Hi every one B) Well i went x-mass shopping at my favorite line of stores (Flea Markets) A place called Ichys any way after oh 4 hours or so rummaging around through All and Every thing from Every were I happend across this gold pan with a endvelope atacht to it in side is a how to operate paper ,with no date or a name of manufactur.Well the pan is different then any I've ever seen.How about you ? Well let me know.
Gat.
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Sure is an odd one. Now you will have start practicing. Looks more likee something to concentrate. Sure is odd though. Good luck with it.
That one is different Gat.
Will be interesting to see how it works! :D
Does look like something to classify.
Will be interesting to see how it works! :D
Does look like something to classify.
Ok here is a desription,In the bottom of the pan a bolt gose throught the bottom of the pan and held there by a flat nut ,then there is the foam rubber 1/16 thick,then there is the 1/4 punch plate and a wing nut to hold it all down.Yesterday dec 16th
I gave it a little test ,(now dont tell my wife cause i did it in the bath tub again )Any ways i panned out a couple scoops full of black sands, The pan works very well with the fine gold that was left in the black sand from the first cleanning. It seemed to me to hold the gold in the punch plate holes as I was panning i could see that it was increasingly harder to get the gold to the edge of the pan it seamed to want to stay in the punch plate holes.After panning it down I removed the punch plate and washed out the foam rubber in the pan and did the final panning and low and behold there be gold in the pan grin I got my hand held micro scope and looked closely at the gold and found a abundence of very fine micro gold in the pan.
My conclusion is the pan works very well and seems to pick up finer gold then a coventional pan although harder to do the final clean because you have to remove parts it does catch more gold.
Gat.
I gave it a little test ,(now dont tell my wife cause i did it in the bath tub again )Any ways i panned out a couple scoops full of black sands, The pan works very well with the fine gold that was left in the black sand from the first cleanning. It seemed to me to hold the gold in the punch plate holes as I was panning i could see that it was increasingly harder to get the gold to the edge of the pan it seamed to want to stay in the punch plate holes.After panning it down I removed the punch plate and washed out the foam rubber in the pan and did the final panning and low and behold there be gold in the pan grin I got my hand held micro scope and looked closely at the gold and found a abundence of very fine micro gold in the pan.
My conclusion is the pan works very well and seems to pick up finer gold then a coventional pan although harder to do the final clean because you have to remove parts it does catch more gold.
Gat.
I don't recognize that style of pan from anywhere I've been, and I don't think I know anyone who's ever used one of that type.
Maybe there is a new market for it?, I also wonder if the Blue Bowls that work with a pump would function better if they had a bottom trap set up like your pan.
That's a real nice find you made, let us know this summer how good it works in the field.
Redpaw
Maybe there is a new market for it?, I also wonder if the Blue Bowls that work with a pump would function better if they had a bottom trap set up like your pan.
That's a real nice find you made, let us know this summer how good it works in the field.
Redpaw
Hey Gat, That pan looks just like one pictured in E.S. LeGaye's book Gold...ABC's Of Panning. It's a good little book written in 1970. He describes the pan shown on page 32 as one specially fitted for saving flour gold. Good find! QJ ;)
Thank you very much Quilomene john im going to try and get that book today or as soon as i can find the time to get to barns&noble <_< Any ways thanks again
Gat. B)
Gat. B)
Gat,
Did you ever find a copy of "The ABC's of Panning"? If not I'll keep my eyes open for one for you. QJ :)
Did you ever find a copy of "The ABC's of Panning"? If not I'll keep my eyes open for one for you. QJ :)
:D yep i got the book and yes the one thay show and talk about is all most the same one as the one i got could be a later model.thank you for the infoe on the book. cant wait to try it out on the creek 
Gat.
Gat.
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