Gold Panning History of a Prospecting Method (Tool)
Gold panning is the cheapest method/tool (and oldest method of mining gold) of placer mining to extract gold from gold placer deposits which occur in river/stream beds. Evidence of gold panning and other placer mining methods reach way back to the times of the Romans. Early the history of metals, the Spanish used placer methods, including panning during their conquest of South America in the ...