DCHP-3

panning†

Placer Mining
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n.

mining gold by washing gravel in a pan (def. 3).

See: pan ((n.))(def. 3),pan ((v.))(def. 1)

Quotations

1948
We drove a long pole in the bottom all ready for John to tie to after his day's panning along the sand bars.
1965
Stir the concentrates in the bottom . . . and take out any gold by panning.
2n.

the yield in gold from such mining.

Quotations

1900
After the first news of preliminary "pannings" on Eldorado and Bonanza Creeks was brought to Canada by Mr. Ogilvie . . . every Western scribbler was hard at work inventing circumstantial lies.