Have you ever found so much black sand in your pan that you couldn't get all of the gold to settle to the bottom?
No matter how much you shake and stratify the contents of your pan, you can still see the gold trying to wash out.
Many times I have ran my sluice or dry washer and at the end of the day pulled the riffle tray out to do the clean-up,
dumped the concentrates into my pan and started to wash out the silt only to find that the pan was so full of black sand
it was hard to work the gold down far enough to keep it from washing out.
To solve this problem, I get myself a second pan and spoon a small amount of the black sand into it and shake the gold down
to the bottom, then I fan the black sand back to expose the gold. Using a bouncing motion, I move the visible gold into a
clean area along the edge of the pan and use my snuffer bottle to pick-up the clean gold. Once I am satisfied that I have
picked up all of the gold I can see, I dump the black sand into an old coffee can that I keep to go through later.
I repeat this until I have worked the material in the first pan down to a manageable amount and then I finish panning the
last of the concentrates.
This will take you a little longer to pan out your gold but, after a full day of shoveling, you don’t want to give mother
earth back even one speck of gold you worked so hard to find.
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