DCHP-3

gold pan†

Placer Mining
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a shallow iron pan used for washing gold from gravel.

Quotations

1898
It is outside the range of language to picture the trials that encompass the explorer who goes forth here with pick, shovel, and gold-pan to search for gold.
1964
They jiggled and rolled their gold pan, sloshing the water from side to side, washing away the gravel. Soon nothing remained but black sand.