classification is the key to all gold recovery then only take a teaspoon of material at a time for the very fine gold and always use a safety pan or tub most of what has been posted on this site along with the links to the vids are good info practice will help you a lot
Heather did you season your pan, if not you need to do this to get rid of the oil that is on the pan from the factory it will make your gold float. Here is too good YouTube videos explaining how to season your pan and why http://youtu.be/5NYnsrvj8So and http://youtu.be/ZCL6FKQZyoM now if you have already done so please ignore everything I have just said LOL
Ron, I didnt even think about it that way. I get so nervous about losing my gold. Duh! Pan over the super sluice in case I lose it. I went through and repanned everything in my tub and found a couple specks but I will try that today with going down through over the bigger pan so if I do lose any, its right there.
It looks nice Heather. Now if you haven't put a few drops of jet dry in the water. Turn your pan and continue to pan over a another pan or something in case you loose a little gold. Shake it down and pan the black sands off slowly. Do this a few times then shake it down again and tilt your pan tap it several times on the part that is tilted downward, this helps to set the gold in the bottom of the pan. Now with a little water in the pan slowly tilt the pan back and forth removing the remaining black sand to the back of the pan. With the gold starting to be exposed, tap tap tap the edge where the gold is. It will walk the gold out of the black sand. Keep repeating this process and soon you will have clean gold!! Use you snuffer bottle everytime you see clean gold Walaa!
I need to separate it now. I'm still newer to panning so I get this far and then go... uh oh. lol Ive tried using a strong earth magnet on the bottom of the pan to pull some of the black sands away and it sort of kind of works, but not enough.
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Here is a page with a series of videos that explains the process fairly well. Thank you Mike Pung from gold cube.
http://www.goldcube.net/#/fine-gold-challenge/4586029192
classification is the key to all gold recovery then only take a teaspoon of material at a time for the very fine gold and always use a safety pan or tub most of what has been posted on this site along with the links to the vids are good info practice will help you a lot
Heather did you season your pan, if not you need to do this to get rid of the oil that is on the pan from the factory it will make your gold float. Here is too good YouTube videos explaining how to season your pan and why http://youtu.be/5NYnsrvj8So and http://youtu.be/ZCL6FKQZyoM now if you have already done so please ignore everything I have just said LOL
Ron, I didnt even think about it that way. I get so nervous about losing my gold. Duh! Pan over the super sluice in case I lose it. I went through and repanned everything in my tub and found a couple specks but I will try that today with going down through over the bigger pan so if I do lose any, its right there.
looks very nice ...a great way to spend a friday evening for sure
I didn't make it clear, turn the pan so you are panning over the smooth part of the pan not over the riffles. Pan slowly over something just in case.
It looks nice Heather. Now if you haven't put a few drops of jet dry in the water. Turn your pan and continue to pan over a another pan or something in case you loose a little gold. Shake it down and pan the black sands off slowly. Do this a few times then shake it down again and tilt your pan tap it several times on the part that is tilted downward, this helps to set the gold in the bottom of the pan. Now with a little water in the pan slowly tilt the pan back and forth removing the remaining black sand to the back of the pan. With the gold starting to be exposed, tap tap tap the edge where the gold is. It will walk the gold out of the black sand. Keep repeating this process and soon you will have clean gold!! Use you snuffer bottle everytime you see clean gold Walaa!
I need to separate it now. I'm still newer to panning so I get this far and then go... uh oh. lol Ive tried using a strong earth magnet on the bottom of the pan to pull some of the black sands away and it sort of kind of works, but not enough.
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