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Sluices are long, narrow "boxes" that water passes through when put in a creek or stream. Nineteenth century gold miners used wooden varieties, but modern gold prospectors primarily use sluice boxes made of metal with miner's moss in the bottom for trapping gold. The idea is to position a sluice box in a running stream so that the water does the work-- separating the dirt and rocks away from the gold. Since gold is heavy, it will stay in the bottom of the sluice, trapped in the miner's moss.
A highbanker is basically a sluice box with mobility It is mounted on a 4-legged stand that gives the sluice box the correct slope. Instead of being put right in the creek like a sluice, an engine with a water pump and some hoses gets the water up from the stream into the highbanker. Gravel is then shoveled into the hopper, which is mounted at the top end of the sluice box. Inside the hopper is a "grizzly" which is a series of sloping rods that filter out larger rocks. Also in the hopper are spray bars that shoot water onto the gravel that you shovel into the hopper. In addition to the ability to go just about anywhere, the highbanker also is able to run more material in less time than a sluice.
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