Wet Gold Panning

For those interested in wet panning the following are the general procedures that should be done:

• Put the material you suspect has gold in it in a pan or some sort of container.

• Put this under enough water to where it covers it or keep the gold pan full of water.

• Run your hands through the material so that you wet the bottom and cause the liquid to suspend.

• Swirl the pan or container under the water vigorously by using a circular motion.

• Once this has been done you should take the larger rocks out that can be seen and that have been washed clean.

• Then shake the pan in a circular motion again, then sideways, then back and forth.

• Allow the material that is lighter to spill out of the pan little by little.

• What you will be left with on the bottom of the pan will be the concentrates and this will be your concentrates.

Sounds easy enough doesn’t it? This method has been used for thousands of years, however the pans that we use now are improved and make the job much easier.