Cleaning fine gold from black sands: Method #1 (Simple panning)
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- Lesson on how to clean gold from black sand concentrates using just simple gold panning technique. This video is part of a series where I teach three techniques of cleaning your gold, #1 Simple panning, #2 the Tap method, and #3 the Backwash. Learning the correct gold panning techniques will help prevent losses when recovering your gold from your concentrates. Recovering fine gold from heavy black sands can be a challenge. follow these gold panning tips and you can recover your gold with almost no losses.
Stay tuned for the fourth video in this series where I show how to pan gold and use the "Backwash & Tap" method to separate fine gold from black sand.
This video is produced by Dan Hurd, Prospector, Miner, Teacher and TH-camr, as part of his TH-cam channel based on educational videos about gold mining, gold panning, prospecting, rock hounding, and mineral collecting.
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This is the Bob Ross of gold panning... so enjoyable...
This method certainly seems like a good way to teach patience! And wow, the results are so beautiful...thank you Dan!
It takes patience but it's therapeutic!
Thanks for taking the time to film the whole technique.
I started listening to this guy at double speed.
cant go back!
New hobby of mine: watching Dan Hurd videos about gold prospecting, whilst living thousands of kilometers from nearest gold source. so far its lots of fun, and very relaxing, but i think i have to get my butt to somewhere i can find gold before long.
Road trip!
So a garden hose is definitely out the question!!!,glad some professional examples are shown thanks Dan those definitely help folk's!!!; )
You are welcome.
Nice clear demonstration.
Thanks
Dan, great instruction as always - much appreciated!!
Glad to hear you enjoyed it!
Separating black sand is and always has been a pain to do! That is a very interesting pan! Thanks for sharing it with us!!!
You are welcome.
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Growing up with two Teachers as parents its very easy to recognize the skill you have, and the precise instruction you deliver, with your teaching background. Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge.
You are welcome.
Great demo Dan.
Thanks
Outstanding job once again Dan. Looking forward to lesson 2 ...looks like a great finishing pan with those tiny ridges 👍
I was surprised how well it worked for finish panning.
Love learning through your videos, can't wait for the next lesson!
Thanks for taking the time to watch (and comment!)
Thank you so much for showing us your tricks Dan
I NEEDED to see this. Thank you again Dan
That was a great example of how to panning. look forward to lesson #2 Dan.
Friday!
I have learned alot watching your channel, thanks.
You make it look so easy, to cool!
I really like the instructional videos that you put out. I'm just getting started in gold panning and I find these videos very helpful. Thank you.
You are welcome
Very informative! Love your videos. My boyfriend and I recently getting into gold panning. He loves metal detecting and I'm a rockhound. So gold panning seemed like common ground both of us haven't done before. Thank you for all the tips and tricks!
Good video sir! Frustratingly slow but patience is required! Thanks Teach!
Keep watching it gets quicker.
Excellent video quality work
Thanks
you're the best dan!
Great video buddy ...love your clear and very in depth learning skills a delligt to watch ...😎💪🍻
Why thank you!
Thank you Dan!
Great Tutorial Dan,
Thanks
Excellent video. Thank you for your time.
Thanks for taking the time to watch!
Boy the ICON does a nice job! What a joy to see that shiney!!
That iCON really does do the trick!
We need one of those 10 hour videos of just the black sand leaving the gold. Excellent video sir.
Therapeutic!
That method I have been using. Can’t wait to learn the new ones. Thanks for the video
You are welcome.
i always just use simple pan to clean my gold. never used anything else lol. thanks for the share dan, once again always a good video. :)
Thanks.
Great tutorial. You and Two Toes both have great channels. Would love to see a collaboration video with you two.
I would love to collaborate with him. But we are a long ways apart.
@@Danhurd are you in the Pacific Northwest?
Thanks Dan, I have a lot of black sand with super fine gold here. Need all the help I can get. Great video. I'll be watching.
You are welcome.
I do a lot of videos of prospecting on the beach and I get hole pans of Blacksand and lots of micro GOLD it is so hard to pan Great video and nice looking GOLD 🌾👀🌾
Thanks
Awesome gold in this video
Good job !!!
Thanks
Thanks for the tip keep up the great work!
You are welcome
Thanks for knowledge
Excellent demo! It's easy to see you have been so successful in panning competitions. Thanks for sharing!
I tend to do well in speed panning competitions. This is certainly not speed panning.
@@Danhurd Sure it is, if you're a snail on downers ... lol
;)
Good stuff Dan!
Thanks!
keep teaching I'm still learning GOD BLESS
Thanks - I love making the videos!
very good video !!! i learn so much from you ! Thank you !!
Thanks!
Amazing! Thanks.
Thanks!
Hell yes we like this stuff. Thanks
How about a diy homebuild sluice and highbanker class?
