How To Do Gold Panning

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Notegolddiamond - Panning is the easiest way in gold mining, its just  washing the dirt off the gold. Here is the simple process of panning (or alternatively you can watch the video below) :

• Shovel some river sand or soil around gold ore area into your pan until the pan is a little less than ¾ full. If you fill it anymore than that, you risk accidentally washing away pay dirt.
• Throw away the larger rocks and debris, be sure only remove the rock not the GOLD nugget.
• Place the pan underwater and let the contents get totally saturated. Much of the lightest material will float away right then and that is exactly what you want. If there are still any larger lumps of clay you should break them up with your hands.
• Keep the pan underwater during this process. Greenhorns get worried about the material floating away, but remember the gold will not float away.
• With the pan still underwater, vigorously begin sloshing the pan left to right. This forces the heavier material, gold if you are in the right spot, to the bottom of the pan and the lighter material up. Stop periodically and sweep the heavier material away with your fingers and repeat until this procedure until you reach the bottom of the pan.
• It may take five or six times until you are left with a mass of black sand that hopefully is speckled with gold flakes. You can pick the flakes out right then or simply pour everything into a separate container for processing later, because picking out the gold flakes is a time consuming task that is often easier to do on a kitchen table in perfect light with a beer than squatting on a river bank.

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