If you dig six inches in the first hole, dig six inches in the following holes. You should always sample the same way each time: that is, if you use one shovel full of material in your pan when you dig your test hole, then use one shovel full in each following pan. Panning samples is still how the prospector finds the optimum place to obtain the most gold. Later on, a motorized highbanker, dredge, or highbanker/dredge combo becomes an attractive alternative. While panning is, on its own, a means to finding and recovering gold, more seasoned prospectors tend to purchase a sluice box after about their first year in order to move more "material," the sand and gravel in which placer gold is found. Gold Prospectors of the Rockies - Highbanking Tips Backįrom a talk by Steve Cychosz, GPR Past PresidentĪs appearing in The Gold Nugget, July 1999
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