It's perfectly legal to use a Highbankers in NSW, Australia. Highbankers or sluice box alone is not illegal. The use of motorize or mechanical pump in highbanking is what's illegal. The mining act 1996 and the pump moving the water from A to B is covered by the water management act 2000. Cheers
Like a lot of people i found that really informative, been looking at this area and thinking of doing some panning just for fun. really good work guys.
WOW , That is a great day lot's of color very nice video, I like your high-banker setup!. You gave me some idea's about different matting thanks again and you got my subscription. Peace
Glad you enjoyed the vid Paul. The Banker is an older version of the one I mainly use but is very efficient at this particular spot as it only has very fine flour gold. All the very best.....Wal.
I hate to say this but... You guys deserve all the gold you get for your effort!! I am not sure if you guys profit from this, but I do hope that it was a great day out. Backbreaking work by the gentleman, and the meticulous panning technique by the lady. But seriously, thank you for the informative video.
excellent work Wal n Liz! i think a powerful magnet will separate the black sand from the gold most times & make your panning alot easier, all the best kimbo!
Found this combination to be the most efficient. The expanded metal is not your typical aluminium expanded. It is in actual fact expanded roof access grate which can be sourced from any of your commercial roofers. The sides of this mesh are vertical and not angled and this makes it a lot more efficient on fine flour gold, because of the bigger vortex it creates. Best of luck!....Wal
Congrats on the Video guys, Obviously well practiced, been there and done it before and know what you're doing. I'm just getting back to it in Tassie after a long while so we'll se how we go :)
LOL... Unfortunately, our time on this earth is extremely short. It's best to somehow squeeze some spare time into the equation of life before the chance passes you by. Sorry to hear how busy you are and hope spare time becomes more favorable down the track. All the very best, Wal
hi great vid... im from Gulgong, have done a bit of panning years ago and only ever found specs,, waiting on the arrival of my metal detector, and looking forward to getting back into looking .. thanks for sharing this vid, it stired up the old gold fever ,lol
glad you enjoyed the vid...the shoveling looks like hard work but when you pace yourself as lazily as we do.....15 min dig.... 15 min rest ...15 min...chat....then the work is really not that bad. We only chase the gold and gemstones for a hobby so don't need it to pay the bills....Cheers Wal.
Your best set up to start looking for gold would be a standard river sluice and a gold pan. If the bug get strong enough, convert the river sluice to a high banker by adding the water pump. This will increase the amount you get tenfold. Best of luck. Cheers, Wal
@tfa40729...Trevor, thanks for your constructive input. We set the gold catching section of our high banker into 2 different configurations, hence the 2 mats on the top section of the high banker. The 1st mat traps all the coarse gold, the 2nd mat traps all the fine flour gold. The lower section of the high banker, is used only for trapping sapphires hence no mats and no clean up shown. We feel it's not necessary to show each mat separately as they both combine to do the same thing....see cont.
you guys are becoming famous! Love your vids, this video is the first time to see Liz on camera, what a beauty! are ya'll rich yet? wish I were hangin' with you guys, too much fun.
Thanks for watching ARELAV and hope you enjoyed them. Sorry to hear that you have trouble prospecting in Russia as it is a very enjoyable pastime.Best wishes from the land down under...Cheers Wal.
hi Scott... thanks for watching. This is one of the many gold bearing streams within an hours drive from where we live. It's a popular area as it has mainly flour gold which was very difficult for the old timers to clean out. Every flood replenishes the gold and it is not uncommon to get around 5 grams of gold for an easy days hi banking. this would probably equate to around a cubic meter per 5 grams. On a really good day we get as much as 10 grams. Good luck on your local streams...Cheers Wal.
G'day 234...the place is Oallen Ford on the Shoalhaven River. Its at the crossing between Neriga and Tarago. You'll find quite a few people there on the weekends but it is quite a large area that can accommodate a big crowd. We mainly Hi-Bank but if you haven't got one a standard river sluice would be the next best thing ...you'll also need a gold pan, 1/4" sieve, and a shovel. Try downstream where the rock bars cross the river....the opposite bank to where you can drive is best..Cheers Wal.
You don't need a permit or license to prospect in NSW. Good idea to make your hi-bank set up as light as possible. Most of the best spots require at least a kilometer walk. The hi-banker you see in the video is a combination for gold and sapphires. Our gold only hi-banker has only one tier and is much more portable than the one you see. Best of luck and C U in the field one day. Cheers, Wal
Glad you enjoyed the vid Clouds. Certainly a pleasant day out on the river and a good place for a swim during the heat of the day. All the very best...Wal.
