This is How Gold Pans REALLY Work
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ก.พ. 2024
- This is How Gold Pans REALLY Work
There are a lot of people out there who think they know how to use a gold pan. And whilst there are a lot of ways to use one, if you understand how gold pans actually work you will stop loosing gold you didn't know was there!
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You are an absolute genius Chris. Appreciate always sharing your knowledge with us!
💛...gold prospector 101...class is now in session...
This is more 102 than 101. 101 is like watching gold rush
@haroldtakahashi8875 gold prospector 101 is a friend of mine and has his own channel 🙂
In session watching intently
yea but whens the fieldtrip to put the theory into practice?
I've got the watching part down. I'm subscribed to you, Chris, to Pauley, Dan Hurd and used to watch Jeff Williams too. I watch gold prospecting on TV too. I think one is called Alaska Gold and the other I think is called Aussie Gold on the Discovery channel. They're reruns but still fascinating! But I've never actually had the opportunity to actually go somewhere where I could pan for gold. And if I could, I think I'd have to pay a tour guide or some kind of amusement facility a fee to pan on their claim.
When I was a kid, there was an amusement park with a western theme and they had a 'panning trough', that had play sand and small bits of copper wire cut up, mixed in it. So the kids brought up the shiny metal and the guy in the cowboy hat puts it into a tiny vial for the child as a souvenir. I found that vial years later. The water had evaporated long ago and a chunk of green patina copper wire bits were still in the vial! 😂
Thanks Chris. This is the first time I've actually understood the science of panning. Great tutorial.
Just going to help those that have never panned and currently plan to in the future. Back pain lots and lots of back pain. For those that scoff at the back pain I say get older wiser and medication for your future back pain.
Very good information Chris.
i can remember all the way back to high school ! where some pupils were blessed with more "density" than others ...............😉
very cool observations filming and description. Thanks Mr Chris.
I like it when a videos information density is 19.3x more than most other videos on youtube
Nice description of the elements of the pan and their function as well as the process using them. When I was a kid learning to make Adobe blocks, we had a process to stratify the soil that we were using to make the blocks that worked off these same principles. Simply placing a soil sample in a jar of water, shaking the bajeebies out of it and then letting it sit and stratify.
About to go paning tomorrow at mt perry QLD this advice is great to know as I’m a beginner 😅 Thanks Chris 👍🏼
Man love your work. Still learning, perfect vid I've seen it in the pan, but seeing it is explained is conformation.
Good to see you back in action Chris and obviously you are over your spider bite thank goodness cheers for the lesson.
Great editing and easy to follow instructions. All your hard work makes you a natural scholar, thank you.
Another Stellar lesson! I’ve been prospecting flour gold creeks here in northern Virginia for over a decade now, and the proverbial light bulb just now lit up thanks to you, Chris!
When swishing the Pan Left to Right you are creating fast and slow water movement.
The water at the edge of the pan has to travel faster than the water near the middle of the pan.
The gold settles in the slower lower pressure side and we always see the gold nearer the middle of the pan rather than at the outer edge.
Friction, water speed, Material Stratification & Cementing, it's a much more complex process than is realized.
Because I don’t live near any golds, I try to use your technique or suggestions and have been practicing at home. With winter coming to a close, my wife has told me I need to get the dirt and sand out of the spare bathroom bathtub. Thanks for another classroom on the creek
Your wife has let you use the second bathtub as a winter faux creek bed?
Firstly, you have two 🛁 bathtubs in your house? Second, you better keep in sweet with the lovely wife so that you can have your bathtub faux creek bed again next winter. 😊
Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
Excellent video again Chris! Very informative and educational. This video will have to go in the Beginners Guide to Prospecting Chapter in your video listings.
Well worth another viewing by everyone!
Glad that you are over your spidey bite. Have you developed an Super Powers yet or is that Top Secret, shhhh! Gadzees the word!😅
Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
@@markfryer9880 $hit dude, my wife would drown me in that very tub if I actually tried that. I made it up to help the algorithm. 😂
So, the ripples allow you to remove only the top strata of the material which is the least dense. You then are able to remove the next less dense level until you are almost down to the densest level which has the gold in it. Technique is the key to getting the result you want.
Excellent explanation Chris! I was wondering why the old timers’ videos from the last century all said not to move the pan forward and back when washing off the light materials. But the later videos all show an in and out method. It’s because they were using steel, non- riffled pans vs the newer riffled pans.
Absolutely brilliant explanation ! Love your vids 👊👊👊
Much appreciated!
