Your gold panning experience reflects the ways of the early pioneers in Alaska.
Our desire is to make this a very realistic panning operation yet give you the
comfort of a covered pavilion to work the dirt. We think you will have a very
memorable mining experience and hopefully take home some gold!!

    

First you run the ‘pay dirt’ through your own personal sluice box, this will take
you about a half hour. You'll have a bucket of dirt to work through the sluice box.
This is quite an interesting process and it’s fun to examine the rocks (keep the
ones you like) and watch for gold. When finished, the ripples are removed from the
sluice box and we clean the remains (black sand) into a gold pan. Then you sit
comfortably in front of a tub of water and pan it out.

Our pay dirt comes locally from the Lillian L. Gold Mine on Quartz Creek. George and Lil Zimmer have worked their mine since 1958. As they shovel dirt into their huge sluice box, they shovel it into buckets for your use. We never know what to expect for gold, sometimes it is, "WOW! Look what we got”. And then there are other times, that aren’t so wow.

We do not ‘salt’ the dirt; you suffer the same fate as the miner. The gold in this country is normally pretty fine. However, at times we get small flakes and nuggets. There is almost always 'color’ in your pan. We are happy to show you proper panning procedures so your gold won't slip out.

Experience these procedures for only $15.00.

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