Stolen from Steve Herschbach - Gold Pans, Everything you need to know!

[Terry Soloman]

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313562132_Gold_recovery_in_Gold_Pans_-the_term_'Panning'

 

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[laidback4sho]

Hey Terry, you tried the Gold Claw pans out yet? What you think about them? Just got me one but haven't been out yet with it.

 

[laidback4sho]

Nice article btw! Thanks for sharing.

 

[Goldwasher]

Kress wanted to sell pans his hypothesis... meh

Legal made a slight addition that makes sense and is used by thousands including my self...

the gold claw is a huge rip off and no improvement..


it's amazing how many wastes of time get patented

 

[Terry Soloman]

Hey Terry, you tried the Gold Claw pans out yet? What you think about them? Just got me one but haven't been out yet with it.

I tested it out at Stanton, AZ, and honestly was not really impressed. Maybe I'm just jaded, or have used my old Garrett plastic pans so long I feel uncomfortable using anything else. Let us know what you think!

 

[laidback4sho]

Will do. Thx!

 

[placertogo]

The Gold Claw works but nothing about it justifies the expense when the cost of manufacture is perhaps a dollar a piece.

 

[arizau]

I don't have one but by video viewing it seems that it works ok but is probably best suited for beginning panners...for instance, a family with younguns on vacation...one pan to be shared by all.

 

[placertogo]

Yes, it works but not 40 to 50 bucks worth. I have about every pan made in the last 25 years. If I could have only one it would be a Garrett Super Sluice or Klondike Special which is made in Sweden. Both these cost about ten dollars each and are nearly indestructible.

 

[KevinInColorado]

I tried the goldclaw at a gold show and was shocked at how easy it was to lose the small gold with it. Most pans are better than that one AND are 1/4 the cost.

 

[N-Lionberger]

Great article! I have read over it several times before, I want to print it out for my notebook. I saw a demonstration of the goldclaw at a gold show, the demonstrator asked me what my favorite pan was, well thats complicated, I have many favorite pans for different situations but my main go to pans for sampling a stream are either the Garret super sluice or the Estwing 16" ribbed steel pan. If its really cold out or I am running a detector I use the Garret, for everything else steel pan. The demonstrator assured me after the demo I would throw money at him and throw away that old rusty hunk of junk. At the end of the demo which involved play sand salted with nice size flakes he asked what color pan I wanted to buy!

 

[placertogo]

I think a great disservice is being done to new prospectors by Gold Claw. It works, but no better than the classic Garrett and at more than 5 times the price. Scalpers!

 

[tinpan]

Hi , the first gold pan user guide is found in 1850's book called Victorian Gold Valuer Ready Reckoner in 1853 published by W M ORR & SONS of London . First American Goldpan Patent was in 1861 . So who stole what ? TP

 

[Reed Lukens]

I've got 5 gold claws sitting here and some dealers outside in their trailer... I can't see how it would lose any gold with an experienced panner using it, I will make time to try it out next week and see if I can get it working right because to me, it looks like it still needs to be seasoned before using it. Still though, I use Frank's Pioneer pan that Keene sells now and then the blue Falcon concentrator pan still ranks #1 in my book for dealing with concentrates.

 

[Smithsgold]

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313562132_Gold_recovery_in_Gold_Pans_-the_term_'Panning'

Super cool reading !!!!!

 

[gollum]

Everybody always wants the newest thinking it will get them more gold. If you are losing gold, THEN YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO PAN PROPERLY! Blue or green doesn't matter, they are just personal preferences, and one or the other may work better for different vision issues.

If you are a beginner, a medium pan with several riffles (I like the blue Proline) will help you keep the gold in your pan.

If you can properly work a pan, you don't need Miller Tables or Blue Bowls. Unless you are using bigger equipment that generates a buttload of concentrates, all you need to do is learn to pan. I'm not the fastest, but I am pretty fast, and I have never lost a bet having someone pan my leavings.

One bit of advice though: when you are working at your Honey Hole, keep a LOT of black sand in your snuffer bottle! That way, when some nosey stranger wants to see what you have gotten, you hold up that thing and all they see is black sand. Act like you are really excited, and tell them you heard there is always gold in black sand! They tend to move on, and you get to work in peace again.

Mike

 

[placertogo]

Everybody always wants the newest thinking it will get them more gold. If you are losing gold, THEN YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO PAN PROPERLY! Blue or green doesn't matter, they are just personal preferences, and one or the other may work better for different vision issues.

If you are a beginner, a medium pan with several riffles (I like the blue Proline) will help you keep the gold in your pan.

If you can properly work a pan, you don't need Miller Tables or Blue Bowls. Unless you are using bigger equipment that generates a buttload of concentrates, all you need to do is learn to pan. I'm not the fastest, but I am pretty fast, and I have never lost a bet having someone pan my leavings.

One bit of advice though: when you are working at your Honey Hole, keep a LOT of black sand in your snuffer bottle! That way, when some nosey stranger wants to see what you have gotten, you hold up that thing and all they see is black sand. Act like you are really excited, and tell them you heard there is always gold in black sand! They tend to move on, and you get to work in peace again.

Mike

Excellent advice for all, from novice to the experienced prospector.

 

[Capt Nemo]

Everybody always wants the newest thinking it will get them more gold. If you are losing gold, THEN YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO PAN PROPERLY! Blue or green doesn't matter, they are just personal preferences, and one or the other may work better for different vision issues.

Generally, that's true until you run beach sands. Unless you take the sand home and pan it 2-3 times, you're gonna loose something.

 

[gollum]

Generally, that's true until you run beach sands. Unless you take the sand home and pan it 2-3 times, you're gonna loose something.

Not if you know how to pan. If I can keep fly poop of about 500 mesh in a pan, then I don't care about anything smaller. Not worth my time when I have plenty of nice chunky stuff. If you haven't seen, here are some pics from another thread:

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/p...ing-fine-gold-cleanup-method.html#post6168423

Mike

 

[N-Lionberger]

Doesn't sound like you have tried panning for beach gold, its ALL fine black sand it takes on a weird soupy state its slow to stratify, the black sand in your photos are boulders in comparison.