Gold Pan black plastic 10.5''

Plastic Riffled Gold Pan

To begin panning for gold all you really need is a gold pan. Our gold pans are 10.5" tough black plastic with riffles for better gold retention.

Anyone can learn how to pan for gold. Follow these simple gold panning instructions and start panning for gold today.

Step #1 - Find where the gold is
There is no use panning for gold in a stream where there is no gold so go to a stream where people have found gold before. Since gold is much heavier than water (about 19 times heavier), the gold stays on the bottom and gets caught in the sand in slow moving areas around bends of the stream and along the shore. It also tends to get stuck in small crevices in rocks and wedged in pieces of wood. Try to find places like this along the stream.

Step #2 - Submersion
Put about 4 handfuls of material into your gold pan. Submerse the pan in the stream. While holding the gold pan under water, move the pan in a circular motion so that the lighter materials will be carried out of the gold pan. Don't move it too rapidly or you may lose gold along with the rocks and sand. Keep doing this until about half of the material in the gold pan is gone.

Step #3 - Panning
Lift the pan out of the water and begin swirling it around with it tipped slightly to the side where the riffles are. When all the water is gone dip the pan into the water again, bring it back out, and start swirling again. Keep doing this until nearly all the material in the pan is gone.

Step #4 - Separation and Retrieval
Seperate any nuggets or flakes of gold from the sand in the bottom of the gold pan. Deposit them into a display vial or other container. If you didn't find any gold, don't worry. It takes practice, patience, and a little luck to find, but keep trying. There's nothing like finding gold in the bottom of your gold pan!