Gold Prospecting, Pans, Sluices and Detectors! What to Buy?
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Am a total amateur gold Panner I have
Minelab pro pan kit
Works great come to own conclusion for the price it’s a nobrainer.
Metal detector i use it’s just a
Minelab x-terra 705
Possibly the cheapest branded detector around and the quality of the product for the price is simply unbeatable came with 2 coils to boot.
And 3rd thing is a sluice
So not knowing which one to buy cause there’s so many out there, I watched some videos for Australian conditions and the GoldRat mini river sluice seemed to be everyone’s choice . For a budget I get along ok nothing like this guy but it’s all just fun 👍👍
All of the gear you're using I either still use or have used. More often than not it's about the ground you're on, not the equipment.
Great selection and solid choices. Now you just need practice.
Man i had so many pms and emails today about this video, I had to take some time to watch, you should know mate since you had that water gate so has every unit we manufactured (early april last year) and you were 100% right when you run the hopper really steep trying to get the unit to self clear it really needed the water gate to redirect the material whihc was now pointing further down the sluice and onto the dream mat . I didn't design the hopper option for the cleanup sluice in the same way i design full blown highbankers as it was a retrofit there were some limitations but i think as a whole its probably our most popular product next to the 888 sluice. As far as the holes we added in two rows of holes with three options and three mounting points for both hopper and C clamp. So anyone who purchased one from us since april last year already has those options. The legs we have modified our standard highbanker legs and made them smaller to also fit this unit, in production right now probably a 40/60 split with 40% of people wanting the higher removable legs 60 loving the rigid legs that drop straight into a tub. We'll keep the universal legs in stock but will supply with the removable legs, we do listen to customers feedback and accommodate any user input where practical. as always Chris great video good honest content with open dialogue the aussie way
All of this too ⬆️⬆️⬆️
Might be a good idea to send Chris a new one to debut on his channel? 😉 Maybe offer a coupon code to his subscribers?
@@ColonelK0rn1 if thats something Chris would like to do id be happy to do something along those lines
Yeah i think for what Chris does for you guys something in return is always a nice gesture, although i didn't feel he was advertising you product he was just say why he uses it and how he makes it work for him🖒 it's also great that you take these comments on board as often companies just don't listen these days ha ha the wonder why people stop buying their product lol
@@petereaton6740 i dont disagree mate but ome has to be cafefull not to pay for opinion. Too often these days companies influence people with freebees and well never be that company. I do have a gift for Chris though :)
Well all I use is a bucket and spade, there’s no gold to be found in the UK, so I just build sandcastles 😂😂😂😂👍👍👍👍👍
Michael Eldridge I live near Wanlockhead and there is great for gold hope this helps
There's gold everywhere
There is gold In Scotland . Wales .Devon .Cornwall .Ireland And England .. Just not a lot ! lol
Theres plenty of gold in the uk mate. I highly reccomend buying Lee Palmers book "Gold Occurrences in the UK : A Gold Prospector's Guide"
Plenty of awesome treasure hunting in Europe with it's rich cultural history. A treasure detector's the game over there.
Well 4 months ago I got my first set of pans,and you and Dan H. Sold me on a batato-pan . With the Garrett ss as a up grade kit. I got what I wanted and what I needed.
That was an awesome video! Every time I feel like I learned something from you that I didn't know before I watched thanks! You are a true asset to this community!
I'm definitely an Old Mouldy Hat. Love your work Chris.
Love the Miller table comment at the end! I just purchased the Gold Monster 1000, I have a gold claw, a Falcon finishing pan and a Garrett super sluice and I like each for different reasons, I haven't bought a sluice yet but will likely do so soon. Thank you so much for giving your honest opinion and as always the pups are with me watching your videos. (it's like they hear your voice then come running knowing they will get scratched behind the ears lol)
Can always rely on your honest opinion. I appreciate these videos
Thanks Chris.
