Panning For Gold

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How to start Panning for Gold

First thing is to try before panning for gold is to find out if any gold has been found in that river or stream before.
Gold usually occurs where there is quartz or lead or silver.
It's unlikely that you will just find nuggets of gold (although I did - once !) just by strolling along a riverbank.

Gold is heavy and tends to nestle into and behind larger rocks so dig the material you are panning from these areas and the bottom of shallow pools - anywhere where gold would sink to in fact.

Gold - the Pure Metal

Gold always glows at you - and has an irresistable appeal to people everywhere. It's been the lure to the Gold Rushes in Australia,California,Africa,Dakota,Arizona and the Yukon. There are still places where you can just find nuggets on the ground and many secret hidden hoards from gold miners of the past. Legends abound of Spanish hidden treasures from the Incas and Aztecs - (one rumour is of a whole room of Gold)
If you visit the major museums of the world you'll see what the attraction is - remember the trasure hunters maxim - where on hoard has been hidden - another lurks nearby.
Pirates are said to have hidden their booty at many places - and sometimes these do get found.
If you want to go treasure hunting rather than gold panning then the answer is simple - RESEARCH - only through diligent research through dusty old books will you come across your treasure trove.
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First find the subject of your quest and then read up as much as possible on the internet and follow that up with a visit (or visits) to a Major library.. that's how really successful gold seekers do it !

Gold Prospecting

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This is how you pan for gold -

First take your pan (a shallow pan with slightly rounded sides) and place a few handfuls of material you have dug from the riverbed or stream bed (that's where gold nestles) fill the pan with water by lowering it into the stream. Now swirl the pan counterclockwise and take out any large rocks but take a look at them in case they are nuggets !)
Then rock the pan from side to side gently..
Do NOT do this hard enough to wash any material over the side of the pan.

This has to be GENTLE !.
Remember Gold is HEAVY and the idea is to let the water gently wash the dirt out of the pan while leving the gold to settle below.

Let the stream current gently wash a layer of dirt over the edge of the pan. Gently rock the pan just enough to wash dirt over the pan edge a bit at a time. The faster you do this,the more gold you will throw away and we don't want to do this...
Keep doing this until you have maybe a thumbnail full of material in the bottom of the pan.
You should then be able to see flakes of gold which will usually clump together.. this is the exciting bit !
If there are flakes all across the pan then you haven't finished panning ! Wai till the dark sandy stuff washes away and you'll be able to se what you've got ..
You DID bring a bottle to put the gold into didn't you ?
Or a Jam Jar will do !
Please use a proper gold pan to get the best results.
I've tried plastic ones and they are really not as good.
You can buy a gold pan from any of the treasure hunting or metal detecting stores.

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