Image by Oregon State University Archives via Flickr I don't have much to say today except gold has gone up and looking at my charts now it's 1407.75.What I am going to do today is put up a few definitions that prospectors and placer miners use when they're talking about their claims.
Flour gold. This is also called Gold dust. It is defined as gold that is so fine that it looks and feels like flour or dust.
Hard rock mine. This isn't something you will be too concerned about during your recreational gold panning but I thought we might as well throw it in anyway. A hard rock mine is a tunnel was dug into solid rock for the purpose of finding minerals particularly gold and silver.
Placer mining. This is the type of mining you will be doing with your pan hopefully finding a few nuggets which we will define later. It involves mining gold that's been washed away from its source and deposited in sandbars and small cracks in bedrock. Generally this involves rivers and streams but if you can find an old riverbed that is now dry and figure out where it used to run it is a very good place to find gold.
Your tools will be not in any particular order a rocker box, dredge, shaker table, sluice box, drywasher, and of course your trusty gold pan. You will also need some water. However you don't necessarily need it at the place where you're doing your work. You can sort your material and carry it home and do your final cleanup and processing in your garage or garden. This is the way most people do it because you can classify air or at the site and do the sitdown work-at-home.
By the way - prospectors have a word for this classified material, you will hear them refer to "cons". This is short for concentrates.
You can learn more about recreational gold panning HERE. hope you found this useful and watch this space please.
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