Highbanking & Sluicing for Gold- Don’t Make This Mistake!

[@danielstrickland1005]

Nice equipment! You're looking good for catching lots more shinies, lots faster. Heh, yeah, oops happen. We all get them. Great video Brother! Took it in stride, and produced the gold for us at the end. Well done!

[@X4PROSPECTING]

Thanks, had to find a way to end that video with some gold. We live and learn I suppose, still a bummer but it’s all good!

[@terrymcclintic3379]

That's a great looking highbanker! I kicked over a worked down pan I did and it when in the water and gone. I felt little sick to my stomach over it. I can only imagine how you guys felt spilling that much. All we can do is learn it and push on. You guys get a lot larger gold there than we do here. We only have pretty much is micro flood gold. Great video, please keep em coming...

[@X4PROSPECTING]

Yep live and learn! And I have 4 videos still backlogged to post, and 2 more to make this weekend!

[@SmoothAerosol]

Your comments on how you set up your sluice I think is probably the most accurate I’ve heard since I first got my dream mat. I searched for hours and hours trying to find instructions on how to set it up to run the best way possible and never found what I was looking for. But since I have been using mine basically every weekend since I got it I have learned how to get my sluice running the best I can. I don’t know what angle it might be or anything like that, I just know by seeing what is happening with the material. And I think that’s probably the best way for anyone to learn, just get out in the creek and learn how your equipment works for you.

[@X4PROSPECTING]

Yep exactly! It’s all trial and error and then fine tuning it once you get your setup down. What works in California or Alaska might not be the best for what we have here in NC. It’s all about getting to know your equipment! 👍 keep digging it man!

[@bobcansee]

Nice set up you have there. Lovin that high banker combo. Good video thanks man!

[@goldadventures5844]

Great looking setup looks like it works great. Another great video Gold Digger Diggin it.

[@brianpalmlund6770]

That is a badass highbanker very cool Justin

[@goldinnewmexico7965]

That high banker is sick!

[@mattgalliher6357]

Good show, stuff like that happens my wife just a few weeks wasn't lookin an crushed my glass bottle an lost almost all the gold we got that day. But nice set up an good luck.

[@Pa.PatriotProspecting]

Man... that's it high banker prices are out of this world! I'm making my own...Mrs Patriot wont miss $66...😂🤣😂🤣 🇺🇲💪🏻👍🏻

[@AMProspecting]

It was defiantly beautiful weather and that alone makes for an amazing day! As for the cons, well that just sucks but its not a total loss, the story will live on and that is something for sure. The high banker looks like it worked nicely and looking forward to more videos of it catching the gold. The gold looked great and looks like you had alot of fun and hard work. Thanks for sharing!

[@josephsmith9374]

Nice banker! We went to Portis... once. I'm guessing you didn't lose much from dumping over your bucket. Our cleanout from there was almost nothing lol

[@aumetalmental8403]

...for two buckets, nice indeed.✌️😎

[@jerrydesgranges8294]

Wow Justin, very nice there. Love the high banker/sluice set up and finally see it in action. The first part to this video I seen that John about fall backwards during the high banker sluice part of the video. Sucks that you and John lost the concentrates from that session. But you saved the day with another sluice run at your favorite creek and got on the Gold. Awesome save on that one, Justin. 👍

[@X4PROSPECTING]

Thanks man! Appreciate the feedback!

[@jerrydesgranges8294]

@@X4PROSPECTING no problem, bud. I actually found a very nice place about a few miles from the house from over the weekend with my son. This place is ozone falls and there is about a 100 ft waterfall there and I am going to try and take a day and check out the exposed cliff faces cause I seen a layer of ancient river gravels as well as nice areas to scout and look at.

[@X4PROSPECTING]

Awesome man, I’m interested in hearing how it pans out (all pun intended) 👍 let me know

[@weekendwarriorprospecting817]

Clay is tough to process especially with a pan. You did a great job with the highbanker 👍🏻⚒🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@X4PROSPECTING]

Thanks man!

[@Pa.PatriotProspecting]

Is there a little crashbox or plate under there to divert water?

[@X4PROSPECTING]

Nope, with the angles just right the water doesn’t go over the front of the sluice. Was talking to Paul at Adventures in Gold Prospecting about this and I was thinking I can add something there if I needed to, but it doesn’t look like I need to. Works great

[@Pa.PatriotProspecting]

@@X4PROSPECTING awesome!

[@brandonbumgardner9410]

Ya buddy about fell in....3:45...so thankful he didn't ..would of been nasty on that high bank...yall be safe brother and heavy pans...

[@X4PROSPECTING]

Yeah I know, close call!

[@kencarbon2346]

Enjoyed watching your video looks like nice gold equipment.Hopefully it's proficient in catching all gold. Keep digging!🤗🤗

[@X4PROSPECTING]

Yep, dream mat amazes me at the fine gold it captures, you’ll see in the next couple vids coming out, I have about 4 to upload, I mean tiny tiny gold.