Are you guys on a claim, or is this just a river where you set up and started digging? looks good...that is a nice ammount of gold...how much material did you run through your highbanker to get that ammount of gold?...any idea how many buckets, pounds, or yardage? I am doing a similar type of thing and am curious how much material others go through to find that kind of volume of gold. NICE JOB!
You two are great. Looks like you are having a great time. Thanks for posting. Try screening your cons or classifying as they say in the US before you pan. It really does make the panning process easier. My wife and I get a kick out of finding pickers in the screens when we look through the screened material. We kind of race each other looking around to find a piece of gold and giggle like kids when we do.
Thanks very much for your comment Thomas. Great to see that your wife also gets involved with your great hobby. We find that double panning our concentrates from this area gets us 99% of the gold in our highbanker. The 1% which goes back into the river; goes to the "Gold Gods" and for this, they look after us on our following trips...lol Hope all's going great over your way. Cheers, Wal
Thanks very much for your comment Thomas. Great to see that your wife also gets involved with your great hobby. We find that double panning our concentrates from this area gets us 99% of the gold in our highbanker. The 1% which goes back into the river; goes to the "Gold Gods" and for this, they look after us on our following trips...lol Hope all's going great over your way. Cheers, Wal
A good hi banker will pick up every bit of gold.....the amount of water is regulated by the size of the box. the one shown runs at its optimal performance and catches even the smallest flour gold. Our system runs the classifier full length of the box as we use it for sapphires as well. You may be getting confused by seeing no water running on the top box.....It's going through the classifier and over the trap underneath....Cheers Wal.
Nice...You make a great team. Do you own a MineLab metal detector and ever hit the gold fields their??? I would love to take a MineLab and go on a three week vac their. Two weeks in the fields and one like you highbanking. What was the final clean up weight???
Thanks for your concern sepfirem. We always double pan our first run and never have more than a couple of specks in the 2nd pan. Once you yourself become efficient at gold panning then maybe you will also be able to speed up a little yourself. Again, thanks for your concern but unfortunately, we do not lose any gold for you to pan behind us....Cheers, Wal
Hi Brad...haven't panned much in that area....only detected in the triangle. Have panned a lot up in the high country between Mt Hotham and Dargo over the years with good results.The Crooked River near Dargo is certainly worth a shot ...Regards Wal.
sorry im just wondering is it supposed to run more water through it? and does it pickup the gold well? ive been reading alot about it and about to purchase a simular one :)
Thanks for watching kim and hope you enjoyed the vid.A lot of the areas around here are Basalt based with a lot of black Spinel. These unfortunately are not magnetic so we have to do it the hard way. I wish the streams we worked were magnetite based as the use of a rare earth magnet would certainly make life a lot easier. Best wishes....Cheers Wal.
thanks for watching....a mate of mine has one of those "Marks" drop riffle sluices and working side by side with us ends up with half of what we get....problem with them is they fill up too quickly with black sand and as Oallen has only flour gold much of it washes through. If you clean them out every hour or so it helps. Cheers Wal.
Hi wal and liz thanks for that,i have found lots of old mines around the copeland area around the lower barrington tops and which looks like could be a good camping area on the river up there just have to get up there now and have a go.cheers.
Thanks for the comment. We run a Minelab GPX 5000 and do quite well on the goldfields. The afternoons high-banking only yielded a few grams. Cheers, Wal
hi i love you video,i uesd to do a lot panning in vic and now live on the south coast nsw( just down the road from the river your in) do you need a permit for sluiceing or panning in nsw? i was looking at a highbank setup like yours which looks nice and easy to handle for one person. great vid keep it up :)
Thank you Wal, that is excellent news for me. A mate of mine and I are planning on sussing out the Macquarie and Turon river area with pans to see if I can justify the cost of a Gold Cube. I live in Sydney. You guys sure do travel a lot eh! I just joined the prospectingaustralia forum BTW, it seems a very nice site,
+Jeff H he mate i live in sydney to and have just started out prospecting .. if your ever interested in going out as a group to move more gravel then hit me up and see what we can arrange i generally go out with a couple of mates and as they say many hands make light work and naturally even split of the yellow stuff that of which we find anyway .. cheers dave
wow, i didnt know about the "Grey area", now ive got something to challenge the rangers with lol, and i did correct my self about the Oz and grams in my last post to you hehehe, im headed down there again this easter holidays.
Hi Wal n Liz i am just starting out for the first time panning,the new england area is only a couple hours drive from where i live,do you know any spots in that area for me to have a go.i watch all your movies there really good.
cool setup looks like it catches the fines really well, i like the wedge design and that big aluminum expanded metal i gotta find some of that here in the states
thanks for watching Wayne....not hard to get bitten by that gold bug....get out as often as you can ....the more you go the better you get and the more bitten you become. Try to go to a place like the ford first. You will learn a lot as the gold is reasonably consistent and there is always someone out there most weekends who are willing to share advice......happy hunting Wal.
