Level: 2
Category: Recreation
Year: 2008

Gold Prospecting Advanced

  1. Complete the Gold Prospecting honour.
  2. Describe the following types of prospecting equipment:
    1. Sluice box
    2. Rocker box
    3. High banker
    4. Bucket dredge
    5. Suction dredge
    6. Dry washer
    7. Trommel
    8. Beach box
    9. Metal detector
    10. Jig
    11. Shaker table
  3. What government requirements, if any, are there to use the equipment listed in #2 above?
  4. What are the advantages or disadvantages to the equipment listed in #2 above?
  5. Use at least two of the types of equipment listed in #2 above to prospect for gold.
  6. Pathfinders are supposed to take only pictures and leave only footprints, but prospecting requires moving rocks and digging large holes. How can you reconcile these two conflicting requirements?