Anyone do any gold panning ?

[MaC]

We used to play around up the Leadhills years ago. Found a few flakes. It's mineral rich country up there.

There's gold in a lot of places in Britain though. The gold mine at Tyndrum is ramping up again. It kicks into gear when the price of gold gets high enough to make a profit.
Now they say they've found another seam of it

One of my friends had a hearth made of the drilled out stone cores that had been taken many years ago. It actually sparkled

Anyway, latest news report.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64402524

 

[bushwacker]

As much chance of gold in chalk as me winning the lottery without a ticket. Otherwise I'd be there.

 

[RickDastardly]

A gold pan and an Estwing geology pick were part of my standard kit when I went backpacking around Scotland and occasionally Wales thirty years back. Had a big plastic one with ridges in it to catch the sediment. It used to live strapped to the outside back of my rucksack until one day it just vanished.

I even found some gold, just once... sparkling from a piece of matrix amongst the gravel in a campsite car park! Yes, real gold, not pyrite. About a 2mm square flake of it. Never found a bit of gold with the pan, although it was very useful for washing me and my socks and undies.

 

[Stew]

And what happened to that piece of gold?

 

[RickDastardly]

It's wrapped in tissue in a box in the loft somewhere. Along with my collection of arsenopyrite, galena, fluorite, garnets and other assorted shiny things I picked up along the way. I was a magpie. Plus a fossilized tooth about 5cm long that I picked up on a beach... mineralised in flint and thinly covered in soft limestone.