PANNING GOLD
Gold is usually found in two forms, in veins or lodes;
and in river beds or near them where the metal is called
alluvial gold. Gold is also found with other elements
such as copper, iron but usually with silver. The simplest
form of gold mining is panning, which applies to allu-
vial gold. The miner shovels sand and gravel that have
gold in them into a pan which he tilts slightly and works
with a rotation motion. The particles of gold, being the
heaviest, sink to the bottom of the pan while the lighter
materials are washed away. It was this method, while
being wasteful, which was practiced almost entirely during
the opening of the great gold fields . . . M. P.
Photo-color by Merle Porter
June 23,65
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