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Which pan do you use and why
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Garrett Supersluice Pan.
I started with the $10 Aussie Disposals pans (with the raised riffles) and to be honest much like any pan, once you master them they work really well.
Since then I've converted to the Garrett Supersluice pans, I find the deep riffles mean I can pan quite aggressively but be very confident nothing is getting out.
The wide base on the supersluice is also by lightyears far the absolute best cleanup pan I've ever used.
I started with the $10 Aussie Disposals pans (with the raised riffles) and to be honest much like any pan, once you master them they work really well.
Since then I've converted to the Garrett Supersluice pans, I find the deep riffles mean I can pan quite aggressively but be very confident nothing is getting out.
The wide base on the supersluice is also by lightyears far the absolute best cleanup pan I've ever used.
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elbowgrease said:
Yes they will get all the gold just to get the last back sand out you need another pan . I tried dry pan with it but the bucket with the throwaway in it had quite a bit gold in it .
Garrett Supersluice rules for quick test good area gold will not get out
I use a $16 black plastic pan.
Black because the gold shows up better than on the green or blue ones.
I don't use the riffles side, it just slows you down.
I've seen a lot of fancy pan designs but 90% of the pans on the market have one thing in common there is only actually one spot that catches the gold and it isn't the fancy riffles it's the bottom edge of the pan.
The original American pans were apple pie dishes they only had the one edge to catch the gold. Later tin pans got more advanced and added a single indent near the top of the pans edge that ran its circumference. That was the only riffle they had as such.
If your technique is right you only have to look at one spot on the pan that bottom inside edge in the middle at the front of the pan.
You can tap the pan and direct the gold around that edge to one side of the pan or the other but it's always sitting in that inside edge.
Also if you are going to tap the top of the pan don't hold it at the top or bottom of the pan hold it on the opposite side of the edge you are tapping if tapping on the top left hold it on the right hand side.
If you don't you won't get the top to bottom motion needed to move the gold to the top.
Black because the gold shows up better than on the green or blue ones.
I don't use the riffles side, it just slows you down.
I've seen a lot of fancy pan designs but 90% of the pans on the market have one thing in common there is only actually one spot that catches the gold and it isn't the fancy riffles it's the bottom edge of the pan.
The original American pans were apple pie dishes they only had the one edge to catch the gold. Later tin pans got more advanced and added a single indent near the top of the pans edge that ran its circumference. That was the only riffle they had as such.
If your technique is right you only have to look at one spot on the pan that bottom inside edge in the middle at the front of the pan.
You can tap the pan and direct the gold around that edge to one side of the pan or the other but it's always sitting in that inside edge.
Also if you are going to tap the top of the pan don't hold it at the top or bottom of the pan hold it on the opposite side of the edge you are tapping if tapping on the top left hold it on the right hand side.
If you don't you won't get the top to bottom motion needed to move the gold to the top.
Gcause
i'm with you on this one mate..i use a Circa 1930 full tin miners pan.....18 incher.. it was my grandfathers'.it has the single groove about 10mm wide and an inch or so from the lip of the rim...10 or 12 0f these full an hour is possible.. i clean up with the black 10 inch..so good for superfines if need be. Thats only when i'm prospecting.. when i'm on to it i use a small highbanker i bought from a guy in Warick,Qld..all the taillings then finnished off with black 10 inch..works for me and my mate...but hey ..I'm Old school..but i love a party...hehe
i'm with you on this one mate..i use a Circa 1930 full tin miners pan.....18 incher.. it was my grandfathers'.it has the single groove about 10mm wide and an inch or so from the lip of the rim...10 or 12 0f these full an hour is possible.. i clean up with the black 10 inch..so good for superfines if need be. Thats only when i'm prospecting.. when i'm on to it i use a small highbanker i bought from a guy in Warick,Qld..all the taillings then finnished off with black 10 inch..works for me and my mate...but hey ..I'm Old school..but i love a party...hehe
I have the same tin pan reefer. I also bought my highbanker from Bruce Bertram in Warwick, Qld, he's a top bloke.
unbelievable..well i certainly hope to catch up wiyh you one day mate.. my small team will be in Tuena over the longweekend..I'll be there swetting up on my Dolly with some qtz i gotta crush.. but we will be Jam'n on Saturday night..a little bluegrass traditional aussie and soome eagles to nam just a few..hehe your most welcome at our camp as are any one from the forum who may be out there then..Oh were gonna do a little highbank'n ourselves..cheers all if your there come over and say hullo..I'M driving a white 98 PRADO..AND I SET UP A BLUE TARP ' 'pup' tent..people call me Rossco...ya wanna have a yarn about, or are seeking some insight on the yella..or just hangout its all good.cheers..Rossco..reefer.
Sorry Rossco but its a bit of a drive from Cairns FNQ to Tuena so maybe another time Hope you have a great time though
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Bruce Kress was an interesting thinker
The importance of the angle of slope of the circular wall is implicit in all US patents for gold pans, but only in the 1950s did any inventor properly examine the effect of the slope on panning performance. It was Bruce Kress who first developed a hypothesis for wall slope in 1957 in US patent #2,797,809. The Kress hypothesis might be reworded as:
The angle of inward slope of the circular wall of a gold pan should be in the range of 18 to 26 degrees; less than this and the contents of the pan are likely to remain inert, more than this and the contents of the pan are prone to collapse regardless of the size of the particles or their density.
Only in the later stages of panning does the Kress hypothesis become critical, after the volume of solids and water in the pan have become greatly reduced.
If this is correct it may explain why so many have difficulty separating the gold at the end of each panning cycle :/
The importance of the angle of slope of the circular wall is implicit in all US patents for gold pans, but only in the 1950s did any inventor properly examine the effect of the slope on panning performance. It was Bruce Kress who first developed a hypothesis for wall slope in 1957 in US patent #2,797,809. The Kress hypothesis might be reworded as:
The angle of inward slope of the circular wall of a gold pan should be in the range of 18 to 26 degrees; less than this and the contents of the pan are likely to remain inert, more than this and the contents of the pan are prone to collapse regardless of the size of the particles or their density.
Only in the later stages of panning does the Kress hypothesis become critical, after the volume of solids and water in the pan have become greatly reduced.
If this is correct it may explain why so many have difficulty separating the gold at the end of each panning cycle :/
Are you talking about the separation of the gold from the black sand at the end? Wouldn't that have more to do with size and SG of cons? Thought that is why classifying cons down made them easier to separate?Outback said:
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shivan said:
Sorry I meant near the end ' when panning out the last of the material before the back wash .
Creekbed
Neville
Billy said:I mainly use the Gold Rush pro pan and while it does take a little bit of getting used to it is amazing how quick it is to process a full pan and it catches the smallest of small specks. I have the green one and have found that the gold sticks out like...well you know what
I believe it can also be used to dry pan but Ive not tried this yet.
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/1111/1393721612_gold_rush_pro_pan.jpg
[video=480,360]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq734jtVMYI[/video]
Hey Billy, Any idea where I can get a Blue Gold Rush Pro Pan in NSW. I used one a few years ago and liked it, especially the blue which to me showed up the gold well.
Every supplier now seem to have a green version which I am not that rapt in
Cheers Creekbed
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