Tourist panning for gold is cheap publicity stunt
increasingly be in the tourist The area offers promoted to gold panning. After closer inspection turn out to be the gold wash places as established vats or troughs in which water and sand was filled in hindsight and gold dust was added.
Certainly it appears at first glance almost try to be near his hometown, the technique of panning for gold, but with the right panning for gold at the gold-bearing rivers, this has to do nothing. As I said, it is mostly a tourist attraction and has more to do with a playground than a natural event.
It is similar to skiing in an indoor ski slope in the desert. Here there is no Mountains, still mountain air, no natural slopes, no natural snow, and the head of the lifts can not possibly even skiing.
When I write on my blog from panning for gold, I mean: gold panning in the original locations of the gold mining along rivers in nature, in places that I only have to look, perhaps even in bad weather, and above all where the main goal is pure gold (gold leaf) to find.
Even in the Rauris Valley, home of the original Goldwwäscher that the Austrian is known, it is set up tourism businesses, the so-called wooden bowls. I tend to understand, as in Rauris once was the largest gold mining area in Europe and lead the rivers in the valley conclusion Kolm Saigurn real gold with it.
Based on the description of www. Goldsuchen.at panning for gold in the valley of the vulture is the difference to tourism you can fake offers. Here is the Hüttwinkelache, in the deep site with the experienced local gold panning for gold Sepp Haslinger searched and found one. Haslinger reads the stream and forwards each to the right (gold) position.
a tutorial on panning for gold at the original Sites and natural terrain in the midst of the Hohe Tauern mountains, surrounded by bearded vultures can be found on pages for gold in the valley of vultures.
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panning for gold at the bowl - Switzerland: Entlebuch, Emmental, Willisau, Lucerne hinterland
The golden experience for business, club, school trips and family celebrations. Under professional guidance you can in the idyllic picturesque region between the fascination of gold and experience a taste of adventure. Gold washing Locations: Enziwigger, Fontannen, streams in the Emmental
Info: Gold Panning - Tour & Shop
Toni Obertüfer
Hasenburgstrassse 1-6130 Willisau
Tel 041 970 03 10
Fax 041 970 05 10
Web: http://www.goldwasch-tour.ch/shop/shop.htm
e-mail: shop @ gold-washing tour.ch
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panning for gold in Rauris - Hohe Tauern - Salzburg - Austria
One of the last adventure of our time is the gold panning in the original locations of the Goldberg group Rauris, observed by the free-flying vultures and eagles of Krumeltal. Go along for the trip to the Rauris - Tauern gold, in the former bastion of European gold mining. An adventure holiday not only for families and children.
Info: gold panning in Geier
Hans Wochesländer
Poserweg 1-5661 Rauris
Tel: 0043 6544 20 034
Fax: 0043 6544 20 068
Web: www.goldsuchen.at email
: info@goldsuchen.at
Rauris Tourist Board
Kirch 1, A-5661 Rauris
Tel: +43 6544 20 022
Fax: +43 6544 20022-6030
Web: www.raurisertal.at email
: info@raurisertal.at
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who embarks on a journey to the gold wash a few things To consider in order to leave no frustration in the quest for the gold. first Selection of the place or the foot or stream
A place where a river of gold panning offered (allowed) is. Make sure that gold prospecting right on the river or stream takes place.
gold panning in tubs, as offered by some tourist sites is rather boring.
ask in any event before departure when and where gold panning is allowed and what equipment they used allowed.
second to avoid gold panning lessons and instructions
To long tours and frustration in the search for the gold, I recommend a gold wash course. (About 10 to 40 euros per day including equipment). Such a course will be paid 100% strength.
third Rubber boots
are panning for gold on or in the creek / river boots essential to the best fishing boots to step height.
third Warm socks
The water in the stream / river is usually very cold, make for thick socks.
4th Warm clothing
Warm clothing is also frequently necessary to make sure that they are making the cold and wet not upset the search for gold.
can occur in the wild already that it's raining or a blip in the stream bed. Bring a spare warm clothing.
5th Eating and Drinking
Is there something to eat local and drink? Think of your (hungry) children take them with food. Or how far is the nearest shop or inn is?
