Volume 6 : November 2006 SPECIAL ISSUE - 'Gold panning, but not as we know it'. A look at the term panning, and how the term has been overstretched to cover all manner of hand-held gold recovery devices, from pans to lotoks, buckets to bowls, and rubber mats to wooden batea. Millions of artisanal and small-scale miners depend on these devices to make a living, hundreds of thousands of recreational miners depend on them to maintain their interest, and thousands of geologists depend on them for prospecting. Its time to take a scientific look at exactly what panning is, and what panning isn't.
THE GOLD PAN IS BEST IN THE WEST - BUT ALMOST NOWHERE ELSE, WHY?