Hmmm.
Wow so clean 😍
This will help and the next even more as I’m using a combination of the 3 technics at the moment but not really knowing what I’m doing 😂
All that gold is amazing ! Good job !
Thanks
I think its perfect Dan😃
good technique dan brother
hope it helps.
Very Nice how you do this. Slow and Gentle and even movements are the way to do this. Thank you for showing us how easy it is. Time consuming but for the Gold to be yours you really have to know how to do it like this.
Great vids dan really gettin good tricks for panning
Glad I could help.
Nice video Dan . Great job. That pan seems to work well. I'll have to remember that jet dry too. Looking forward to starting this next spring. Thanks Dan...Just noticed we have the same initials lol
A good
video. In some places the gold is much finer. So fine that jet dry is not sufficient
to stop gold to float. In this case I use some Isopropanol. The big
disadvantage is that the fumes are very nasty. So panning can be done outside
only. In top of that you have keep the solution in a good closed container that
the isopropanol is not evaporating. Hope that help’s to somebody.
Great video,I've always wondered how you'd get all the black sand out.
As the gold cube maker calls it when you use all three, rub your belly and tap your head method😃 great vid dan perfect example wish you made it 7 years ago when I started with fine gold you would have saved hours of repanning material. 👍👍
Sorry I was a tad late.
Mr Hurd thank you so much for the information as always the best online 😀😀
Thanks
I use Doc's method, back wash and tap for fines with the gpaa finishing pan. I borrow it from my son. Lol
Keep watching the series and you will see I use a very similar method.
Areet man! Therapeutic so it is👍I need me one of them pans😉and gold to pan!
;)
Nice demo Dan. I am so glad we don't have black sands in the gravels around my area.
Oh that would be nice.
Nice!
Thanks for the video. I have my first gold pan. I have watched your video on seasoning gold pans. I have a couple of bags of paydirt. However I still have issues panning fine gold. But with your video’s and practice I am learning.
Just keep practicing!
top stuff boy this will help a lot of ppl mate
I'm glad I could help
I just started to learn, i'm 66, never too old to learn!!! Thanks for the Info Young Man !!! HaHa!
You're welcome!
Would love to see a video about what you do with your gold... sell it, keep it for display, horde it, etc...
Love it
Thank you very much. You explained by example very well.
Thank you for your kind words
@@Danhurd remember when you took the sluice up to the pile of ground quartz? I think I'm remembering correctly.... have you been back? I'd be interested in seeing what was left behind.
I have not been back
@@Danhurd I'll go in your place for you next summer. :)
Thanks dan!
You are welcome.
Great Video will watch the other techniques and run some black sands I saved
Good luck
love watching
Thanks!
Greatings from Venezuela!!! Dan...impressive...the patience and the results!!! but you know...if here in San Cristobal were I live...if there were a gold place for pannig...I would be very gentle and patience like you...but just the results were the trophy!!! Nice, I'll wait to see for your other two methods!!!
Thanks for watching.
Muy pleasure Dan...thank to you...by the way...the other day I ask you forma help with identifying quartz...because I cant identify the quartz rocks...how can I know it!? Do you have a link or a video I can watch and learn!? Thank you Dan!!!
@@nelsongarcia9792 I don't sorry.. It is hard to tell the difference some times.
All right...thank you anyway...!!!
Dan another great video, thank you. I am a fan of your videos. I have a question. I was panning yesterday in a stream and had lots of fines and super fines that were floating away as i panned. Do you bring the jet dry out into the field with you ? As i am certainly going to do that next weekend and see if that makes a difference for me. Thanks again, KS.
Nice gold! The ridges on that pan remind me of some of my 3D printing attempts, so they may have a use after all ;o)
The ridges are much smaller than tradition 3D printing lines.
Great job Well done... nice skills I like to get a five gallon bucket of cons sit and relax and slowly getting run it through my blue bowl I have it down pat after many times of trial and error, I was prospecting when I lived in Pa then we moved to ct Not much gold in ct, Now we are moving to Va so Im excited to get back into it again I kept all my equipment ... Keep the videos coming
it looks like an incredibly relaxing and productive method, thank you.
That pan looks like it does a great job of not letting the gold slip out too fast. I'm sure alot of it is your technique as well though. You make it look so much easier than it really is. I end up having to pan out my cons at least 2 or 3 times even to get every little speck.
With practice you will lose less and less.
have you ordered an akubra yet Dan? lol
great video mate.... perfect timing as I have had three bags of pay dirt arrive today! keep them coming!!
good luck with the paydirt
Awesome
Thanks
Dan "Pan Demonium," Hurd! Super satisfying to see that black sand pulsing down the pan and cascading off the lip of the pan. I have watched some miller table and other cleanup videos. Are you able to clean up your gold using only a pan as fast or faster than say a miller table? Honestly it looked like you can. Looking forward to the next 2 videos! Thanks Dan hurd.