[@thomasj8105]

The stream sluice sure looks great, what size is it? Is it the sluicebox from the Adventurer Highbanker 10" x 48"?

[@X4PROSPECTING]

It’s a custom build 6” x 45” made by Paul Jarvis

[@pnwgoldrushers8443]

Sorry you dumped the cons, but just wondering, why didn't you just shovel up the area of the dump and put it in a bucket to clean back up? Thanks for sharing. I enjoyed it

[@X4PROSPECTING]

I tried that, the bucket fell straight into the pond and that pond is literally about 6-8ft deep right where it fell in at, trust me I tried lol

[@Peyoteprospectingoutdoors3765]

You definitely got a nice highbanker buddy .Awesome job great video. You also need to try that baby out at mountain creek

[@X4PROSPECTING]

I know! Sometime soon for sure!

[@Pa.PatriotProspecting]

You weren't kidding lol 😆

[@X4PROSPECTING]

🤣🤣🤣🤣 I told you!

[@octafrank]

Nice rig, yo! Curious about the pump -- like, how many GPH were you pushing? Color me wrong, but that gas pump dialed down looks way hotter than even the 2000 GPH battery pump I've been using on a 6" mini highbanker + dream mat config. Depends upon the material one has and the type of gold to be found, of course. Cheers!

[@X4PROSPECTING]

It’s around 2100 GPH as well, it’s reduced to 3/4” at the spray bar making it higher pressured. Bilge pumps don’t have the PsI like gas pumps do

[@SPMining]

Sucks bro accidents but you made sure u got some gold that day. Good stuff👍👍

[@Pa.PatriotProspecting]

😲😳🙄 hmm hmm hmm hahahahaha you pulled a Fink! Hahahahahaha

[@X4PROSPECTING]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@ExtractingMetals]

I usually avoid that type of clay. Very difficult to process and usually yields low results.

[@richardbeee]

When i first started placer mining back in '72 i would take what i could out of my pan and stick it in a little glass vial. The cons i'd put in a bucket to run later. The jeweler up in Breckenridge would by my gold and would by the garnets off my wife. Well, we were sitting by the river one night and a friend of ours stopped by to see how we were doing , o i showed him my vial which was over half full and we walked over to the river,placing the vial in my shirt pocket. Then we walked out in the river and i grabbed the shovel and bent down to get a scoop and put in my pan. Then i squatted down and showed him how to pan. When i got done i was going to show him how i pick up the gold and reached into my pocket and it was gone. At least a half ounce went floating down the river while i was panning. Lesson 1 as a newbie, don't put your vial of gold in your shirt pocket. #2 when you put the gold away for the night, leave it there. #3 if friend comes to camp to learn how to pan gold? Tell him tomorrow :-) Happens to the best of us.

[@X4PROSPECTING]

Hahaha that’s a great story, but it taught you a lesson, same with this video; don’t put the cons bucket anywhere it can spill over! Lol

[@richardbeee]

@@X4PROSPECTING yepper

[@johncourtneyscott2757]

It reminds me of Carolina clay

[@markstahl1638]

There is a product that is supposed to brake down clay...sorry I don't know the name and, I haven't used it yet so I don't know if it works. I'm sure it would be easy enough to find. Might make the job easier.

[@X4PROSPECTING]

“Clay gone” but I don’t think it’s safe for the creek and I’m not sure how well it works either.

[@CountryFriedCreations]

Nice high banker, sucks bout the bucket. Nice recovery though.

[@X4PROSPECTING]

Yeah, live and learn I suppose…

[@lesterleporesr5228]

First ‼️ seen that on Beefy Prepper's channel, Bro'👌 what's it weigh⁉️🧐😎

[@X4PROSPECTING]

This highbanker is a bit different, it’s the same stream sluice I’ve been using in my previous couple videos but I wanted the ability to add a highbanker hopper to the sluicebox. So it’s dual function, a stream sluice and a highbanker!

[@zoeyroxy1898]

It happens lol

[@Pa.PatriotProspecting]

Alittle off topic for mining but relevent to all the creeks and run off locations from the melting glaciers 13k yrs ago. So he directs you bto google earth and gives you the site to download a file... give it a look boys may be helpful

[@X4PROSPECTING]

Email me the link, it didn’t show up

[@Pa.PatriotProspecting]

@@X4PROSPECTING will do

[@Pa.PatriotProspecting]

@@X4PROSPECTING done

[@X4PROSPECTING]

Thank you sir

[@Pa.PatriotProspecting]

@@X4PROSPECTING sir??? I work for a living... 😂🤣😂🤣👌🏻

[@johncourtneyscott2757]

That sucks

[@Pa.PatriotProspecting]

Yo brothers... check this out...great tool for goggle earth...

[@Pa.PatriotProspecting]

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