Cleaning fine gold from black sands. Method #2 (Tapping the gold pan) 

Who disliked Dan?? How could anyone NOT like Dan?? 3 disgruntled teenagers? I can promise Mr. Hurd would be my favorite teacher!

Well Dan, a few weeks ago when you did the video on crushing and separating ore. I had said I would be I touch with lots of questions on this process, well since you have answered most of them. I wish to say thank you so very much. I would like to take the time here to tell any and all RU-vidrs, if you want to learn anything about Gold either placer or small scale hard rock mining Dan is the one to watch. And being a high school teacher, makes Dan a pro at presenting a clear picture of what it takes one step at a time. Tank you again Dan GL&HH

Great little series so far Dan! Keep up the great content.

Dear Dan; Thank you for theese helpful informations. İ wish you many *"Golden Days"* and many Greetings from the Turkish Republic. 👍🙂

Big like, I don't pan for gold but if I did I would be looking back on these lessons to see how its done. Gotta love a yellow smile in ya pan Dan.

I've been tapping sideways not down🙇‍♀️ keep getting confused on which way im suposed to be tilting. love the finishing pan and Explanation of how it works realy helps. Can't wait to try it again now🤸‍♀️

I really never gave a crap about gold panning until I saw these videos. Now I'm addicted.

Good job, showing we can still clean out using a simple pan

Dan, Please note heavier objects do not move faster than lighter objects in physics. The phenomena your describing is actually Newton;s Third Law of action and reaction. The heavier objects climb because of the reaction to force applied to the pan by tapping it. Love your videos, keep up the great work!

Great instructional video Dan. Well done plainly stated and through. Your display of methodology and techniques provides a great lesson. Thank you for a great video.

I've used the tap method before but never like the way you're doing it with water still covering the gold you just made my job a whole lot easier thank you.

I love this video Dan I share this video with people that want to learn how to pan or need a reminder at the moment I am talking to a friend of mine who lives in Australia she is super hooked on the gold but is having a hard time panning it out and it's hard for me to explain to her how to separate the gold from the black sand and separate the black sand from the blondes as we call them here in the states, so this video is extremely helpful, thanks for being a good teacher Dan

The tapping method works great, I do use this method combined with method #1, I like the way it marches the gold right out of the black sands in a nice line and then you just suck it up. Great video Dan!

Super clear and helpful presentation on the tapping technique! Thank you!

Great demo on Taping into the gold vein...lol I think that pan helped tremendously Thanks for sharing

This is great, sir. And there's even more to learn, next . It will be tough to wait for the next exciting episode.

I am really enjoying your videos. Your way of teaching keep me interested. Well done!😊

Hi Dan.. Another great information video.👍 Cheers Tony.👍🤓🍺⛏🇦🇺

Amazing Information and technique, thanks for sharing.

Great show and technique Dan, thanks! Cheers

I just got a Falcon gold pan. I knew I could find a video on your channel showing it. Of course I was not disappointed :)

Great technique you have very good videos. I appreciate you, and thank you. Prospecting in NorCal all my life.

I love that tapping method I beginning to use that more than the backwash method

Interesting & informative thanks Dan!

Excellent video for refining the technique Dan.

Yet another outstanding video there Dan.. I’ll say it again like before I love your detail and excitement and how you explain the steps. As mentioned fab idea doing a 4th Video showing all the steps working together. Keep up the good work buddy.! Ps Beard is looking epic.!!!!

That is an even better method I will be trying when get a chance to clean some cons! Thanks Dan!

Thank you! Very informative

Awesome can’t wait for the next video.

This is my favorite method, along with swirling the water around.. Mica and stuff is easy to get passed with the tap method..

Well done, Sir. Stay Blessed.

This video went GREAT with my morning cup of coffee! While watching I thought, you should do a 4th video and presto bangoh, moments latter, you said that you would!! Thanks for sharing Dan...

Great video! Thanks for sharing your method.

I really do enjoy your videos Dan they're educational and enjoyable. Keep them coming

Great video!! Thank you for doing this!!

Love your educational videos

Incredible cons! Would love a 5 gallon bucket of that👍 . You're a great tutor! My wife says I am too wanna pull my finger? Didn't see that one coming 😁...... kinda snuck out!

Greatings from Venezuela!!! Dan...really good and ver y interesting method...better and quicker than the wash one you show in the last vídeo!!! Wait then until the last...the back wash!!!