I'm not sure how it would compare speed wise.
Dan, thank you for all the information you get from your videos. Come on patreon members, help out and recrute people to patreon.
Thanks for spreading the word.
Hi, Dan, I really enjoy your program mostly because of your boundless enthusiasm. I have learned so much about gold panning that I won't ever be able to try. Anyway , I sit and ponder some of your problems, like the black sand and wonder if it could be magnetized?
Whys that?
I’m in Colorado and I keep finding super fine gold, you can see it either the light reflecting but it’s so small it flows with the black sand.
Great video! One suggestion would be to have a lil bit brighter light, Found it a bit hard to see when you had the camera on the pan.
I know! I'm struggling with the light - if I add more I get a wicked glare.
As always, Great video Dan BUT Oh No! you forgot the "Well Hello Everyone"!! LOL. Cant wait until you get to the back wash method. That's the method I use so, will be great to see if I am doing anything different.
Well hello everyone!
@@Danhurd Nice save!!
This helped a lot. Probably I've lost a lot of gold because I have not used this method. Thank you Mr. Hurd for all the work you do.
Wait till you see the whole series before you decide how you should clean yours. This is a slow method.
Mrlnsaint replyed 4 days ago, but as far as I can tell this video was posted yesterday
Videos are released early on my patreon account.
Guess I better get involved there at some point!
Hi Dan
Great video, looking forward to the rest of the series.
As someone from the UK that visits Canada occasionally and only done a little panning in the past, I wonder how do you move on your gold once you have enough to pay for further adventures? Are there gold merchants that buy it? Do you need a claim in order to sell it? I heard that you did not need a claim for placer gold, do you need to grade the gold by size first or smelt it into ingots or nuggets etc. I would be interested in a video on that subject as I have not come across any on the tube elsewhere.
Pete.
Best way to sell small quantities of gold is online. There are some online buyers or you can go to ebay.
Hey Danny have you ever done any smelting or Assay testing on of your black sand concentrates to determine what if any precious metals are still trapped within them after panning?
Hey Dan, once again love your video. Need your expert opinion, if you come across a lot of black sand in an area well there be gold in it or near by?
Not necessarily
Dan I’m a beginner and I don’t know how to remove the water from my vial to be able to weigh my gold can you make a video showing how to do so?
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very nice demo. would be interesting to see your results if you did again with the same dirt but with the usual technique so we can see how all that gold would be missed. Also it seems that plastic is too slippery and the riffles too rounded, I would think a different material would work better (faster).
Best tutorial ever on gold panning! Hey Teach, is it OK to say that you're an Artiste when it comes to panning?!? I don't live in a gold bearing area (south western Manitoba) but this sure was educational. And interesting to watch. And fun! Someday I may actually get to do some real gold panning too! Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
You are welcome. If you can pan for yourself, I have LOTS of videos. And I hope some day you can get out and try it for yourself.
Do you need any special prep or seasoning for this clean up, or this type of pan? Other than soap and water to remove oils?
Yep, I use a combination of all three methods too. How much does a finishing pan help in this process? I just have always used my 14 inch Garrett pan which works great.
For the final video I will be using all three at once in a garrett pan.
Backwash tap tap sounds like a hip hop dance move.
Grovin to the tunes!
Thanks for the tutorial, Dan. Do you think it would be worth it to lightly scuff up a section of my clean-up pan with coarse grit sandpaper?
There are videos out there on seasoning your gold pan. I believe Dan has one of them.
You can find that video here th-cam.com/video/Pp3swkWWU2k/w-d-xo.html
Awesome but i gotta say you have ALOT more patients than i do lol
Keep watching, you will see my method is way faster.
You made mention that your eye dropper looking thing. I believe you called it an aqua tweezer. I couldn’t find those on the internet. Where can I purchase one
Hello Dan, do you have video on pyrite & gold ?
Nothing about identifying them. But that's a good idea!
How bout doing a video of the old timers equipment like using a rocker box that would be cool to see just a thought happy panning to you
I would have to make one.
That would be awesome video as well I would like to make one as well so that would be a good how to video
I'll keep it in mind
thank you for the vidieo thas taght me some stuff
I love hearing when people find the videos useful! Thanks!
Nice, you just can not do that on the river. Right?
Since you have after the long day just not a steady hand.
Greetings Tom
I often do my final clean up on the river.
@@Danhurd I understand that. You also have more (small) nuggets. These are also on the bottom of the pan. You lucky ones.
In my area, it's just gold flakes. Most of them can also be washed out by the river. However, it is advisable to make the whole thing at home with detergent. Since, as you have shown, some can float. Greetings Tom
well done, Dan! How many years you practice that?
8 or so