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Cart used to carry High Banker related equipment to relatively easy access
areas.  Use caution going down hill as this load is very heavy and can get
away from you and get yourself hurt or damage your equipment

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The Dry Washer is used in dry areas where there is no water available.  Check
your concentrate often by panning a small amount of concentrate from
your Dry Washer cleanup to insure that you are still getting color.  Don't
make the mistake I have made and work all day, not checking for color
and getting the concentrate home and not finding even a speck of color
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The Vac Pak is used to clean up the surface under the area you have been Dry Washing
to pick up any gold that you were unable to scoop up with a shovel before leaving
the area you are working.  I would highly recommend having one of these to use in
any dry area you are dry washing.  There are many uses for this tool
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This is a Mini Sluice which can be used to run your Dry Washing concentrates through
to remove more of the lighter material as to leave the gold and black sand for
further processing.  The Mini Sluice can also be used in dry areas with clay gone to
help settle the clay out of the material.  I don't recommend using the Mini Sluice 
as your only tool in the dry desert as the water will get very dirty and thick quickly 
and defeat its purpose by not first running it through your Dry Washer.  I would
think this would work well for running samples of different spots, then panning the 
samples prior to setting up your dry washer
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This is a Desert Fox.  It works well to separate your concentrates minimizing
black sand verses gold.  You have to classify your concentrates down to about
1/8 inch down to about 100 mesh and run the concentrates separately for 
best results.  I find that wetting the material with treated water, (Jet Dry),
you will find you will have better results
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This is a Blue Bowl which is used to run your fine concentrates through.  The
manufacture recommends that you run 30, 50 and 100 mesh concentrates
separately through this tool.  You also need to use wet concentrates
with treated water (Jet Dry) to help eliminate your fines floating away


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