Thanks for watching oshiroivan, the sluice will get you gold every time you go out. with the 2 detectors your talking about ,both are a very good machine. my preference would be slightly towards the minelab as have an edge on ground balancing in heavy mineralized soil.
Hi Wall and Liz new to prospecting , can i use a 12v pump to sluice and to high bank as well in NSW few people told me you can not use elec or petrol pumps in NSW
G'day Mark...don't use jet dry or rare earth mag, a lot of our black sand is not magnetic down here . We have yet to loses any gold and the second pan is all the backup required....all the best ...Cheers Wal.
Glad you enjoyed the vid bulls, sounds like you had some great trips out Nundle way in the 70's. Good luck in finding the old rocker box and hope there's still plenty of gold there for you...best wishes, Cheers Wal.
i have been looking for a ideal setup to run as i am keen as to start going on the hunt for gold on weekends as i have been bitten by the gold bug after watching bering sea gold on t.v. big thumbs up and good luck in your future prospecting : )
I like this, but may I ask, is this allowed? I thought fossicking did not allow processing. I was thinking of getting a Gold Cube, but am concerned that a Gold Cube may also be seen processing.
Thanks for watching Jeff. The laws are very unclear and up for interpretation because of their vagueness. You are not allowed to move the gravel by any mechanical means, including hydraulically as in dredging. You are also not allowed to process the material mechanically as in the case of a powered trommel. The processing in a highbanker or a Gold Cube is done by water flow the same as it is with a river sluice. You are allowed to pump water so long as it returns back into the existing river course. Under the present legislation, based on the way it is written, it would be very difficult to prosecute in a court of law against the use of a highbanker or a gold cube. It would only take a few prospectors doing the wrong thing with these however, to have the act rewritten in a manner to make their use illegal, as they did with dredges. The "Greenies" did this with out a scientific impact study, and if they seriously looked into the pros and cons with small suction dredges, in a scientific and environmental manner, the ban would have never been imposed....Take care....Wal.
Thanks Wall. I hope to see you out there one day.I will know you & Liz but you wont know me. I will say hay Wall i'm Stew. You had an add at the start of your video That's good.
Thanks for watching Roshan. We generally run the banker for around 8 to 10 hours at a time. Wouldn't be able to tell you the exact quantity we got on this vid as we generally put the takings into a jar and only weigh it when it is full. Cheers Wal.
Thanks for watching Bryan....I've also got a vid out on How to build a high volume high banker that may be of interest to you.....Whipstick is a great place ...got some good gold from there....Cheers Wal.
Thaks for the comment david. we mainly show the vids for family and friends with an interest in the outdoors. We do not make them to encourage the public for financial gain. Some sell their gold...some use it for their personal collection....some like us make jewelery from it. All these topics are a separate vid in themselves directed at a different market.....Cheers Wal.
One suggestion, classify your material down further when working with very fine gold, it saves you a hell of alot of panning strokes, maybe #50 or even #100 mesh, you can save those #50+ers and pan them separately. Nice simple set up!
nice gold, ill prolly see you down there 1 day,lol as its my regular haunt, but i must say, you really need to use dishwashing liquide when doing your backwash! Cheers Rusty!
By the way Wal n Liz ! I am thinking of making a Sluice box and doing some testing with electric and petrol powered water pumps. Is it legal to run a Sluice for fossicking or do you need a permit for that I have read the rules but there is a little bit of a grey area there some how its worded to be caught out or not ?? I want to make some thing High volume but still light enough for some one to cary some distance before setting up whats your opinion ? Cheers Brad.
Good luck with the build Brad. At the moment it is still legal to use a high banker, and I agree the wording is very ambiguous. So long as everybody respects the environment by not wrecking any stream beds we will be able to continue banking without any problems. Keep your high banking "Within the Natural Flood Zone" of the river or creek. However it only needs a few individuals not doing the right thing to bring it to the attention of the "Greenies" and they will do everything in their power to stuff it up for us. "Greenies are "one eyed" and very difficult to have a sensible conversation with. Cheers Wal.
@rooshooter1977 Glad you liked the video. Certainly great spot. Thanks for the tip but if you use enough water on the front wash the gold won't float on the back wash. Certainly if you're not use to panning flour gold then a drop of dish liquid will certainly make it easier for you. Look forward to possibly catching up on the river and exchanging ideas. Cheers, Wal and Liz
Hi Ian... haven't done a great deal in the New England area but i know of people who have done really well there. There is also a lot of gemstones especially in the form of sapphires, garnets, topaz associated with the gold up that way. My advice is google up Bonzle.com and go to your local area and it will show you all the gold mines there. Look for creeks that feed off these mines ..especially the alluvial areas and give preference to faster draining creeks with plenty of bedrock..Cheers Wal.
