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To: Bill/WA who wrote (2709)	8/8/2002 11:32:01 AM
From: ralfph	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8273

SUF- Halted.... this better not be a buy out. I am out and looking to get back in. This was the week I was set to do it. grrrrrrrrrrrrr ralfph

To: Bill/WA who wrote (2709)	8/8/2002 3:16:01 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 8273

"grizz feeding on left-over fishermen" Now that would be an interesting shot. Gotta hand it to them grizz, they will take care of just about everything. "very little colour in little bits of qtz." Gotta know what oyou are looking at. If there is not too much black sands and a fair bit of pyrite, and the qtz is kind of rubbly, the gold angular, or attached to the qtz, you are very near source. From hundreds of feet to less than a mile. If the qtz is kind of pea size blocky grains or sugary and small then the source could be quite close. The less heavies with the pan, the more suspect it is to be close. It also depends on how much you retain in your pan. If you want to test well, keep the pan level and use slight swirl of water energy that goes in a circle to lift the lights out. Motion is mostly wrist, and does not continue with the water swirl, just initiates it. When the sand in the pan gets down to about 10 ounces, you can start to tilt the pan away from you and shake lazily back and forth to allow the water to wash and lift the lights. Never pour sands over the lip, lift with water swirl and shake or tap back and forth from time to time to settle gold into the lower corner the pan. It is sometimes suggested to do this under water as the water and stream motion helps gently lift the lights out, especially if you dip the pan as you "twist it" under water. You never have to toss the pan or move it with any motion more than about 4 inches in diameter and level. Start with about 3 pounds in the pan, and the same amount of water. If you can, always use cold water, and light rubber gloves, grease free. A pan should be burnt very lightly in a fire upside down, before panning to remove any oils on the metal. Always dry the pan after and wrap it in wax paper to store. Do not use loc or detergent to pan unless you have a real bad clay problem, as the grains stick together and propel gold with them. If you retain garnets and pyrite, you are panning carefully When you examine the gold when it is about dixie cup size con, you tilt the pan towards you at about 30 degrees from horizontal. Here you are observing, and keep the material in the pan. Shimmy the pan to the upper left in a rotary motion left (slow motion up and clockwise with tiny back and forth jiggles as you let the sands fall back right) or tap it in this manner, allowing the water to wash down to the right over the con in a counter clockwise circular motion around the bottom of the pan. Jiggle and swirl. This allow the lights to slough off with the water to the right in a counter clockwise circle, and the gold to appear in a knot under the black sands to the left of the con. Don't expect rich gold when you are near source. Right on top of the vein may yield only 7 or 8 grains in a pan, especially if the slope is steep, or the environment is low energy, or too well washed. The vein itself could yield a rich looking pan, but sometimes gold veins do not yield good pan gold. It depends on coarseness. Look for chalco and galena as a sign you are near source. These don't travel far. The rule in glacial transport is that the grains and boulder get finer and more numerous nearer the source. Finer, because the mechanical survival of the fine grains is better nearer, and there is less dispersion of fines, so they are more numerous. But it depends on certain matters such as concentration environment "micro-sites" as to quality and amount of enrichment. EC<:-}