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Turbo pan
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Posted : Saturday, 8 December 2012 4:32:55 PM(UTC)
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Anyone any experience with these things? Some good clips on youtube showing them in action but 50 bucks is a lot to shell out for basically just another pan...
Or are they the next big thing and I havent cottoned on yet lol!
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Posted : Wednesday, 26 December 2012 11:36:35 PM(UTC)
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Hi
just bought one of these intriguing pans from a great shop in brisbane :) I mainly use the pan for areas with a known large amount of colour, it processes dirt very efficiantly. It does however lose a fare amount of the finer gold :(. If you do buy one it would be a good idea to pan down to a concentrate in the turbopan.and the use a traditional.klondyke pan. Hope this helps. :)
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Posted : Thursday, 27 December 2012 12:10:12 AM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: Oliver123 Go to Quoted Post
Hi
just bought one of these intriguing pans from a great shop in brisbane :) I mainly use the pan for areas with a known large amount of colour, it processes dirt very efficiantly. It does however lose a fare amount of the finer gold :(. If you do buy one it would be a good idea to pan down to a concentrate in the turbopan.and the use a traditional.klondyke pan. Hope this helps. :)


You sure you got the technique right? Why spend $50 on a pan that you then have to use a "conventional" $12 pan to finish off with.

JW :)
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Oliver123  
Posted : Thursday, 27 December 2012 12:23:20 AM(UTC)
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Yea I hope so lol it just means I can concentrate a lot of dirt without my sluice box and only have to do like one pan with my conventional pan :)
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Posted : Thursday, 27 December 2012 8:23:20 AM(UTC)
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some friends bought a turbo pan from brisbane to use in the gold panning champs. without hardly any practice with it they did pretty good with it compared to the usual stock standard pan.

downside is the price. they are now $50 i think on trade me.

basic pan is about $10. lose it and simply buy another. lose a turbo pan and you will probably cry to see it float off downstream.
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Posted : Thursday, 27 December 2012 10:38:19 PM(UTC)
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picture that fulla frantically chasin a 50 buck turbo pan down stream
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