The gold washing equipment
usually provided the equipment for gold washing course, they ask about before then.
first Spade shovel better
works best here, the front bucket to the upper layers of rock or gravel to remove or to dig in the river bed.
Furthermore, a hand shovel and garden hoe respectively. a geological hammer to loosen solid rock. which can be bought at any garden center.
sure what is allowed in the respective gold panning sites.
second Heart of the gold pan
these are available in outdoor stores, but in any case where gold panning is available. Gold wash bowls are available in plastic and metal. usually seen in dark colors for the gold better. At all events, the pan in the inner region, have added grooves that hold the heavier particles and the gold.
A plastic pan works just as well as a metal pan, and is especially of printed.
Note: The materials used in championships and competitions flat gold pans for gold, however, are looking at the nature - not suitable stream / river. Take care.
gold pans are between about 17 and 50 € depending on size and design available. Gold panning can
perhaps be with an old frying pan whose style has been removed. The gold wash bowl with grooves, in any case is practical and effective.
3.Plastikröchrchen, tweezers, magnifying glass
The transparent Plastikröchen is intended to be poured the gold spangles there.
The tweezers at the gold out of the wash bowl to fetch. to consider
And the little magnifying glass to even the smallest gold particles.
For small gold spangles, you can also use the Sniffer_Bootle found the flakes by pressing, sucks.
4th Hand-held screen
for washing of coarse material, use a hand sieve.
These equipment there is in metal and plastic.
The plastic hand-held screen extends to all cases, especially since this screen, also known as classifier for the novice is not absolutely necessary.
receive equipment for gold panning please refer to: Gold Panning - Tour & Shop
Toni Obertüfer
Hasenburgstrassse 1-6130 Willisau
Tel 041 970 03 10 041 970 05 10 Fax
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Although imme gold panning for kids is a highlight, you should make sure that in a longer holiday stay an alternative program is available.
you will have a day trip to Gold Basin no problems with the motivation of their children.
A long holiday only with the experience of panning for gold is not for children but effective. Children quickly lose the stamina, patience and motivation for a topic.
Take care that the children at once a sense of achievement, that is: make gold discovery and will be described in any programs for a Gold Fund guarantee.
I refer here to the panning for gold on a natural stream and not specifically provided for in vats.
are panning for gold it so these two components as adventure / adventure and endurance and patience. These two demands, it is therefore under a hat to get.
My experience has taught me that subsides after 2 to 3 days, the euphoria of the gold washing in the children.
However, there is the possibility of panning for gold in the run to combine with other Adventure.
basis of panning for gold in Rauris I would like to cite some examples of combinations which could be considered.
Examples:
Pony Riding at Niggelgut, vultures and golden eagles, fish in the pond.
crickets in natural areas, visit the Alpine Zoo Ferleiten, Mountain School - How do I learn to bake bread.
visit to the farm, dam building, rafting, research in the forest, etc.
PS: Do not forget warm spare clothes to get something to eat and warm drinks.
Author: Paul Tresselt
This is an experience! I've been to Alaska, the Colorado and in many areas Canada's gold washed. Successful you are everywhere. But in the Klondike, it is most exciting.
course, because is near Dawson City. There are at least a couple of entertainment sites to swap over the gold into other things. Finally, Canada is also much cheaper compared to Alaska or the States with the precious U.S. dollars.
following I have written a small guide to getting rich for you. If you stick to it, you are guaranteed to find gold, I can promise. the Klondike sure you know by hearsay. Actually it is a small river that flows near Dawson City in the Yukon. But they represent the legendary Yukon gold fields north of Whitehorse.
to Dawson City, located at the confluence of the Klondike in the Yukon, it is a pleasant day trip. self Whitehorse, the capital of the Yukon Territory has only 24 500 Inhabitants.
is therefore also the accommodation offer is not particularly large. I have good experience with Bed & Breakfast - made accommodations.
This is of particular interest to Dawson City. Dawson City itself looks like an oversized earthworm pile: The whole area has been the gold washes over the last 100 years "digested" and debris snakes excreted.
One can not imagine that any spot of the area could have remained undigested. When you see the sign at the entrance of Dawson City and hear the testimony of the people, Remove the gold there, there must nevertheless still some things worth to be found.
is when you really read on the heart: names such as "Bonanza Creek", "discovery claim" or "Bear Creek Mining Camp" make the pulse to bounce up and treat you now not a moment longer. Let's go!