Excellent video! Thank you 😊
I have been watching & learning from your videos for a while and definitely will be sending this to a couple mates who are interested in the gold hunt and need clear and simple information about gold prospecting and fossicing and equipment, keep it up mate good shit!!
How can you not like this guy….chris you are the man !
Finally was able to get some paydirt! It’s got a long way to travel! Thanks for always learning me something!
thanks for the panning class that was awesome❤ I always imagined that your pan is like bedrock and you slowly remove the over burden to reveal the gold
Great video. Thanks for explaining the how and why. Most newbies are far to violent washing oiut their pans and wash to high in the pan. People need to hear this it hellps me to be reminded of the how and why. Thanks for sharing, cheers. Kelly
Chris, random build idea! How cool would a shaker pan that uses an 18v hammer drill be, it just stratifies the paydirt and you just meat scoop the top off and keep feeding it!
Looove how this video was put together! Pops up into shot with the pan lmao !
Thank you for explaining that especially about the clean up
I hadn't thought of that for the clean up. I'm going to try it. Thank you :)
I live in Canberra and we prospect on the Shoalhaven river. Normally the black sand is iron stone but this weekend it was tin and man, that stuff is a nightmare for cleaning up!
I would love to see a demo using the old Le'Trap square model gold pan. Love your videos!
Thanks for the informative video, but a frame of reference clarification... The light stuff doesn't "float to the top", it is pushed out of the way by the heavier stuff that is pulled down by gravity.
Something I had wondered, is if changing water with something with a higher density (such as sugar water at ~1.3) would create a larger relative difference between the black sands and the gold. Not something to do in the field, obviously, but may be worth dissolving 7-8 kg of cheap sugar into 10L of water to run a clean-up sluice as an experiment. It will be messy and sticky, and pumping it may prove problematic but it definitely sounds like an experiment I prefer you do rather than me. ;)
Chris I tip my hat to you! Outstanding job!
Hi Chris, On Sunday 10th March 2024 The East Gippsland branch of the PMAV is holding their Gold Festival Day open to all and sundry at Bullumwaal Victoria near Bairnsdale.Displays etc are planned. My purpose at the venue is the gold panning lessons which are a very popular part of our day.
Firstly I invite you to come over the Great Divide for our day. A number of us intend being there from around the Thursday before camping and setting up.
I just viewed your informative video on panning, a job well done thank you. Would you have any objections with our branch in viewing your video at the festival as I feel it would be of great benefit to both newcomers and the mouldy oldies which is the group I fall under?
Hope to see you there.
Regards
Johnno of Bendoc Victoria ( just ask any official at the venue where old Johnno is)
Now I think I can do this. Thank you for sharing much appreciated
You are so doing it right! Great job mate.
Thanks for sharing
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Thanks Professor AU Shinebright Knowledge is Key ! Skool is Kool
Massively educational Chris, thank you
Excellent, Excellent, EXCELLENT!!!!
Thanks Chris,top bloke, always interesting to listen to and learn,
I have ofter wondered if a otoscope could be attached to the corner of the pan so you could see the gold being stratified in the fluidized bed as a demonstration?
I've got a black pan identical to that one! I got it a few years ago. Also bought a black plastic 1/4" classifier to go with it. Seasoned it with some coarse dirt but have never used it yet. I live in the San Joaquin Valley in California but there's nowhere near me that I can go gold panning. 😢
Just got a Banjo pan lol. Add it to the collection. Whether it'll get used is another story but at least I have it now haha. Great video man. 👍👍
Great info thanks Chris.
The question I have always asked myself, but never tested, is how fast does gold sink to the bottom of the pan? If everything's at the bottom after 10 sec of rigourous shaking, then you should be able to just scrape 95% off for much faster panning.
I tested it.
The question i found is not how fast does it sink, because its very fast, under 10 seconds. But instead how fast does it concentrate in the front edge. That takes a lot of time, about 75% of your total pan time.
furthermore it is exacerbated by left or right hand dominance.
@@VoGusProspecting Thanks mate, now imagine a pan with a lid, tip it 90° forward and shake after initial shaking, maybe that would get everything to the front. Just brainstorming.
Thanks Chris. The video gave me cover to explain to my wife why my gold prospecting has not yet been profitable.
Cheers for the vid Chris :)
"They aren't there to prevent losing gold, they're just there to prevent you losing gold!"
Makes sense!
mount a selfie stick and go-pro/camera to the pan, might get a good shot of the dirt in the pan moving vs the pan.