Love ya videos guys, you're a bloody character Liz. I bought my first pans last week and me and the girl will be around Fossikers Way in august, hope to see yas round.
Thanks for watching francisco. I generally run around the 180 litre per min through the banker. This area is mainly known for flood gold and generally most of it is in the top 30cm of gravel. Cheers Wal.
Thanks for watching david. We mainly do the vids for family and friends, so they can keep up with what we do on our weekends away. We do not do them to be teachers but many learn different ideas from the way we operate. The vids are meant to be a source of fun and not a teaching aid ,and that's the way we like it. We don't want "Everybody" to watch them, only those who who have a similar interest in the outdoors like ourselves. All the very best ,...Cheers Wal.
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hey wal .. any news regarding the use of dredges in our rivers and creeks ??? I have seen a couple of clips of a couple of fellahs using a hand dredge with bilge pumps to push the material through the hose....I would think the epa would get in on that action somehow as well as the licensing board lol..On another note I have begun making my sluice has cost me $70 so far and I have enough material to make a few extras lol (sheetmetal worker) I have my own folder but will have to pop rivet the joins as i dont have a pulse welder.. my son works for a company that makes wool wadding and such so I am going to see what they have in way of a material to trap goldI grabbed some marine carpet and am yet to go to bunnings lolwill post a video when I assemble it I dont need to show my safe work practices at home lol which I do impliment btw lol
Motorized dredges are 100% illegal throughout the whole country and if you get caught with one, there's some pretty hefty fines. Hand operated suction pumps such as yabbie pumps although being mechanical to a degree are tolerated. One needs only say to an inspector that he is pumping yabbies...lol Look forward to hearing about your adventures with the banker and hope the gold cooperates for you. Cheers, Wal
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It's perfectly legal to use a Highbankers in NSW, Australia. Highbankers or sluice box alone is not illegal. The use of motorize or mechanical pump in highbanking is what's illegal. The mining act 1996 and the pump moving the water from A to B is covered by the water management act 2000. Cheers
Liz can work that pan like a pro. Her technique is fluid. I definitely learned some things.
Glad you got some tips from the vid Frank. Hope the gold is being kind to you. Cheers Wal.
Wal n Liz I love all of your videos . Please don't stop. Hope You find a big nugget soon.
Great to hear that you enjoy some of our vids Steven and hope luck has been following you around. All the best...Wal.
Thank you for the no BS demonstration on highbank gold mining. Most appreciated
Like a lot of people i found that really informative, been looking at this area and thinking of doing some panning just for fun. really good work guys.
Excellent, I really enjoy watch'n your videos. You and Wal make it look easy.
Glad you enjoy them Ken and hope the gold is being kind to you as well...All the very best..Wal.
WOW , That is a great day lot's of color very nice video, I like your high-banker setup!. You gave me some idea's about different matting thanks again and you got my subscription. Peace
Glad you enjoyed the vid Paul. The Banker is an older version of the one I mainly use but is very efficient at this particular spot as it only has very fine flour gold. All the very best.....Wal.
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I hate to say this but...
You guys deserve all the gold you get for your effort!! I am not sure if you guys profit from this, but I do hope that it was a great day out.
Backbreaking work by the gentleman, and the meticulous panning technique by the lady.
But seriously, thank you for the informative video.
Very enjoyable video and well done Wal and Liz.
excellent work Wal n Liz! i think a powerful magnet will separate the black sand from the gold most times & make your panning alot easier, all the best kimbo!
Found this combination to be the most efficient. The expanded metal is not your typical aluminium expanded. It is in actual fact expanded roof access grate which can be sourced from any of your commercial roofers. The sides of this mesh are vertical and not angled and this makes it a lot more efficient on fine flour gold, because of the bigger vortex it creates. Best of luck!....Wal
Congrats on the Video guys, Obviously well practiced, been there and done it before and know what you're doing. I'm just getting back to it in Tassie after a long while so we'll se how we go :)
A old video but still better than most posted now :)
Enjoying watching your development of Sluice boxes and bankers.
A day out panning for gold with a beautiful women....What more could a man ask for! Well done, Wal nLiz!
Thanks for the comment. It certainly makes for a pleasant day out on the stream. All the very best, Wal
For people who do this as a hobby, your fantastic
Mesmerising!absolutely awesome!you guys are a good team,great vid again.!
Nice set up and great video!! Enjoyed watching thanks!
Hi Liz & Wal. Thanks for living my dream for me. I don't have time.