So go on Bonanza Creek along to the "discovery claim" to Admire, who made 1896 Shookum Jim, Dawson Charlie and George Carmack to rich men. anyone see shiny stone that you flashed in the sun, is now studied in detail. Whether it is real gold? How can you tell?
Thus grows in you by the drive to learn the craft of gold washing. Maybe with a guided tour at the Bonanza Creek?
By no means no! It's not fall on a tourist Klitsche pure, the "panning for nothing" offers! There is nothing more genuine.
It is included the right to surface treatment. For maintenance, you must annually spend about $ 200.
The Gold Bottom Mine is incidentally run by a brother and sister has 70 claims. However, both must earn each year in 3 months as much as others in 12 months.
The soil here that is frozen (permafrost) and it melts in summer to only an approximately 1m thick layer. Only then can work the excavator.
During the remaining time can not be helped, not even with heavy tracked vehicles, which simply slide away on the greasy frozen ground or mud.
If you see the $ 15,000 shaker, and learn that earn the mechanic, who served, be sure to receive $ 80 an hour, the excavator operator $ 50 per hour and get the mine laborers $ 20 an hour, your between periods arisen enthusiasm for Self-making in Canada are probably a little steamed. Even if you hear that the daily yield of a coffee cup is full of gold, the mine owner to remain after deduction of all costs only $ 50,000 in the 3 months.
works the rest of the year, therefore in a different job in the White Horse. Why do you do it all? Because you are of course still the big nuggets hopes that are found from time to time.
that make your heart beat faster every Miners (In the house the way she has an impressive collection of them, because I'm really jealous now!).
What you can do that too! After an eight-hour day, you come to an average of $ 100 per day.
If you have experienced all things, endures You no more. So march to the Gold Bottom Creek!
As an experienced panning for gold too, of course, take a spade and your Swiss Army knife. On Crow Creek in Alaska I've also seen that the professionals take too many socks, many cans of beer, a bottle of whiskey cup associated with, a magnifying glass and a hammer.
For $ 20, you can wash the whole day and everything to keep what you find. Because you're smart, you can be from the mine owner only show you where to dig at all in this mud bank and how much ground looks promising.
then you learn fast, true that gold does not shine. All that glitters is gold namely no. When in doubt, simply do the hammer test. If it is fragmented, there is no gold, and if it is flat, it's real. Gold is in fact extremely supple and very heavy.
fall Even the smallest plate between rocks and mud down. This is the secret of the correct gold washing, panning.
you just swing the dish properly with the gold-bearing soil and water.
Sort By and by you in the thick stones, then the sludge parts and small components.
always comes back to fresh water, until you finally see the bottom of the small grains of gold or gold leaf shining through the water.
And the proper swing technique is not difficult. But do not let them show you exactly. Only under the expert guidance it is easy and successful.
So it looks like later after half an hour: you break away from the other people and pull upstream, because there are no other are there, you can whisk away the thick nuggets. Here in the loneliness grows really feel like a real gold panning and adventurers to be.
The first hour in the solitude you are excellent, because your finger from the icy water of the creek have not yet become damp.
keeps the internal heat of the gold rush you warm. In the second hour of the icy cold of the creek passes through the rubber boots and your toes will give significant pain signals.
your back logs and clears up the fact that he not willing yet to spend a single minute longer in this strain. But thank God you have in the third hour of the first tiny grain of precious metal discovered and brought to shore in safety.
The search for a suitable hiding place a little variety in the stubborn pan of black mud. They smile proudly and are ready again to go to the ice-cold water.
can in the fourth hour, are you not more, stooping makes your back even longer, so you go into a crouch, between going through stretching exercises and have already learned to stand on two stones in the stream, so that the feet not in the water.
course, have you tried in between it is to sit down and have a little already rolled a big stone into the water. But he's so damn cold that you have this in their stride quickly.
About the fifth hour I have no experience, because I was fed, but the professionals have told me repeatedly that the remaining hours of the day go so on.
the twilight is all over anyway, since there is then no longer gleam of the precious substance. Then taste the beer - or, depending on the weather - the whiskey, but very good.
evening you deliver your tiny gold flakes in the Minerin or a gold-dust loading in Dawson City from tense and rigid on the scale how many ounces there are as well made.