I'm a relative newbie, no actual panning experience. So I'm relying on people like you, to share your real life experiences.
I've watched many of your videos, but this video is the most comprehensive and explanatory video I've seen.
Hi Chris. The Dolly pot is really important for anyone who lives in an area where hard rock is the main type of mining
Love the video! Always enjoy watching your gold from across the world.Alot of people go crazy when they start out prospecting spending hundreds of dollars and when a gold pan and a shovel is all you need to find gold. Again love the video and we hope for heavy pans this season. Much love from California!
Great tutorial video, nothing better than to have someone tell us the why's instead of just telling us this is what is best for me🖒
Thank you I'm going to save this video in my things because there is a lot of information that I can go over thank you so much I enjoy all your videos you're one of my favourite gold prospector I hope you hit it big and hard
Great video i like as much information as possible without being bored that why I like all your videos thank you.
Thanks for the Fool Proof rating on Dream Mat. We try hard to keep the Fun in prospecting for our less serious & beginners. Fun, not work. And even with kids & maybe having a few beers & just letting the creek help decompress the guy who thinks too much.
Getting caught up on your vids, this is a great one. Love that u shared why u liked them, not just an arbitrary this is the best. Cheers!
You are correct about the pan sizes. I recently bought a bigger proline pan and I very quickly found out that it is much harder to wash back the black sands and keep the gold up top. I’m going back to my old pan for sure. Thanks for the tips and info Chris 😁🤙👊
and this is why your my prospecting guide out of all others love the videos bro
Right on & thanks Chris! As well you know as you stated on the pans & metal detector, we all personally have our own favorites...like I Love the Fisher CZ3D! I'm only 1 of 2 in the world with a lifetime warranty. Live both of those pans you use too...If the gold in my near vicinity weren't just specimens, few nuggets, but Paper Thin gold eroded from fractured fissures, that dream mat might just work, but I'll save it for the area I visit where I used to live. Later...
Love the knowledge in details Chris.. Back to basics....
🤘🔥 I'm so proud of you getting your super sluce! I'm also headed to Oregon to prospect and see a millatary friend of mine I'm so stoked!!!
great vid for getting an idea of all your options...
Great info once again thanks Chris I enjoy listening to your knowledge
Hey Chris Great video, and I love the Wyoming State shirt 👍👍👍
Thank you again bro, that was a great video. Makes me even more anxious to "get out there and get into it" ( a quote from another great prospector).
Go get ye some
G day Chris!! Your videos are filled with so much need to know knowledge. You, Pauly, and Dan are my top 3 channels. You can learn everything you need to know with you guys. You guys need to do a big collab. Have a great day Mate!!👊👍👏❤😁
I think your selections for this year are going to be perfect.
Love the super sluice, but I find it’s so big I get tired pretty quick. My favourite pan is the Garett Gold Trap. The bottom is offset so you can hold it quite nicely. www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=10&ved=2ahUKEwipvf753IvoAhVdJTQIHaNHDFcQFjAJegQIAhAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.garrett.com%2Faccessories%2Fgold-pans%2F14-gold-trap&usg=AOvVaw1GmjJD4_7vt3QWeMAZIZZI
I have the garrett super sluice and you can really fill it up. I got a green mountain gold trap for Christmas and can't wait to try it out when all the ice and snow is gone. Thanks for the video!
I'm sorta new to your channel anyway you have some of the best prospecting info for the regular ass dude out of every one on TH-cam you're my favorite channel by far man
I live down hill from a bunch of gold mines, when the monsoon rains come it runs straight through my property. Pretty sure I'm going to find some gold in my back yard. Yeah buddy! Your videos very informative, thank you.
Really like the channel and I appreciate your time. Thanks brother.
good honest revues thanks.keep up the good work and stay happy mate.
