks, and then to wash down the grains to acquire black sand and heavy mineral bits.
Washplants[]
Various forms of wash plants are shown on the show, including the Dakota Boys' D-Rocker wash plant, Todd Hoffman's Turbo Trommel trommel-based wash plant arriving in season 3 for Quartz Creek Claim, Dave Turin's Big Red shaker-based wash plant arriving in season 3 for Indian River Claim, Little Blue - the old shaker-based plant used at Quartz Creek Claim during season 2, and the old trommel-based wash plants at Jim Nail Placer Mine and Big Nugget Mine.
The Spanish term is "lavador". However Todd Hoffman uses this to name his diamond wash plant.
The sluices/sluicebox are primitve washplants that are now used as parts of other washplants.
The diamond jig is a washplant used as a partial washplant, to process gravel to find diamonds. fucken big ol' decks
List[]
Wash plant | color | basis | claim | season |
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prospecting mobile washplant | metallic | sluice box | Oregon | season 6 |
Double Trouble | rust | double-parallel-trommels | Sacremento Creek Claim | season 7 |
Rusty Red | Beige&Rust | shaker | Fairplay Claim | season 7 |
Sluicifer | Dark red | shaker-suicebox Macon Industries SD-600m. | Scribner Creek Claim | season 7 |
Fort Knox | dark green | sluicebox | McKinnon Creek Claim | season 6 |
Goldzilla | green | sluicebox | Scribner Creek Claim | season 6 |
Monster Red | red | hopper feeder-shaker-sluice box | McKinnon Creek Claim | season 5 |
Turbo Trommel | blue | trommel | Quartz Creek Claim | season 3 |
Big Red | red | shaker-sluice box | Indian River Claim Scribner Creek Claim |
season 3 season 4+ |
Little Blue | blue | shaker-hydraulic riffles | Quartz Creek Claim Scribner Creek Claim |
season 2-3 season 4 |
John Schnabel washplant | green | trommel-sluice box | Big Nugget Mine | season 1+ |
Porcupine Creek derocker | yellow | roller deck-sluice box | Jim Nail Placer Mine | season 2-4 |
James Harness washplant | grey | trommel-sluice box | Jim Nail Placer Mine | season 1 |
Klondike Trail Rockerbox | wood | rocker box | Perseverance Claim, on the Yukon River on the way to Dawson from Bennett Lake on the Klondike Trail, near Minto, Yukon | Gold Rush: Parker's Trail |
Little Fred | wood | punchplate-sluice box | Chipana Beach | Gold Rush: South America |
Little Red | red | octagon trommel | Q.O.D. Claim (Patience Creek Cut / Hope Creek Cut) McKinnon Creek Claim |
season 4 season 5 |
Lavador | yellow | Lavador | Q.O.D. Claim (Redemption Creek Cut) |
season 4 |
Hoffman Diamond Jig | yellow | Diamond Jig | Q.O.D. Claim (Patience Creek Cut / Hope Creek Cut) |
season 4 |
Cahoon Creek washplant | green | Mountain Wash Plant | Cahoon Creek Claim | season 4 |
Carmacks derocker | ? | derocker shaker-sluice box | Carmacks claim | season 5+ |
McKinnon Creek old washplant | beige-white-yellow | hopper feeder-trommel | McKinnon Creek Claim | season 5 |
Paradise Hill washplant | primer-red | trommel | Paradise Hill Claim | season 3+ |
Big Blue | Favron Enterprise | largest single piece washplant in the Yukon | 2-man portable in the Klondike | none |
Portable washplant | commercial product | integrated unit bought by prospectors for prospecting small evaluation paydirt | everywhere | all |
Portable sluice | metal | small sluice box to lay in the way of water, used to preprocess dirt prior to panning | everywere | |
Gold pan | pan | manual panning to wash paydirt | everywhere | all |
Parts of washplants[]
- Diamond jig
- Hopper feeder
- Grizzly bars
- Hydraulic riffles
- Shaker
- Sluicebox
- Trommel
Types of washplant[]
- Push-in box
- The most simple type of large washplant, a set of sluiceboxes placed on an angle, with a mouth where paydirt is pushed into it, and waterjets to wash it down the slope