Show v I How Gold Prospectors Work Whether gold occurs as an alluvial nl I deposit or In III a reef reet It Is traced by bythe bythe the prospector with the help of ot a 11 gold pan This Is a shallow pan of ot light sheet Iron hon with dished sides When panning for gold oll the prospector prospector pros pro places 8 the sand soil soli or cru crushed hed rock into the pan pun and adds water to wet the substance to be panned Then I I holding the pan In a Il tub or stream of ot I WU a ter hI II he O ll more water and amI by n a nI shaking Blinking motion bunion works the heavy minerals min I to the bottom of the pun pan llIn By Bya a Il lapping process 1 II he ejects the sand until there then remains only concentrates among which the gold may may be distinguished distinguished distin distin- by Its color und and relative he ness There are rich gold reefs which shed thed gold geld very sparingly and sometimes the gold Is locked up In pyrIte or other minerals from which It Is liberated bI b by roasting or chemical treatment l I r |