Gold Cube Nugget Zone Highbanker with Pump and Stand

The Gold Cube is a fine gold machine. Run classified material through it and the vortex trays hold flour gold that most sluices flush straight out the back. What it was never built for is coarse gold, which can ride over the top or never make it through the punch plate in the first place. The Nugget Zone is Gold Cube's answer to that gap: a collapsible high banker attachment that sits on its own stand adapters, runs off its own pump, and takes the bigger pieces before they get away.

Who the Nugget Zone is for

Buy it if you already run a Gold Cube and your ground produces pickers and small nuggets, not just flour gold. It also earns its keep as a front-end stage when you are reprocessing stockpiled concentrates and want the coarse fraction pulled out before anything reaches the Cube's trays.

Be honest about your actual problem first. If yours is having to hand-classify every bucket before you can feed it, the Gold Banker is the better purchase: its removable 3/16 inch punch plate lets you shovel raw material in, and its three nugget traps double as a read on whether the spot is worth working. The Nugget Zone solves the opposite end of the problem. Plenty of prospectors end up running both.

One thing to be clear about: this is an accessory, not a wash plant. No Gold Cube is included. If you are starting from scratch you need a Gold Cube 4 Stack Deluxe or a 3 Stack first.

Running it in the field

The Nugget Zone gets its own 1100 GPH 12V submersible pump rather than sharing the one feeding your Cube. That matters more than it sounds: two pumps means you can dial the flow across the Nugget Zone independently, and coarse gold recovery is sensitive to flow in a way fine gold recovery is not. Too much water and the heavies wash through. You supply the 12V power. No battery or power supply is included with this accessory.

The sluice collapses for transport and the whole kit ships at roughly 16 pounds, so it packs in to claims you would not want to drag a rigid highbanker into. It mounts on the stand adapters supplied in the box, which work alongside the standard Gold Cube stand.

If you are already running a Gold Cube Trommel, the Nugget Zone slots in as the coarse-catch stage the trommel's classification is not designed to handle. That full three-piece setup is also sold as the 4 Stack Deluxe with Trommel and Nugget Zone kit, which works out cheaper than buying the pieces separately.

New to running a recovery system, or want to check your clean-up technique before you trust a sluice with your concentrates? Our complete guide to panning for gold covers the fundamentals worth having down first.

What's in the box

• Nugget Zone sluice (collapsible)
• Stand attachments
• 1100 GPH 12V submersible pump
• Hose and attachments
• Instructions

The pump is worth calling out because it is not a spare. It is the second pump in your setup, which is exactly why the Nugget Zone can be tuned without disturbing the flow your Cube is already running well. Gold Cube itself is sold separately.

Specifications

Why buy from Serious Detecting

Serious Detecting is a family-owned dealer in Michigan. We buy this equipment direct, so every Nugget Zone ships new and carries its full manufacturer warranty. If you are not sure whether the Nugget Zone or the Gold Banker fits your ground better, call us and talk it through with someone who runs this gear rather than reading a spec sheet back to you. US orders over $99 ship free, returns are open for 30 days, and we will match a competitor's advertised price. Browse the rest of the Gold Cube range or the full gold prospecting equipment collection.