How to Find Gold in a River

How to Find Gold in a River 

Shake the pan or pan from front to back and then from right to left. Thus the heavy parts begin to descend into the bottom.

How to Find Gold in a River

3. Wash: impose a slow and steady elliptic motion over the water with a regular water inlet and in front a water outlet.


Orpailler is by definition: "artisanal exploitation of alluvial sand by washing, in order to recover particles (gold dust, gold glitter, gold nuggets) native gold". The handling of the puddle is a long and delicate learning but within reach of all with patience and rigor. The conical beating is the tool widely used by advanced orpailleurs, this is an explanation of its handling.

This lesson, based on 5 continuous movements, may be of interest to novices who wish to try their hand alone. (Be careful, for the other tools, the handling approaches strongly except the tools with flat bottom ex: pan American where it is not necessary to make rotary movement, but a back and forth).

Fill 5 to 10 kg of materials (stones, moss, clay ...):

Wash and remove large pebbles.

1. Plow: put the materials by kneading, suspended in water (2 times +), dilute the clays well. 2. Shake the pan or pan from front to back and then from right to left. Thus the heavy parts begin to descend into the bottom. 3. Wash: impose a slow and steady elliptic motion over the water with a regular water inlet and in front a water outlet. Make a complete turn inside thus creating a speed setting resulting in the lightest materials and minerals on the edge; They will be evacuated to the exterior with the water outlet ... and so on until complete elimination of the lightest alluvium.

Repeat operations 1/2/3 as long as necessary until you reach the bottom of the pans and see the heavy sands and minerals (often very dark concentrates) appear.

The concentrate will be recovered, dried and then sorted off site ... unless the flakes are large enough to collect them (with the finger of course) on site and put them in a tube. As for the fabulous nugget, why not !!!