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Gold Equipment

Gold equipment essentials include the following tools to get started on this very rewarding activity.

One of the most basic pieces of gold equipment that you will need on your gold finding expeditions is the gold pan.

Panning for gold has been around for a very long time. Gold panning consists of a circular bowl, called a gold pan. Gold panning as most people understand it is a labour intensive, time consuming, manual activity. You hold the gold pan in your hands and rock or swirl the contents within the gold pan to get rid of unwanted material. Typically, wide, shallow gold pans are filled with gravels and sand that may contain the material that you are after, namely gold. Water is added to the material inside the gold pan. As gold is much heavier than and denser than other material within the gold pan, it will settle to the bottom whilst the other non gold material is sloshed out over the side of the gold pan. Eventually, after some minutes of work, you will be left with silt in the bottom of the gold pan which might just include hopefully, flakes or tiny nuggets of gold, these can then be extracted from the gold pan and placed into a gold vial, or small plastic bottle with a screw top for safe keeping.

Quite literally, rinse and repeat this process of often as is required to determine the prospects of finding gold in any particular gold area where you are looking for this most precious metal.

Depending on the area where you are gold mining, the gold pan is perhaps one of the most basic pieces of gold equipment that you will need. The gold pan can have either smooth sides or riffled sides on the inside of the gold pan to catch the gold. Other gold tools similar to the gold pan, which can help to speed up the process is the gold wheel, or gold spiral wheel as it is sometimes called. This is a step up from the basic gold pan and will be discussed next.

Incidentally, gold pans are made from wood or plastic, the latter gold pan material being the material of choice by many, simply because it is so durable out in the field. Typically, you would of course choose a dark colour gold pan which will highlight the gold specks to the naked eye much more easily. Gold pans can be bought on this site for just a few dollars, very cheaply.

Here is an image of a gold pan:

The spiral gold wheel works similarly to the gold pan, without you doing most of the hard work yourself, it is far less tiring and tedious than using a gold pan alone, the other advantage of course is that the gold spiral wheel picks up much more gold than a gold pan alone can, in a much faster time too.. Standing at an angle, gravel and sand material is added with a trowel to the gold spiral wheel.

The gold spiral wheel is exceptionally easy to use too, even for a beginner to gold prospecting.

You simply fill the tank with a few gallons of water, three to four gallons is ideal in most cases. Then you simply hook the clips to your 12V battery , flick a switcth and you are ready to go! The gold wheel will start to rotate and the water will spray from the spray bar onto the actual gold wheel itself. Then all you have to do is to add a trowelful of sand or material approximately every 20 seconds. You’ll soon start to see the gold settles to the bottom as the spiral turns and the stepped riffles will pick the gold up, conveying it higher towards the center of the gold spiral wheel. When the flakes of gold or small gold nuggets reach the center of the gold wheel they will pass through the hollow shaft in the center into your gold catch cup. You can quite easily get fully familiar with the gold wheel in as little as ten minutes it is that user friendly and will yield you much more catchment of gold than a gold pan alone and of course is much faster too.

You can buy a gold spiral wheel on this site, they don’t cost much and will almost certainly pay for themselves very quickly by the amount of gold found, so make an exceptionally good gold tools investment. The gold spiral wheel can also be easily carried in any car and conveyed to your chosen gold prospecting location very easily.

The gold spiral wheel:

In the next article we’ll be looking at gold equipment basics for gold field trips, please read on to find out more.