Highbanker banjo prospecting and panning off for gold

After digging for maybe 20 minutes, we cleaned up the banjo to get all the concentrates into a pan, to pan off and see if we are onto any Gold. Filmed in southern NSW, Australia.

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Education

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• gold
• panning
• alluvial
• nugget
• banjo
• highbanker
• goldpan
• pan
• prospecting
• golding
• australia
• garrett

[NowLifeStarts]

I got small gold flakes in my poo

[combatwombat71]

@NowLifeStarts I'm surprised you're still alive. Fine gold is actually a toxin to more than one of your body's major organs.

[bobinmissouri]

any crocks in the area you are in?

[combatwombat71]

@bobinmissouri Hi Bob - no, none at all. They are all up North, Cairns, Far North Queensland, and Northern Territories / Darwin way. We just have spiders that will kill you, snakes that will kill you, and kangaroos that can kill you (if you run into one in your car without a bull bar).

[B1u3Dr4g0n1]

I bet you had more than that...but the way you pan is very nonproductive with fines

[combatwombat71]

Yes - the highbanker catches the fine stuff OK, but a Garret Supersluice definitely isn't the pan for that. It catches the big ones! The only way to receover the powder stuff would be to grade the heavies through a sieve then blue bowl it or something. But I don't have a blue bowl ;-)

[GoldReaper100]

Great stuff Combat. Nice clean-up and nice gold ! Nice compact banjo you have there.

I remember asking you what pump you used a year ago, on your other highbanker video, and have since built my own home-designed 2-tier sluice. I ended up going with a cheaper brand pump to yours, but it certainly does the job. You can check it out at GoldReaper100 - cheers.

[chopppacalamari]

Lol that would have been funny. Cheers Carlo.

Thanks for the vid Combat and co. It's good to see some colour.

Dicko..

[Carlotheprospector]

Haha, I'm in the background trying to cross the log at 3:30, lucky I didn't fall in.

I went there just a few days ago and found that entire spot under water, It took a while to make a new wingdam.

Cheers