I'm hoping to get a chance to see / try these in action at one of my upcoming visits to some of the claims / outings. I definitely hope somebody has a Hog Pan as that looks like my first choice. I really need something to easily and quickly sample my property without having to drag a battery and tons of gear down.

Posted By JOHNATHAN GREENE on 12 Jul 2016 07:14 AM

I use it in the uwharrie forest in the summer time when water levels are to low to sluice. It definitely works but you can do the same thing by classifing your material into a bucket, production pan it, and at the end of the day pan you cons

Probably a dumb question but...

please explain "production panning"?

If this yields what I think it does, it sounds like a handy technique for creating cons for home panning in the livingroom and mailing to my sister to continue my attempts to infect her with gold fever.

Posted By FRED GOODE on 12 Jul 2016 11:53 AM

@Mary McCarty

I think in this context, Johnathan Greene refers to "production panning" as a statement of volume of material processed at a high speed. Typically panning is very slow if you try to take it all the way down to nothing in the pan but gold. If you shovel gravel from a location into a pan and then pan it down to the gold, you probably won't make much recovery in a day. Using a sluice is typically at least 10x faster. More material processed = more gold recovered with all other things being equal. Production Panning probably means don't try to clean it all the way down. Just remove say ~80-90% of the lighter material and save the rest for later. Same thing you do with a sluice or a dredge. Spend your time at the river as efficiently as possible. Concentrate your material down as far as you can quickly, then take the concentrates home and do the tedious job of cleaning them down to the gold at your leisure. Don't waste time on the river trying to do this. Only do this for your sample pans.



The pyramid pro pan is sold as a "production pan". I believe this means it processes about the same amount of material as a sluice in a given time frame. I can confirm this is a reasonable statement. You would never use the pyramid pan to try to get it down to just gold. The pyramid pan is a concentrator.



Hope that helps. 

  

Hey good idea sending cons to folks to infect them. Never thought of that. I'll try that on a couple of victims and see what happens.  

Yes it does help thanks. Confirmed more or less what I suspected. I'd just never considered doing it that way before and I must say I like it a lot.

And best of luck trying that conc mailing infection attempt. Lol! I've already sent her commercial cons once along with a Garret pan set and a turbo pan and she sent me a pic of results, and admitted it was fun. If she and one of the nephews gets to join me for a couple of weeks in the Wallowa valley, that ought to seal her fate...

Cheers!

Mary