Chris. Thank you for the great video. I totally agree with you. I have used the gold claw and it does loses gold. I have to deal with the same type of gold. The problem with gold is it's everywhere. As you said. All these new mats help but they collect the same amount of gold. If you have more matting it will help with catching that super fine gold we deal with. It doesn't matter nif you have good hog or dream mat. There both great mats. It's more about how much matting you have . My great friend Jesse has been bin Blackhawk Colorado for 48 years and he was running 30 plus feet of regular sluice box and he still lost gold. For that super fine gold you need a dead zone as you know. If you don't behave a dead zone then you wash that super fine gold at. Thank you for the great video Chris.
Nicely presented, Chris
Interesting observation on the diameter of pan bottoms. I picked up a couple cheapo pans on Amazon, they turned out to be smaller than I expected, but they work VERY well for cleanup vs. a normal size pan.
Great video!
I like a wide bottom pan so I can slosh the material around better letting that gold/ heavies drop to the bottom. Then clean out the black sand/ heavys with a small mine lab pan.
thanks mate
Another great video! I have a Garret Super Sluice, Garret Gold Trap, and a Garret Gravity Trap. I have a Garret 1/2 inch classifier that I don’t really use. I use a 1/4 inch homemade classifier I made out of a 5 gallon bucket and 1/4 inch hardware wire that I learned how to make from one of Dan Hurd’s videos. And it works great. I’m currently using a homemade 8” by 36” stream sluice with a homemade flair and it works descent enough for the small flood/flour gold that we find here in Ohio. I just placed an order for a Keene A52s stream sluice and should have that in a few weeks or so. Can’t wait to get it!!! I plan on later upgrading the Keene to a high banker or dredge. All that is the arsenal I currently have at my disposal. And I’m pretty green at mining and prospecting but I’ve been fairly successful so far. Learned a lot from TH-cam and other resources as well. I’ve been exercising some of the things you speak of about trying and testing everything not just the normal stuff, inside bends, behind large objects, etc, etc. And stopping and observing your hole environment. Those techniques have helped me to find some really good spots that I just recently found. Thanks Chris. And heavy pans and Gold luck!
Wisconsin is definitely difficult finding good bits but the scenery makes up for it 😁
I got my fist pan finally. I even got a small bucket of dirt from a creek i don’t know if it will be pay dirt but I’m working on my planning process at home till I got more time to be in the mountains . Super excited thanks for all the info
very good info you made the point not everything works the same for everyone i just use a few different pans, cannot afford any thing else, but they work great for me
Excellent info with a free grin to boot.😁. My dolly pot crushing rod is a cut down length of GQ patrol rear axle that I managed to snap on a jump-up many years ago.
Finally a poo-troll doing something right ;-) hahaha
Legend ✊🏿
Thanks for your help, I’m a late starter to the bug but your perspective is catching me up quickly🙏🏿
Thinking about detectors, glad your steering me towards the better quality ☝🏿 I’ve only tried the gold monster in summer so makes sense I didn’t find anything.. think my closest area is Gympie but willing to travel for precious metals ..
thx Chris great clip as usual information to the point
I inherited dads steel 18" pan he bought in the 60's. I burn it off when needed. It has enough use to keep fines where they should be and it can hold a lot of material. For speedy panning, I use cheap plastic blue pans 10" or so. I can burn through one in about a year and a half. I don't have a claim, but bought an old Keene high banker using moss and standard screens held in place with obtuse angle rods as riffles from my mums uncle back in '08. But since mining laws changed drastically the following 5 years I haven't been able to work it much. It was well used on his claims for a few decades and when I had used it, found it to be perfectly sufficient.
Thanks again for uploading behind the scenes and your thoughts and experiences from the field work you do for us!
Steel pans are great to use, very authentic feel to them.
Informative as always .