Dan, excellent video again! Thank you. I have a 'tapping/shaking" set-up I 'designed' one day while pondering how to get fine and super fine gold out of my pans I'd like to tell you about. It a little long-winded (explanation) and may be overkill, as some people have said (and laughed at me for) but the bottom line is that it works pretty good, at least for me. The 'idea' came to me one night while watching an episode of "CSI: Miami" of all things, during a scene when one of the CSIs was in the lab trying to separate different sediments in a test tube of a liquid and was using a device commonly called a "Tornado Plate", which is basically a vibrating plate you place the end of a test tube on to vibrate the contents. This got me thinking. A Tornado usually runs about $125 and up, money I didn't want to spend so I got to thinking, what else can I find that will vibrate. My wife had an old Shitzu infra-red heat/vibrating neck muscle massager she never uses anymore and after some 'negotiating', she said I could have it, so I dug it out of the bathroom cabinet and down to the workshop I went. I discovered the vibrating 'unit' was nothing more than a tube shaped enclosure about 3 inches long and about 1 inch in diameter so I snipped the wires and took it out. A little playing around and I discovered that 2 - 9 volt batteries supplied enough power to get a fairly strong vibration out of it so I was in business. I then took an old Garrett Super sluice pan and using some industrial strength double sided tape, mounted the vibrating unit under the pan's outer rim. I then took a scoop of some fine cons I had been cleaning earlier in the day, put em in the pan, added some water and hooked the wires up. Even though the water kind of splashed all over the work-bench, within I'd say, 15 seconds, I had a really nice line of fine gold along the edge of the pan!! Like I said, the speed of the vibrating unit caused a little bit of a mess causing the water to splash out of the pan (and some of the gold too), but I figured slowing it down would fix that problem. I didn't have an actual tool speed controller so instead, I swapped out the 2 9 volt batteries for the ac/dc power-pack from my son's old Tyco HO scale train set and hooked the wires up to the Train Track" terminals (a/c side). I figured if that would control the speed of a toy train, it should control the speed of the vibrating unit motor, which it did. I remixed the gold with the black sands and experimented with different speed settings and found that using a setting of about 3 on the dial, it provided enough shake to walk the gold out of the sand and not send water and stuff all over the place. Happy with my 'invention', I set about making a 'finished' unit, which took about an hour. I now have my own "Tornado" shaker that from estimates, pulls about 20% more fines out of the black sand than traditional hand tapping, 20% more than it looked like was even in there to begin with! I figured this % out by weighing the removed gold. DO you have an email address I can send you a quick video of this unit in operation? I think you will like and approve, LoL! Great channel. Keep up the great work!

Great job. Now I get to find out if the triple method can do a better job🙊 I think not but as I use a mix when panning I think it will just be so much faster. But I did find a very interesting question to ask. When you were totally finished and showing the results there are a few tiny silver looking pieces, I'm wondering what it is if it isn't just the light angle, I'm thinking maybe a little mercury but if not what. I as well as few few other miners I was with a few years ago were finding quite a bit of material like this mixed in the black sand and gold. None of us could figure out what it is. Looks kinda like pure -100 silver in nugget from but has the flash of shiny platinum. That being said it doesn't seem to want to pan out like the black sand will with the gold. I am presently attempting to make my own design of mats for my mini clean up sluice box. To attempt to catch enough of this material to have it tested. So far most of this material comes from the east side of the Fraser on some of the creeks like siwash and the Anderson River and many creeks in this area and the frequency so has shown me the further east the more I found. Your thoughts are much appreciated. Thank you. Oh I know this is not mica or ironpirite aka fools gold. It is hard but just to small to pick up and wants to hangout with the bigger black sands.

very good video !!! i learn so much from you ! Thank you !!

Not sure if you know who Blueberry is but he always called it the Blueberry bump. Love your content

Learning alot about the trade❤❤🎉

Woo-hoo, lovely stuff! Thank you Dan!

Had to watch it again. Thanks again.

The tapping method is by far the quickest method for cleanups.

Thanks for the tips. I´ll use it for better results. Greetings Tom

Thanks for all the info.

Great lesson, Thx CR

Good stuff mate 👍

Very much enjoyed your video and gave it a thumbs up also

good video i like how your doing a series

I learned that the hard way. It works well. Try it on extra fine gold

Great job thank you. The back wash I didn't know about. Thanks

this is my favorite method the gold just dances right up even fine powder gold.

That's cool, I know a lot of small places on the Fraser River with lil beaches of it, hmmm lol

Just a little tappy tap tap and another Canadian would say ;)

I've been tapping in the wrong place on the pan( I'm a newbie). Light bulb moment. And, judging by the amount and size of gold I find, I'm panning in the wrong place, too.

Catching up on watching videos.

Thank you dan.

You can also use the snuffer bottle to squeeze water on the pure black sands and move them to the bottom the pan.

Grestvideo buddy ...missed this one 😉😎...gonna catch up ...😂💪🍻

Very good brother dan

I noticed how manicured your beard was initially..the end of the video.. looks like instead of running your fingers through your hair.. you used your beard. haha Using the tapping only method takes a lot of patience and time. Great video!

