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The
Trinity bowl is a
no-break polypropylene plastic; it has a UV additive built into the
plastic to keep it from fading in the sunlight. These are features
that I felt were important to have in a pan that is guaranteed for
life. The Trinity bowl
is very easy to use FOR THE BEGINNER
AS WELL AS A SEASONED PANNER. It does take some time to get used to
the panning concept but once easily mastered it is very simple.
The
Trinity Bowl is made in
2 distinct colours, BLUE, and GREEN. The
Trinity Bowl is designed for moving many pans full of
material before you do a clean up. So you can say the
Trinity
bowl is a production pan, for moving volume amounts of pans full
to very minimal clean ups.
How to use the Trinity Bowl
Here are some useful tips on how
the Trinity Bowl is used. First you want to get a pan full
of material, fill the pan full of water and start to stratify the
material and get it all in a liquid state. This is the time when we
want the Gold to slide down the raised center to the round circular bottom, when
the Gold gets to the circular bottom it will make its way around and drop into
the trap. Once the Gold is in the trap it is TRAPPED. And it is not going
anyplace.
Now that you have all the Gold in
the trap you are ready to wash off you waste gravel and rocks, you
do this by moving all of that material to the base of the large
riffle side, Once you have all the large material at the base of the
large riffles wash them out of the pan like you normal do in a
conventional gold pan.
Now you will notice that the trap
is also filled with black sand that is great we want the black sand
in there as well we want it there to help hold the gold in the (30
recessed riffles) in the bottom of the Trap.
Once you have
washed the
gravels out of your pan there are 3 reversed rifles at the base of
the larger riffles. Those three reversed riffles are a (safety
feature) they act just like sluice box riffles any gold that did not
drop into the trap will jump out behind these three reversed riffles
and not be washed out. So it is possible to wash off the waste rock
and gravels a lot easier and faster than in a regular conventional
gold pan.
Now that you have
washed off all the waste rocks and gravels you want to checks the
troughs and see if there is any Gold trapped behind them, if there
is take and swirl some water through the troughs and wash the gold
into the Trap. Now you have an empty pan except for what is in the
Trap, so this is where you are going to fill the Pan up with another
pan full of material and follow the same steps that we just covered,
and you can continue doing this until you are ready to do a clean up
The Clean Up
Now to some people
this is a little tough but once it is mastered people are going to
love panning again. Now we are only working the side of the pan that
has the trap and the climbing sluice. With the Trap full of material
we want to stratify the material from side to side, cover the
material in the trap with water and shake the pan from side to side,
this allows the gold to drop out into the bottom of the trap and
into the (30 Recessed riffles) once that is completed the top
material in the trap is waste and can be washed out of the pan
through the rising sluice. To do this you dip the pan in water and
submerse the sluice below the water line and move the pan in a side
to side motion allowing water to come in and out of the pan.
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Sluice section |
Snuffer
bottle to suck up the gold |
Now that you have washed out most
of the waste material out of the trap it is time to work out the
bulk of the black sands out of the trap as well. Now to do this is
where it becomes tricky, you want to submerse the sluice below the
water line and move the pan from side to side, IT IS IMPORTANT TO GO
SIDE TO SIDE, the material should be moving back and forth in the
trap (Not in and out but from side to side), this allows the gold
to really have a chance to drop out and into the sluice channel and
flare of the sluice. NOW AT THE SOME TIME YOU ARE DIPPING AND
RAISING THE PAN IN AND OUT OF THE WATER. This allows water to come
into the pan and washes out though the sluice, IT IS VERY IMPORTANT
TO REMEMBER SIDE TO SIDE AND UP AND DOWN IN THE SAME MOVEMENTS. Once
this is accomplished the black sand concentrates will flow right out
of the pan and the gold sits right into the flare of the sluice.
Now to get the gold out of the pan
take a snuffer bottle and sniff up the gold off of the platform the
large flat area in front of the first sluice riffle and continue
moving the gold onto the platform until you have retrieved all the
gold...
Available from Nth Qld Miners Den 65
Anderson St Cairns Ph 1800 805 728
Australia
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