For a miller table try playing around with the bare 6” sluice with no mat in it , paint the stainless inside of it with chalkboard paint and run the reverse ruffle at the top to level out waterflow with a low volume water pump , you can use the mat clamp holes as a brush point to brush the gold to . ( drill a hole in and old vial lid and glue it underneath so you can screw on a vial to catch the brushed in gold. ) Just have to find chalkboard paint that isn’t black 🤪
Thanks for your secrets man really good info
No problem!
Love the shirt from Wyoming: ) Garrett pan number 1
Great video!! I love my home made equipment. For mat I use gold hog and dream mat. Recently got a Robinson river sluice (really light and seems to catch super fine gold) I have Garrett and minelab pans (minelab is my favorite,holds a ton of material and I like the base size and riffle configuration) it’s all really a learning curve to what works for you. Everything loses some gold but whatever you can handle and do the best job with is what’s best 🙃
I use a small pan for cleanup, however the super fine I am finding lately is hard to pan regardless!! THANKS!
I so badly want a dog like Grizz! Great video Chris and thanks for the shout out. Sure hope your water levels have come up more than what I saw in that short clip. Makes a huge difference in capture rate!
I'm so good at typos! Can never get away from having to come back and fix it!! LOL
Great vid Chris 👍
In Arizona, we have to do a lot of dry washing and detecting. I agree with your choices for your area. I like the gold claw (regular size) for the ease of dry panning here in our desert. A big factor is getting comfortable with the equipment you are using. A rocker box if used properly will catch as much gold as you put through it. Keep up the great videos and info. Stay strong.
I want to do a bit of dry washing as i have a few spots where the golds right and its always dry. But dam man, those plants are expensive!
@@VoGusProspecting I build my own. I make puffer styles that are small, sturdy and very light weight. If you are interested, I'm sure we could work something out... not a sales pitch, just wanting to help a fellow prospector out..
Duluthian25.zapp@ gmail. com
Thanks Chris another great informative video :}
awesome video!
Nice job on your video very informative
Sound blankets or packing blankets are great for taking care of that Echo when you're filming inside
Nice information for me. Thanks!
Hell yes love the Wyoming shirt!!!
What I use and I've tried them all ....
I've gotten away from using gas only because of the rules about motors and being able to use them in only certain places.
For a sluice I use a bazooka gold trap fluid sluice because I hate classifying and plan on getting a green mountain gold trap because of the removable box for cleaning.
Next when I can't sluice I use a Rotapan I got from Reeds Prospecting in Australia now called a mini gold concentrator, it works great with standing water it's portable and you can run a LOT of material through it and it's considered a pan for places you can only pan next I use a Garrett Super Sluice as well .....I'm in the process of trying the XP with snakeskin pan for final cleanups to replace my gold claw, for a detector I use a Fisher Gold Bug 2 and that's it........Cheers from Colorado Chris and heavy pans.
Good content, thanks,, this really helped me to prospecting gold
Hi, We like your wyoming state t-shirt and your show and your knowledge of general mining information ... and your for legged friends ... cheers
Cheers busddy
Cool video brother
Great equipment video, Man.....!!!! Keep it up......!!!
Amen on the pans, but I love the mini gold grabber cause I got tendonitis. SO I can rest the pan in a 5 gallon bucket. But the Garrett super sluice is the go to pan & goes on every trip.
Cool video Chris. I'd like to see a current equipment that you use video.
I use an 8 inch goldrat highbanker and a Minelab panning kit plus a gold monster 1000. Plus a Hilly's dolly pot
I see your more animated in your videos, great job Chris!
Looking forward to see what you get up to. Wish I could use a highbanker in Qld. Nanny state
Thank you, it is very informative
Great review on the different gold pans..
When I use a Garrett Gold Pan or any other type of Gold Pan..!!
I always put in One or Two rounds of lead shot in the pan so when I am panning out Potential Gold Pay dirt..that those lead shot or shots should be in the pan once I have panned out the waste material and if they aren’t there..!!! Then I know I have lost gold in my panning process..