LOL... Unfortunately, our time on this earth is extremely short. It's best to somehow squeeze some spare time into the equation of life before the chance passes you by. Sorry to hear how busy you are and hope spare time becomes more favorable down the track. All the very best, Wal
God damn that's so cool ! I'd liked your video since I've turned the play on. That's a great success, hope you guys have luck !
Nice Video! you can tell it's not Liz's first day panning thats for sure,All the best of luck in your future prospecting adventures!
Great video mate. Nice result too. Might have to buy the wife one of those sluices for x-mas!
hi great vid... im from Gulgong, have done a bit of panning years ago and only ever found specs,, waiting on the arrival of my metal detector, and looking forward to getting back into looking .. thanks for sharing this vid, it stired up the old gold fever ,lol
glad you enjoyed the vid...the shoveling looks like hard work but when you pace yourself as lazily as we do.....15 min dig.... 15 min rest ...15 min...chat....then the work is really not that bad. We only chase the gold and gemstones for a hobby so don't need it to pay the bills....Cheers Wal.
Glad you enjoyed the vid Danny....Hope Fossikers Way sees luck following you around and good gold in your pan, Best of luck, Cheers Wal.
Your best set up to start looking for gold would be a standard river sluice and a gold pan. If the bug get strong enough, convert the river sluice to a high banker by adding the water pump. This will increase the amount you get tenfold. Best of luck. Cheers, Wal
@tfa40729...Trevor, thanks for your constructive input. We set the gold catching section of our high banker into 2 different configurations, hence the 2 mats on the top section of the high banker. The 1st mat traps all the coarse gold, the 2nd mat traps all the fine flour gold. The lower section of the high banker, is used only for trapping sapphires hence no mats and no clean up shown. We feel it's not necessary to show each mat separately as they both combine to do the same thing....see cont.
you guys are becoming famous! Love your vids, this video is the first time to see Liz on camera, what a beauty! are ya'll rich yet? wish I were hangin' with you guys, too much fun.
Thanks for watching angie and great to hear that you're enjoying the vids. Hope all's going great over your way....Cheers Wal.
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Love your videos guys, and your accent Liz! Thumbs up!
Thanks for watching ARELAV and hope you enjoyed them. Sorry to hear that you have trouble prospecting in Russia as it is a very enjoyable pastime.Best wishes from the land down under...Cheers Wal.
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Once you try it you will probably get hooked,,,,,great way to spend the summer weekends...Cheers Wal.
hi Scott... thanks for watching. This is one of the many gold bearing streams within an hours drive from where we live. It's a popular area as it has mainly flour gold which was very difficult for the old timers to clean out. Every flood replenishes the gold and it is not uncommon to get around 5 grams of gold for an easy days hi banking. this would probably equate to around a cubic meter per 5 grams. On a really good day we get as much as 10 grams. Good luck on your local streams...Cheers Wal.
Amazing to watch. However, it got me wondering whether gold panning is legal in Australia? Where are you going to sell the gold after?
Nice video... congratutalions from Brazil
G'day 234...the place is Oallen Ford on the Shoalhaven River. Its at the crossing between Neriga and Tarago. You'll find quite a few people there on the weekends but it is quite a large area that can accommodate a big crowd. We mainly Hi-Bank but if you haven't got one a standard river sluice would be the next best thing ...you'll also need a gold pan, 1/4" sieve, and a shovel. Try downstream where the rock bars cross the river....the opposite bank to where you can drive is best..Cheers Wal.
You don't need a permit or license to prospect in NSW. Good idea to make your hi-bank set up as light as possible. Most of the best spots require at least a kilometer walk. The hi-banker you see in the video is a combination for gold and sapphires. Our gold only hi-banker has only one tier and is much more portable than the one you see. Best of luck and C U in the field one day. Cheers, Wal
that vid & result was great. i use a M&D MARKS super sluice at the shoalhaven river & can't quite get that result. WELL DONE.
That looked like a nice set up and outing.
Glad you enjoyed the vid Clouds. Certainly a pleasant day out on the river and a good place for a swim during the heat of the day. All the very best...Wal.
Are you guys on a claim, or is this just a river where you set up and started digging? looks good...that is a nice ammount of gold...how much material did you run through your highbanker to get that ammount of gold?...any idea how many buckets, pounds, or yardage? I am doing a similar type of thing and am curious how much material others go through to find that kind of volume of gold. NICE JOB!
You two are great. Looks like you are having a great time. Thanks for posting.
Try screening your cons or classifying as they say in the US before you pan. It really does make the panning process easier. My wife and I get a kick out of finding pickers in the screens when we look through the screened material. We kind of race each other looking around to find a piece of gold and giggle like kids when we do.
