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Capturing Fine Gold in Papua New Guinea with a Highbanker.

Utmost Outdoors 0:54

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@UtmostOutdoors This local village in Papua New Guinea got themselves a highbanker to improve their hand mining operation at a local river. I was invited to PNG to help them get it setup for the first time and enjoyed meeting the friendly locals who did a great job of setting up the machine.

They own the mining operation and keep 100% of the gold.

They were able to process over 2500 shovels in just two days! With a traditional river sluice, they may only be able to process closer to 200 shovels in a day.

This highbanker concentrates gold by using river water to clean the gravels, without the use of any chemicals.

With the current high gold prices and a relatively low minimum wage in PNG, mining operations like this can do a lot to help improve the lives of the local community.

Full length video here: https://youtu.be/hQc4hU7PIjo

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