That was fun! Now I know. Thanks.
That was really f**king fun to learn
well bugger me,,didn't know that, makes sense
hope it helps
hey i resemble that remark , lol thank you for sharing the adventure and information 😅😅😅😅
I truly don't want to remember back to school, it's been like 40 years since I graduated.
Great explanation 🙂
thanks Chris
Show us your improved rocker box.
Ahhh,you got completely backwards the don't concentrate the heavies ,concentrating on the heavies is too much work, my pan focuses on the light weight materials I srtatafy the lights to the top ,and away they wash,it's way easier on the back to concentrate on the light weight materials,great show and explanation 😊fun stuff
Chris...I'm Still shocked that all the blood doesn't race to your head being upside down down under, like a blond up here! I finally found a prospecting buddy yesterday, a friend I've known a couple of years already & thought he was a goofy chemist, but lo & behold, he has a similar site on micro prospecting, Bill earnshaw ...we always talk science but now we can talk gold extraction too & go to the field & bring it back....Good Show matey
I promised Bill 10 pounds of gold yesterday, I've found a secret stash a long time ago & he's got my back
Its kind of like taking the table cloth out from under the plate on the table. Polished table no worries ripples on the table edge and that table cloths not coming out
No mention of Collared and Non-Collared Pans.
I have noticed 2 types of Pans. One has the floor of the pan directly meeting the sloped wall.
The other Pan type has the floor connected to a 0.5cm Vertical Collar, and the Collar connects to the Pan Wall.
What difference do you find this makes yourself? I do not use the Collared Pans much at all. They have too many nooks.
THE Professor 🎉🎉
You should try to build a clear pan and film what’s happening from underneath.
If anyone would try something like that it’s you!
I think my golds are sneakier than your golds, they keep getting away! 😆
when you showed us plank, I had Ed Edd and Edie flash backs
Well said digger
Whew, I had to look twice on that.
Thanks Chris you make me know stuff 😂
Bit of sarcasm
Always good to watch mate keep it going
Oooaaarrr ,very interesting
Densificationationing!
Ok, cool. I want a clear pan just so I can see threw the bottom. My nosey has been activated. I wonder if anyone makes one. I know I won't be able to see gold well in it but, I want to see how the bottom of the pan actually moves when panning. I know I am just nosey but, I still want to know what to know. What is clear that has ripples like a pan that can be used. Any ideas?
Outdensifies, classic
I've been called dense afew times. Does that mean i would sink to the bottom? 😅
And yes a pan has a corner all the way around,
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Speaking of pitfalls... I imagine that you have more than once stepped into the hole you created while digging in the creek and filling your muck boots with said water. So much for wearing muck boots! LOL Thank you for the instructional video, I do like how you present the information you are trying to tell us.
Man ive had soggy foot many times
MMM
love them wet socks.
if there wasnt leeches and other fun little things that want my blood id just go in flipflops lol
They say if you set you're pan free and it comes back it was meant to be 🎉
Hey Chris, it's Chris
How do you find gold in West Oz hahaha. I joke😂
Id suggest looking down to start haha
@@VoGusProspecting Your sir have a good humour. Thank you for teaching us your knowledge bro. Wish one weekend i could help you shovel and learn hands on.
Secondies! :)
second is the first last
Deb, I think you were first. 🏆😉
Nah uhh.
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Is he saying pateya pan or potato pan?
Batea
@@VoGusProspecting thank you!!!
@VoGusProspecting it's potato right? Lol
@@debhester8665Are we panning for potatoes now?
I didn't know this was a cooking channel? 😅
Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
317ist… (since you started uploading more Australian time zone friendly lately…) I always think gadzee pans to fast sometimes and is losing gold….. you should test his tailings in the creek sometime lol. great information, although I already found this out during prospecting sessions your correct most people have no idea that if you don’t settle and pack your dirt back in a little bit after stratification the water action will definitely rip out the gold. Thanks for sharing see you on the next one 👍🏼👊🏼
Firsties! 👍😉🔥
Yes you are!
@@VoGusProspecting Nah, I think Deb beat me. She was quicker than me. But, it's all good though. 😻
You were first by 30 seconds!
@@debhester8665 We can share the title! 😉
That's kind. I'm not into titles but i love being competitive
One day I’ll be the first like. One day.
Thirdist
Lol 👍😉
hahaha trophy 🏆
Winner!!
Gotta love common sense...Not so common.😂
I think that Common Sense may have gone the way of the Dodo bird?
Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
you are amazing