Cheers Famo59 👍🤓🍺⛏
Great vid bro
love it Chris
I get warmer and warmer every time i come back :)
I just got the mine lab 10 inch and 15inch kit with classifier. Personally I feel the same way about the 15in. I was stoked at first cause of the huge bottom but found the same thing that it was hard for clean up of my local flour. I totally thought it was just practice tho I personally love the blue, it really makes the gold pop!
Very informative thank you
Great video! I’m trying to decide on a sluice now but I’d like one that will do field work as well as at home concentrates with just a change of the mats and a minor reconfiguration. There’s sooo many companies that make good sluices and when a decent high banker costs close to $600 US, I can’t just by one of each, I need a complete multi use system... so hard to choose and holy crap the mats are expensive... live your videos, keep up the great work 👍 come and visit us over in the states and Canada more often!
I enjoyed the video.
Chris you covered a lot of ground, great video! Maybe you had a little rum in it when you spilled that coke? LOL I learned about rum and coke in Australia on R&R from war zone years ago.
i love this channel!!!!!!!
Thanks mate
I'll go give the goat, rooster and dog a scratch/pat in a tic. just picked up an SDC last week. took it up the oval and had a muck about with it, just found a bit of crap, but had a good muck about with my wedding band so got the feel of it before i go out with it. I must checkout your podcasts and modifications , but I'm happy to run it standard for a while so I can get the feel of it on highly mineralized ground. Cheers Chris hope you get some good colour this year mate, give Grizz a pat for me.
Good video and thank you I missed Grizz
Very cool vid on stuff ya use :)
Super keen to try out a super sluice. But just recently picked up the pro gold kit and I absolutely love that pan. Damn I can move some material quickly and so so very easy to identify gold coming through the cons when sampling. :)
TD easy sluice for prospecting trips. A52s keene sluice for more production. Plus converts into an epic banker if needed :) don't have quite the water issues here as Australia though lol.
I 100% agree about the super sluice .
Check out the royal manufacturing water table......✅
I like mu regular gold pan than everything else out there, I do gold panning for fun.. not to make money, it is my day to get out and have fun/// all the best! Chris all the best from @Simcoe County , Ontario Canada
I am running the downdraft matting from gold hog , find it very good . But I like the design of your matting
Good to know
You can move a lot of dirt with a super Sluice!! My favorite for being out on the River!!
Tranks for sharing this Chris 👄👍👍👍
Thanks for the lnfo was good
Interesting changes to the highbanker, I've made a few of my own. As much as I like the Super sluice pan, I hate the green. I see the gold much better in a blue pan. Increasing the size of the highbanker and running a petrol pump would spoil the quite and the sound of the wildlife for me. I did think of a larger highbanker, after using both I realised the small banker suited me.
100% get it. I love the quiet of the electric pump. But there are days I want the ability to chew through dirt.
Yew new video to watch!
Rock'on Mate, rock'on...
Um, using the Garret Super sluice along with a classifies or two on the Mighty Fraser River Yale Bar cause I watched Dan Hurd use one ;)
Thank you
Gee I thought you might be looking to sell off some of your gear. I was hoping to get my hands on a fluid bed sluice or some of your dream mat.
Good review of equipment.
I look forward to your next reviews you mentioned
I'm on the opposite side of the alpine to you in Canberra, i use the same minelab 2000 and a fishcer gold bug.
Same as the super Sluice, bring back a lot of material for later!
Oh...& that pic to start your bid reminds me of Pink Floyd's album cover called UMMAGUMMA
Hahaha
Thanks, what about Yabbie Pumps? Any views?
I want a sluice that takes tons of paydirt in a minute and all the equitment you need to get it done. I'm saving up for it but have a long way to go.
I'm using sluice fox it works really well in low water flow areas and is catching super fine powder gold. It was very affordable and it's expandable 👍👍
Put a link up for us
@@VoGusProspecting www.sluicefox.com