
Mountain Goat Reverse Helix Trommel for gold mining prospecting
Speed up your gold processing work and increase gold recovery with the Mountain Goat Reverse Helix Trommel. This machine is rightly named because it can eat almost anything and is light enough to carry up a mountain! The Mountain Goat Trommel is a reverse helix system built on the same principle as the huge mining trommels used by large mining companies all over the world, but this is light and portable. The reverse helix system came from the Archimedes Screw Pump invented over 2,000 years ago by the mathematician Archimedes. The Mountain Goat is efficient because the spiral riffles inside of the tube turn and bring the heavy materials up to the high end of the tube while allowing the lighter materials to flow out of the back of the tube as tailings. This system makes the trommel completely self-cleaning, which eliminates the need to break down for clean-up as is necessary with sluice box type equipment. The spiral riffles in the trommel tube are ¼ inch deep and spaced ¾ inch apart. We