Thanks very much for your comment Thomas. Great to see that your wife also gets involved with your great hobby. We find that double panning our concentrates from this area gets us 99% of the gold in our highbanker. The 1% which goes back into the river; goes to the "Gold Gods" and for this, they look after us on our following trips...lol Hope all's going great over your way. Cheers, Wal
Thanks very much for your comment Thomas. Great to see that your wife also gets involved with your great hobby. We find that double panning our concentrates from this area gets us 99% of the gold in our highbanker. The 1% which goes back into the river; goes to the "Gold Gods" and for this, they look after us on our following trips...lol Hope all's going great over your way. Cheers, Wal
A good hi banker will pick up every bit of gold.....the amount of water is regulated by the size of the box. the one shown runs at its optimal performance and catches even the smallest flour gold. Our system runs the classifier full length of the box as we use it for sapphires as well. You may be getting confused by seeing no water running on the top box.....It's going through the classifier and over the trap underneath....Cheers Wal.
Good video. I'm wondering would it be easier on ya to leave the last of the panning until you are at home on a cool evening.
Nice...You make a great team. Do you own a MineLab metal detector and ever hit the gold fields their??? I would love to take a MineLab and go on a three week vac their. Two weeks in the fields and one like you highbanking. What was the final clean up weight???
Thanks for your concern sepfirem. We always double pan our first run and never have more than a couple of specks in the 2nd pan. Once you yourself become efficient at gold panning then maybe you will also be able to speed up a little yourself. Again, thanks for your concern but unfortunately, we do not lose any gold for you to pan behind us....Cheers, Wal
keep finding GOLD WalnLiz..i keep following and watching your vids..GOODLUCK..
I'd say that was more than a reasonable take for an afternoon of work. Very nice indeed...
Hi Brad...haven't panned much in that area....only detected in the triangle. Have panned a lot up in the high country between Mt Hotham and Dargo over the years with good results.The Crooked River near Dargo is certainly worth a shot ...Regards Wal.
sorry im just wondering is it supposed to run more water through it? and does it pickup the gold well? ive been reading alot about it and about to purchase a simular one :)
Thanks for watching kim and hope you enjoyed the vid.A lot of the areas around here are Basalt based with a lot of black Spinel. These unfortunately are not magnetic so we have to do it the hard way. I wish the streams we worked were magnetite based as the use of a rare earth magnet would certainly make life a lot easier. Best wishes....Cheers Wal.
thanks for watching....a mate of mine has one of those "Marks" drop riffle sluices and working side by side with us ends up with half of what we get....problem with them is they fill up too quickly with black sand and as Oallen has only flour gold much of it washes through. If you clean them out every hour or so it helps. Cheers Wal.
Hi wal and liz thanks for that,i have found lots of old mines around the copeland area around the lower barrington tops and which looks like could be a good camping area on the river up there just have to get up there now and have a go.cheers.
Thanks for the upload Wal n Liz.
Thanks for watching B N E and hope you enjoyed the vid. Take care...Wal.
Loved this one , informative and relaxing . Good stuff
Glad you enjoyed the vid Greg and all the best for this coming season. Cheers Wal.
Thanks for the comment. We run a Minelab GPX 5000 and do quite well on the goldfields. The afternoons high-banking only yielded a few grams. Cheers, Wal
hey man very good job is something beautiful to work with his wife God bless you always greetings from republica Dominicana I am du new subscriber
Gday wal and Liz!
Love your videos! Just wondering can anyone just turn up with sluice and petrol pump and start sluicing??
Cheers Ben
Thanks for the comment mate, we find it an enjoyable way to spend the weekend....Best wishes ...Wal.
James Wilson ..thanks mate and hope you are safe in these troubling times...take care.
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hi i love you video,i uesd to do a lot panning in vic and now live on the south coast nsw( just down the road from the river your in) do you need a permit for sluiceing or panning in nsw? i was looking at a highbank setup like yours which looks nice and easy to handle for one person. great vid keep it up :)
Thank you Wal, that is excellent news for me. A mate of mine and I are planning on sussing out the Macquarie and Turon river area with pans to see if I can justify the cost of a Gold Cube. I live in Sydney. You guys sure do travel a lot eh! I just joined the prospectingaustralia forum BTW, it seems a very nice site,
Best of luck for the rest of the season Jeff. Hope the gold is kind to you. Cheers Wal.
+Jeff H he mate i live in sydney to and have just started out prospecting .. if your ever interested in going out as a group to move more gravel then hit me up and see what we can arrange i generally go out with a couple of mates and as they say many hands make light work and naturally even split of the yellow stuff that of which we find anyway .. cheers dave
wow, i didnt know about the "Grey area", now ive got something to challenge the rangers with lol, and i did correct my self about the Oz and grams in my last post to you hehehe, im headed down there again this easter holidays.
