hi i'm steve i'm here with Chris and auburn california to give you a demo of
the my lab pro gold panning kit for those who don't know
auburn is the heart of the mother lode gold country and we're not far from
sutter's mill where gold was first discovered way back in 1848 the program
panting KITT is everything you need to get started gold panning will take a
look at what's in the kit and then head on down to the river to give you some
panning tips and find some gold while we're at it
you bet alright this kit contains two premium gold pans and the classifier all
constructed of a tough you be resistant plastic the floats in water there's the
15 inch dual ripple pan the canyon single ripple pan and the hex mesh
classifier there's also a range of useful tools for working with small gold
particles and a carry bag that converts to a backpack
the pro gold kit has three different panning zones to allow you multiple
options for different planning techniques the large 92b ripples are
useful for separating the bulk of the gravels from the gold small ripples are
ideal for separating the smaller gold from the small gravel and the flat side
wall is the third zone for separating the feingold from the black sands dark
pan colors give a good contrast yellow gold and blue is the perfect choice
showing both the black sand and gold very clearly the getting started guide
has some handy tips on where to look for gold and basic steps for getting started
let's look at the eight steps for finding gold step one is to classify
your material so you want to take your hex mesh classifier place it in the 15
inch gold pan and bedrock is always the best place to look for gold if you can
find some bedrock and dig down into cracks and crevices where the gold coin
to settle you're gonna have your best chance for success pick the material out
of the pocket digging it fill the classifier step two is to classify your
material now you can dry classify into a bucket but it's best if you can do this
in the water to wash the material that way it's completely clean and you have
the large rocks separated from the fine material with a classified step three is
to fill your gold pan with water
the key here is to find a good safe location with steady footing and a place
where you can sit down and be comfortable while you're panning
step four is a very important step is where we're going to agitate the
material in the pan to settle the gold into the bottom of the pan with the pan
in the water large ripples facing away from you and relatively level not trying
to wash material out of the pan here vigorously shake the pan back and forth
to settle the gold into the bottom of the pan is a lot of different styles but
most people just simply shake back and forth and the cold here again is not to
get them to chill out of the pan but to get the gold into the bottom of it
Step five is removing the unwanted material from the pan now there's a lot
of different ways to do this but in step 4 we've got the gold into the bottom of
the pan by agitating it now we want to wash the like material off the top and
we can do that by simply submerging the pan and raising it and washing carefully
the light material off the top
it's a repeated action doing this and eventually removes all the light
material from the pan and leaves the golden the bottom
now we simply repeat step 3 through 5 over and over until there's very little
material left in the pan so I'm going to ultimately shake the material and then
wash across the course ripple section that way if there's any gold in the pan
and will be captured by the course ripples and watch carefully to make sure
no gold escape so you're doing this
agitate settle the goal wash remove the unwanted material again we're doing this
across the course ripple section again agitate wash agitate wash removing the
unwanted material from Japan agitating washing and again the course ripples
here are ensuring that any gold that's in the pan gets caught and when we get
down to a small amount of material like this it's beneficial to switch over to
this other set of ripples the smaller ripples and if we had a large nugget we
would've seen it by now would have been caught in the big riffles here though
we're going to switch to the smaller ripples and that will allow us to clean
out remove those chunkier pieces of rock that are in there in the final step will
be to rotate last bit of sand over to the final section here to remove the
black sands from the pan
in step 6 you very often have some black sands left in the pan black sand is
actually magnetite which is an iron ore and so you can use a neat trick with the
magnet that comes in your pro gold panning kit magnet inside of a plastic
bag simply run it over the black sands in the pan you let the blacks and out
and leave the goal behind in step 7 we retrieve the gold from the gold pan
using the greatest little tool invented in mining in a long time the snuffer
bottle just like an eyedropper you squeeze the plastic and release to suck
the gold up and captured in the bottle doesn't get any easier than that in step
8 we finally put the gold in the vial and we've got a neat little trick for
doing that we'll just take the cap off the bile take the cap off the suction
bottle pull this tube out the cap back on now we have a funnel that we can
easily take and put the gold into our vile with
cap on and we are all done well a few hours effort got us a little bit of gold
Chris what do you think well I didn't get rich today but there's still some
good gold here and I had a good time there is still a lot of gold out there
to find in the pro gold panning kid is the perfect way to find it
contact your nearest minelab cater for more information on the pro gold panic
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