200 Grams Of Gold Gravel Concentrates & Panning Tips.

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Besides any gold that may or may not be in the gravels the gold nuggets and flakes below will be included in a separate plastic bag for adding to the gravels and black sand. They have been enlarged to show the detail on the nuggets and the ruler is in 1/16 inch increments. For gold items such as this one, we may use the same picture as the gold comes from the same placer mine and is very similar in shape and size. These gravels were screened once directly into a gold pan separating out the larger stones and gravel and each bag weighs approx.200grams For those learning to use a gold pan we are including five gold nuggets and flakes separately in a plastic bag that you can add yourself to these concentrated gravels and practice your recovery techniques. Please use over a bucket so you don,t loose them. The opening bid on this bag of gravel and black sand with five nuggets and /or flakes included separately is a low $14.99 . GOLD PANNING AND GOLD RECOVERY TECHNIQUES, TIPS and EQUIPMENT Tip #1- When panning your gravels try striking your pan sharply against a rock while you are swirling your gravels. This drives the gold to the bottom of your pan and speeds up panning. Tip #2- Most of the gold in creeks are found on the surface of the bedrock and in the cracks and not in the overburden. Tip #3- Don't waste your time in the creek trying to separate the non pickers out of the black sand.Do save the black sand and do that later. Sniping a 1 grammer or larger out of the cracks is more profitable. Tip #4- Always remember when checking out new creeks-gold stops moving when the bedrock is between four and six degrees and the water is slow moving. Tip #5- My husband used a 5inch Keene dredge and after clearing off the bedrock I would follow behind him breaking open the cracks with a crowbar and hammer and many many times would recover more and larger gold nuggets sniping the cracks than he would recover with the dredge. Tip #6- This tip comes from an old prospector who used to work the Southern Interior BC area. Every spring we would see old Tom walking the creeks when the ice and snow was melting in the creeks. When we would see him we always thought he was getting anxious to go panning and sniping in the new year. Finally a couple of years before he passed on he told my husband always look to see w the ice and snow are last to go in the creeks and t you will find gold. Thats w the water slows down and the bedrock is usually at 4 to 6 degrees w gold generally stops moving. I tried this tip a couple of years later and it worked very well and I always brought out gold from these spots. ( I sure didn't like walking along those creeks in the Spring as it gets down right cold at that time of the year. Tip #7- When you have your gravels panned out and have the small black sand left (and picked out the larger pieces-"Pickers") put the sand in an old fry pan and dry the the black sand. Next- Pour the sand on a piece of white paper and gently blow the black sand away from you and if t is any flour gold it will stay behind. This takes a bit of practice. Another way to separate the gold from the black sand is to take a magnet put a piece of paper over the magnet and pass it over the black sand. Being magnetic it will pick up the black sand and leave the gold behind. You then pull the white paper off the magnet to get the black sand off of it otherwise you will never get all the black sand off the magnet. Some prospectors< I have heard>put the black sand on glass and put the magnet under the glass and move the black sand in this manner. I don,t how well this works as I have never tried it. Good luck on you panning and don,t throw away your gravels until you are sure you have got all of your gold.------Betty Corson Following are pictures of the equipment I used for years Notice the steel pan and the dents on it from banging it against rocks while panning. The glass bottom alunimum mug with a rope for keeping it on my wrist while looking for gold in the cracks of the bedrock. This sniper tube ... read more

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