This is HOW GOLD PANNING WORKS

Have you ever wondered how gold panning works? what is gold panning? what is placer mining? what kind of gold pans are there? is gold panning worth it? History of gold panning? Look no further because this is how gold panning works!

0:00 - Intro
0:33 - What is Gold Panning?
1:09 - History of Gold Panning
1:31 - How Gold Panning Works
3:55 - Different Kinds of Gold Pans
4:54 - Is Gold Panning Worth It?

Gold panning is a form of placer mining that extracts gold from a placer deposit. Placer deposits are accumulation of valuable minerals, such as gold, formed by gravity separation during the sedimentation process. For an example a river transports gold and “places” it in a place where the river runs slower.

The first recorded instances of placer mining dates back to the ancient rome, where gold and other precious metals were extracted from streams and mountainsides using sluices and panning. Also the Spanish used gold panning during their conquest of South America in the 1600’s.

Once you have found a suitable placer deposit, some of the alluvial deposit is scooped up into the pan. The pan is then wetted and the material is loosed from attached soil by soaking, fingering and aggressive agitation in water. This process is called stratification; which helps dense material like gold sink to the bottom and material with low specific gravity will rise upward, allowing these to be washed out from the pan, whereas material with higher specific gravity will stay in the pan allowing you to pick it up. These dense materials usually consists of magnetite sand or so called black sand, or other dense material like pyrite, chalcopyrite etc. depending on the location.

Gold pans of various designs have been developed over the years, some are intended for use with mercury, include screens, sharp corners for breaking ice, are non-round, or are even designed for use "with or without water". Common sizes of gold pans today range between 10–17 inches (25–43 cm), with 14 inches (36 cm) being the most used size.

The batea, Spanish for "gold pan", is a particular variant of gold pan. Traditionally made of a solid piece of wood. Bateas are used in areas where there is less water available for use than with traditional gold pans, such as Mexico and South America, where it was introduced by the Spanish. Bateas are larger than other gold pans, being closer to half a meter (20 inches) in diameter.
The yuri-ita, Japanese for "rocking plate" is a traditional wooden gold pan used in Japan. Unlike other gold pans, it is rectangular in shape with a concave cross section and is sealed off at one end with the other end open. As the Japanese name implies, the gold is panned with a rocking motion.

Gold panning is not the most effective way to extract gold so if you want to get rich you should try some other method, but panning for gold can be used to locate the parent gold veins which are the source of most placer deposits. And it’s a lot of fun!

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[TrueVikings]

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[lorib]

Hahaha. Good fun video Joel. Good to see you have done some homework. May you find much gold in your pan soon.

[kevinstrickland]

I'd definitely try panning for gold if I lived in an area that had gold. Great job explaining the process and tools! Oh yeah and of course your skills!

[achilliaroberso]

Nice bit of historical content Joel .. I will have to get digging when I go home 🥳🎉.. I hope you get that bag of gold soon guys, Joel and Emil .. Thankyou for sharing 👍

[hardyakka]

In Australia unlike America who are about half Spanish we always call it Alluvial mining. Gold still working its way down to the waterway through the soil from a reef is Colluvial gold. A sieve to get just the fines is good. Americans don't have sieves they only have CLASSIFIERS.
You never mentioned how sore your back can get after days panning. Keep up the search. Do more reading.

[CrazyChipmunk]

Nice work Joel! Keep it up guy's!!! I see big gold I'm your future!