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« Reply #20 on: February 24, 2010, 11:53:58 am »
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Hey Harold....

My name here is Klondike Ike.... I am a commercial gold miner and have been for many years with 30 plus years of prospecting experience.... I knew Tom and Perry of the GPAA back when they were in diapers.... I also Knew George too...

Keene Mining Mining supply sells a "Highbanker"  a very versatile prospecting tool...and is your basic "Power Sluice"... some models can used as a straight sluice, or small dredge and some set up "HIGH" on the bank to hand shovel your gold bearing material into its hopper, with water being delivered by a pump from the creek...

Unlike Hydraulic mining which requires a pump (or water under extreme pressure) and pipe and a water cannon to tear down a mountain side...

I have used all versions of these tools... today, I used a 100 ton an hour plant fed by loaders and excavators...

By the way... Hydraulick mining is usually outlawed in most US states...however, under certain conditions, on state controlled land, you can still hydraulic mine in Alaska...where I have mined and still have claims...

I'm glad you found your plans for your highbanker.... and I am very sorry you were met with such confrontational conversation on this site..Please check back in with us as there is a lot of very good helpful people here willing to offer you assistance...which is the common thread for this site....and is what makes this site so successful...

Good luck in you prospecting and highbanker project...

Please lets know how it turned out...take lots of pictures...

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Hi Christain....

Thats for all the help you offer folks here on this site...

Since you stated you know very little about prospecting, here is website for Keene Engineering ...which have been around for several decades building recreational prospecting equipment....

Check out their website...and online catalog... it list all of the equipment they build..including "power Sluices"..aka... Highbanker"....

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Hi Christian....

Thats for all the help you offer folks here on this site...

Since you stated you know very little about prospecting, here is website for Keene Engineering ...which have been around for several decades building recreational prospecting equipment....

Check out their website...and online catalog... it list all of the equipment they build..including "power Sluices"..aka... Highbanker"....

                                                     

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Hi Christian....

Thats for all the help you offer folks here on this site...

Since you stated you know very little about prospecting, here is website for Keene Engineering ...which have been around for several decades building recreational prospecting equipment....

Check out their website...and online catalog... it list all of the equipment they build..including "power Sluices"..aka... Highbanker"....

                                                     

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« Reply #21 on: February 24, 2010, 03:28:59 pm »
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Harold, GoldDigger has his facts all wrong on this one. A highbanker is the same thing as a power sluice. Everyone is leaning to being politically correct and getting away from calling them highbankers because it makes people think of hydraulicking.

I to do not want to see you leave over one person who is ill informed on this matter. Even if it is a language thing.

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« Reply #22 on: February 24, 2010, 03:55:25 pm »
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Well   i  appreciate   all   you  Fellow  Prospectors  for  what  you  had  to  say,  and  i  Plan  on   staying  around  as  long  as    they  have  people  like  all  the   rest  for  being  so  helpfull, so   i'm  here  i  check  out  alot  of  things  on  this  forum  and  plan  to  be  around  as  long  as  God  will   let  me,  thanks  again  all  of  you.  Harold in Fla.

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« Reply #23 on: February 24, 2010, 06:26:36 pm »
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Thanks for sticking around. As to your OP take a look at

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and youtube has some videos, I got a killer deal on my power sluice and motor/pump set up so I have not built on.

If you are going to just prospect the beaches of FL make a "beach box" and keep the water "fanned" out over the width of the sluice at a low flow rate.

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« Reply #24 on: February 24, 2010, 07:10:40 pm »
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Woooooooo Hoooooooo!

A save, you will not be disappointed Sir!

Happy to have you here and Much for you to teach us and to learn.

Post away and All will be well.   Wise

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« Reply #25 on: February 25, 2010, 03:00:52 am »
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Harold, GoldDigger has his facts all wrong on this one. A highbanker is the same thing as a power sluice. Everyone is leaning to being politically correct and getting away from calling them highbankers because it makes people think of hydraulicking.

I to do not want to see you leave over one person who is ill informed on this matter. Even if it is a language thing.


No it's not but the term has been extended to both in current usage. Many years ago, a highbanker was a term reserved for the equipment used in hydraulic mining. Now it also means a pumped sluice. You youngsters can and do change usage of words all the time. I mean, twenty years ago, "texting" wasn't a word. Now it's everywhere. Even in law. In Western Australia, you can be fined for "texting" on your mobile phone while driving.

I have my facts right. I was wrong about sole usage. Just like you are now. I admitted so to Harold in PM and he asked me to just drop it instead of making an issue of it. But since you feel it appropriate to take a moderator of this forum to task, I feel it is appropriate to set the record straight.

To be clear, I was wrong on it being a sole use word. You are wrong on it being a sole use word. It has two meanings today when years ago, it had only one.

Besides, Harold's not leaving.

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« Reply #26 on: February 25, 2010, 03:07:31 am »
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Well ten years ago I'd probably have been brought up on sexual harassment charges for asking a female assistant to google something for me.  Phrases and terminology change.  This is not that big of a deal.  We all know what he's looking for, and I think he's got the answer he was looking for.

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