I love your Channel just the video and the success I like and the gems
Hi Wal n Liz i am just starting out for the first time panning,the new england area is only a couple hours drive from where i live,do you know any spots in that area for me to have a go.i watch all your movies there really good.
Thanks for watching dale, never had a go at panning near Kempsey...but have spent many hours fishing in the Macley.....all the best ..Cheers Wal.
cool setup looks like it catches the fines really well, i like the wedge design and that big aluminum expanded metal i gotta find some of that here in the states
Thanks for the comment david...I agree she handles a pan really well and doesn't give much back to the stream...all the best and Cheers Wal.
thanks for watching Wayne....not hard to get bitten by that gold bug....get out as often as you can ....the more you go the better you get and the more bitten you become. Try to go to a place like the ford first. You will learn a lot as the gold is reasonably consistent and there is always someone out there most weekends who are willing to share advice......happy hunting Wal.
Thanks for watching oshiroivan, the sluice will get you gold every time you go out. with the 2 detectors your talking about ,both are a very good machine. my preference would be slightly towards the minelab as have an edge on ground balancing in heavy mineralized soil.
Hi Wall and Liz new to prospecting , can i use a 12v pump to sluice and to high bank as well in NSW few people told me you can not use elec or petrol pumps in NSW
glad you liked it...good luck on your panning . Cheers Wal.
G'day Mark...don't use jet dry or rare earth mag, a lot of our black sand is not magnetic down here . We have yet to loses any gold and the second pan is all the backup required....all the best ...Cheers Wal.
What a beauty, a mine in the yard 😁
Glad you enjoyed the vid bulls, sounds like you had some great trips out Nundle way in the 70's. Good luck in finding the old rocker box and hope there's still plenty of gold there for you...best wishes, Cheers Wal.
have you all ever gotton a 1/4 out of your 1/4 inch seperater? cool little spot and video too!!
i have been looking for a ideal setup to run as i am keen as to start going on the hunt for gold on weekends as i have been bitten by the gold bug after watching bering sea gold on t.v. big thumbs up and good luck in your future prospecting : )
I like this, but may I ask, is this allowed? I thought fossicking did not allow processing. I was thinking of getting a Gold Cube, but am concerned that a Gold Cube may also be seen processing.
Thanks for watching Jeff. The laws are very unclear and up for interpretation because of their vagueness. You are not allowed to move the gravel by any mechanical means, including hydraulically as in dredging. You are also not allowed to process the material mechanically as in the case of a powered trommel. The processing in a highbanker or a Gold Cube is done by water flow the same as it is with a river sluice. You are allowed to pump water so long as it returns back into the existing river course. Under the present legislation, based on the way it is written, it would be very difficult to prosecute in a court of law against the use of a highbanker or a gold cube. It would only take a few prospectors doing the wrong thing with these however, to have the act rewritten in a manner to make their use illegal, as they did with dredges. The "Greenies" did this with out a scientific impact study, and if they seriously looked into the pros and cons with small suction dredges, in a scientific and environmental manner, the ban would have never been imposed....Take care....Wal.
Thanks Wall. I hope to see you out there one day.I will know you & Liz but you wont know me. I will say hay Wall i'm Stew. You had an add at the start of your video That's good.
Be great to catch up one day and be sure to yell out Stew. I'll have a cold beer in the fridge for you. All the very best, Wal
Hi thanks for video can you please tell me for how long you run the high bunker , and what's the exactly quantity you made in this video ? Thanks
Thanks for watching Roshan. We generally run the banker for around 8 to 10 hours at a time. Wouldn't be able to tell you the exact quantity we got on this vid as we generally put the takings into a jar and only weigh it when it is full. Cheers Wal.
I enjoyed watching your video very much thank you for sharing
Great to hear that you enjoy some of our vids fuser, and all the very best...Wal.
Hey guys I was wondering if you have heard of yalwal if so is the panning good there
Amazing....i like that...
Thanks for watching Bryan....I've also got a vid out on How to build a high volume high banker that may be of interest to you.....Whipstick is a great place ...got some good gold from there....Cheers Wal.
Thaks for the comment david. we mainly show the vids for family and friends with an interest in the outdoors. We do not make them to encourage the public for financial gain. Some sell their gold...some use it for their personal collection....some like us make jewelery from it. All these topics are a separate vid in themselves directed at a different market.....Cheers Wal.
Glad you enjoyed the vid and hope your weekend trip was a great success....Cheers Wal.
Thanks for the comment Jason, hope you enjoyed the vid mate.Best wishes, Wal.
