No gold panning thread. AZ / Cali / NV / Alaska get in here. Drop your wisdom.
>>2999488I see gold panning shit on CL and zuckbook at deep discounts all the time. Don't buy new.
>>2999488What's /diy/ about panning for gold? >use your mother's tupperware to play in the mud instead of getting a real job The end.
>>2999519You can still have a job and do gold panning as a hobby while camping. You complete fucking retard.
>>2999488WHY HALLO THAR
>>2999541/diy/?
pan where and what im supposed to believe theres gold in random spots
>>2999563>random spotsUsually not. Most successful panning is done in established districts where gold has been found before. But the fact is that most placer gold districts have been thoroughly worked, first by original prospectors, then by the Chinese who followed them and cleaned up thoroughly, and then by panners during the great depression. I'm sure there are probably some very remote spots in places like Alaska that might not have been touched, but almost all of the east pickings are gone.
>>2999565*easy
just ordered some pans from Amazongoing camping in Uwharrie national forest this fall and will try them out then, any tips for a first timer?
>>2999570get some classifiers too, gold's only heavier than everything else the same size. Big rocks will knock small gold flakes out of your pan. I made my own out of bucket tops and mesh, used a milk crate for the biggest one, then half inch, quarter inch and eighth inch. I made a small one out of a frisbee with solid metal window screen glued in, used rivets on the bigger mesh and zip ties to hold the milk crate one.
