Highbanking with a Gold Detector ?

[rhartman911]

Hello everyone I was thinking about buying a Gold detector to help find places to setup my Highbanker. I was told by one person that it was not worth the money spent on a Gold Detector because it wouldn't work like that. Would like to hear others opinions

 

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[63bkpkr]

rhartman911,
It has been my personal experience to have used my White's GMT along the banks of a Northern California mother lode river in combination with a Keene A51 sluice box. I was removing buckets of sample material from the downriver side of a "large boulder" where swinging the detector was not easy to do, lots of other boulders. I would move the bucket to a more open hunk of beach that I knew did not have any detector signals and dump the bucket on that spot, detect it and if no Zip Zip from the machine I'd go get another bucket and test again. I would test till the GMT told me there was gold and would then run the positive tested material through the sluice box. I always found gold from the positive test buckets of sample while I found NO gold in the negative test samples. This sampling technique saved a lot of time as I did not have to run the negative test materials through the sluice box. This method would work the same way for a highbanker. I mean, why put effort into dirt that does not have gold in it?!

Also, I've found some very small pieces of gold using my GMT with the 4 x 6 DD shooter coil on it.
I hope this helps...............63bkpkr

Picture of small gold and lead bird shot found with GMT and 4 x 6 DD coil

 

[rhartman911]

Thank you 63bkpkr That is what I was thinking try and save some time thank you for your input

 

[Indianametal]

I only have a small Garrett 250 and dont rely on it to find the size of gold we got here. However I do use it to help find the potholes in streams with shallow bedrock. I run in all metal and any metal signal i dig there. It has worked with good results for me. The heavy nails and lead balls that are in all of our creeks find there way into those holes along with the gold.