One suggestion, classify your material down further when working with very fine gold, it saves you a hell of alot of panning strokes, maybe #50 or even #100 mesh, you can save those #50+ers and pan them separately. Nice simple set up!
Nice to see that broth. it looks like wight exceed 10 grams. very cool and thanks for posting
Thanks for watching Abdalla. It's a bit less than that as flour gold always looks more in the video. Have a great New Year. Cheers, Wal
nice gold, ill prolly see you down there 1 day,lol as its my regular haunt, but i must say, you really need to use dishwashing liquide when doing your backwash!
Cheers Rusty!
By the way Wal n Liz ! I am thinking of making a Sluice box and doing some testing with electric and petrol powered water pumps. Is it legal to run a Sluice for fossicking or do you need a permit for that I have read the rules but there is a little bit of a grey area there some how its worded to be caught out or not ?? I want to make some thing High volume but still light enough for some one to cary some distance before setting up whats your opinion ?
Cheers Brad.
Good luck with the build Brad. At the moment it is still legal to use a high banker, and I agree the wording is very ambiguous. So long as everybody respects the environment by not wrecking any stream beds we will be able to continue banking without any problems. Keep your high banking "Within the Natural Flood Zone" of the river or creek. However it only needs a few individuals not doing the right thing to bring it to the attention of the "Greenies" and they will do everything in their power to stuff it up for us. "Greenies are "one eyed" and very difficult to have a sensible conversation with. Cheers Wal.
@rooshooter1977 Glad you liked the video. Certainly great spot. Thanks for the tip but if you use enough water on the front wash the gold won't float on the back wash. Certainly if you're not use to panning flour gold then a drop of dish liquid will certainly make it easier for you. Look forward to possibly catching up on the river and exchanging ideas.
Cheers,
Wal and Liz
Nice gold, someday would like to head to your fine country, kinda of getting cool here in the Cariboo this time of year, end of October
Hi Ian... haven't done a great deal in the New England area but i know of people who have done really well there. There is also a lot of gemstones especially in the form of sapphires, garnets, topaz associated with the gold up that way. My advice is google up Bonzle.com and go to your local area and it will show you all the gold mines there. Look for creeks that feed off these mines ..especially the alluvial areas and give preference to faster draining creeks with plenty of bedrock..Cheers Wal.
Love ya videos guys, you're a bloody character Liz. I bought my first pans last week and me and the girl will be around Fossikers Way in august, hope to see yas round.
how many gallons per hour do you use?And did you hit bed rock or where you just getting surface material?
Thanks for watching francisco. I generally run around the 180 litre per min through the banker. This area is mainly known for flood gold and generally most of it is in the top 30cm of gravel. Cheers Wal.
Thanks for watching david. We mainly do the vids for family and friends, so they can keep up with what we do on our weekends away. We do not do them to be teachers but many learn different ideas from the way we operate. The vids are meant to be a source of fun and not a teaching aid ,and that's the way we like it. We don't want "Everybody" to watch them, only those who who have a similar interest in the outdoors like ourselves. All the very best ,...Cheers Wal.
: My name is Musa from Sudan. I have experience of at least five years in the field of gold work. I have experience with dealing with gold devices, especially the GPZ 7000 device and the gold monster. I want to work with any company working in the field of gold. I can also extract gold pieces from large distances.
+Graham S Thanks for watching Graham. I run a Honda WX 15 pump and this runs for a full days hi-banking on about 2 litres of petrol. Cheers, Wal
Wal nLiz what's the most gold you've found in a day ? Great sleuce !!!
Wal nLiz
Love the video. I wish all the best to you
Great video, I enjoyed it.
Thanks for watching blacksand, and thanks for the comment. Best of luck on the streams in your area, Cheers Wal.
hey wal .. any news regarding the use of dredges in our rivers and creeks ??? I have seen a couple of clips of a couple of fellahs using a hand dredge with bilge pumps to push the material through the hose....I would think the epa would get in on that action somehow as well as the licensing board lol..On another note I have begun making my sluice has cost me $70 so far and I have enough material to make a few extras lol (sheetmetal worker) I have my own folder but will have to pop rivet the joins as i dont have a pulse welder.. my son works for a company that makes wool wadding and such so I am going to see what they have in way of a material to trap goldI grabbed some marine carpet and am yet to go to bunnings lolwill post a video when I assemble it I dont need to show my safe work practices at home lol which I do impliment btw lol
Motorized dredges are 100% illegal throughout the whole country and if you get caught with one, there's some pretty hefty fines. Hand operated suction pumps such as yabbie pumps although being mechanical to a degree are tolerated. One needs only say to an inspector that he is pumping yabbies...lol Look forward to hearing about your adventures with the banker and hope the gold cooperates for you. Cheers, Wal