Arctic Lego Explorer with Gold Flakes I found while panning for gold! Photo by DJ Kast
We didn't expect this to pan out and were wished "gold luck" instead of good luck. (Oh the Puns!)
We went to two sites this trip to pan for gold. We panned for it in the river at the Kantishna Roadhouse during our 12 hour Denali bus tour and we also had a 2 hour tour at the Gold Dredge 8 facility in Fairbanks.
The original gold dredge using during the Alaska gold rush. Photo by Roee Fung
How to pan for gold!
Here I am panning for gold at Gold Dredge 8. Photo by Roee Fung
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The gold panning process begins by placing the material (bag of gravel called a poke) into your pan and shaking it in a left to right with some water in it. This movement causes the gold, which is heavier then the water, to work its way down toward the bottom of the pan. Meanwhile the lighter materials, which are worthless are worked up to the surface of the gold pan where they can be swept away and by adding dipping the pan in and out of the water. The process of shaking and sweeping is repeated until only the heaviest of materials are left-namely the gold and iron pyrite.
My husband Roee Fung surprised me by turning the $30 worth of gold we found panning into a permanent keep sake- Earrings (my favorite). Photo by Roee Fung
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