This is what a good pan should look like when you are tesing your pit pay gravels for paying gold!!

This is a good test pan we had in one of our pits this last summer.

Some good test pans like this is going to bring you a good cleanup at the end of a shift.

This is about 60+ mesh and finer  gold. When you see this in your panning program, the bills will get paid thats for sure.

You can see the amount of heavy black sand and iron in each pan gives you a good idea what you are up against for sure.

Your gold pan is always the best start, when you are placer mining for gold.

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