When you have 250-300kg of black sand, no bluebowl, no wheel, to expencive at the time, is there a metod beside tapping, i will be retaire before i am done. All ideas is good ideas now

I have gold so fine, it will not go to the bottom of the pan no matter how much i shake it. It just sits on the sand. I'm a newbie trying to learn how to pan with paydirt. I'm very close to throwing it all away. Theres plenty in it but I can't get it

I pan like u and it is hard just tapping! It's like there's something missing like wearing a blindfold when driving👍😂

I remember you putting that strainer down with the larger gold in it I was saying to myself is he going to remember ..You Did lol

In my experience I have noticed that even after I pawned the black sand down to concentrates I still find gold in the sand that left the pan. Recently this gold is too light to stay in the concentrates because it's either mixed with too much silver or other metals like aluminum, manganese, titanium. This is what I believe. So even when you slice you are still losing gold. I have filled jars with light gold which escaped the sluice box and pan. Especially with the ORMUS gold which has to be treated a certain way in order to melt or you lose it. ORMUS gold looks like Platinum when it melts. I have known about it since the 1980 era. Many Prospectors back in the old days referred to it as ghost gold. ( see David Hudson on ghost gold) but yes through a certain process it could be transformed into pure gold. It was often times referred to as white gold back in the day. There are stories about prospectors finding white gold nuggets. But l this information has been suppressed by the Government. There is more white gold out there than the usual nugget gold. It is often mistaken for Platinum. Platinum also exist in rivers as well. In the early 1980 era I found a grey bar that was too heavy to carry. It looked like lead but I noticed it rubbed off in my hands like graphite. I hid it in the bushes and went to get a handcart to carry it. When I came back it was gone but it resembled lead. A little while later I went into an assayers office an told him about the find. That is when I found out about white gold..

Great video

Great to see, thanks. Now i just have to find the river where i can find the gold!

I’m thinking I’d just get one of those vibrating tables the chocolatiers use to bring bubbles in melted chocolate up to the top where they’ll pop. Yeah. Tap tap tap is just extremely slow vibrating, right? I guess you’d have to have the pan angled just so…

Nice vid good break down series, wondering how your separating the lead from your fine gold. Of course I don’t see any in this vid but have never not had bits of lead from any river dredging or sluicing.

hi there! I would like to see more detail surrounding angle of tapping and volume of water.

Wow the ol beard is getting long dan .nice lesson.

good laison.

Hi dan you said that finishing pan was from grande prairie and I’m from near there.so I was wondering if you have ever panned the peace river in Alberta. By the way great videos and I would really like to get into panning so they have helped me alot

Hey dan you got one on how to get black sand and gold out of the clay if you do send me a link please

This is a normal black sand or we have to purchase it please tell

Trying to find your video where you dissolve scale from gold or rock. Can't remember which product you found to be the best.

How about when the gold is smaller than the sand?

Great video as always. I do have one question though as I'm still new to panning. What dose the jetdry do in helping recovering gold.

What about the use of a Miller table? Would it be any more efficient?

How did you season your falcon pan? Know you most likely don't want any deep scratches in it? Great Video! Thanks

Hi Dan I was wondering if u allow people to work on your clams

Awesome

I have a question if you have a magnet not against the bottom of your pan but an inch maybe or half an inch would it hold the black sand and just slightly enough to allow the gold to fall out faster and easier if that makes any sense or would it just hold the gold with it

I have been practicing this but my gold here is much more fine than even that and does behave the same any suggestions it’s super fine

What do you use chemical ?

Would it be the same process when working with mica and pyrite?

Hi Dan, can you make an video for best clean up flour gold ;), i can but take long time hehe regards

Where we can find this soil

Hello Dan. Quick question. Where can I find those white plastic trays for purchase and what are they called?

There is still gold in the remaining black sand if you use 30X magnification you can see it ;-)

When you melt this type of gold, all the base metals slab out and what is left in the crucible is pure gold. Upon melting a lot of smoke is released. If you don't do it the right way, you lose it.

Amazing again. I can see where I’m doing things wrong. I kinda struggle to create the initial gap. Also, are you tapping up/down or towards you or a bit of both ? My tapping is not effective at all when I see yours, and I think it is because I am properly tapping toward me to use only inertia rather than the rebound as you said. I’ll have to try it I guess :) Thanks for the tips. Can’t wait for more tips on backwash !

Gold is easier to find than corner of a round pan🇦🇺😁

Folks here on youtube; are 'not' using this specific pan correctly. Firstly you have too much material in the pan. You must 'only' place 'one tablespoon' of material in. Then you utilize the ridges in the pan walls(Grooved,)to trap the gold dust.

I was trying to get SUPER SUPER FINE GOLD OUT

You should switch the A and the U in your name.. for your channel...Prospecting -DUN HARD!! lol