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Garrett Gravity pan for me.. I am kinda anxious to try the new oblong pan that they came out with, I understand they quit making the regular Garrett Gravity pan.

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I like the Estwing pan, but I am as much trying to pan very fine gold dust. https://www.estwing.com/products/plastic-gold-pans

Garret's gravity trap riffles clog up on me. Very interested in trying Minelabs pan. Good colour, curious to how well their riffles will work.

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On 3/13/2018 at 6:23 PM, Bryce said:

I like the Estwing pan, but I am as much trying to pan very fine gold dust. https://www.estwing.com/products/plastic-gold-pans

Garret's gravity trap riffles clog up on me. Very interested in trying Minelabs pan. Good colour, curious to how well their riffles will work.

If you are panning very fine gold it is more technique than pan.

Classify your materials and pan only small amounts.

 

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3 hours ago, johnedoe said:

If you are panning very fine gold it is more technique than pan.

Classify your materials and pan only small amounts.

 

I am classifiying my material through a roughly 1/4" classifier, however I'm panning glaciated ground with alot of persistant heavies. My technique is down pat, but a good pan with less aggressive riffles makes it fast.

The turbo pan however is a gimic. Thankfully it was free. Now it's a depository for black sands sitting on the shelf.

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1/4 " is still not small enough to make fine gold recovery easy or efficient.

The golden rule is... If everything in the pan is the same size, Gold rules.

Here are some vids for fine gold recovery and cleanup. This is a link to a thread I put together on another site.

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/panning-gold/459664-art-gold-panning.html

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Johndoe, I'm panning to prospect. The setup works well for my survey of the claim. Production is sluiced. Then yes, finer classification most definitely helps with recovery from the cons.

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