If you are reasonably good, say the pros, you create gold for $ 100 on an eight hour day.
What a job! If you take your feet out of the icy water and stalk with an aching back to the hut, then you will see the latest, deserves as easy but compared to a European, his daily hundreds!
And what is the fascination? What attracts an ever again then?
the Nuggets. It could be that you caught one that is so big that you do not need a whole year to work.
As always, man is resourceful, and so we looked for ways to speed up panning for gold. One of these methods was found with the gold sluice box or Sluice Box. A channel with a built-in ribs to the heavier Gold withhold.
store in principle, from a flow objects or particles that are heavier than the pressure of Stömung. A Sluice Box PHYSICAL take this effect and therefore holds back heavy materials such as gold.
The Sluice boxes come in different finishes such as wood, plastic or (used today) matches between aluminum and can 0.5 and 2 meters long, 10cm wide and up to 5 meters. Up to 200 times more material can be processed by a gold sluice box.
The process of washing is also highly dependent on the strength of the flow, the flow speed of the water and the filling of the channel. A simple channel without obstacles in the interior of the Sluice Box would be futile because of the friction effect on the bottom of the channel is not enough back to keep heavy materials.
The be-all and in the use of the sluice is the veracity passage of water through the gutter. Say: The flow and speed.
If the flow is too low to load the laundry chute and quickly washed out the gold and gold spangles on the ripples.
There must be just enough water slides are on the box, so that the worthless sand and rock mixture is washed away, but drops the gold spangles to the ground and is held in the gold sluice box.
When strong currents near the rocks and sand mixture so has the gold respectively. Gold spangles carried away and lost.
is established by the Gold sluice and properly (water velocity) is at the upper part of the gold sluice box of sand, gravel and filled rock mixture. Here again you need some practice to ensure that the channel and checkers are not load instantly.
If the upper Ripples of gold spangles is visible, it's time to clean the Sluice Box. The best way to empty the rest of sand, gold mixed in a bucket and washes out with a gold pan, the remaining gold.
Proper adjustment of the sluice is clear from the fact that at the end of the wash cycle is much gold in the gutter. This requires the gold sluice box set aggressively to unscreened material can directly add to the Schippstelle.
The gutter is installed, even large chunks of the gutter run well without manually nachzuhelfen. The result is here with about 70% of yield.
Maybe you can correct by the preliminary sieve, and the flow down 100% of the gold-containing material Adults, however, an aggressive attitude of the scrubbing channel shows more appropriate, since the total workload is less.
A long trough is generally more effective than a short Sluice Box. It allows a steeper attitude and has better "fishing properties than shorter.
A long channel (Long Tom) generally permits a steeper attitude and has better retention properties as a short channel. The flowing water has more time to calm down and transported to deposit the gold spangles.
In a short gold sluice box so the Strömmungsdurchfluß be reduced so that the gold spangles is not entrained out of the gutter.
But loamy soils need more time to the gold spangles from the clay wash.
Modern Sluice boxes therefore have a long zone where the flow can calm down and removed the gold particles on the floor.
Finally
The gold sluice everything can, and do not currently have even if the professional are among the gold washers tried repeatedly to fabricate them on their own optimal Sluice Box. Be it from vegetable boxes, car roof or other utensils.
Each of these channels has its has advantages and disadvantages and the call in the evening by the campfire, at least as nice as the Goldwaschenam days
have in some of my previous posts I will describe how the called gold to its size . (the description of the found gold)
(Foto01 - Gold Nuggets)
In our regions (Central Europe) will be exclusively Grains of gold, gold spangles and gold dust washed. Safety are also found larger pieces of gold, but this is rather rare. (Foto02 gold grains)
on photo 01 can they recognize a collection of gold nuggets. On photo 02 is gold grains and the image 03 at the so-called gold spangles. (Small gold particles)
Example of how to package it as a gift found tinsel they see on 04th photo Of course there are their Fantasy (Foto03 gold spangles) 
The gold panning as a beginner must therefore be aware that the dream is not to achieve the wealth overnight through gold panning. At least not in our latitudes. But an experience and feeling of adventure is all. 
