Welcome to Preston Country Prospecting!
and welcome to our adventures in panning, detecting, sluicing, and high banking!

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Howard Lake in the morning, taking the puppies for a walk Cooking breakfast after a night in our saggy tent Setting up a metal detector A couple of trommels Some highbankers (power sluices) and a trommel Another view of the same things A couple of panners Panners in the foreground, bobcat dumping some dirt to a highbanker in the background More Dirt making another run Working hard. or is it Discussing the correct sluice angle for proper retention by the Hungarian riffles? Shovel, shovel, shovel Making sure the clay is broken up Adjusting one of the recirculating water pumps A trommel on the other side of the holding pond Detecting Speed detecting? Panning, Panning, Panning Doing some cleanup 3 highbankers in operation Getting an upper body workout A trommel Feeding a trommel Helping Daddy reach some dirt Is that rock Gold? Mouth of a trommel showing the spray bars In goes the dirt Clean shovel! There's a lot of dirt left! Out comes the Gold! Lot of silt Left end of the higher common area Right end of the higher area More shovel work Is that a Gold hound? The end of a sluice on a trommel Yes, it's run by a chainsaw engine Rocks out end Jill, Dave, and ? running a highbanker More Dirt going for more dirt There's More Dirt driving Here's the rock's out end of another trommel Checking the operation Muddy water from a highbanker CLean up of a highbanker Panning. I bet he's thinking - How come he's not working? Sluice box of a highbanker Dennis breaking up some clay in the hopper of a highbanker The tailing pond Look at all that dirt! Panners, panning The trommel area. How come they get the shade trees? Holding pond with a trommel in the background Dennis working a highbanker with a trommel in back Jill's gold flake she panned out! The nugget on the right I named the Montana Star The Montana Star Here's a view of our 1/38th share of the day's take Here's another view of our 1/38th share of the day's take Here's another view of our 1/38th share of the day's take Here's our share in a small pan Here we have a dragon, and a gargoyle