panning concentrates (photos)

[jdt48653]

cabin fever is setting in,time to pan out my arizona concentrates i`ve been
saving.if i get anything out of my 55 gals  of cons i will post photos.

 UPDATE:FROM 55 gallons of concentrates from stantons antilope creek.
sorry about the bad photos,camara man sucks(me)

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[The Hermit]

If you get too busy, you can always ship it to me and I'll pan it for you. 
I'm sure others in here would like to help too.
Post some pics if you get a chance. Good luck.



      The Hermit

[bearmgc]

Oh yeah, I'd help.

[jdt48653]

will refine photos

[Old Grizz]

Those pictures are making my whole body go into convulsions. Man, that looks like fun.

[jdt48653]

hay old grizz,thanks  the same thing happends to me every time also.
good afliction to have,lol.  joe.t.

[Macthediver]

Man I panned 5 gal, of WI cons and got like a dozen pieces of gold so small I have to pick it up with a tooth pick. Can barely see it without a lop.
Your killing me here looking at all that yellow.
Are the redish stones in photo #2 garnets or some other heavy???

Mac

[jdt48653]

macthediver:there are several garnets in the mix.

[Macthediver]

I picked some small Garnets out of the stuff I was going threw here. All the Garnets I've found so far will easily go threw a 1/8 inch screen and are very small. The wife and I are thinking of using them in some type resin to make small jewelery pieces. Otherwise they wouldn't be good for much other than coarse sand paper :-)
I love the pic's of the gold some day if I get to travel, I hope to get where I can find serious gold in my pan.

Mac

[jdt48653]

better photos


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[CGPAUL]

OK....so for a novice...how do you know it`s gold when you find something that looks like gold? How do you test it??

[prospector86]

the ways to check it are pretty easy. If it's a  good size piece then look closely, if it has little layer's stacked on top of eachother like shale rock it's fake, real gold does not form in sheets ontop of eachother. Hit it with a hammer, if it shatter's its fake, real gold will flatten. If there's light put your hand above the pan, fake gold will not shine bright, real gold will. These are just the fastest way to test weather it's real or not.

[CGPAUL]

Thank you!!

[dukkillr]

I've never panned or looked for gold but your pictures sure are cool.  What do you do with the gold left in the pan?  Do you melt it or sell it or what? 

[45454]

better photos


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Now yer gittin me to drool......
Nice finds.
Yep,I'll volunteer too.

[TheSilverSlayer]

Nice looking gold you have there. What was the final weight of it all?

[Rex in OTZ]

A co-worker said as a kid he saw his father keep the Crop and Gizzards form the Ptarmigan they shot, later on he would go to the kitchen table and use tweezersa to pick gold flakes out the gizzard linings.

This was on the Alaska's Seward Penninsula.

[jdt48653]

that clean up was about 42 pennyweight.

[45454]

I've never panned or looked for gold but your pictures sure are cool.  What do you do with the gold left in the pan?  Do you melt it or sell it or what? 

Hi Guy !
Suprised that no one had answered your question.
I am a member of another forum.
The one-Metal Detectors and Gold prospecting Forum is hidden until signed in.
He was asked a similar question.
His answer was, the bigger nuggets can be sold to a jeweler.
The smaller nuggets can be collected together over time.Then sold to a gold refinery.
But,should you have unusual specimens,such as wire gold,or crytaline gold, you can pretty much name your price.And,sometimes can be many times over the markets price for bullion gold.
The key here,is to find a gold collector.
Hope this helps.