This is a step up from a gold pan while still being simple and hand operated. It consists of two separate parts, a top screening pan and a concentrate pan, that fit together. The whole works is made to be placed in a water filled 5 gallon pail with the concentrate pan having hangers that go onto the rim of the pail. The screen pan is then placed onto the post. This post acts like a bearing so the screen pan can be easily rotated or agitated back and forth. The screen pan has a 3/8 inch screen in it so that a separate screen is not necessary, making the unit self contained. There is at least one unit among club members. Ed Ramos has one of these units.
The unit is operated by an oscillating motion followed by a lifting and then more oscillations as it is lowered. This is easier and faster than standard gold panning techniques. The concentrate pan will contain the heavy material. The concentrates will still have to be panned to separate out the gold but this will be the equivalent of several pans of concentrates. How often the concentrate pan will have to be emptied depends on the amount of black sand and other heavy material present in the gravels.
