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Shakethe pan.maybe.

$PAN is a coin for everyone still looking for gold in the gravel. Mostly rocks. Sometimes gold.

Pans washed: 0 · Rank: Greenhorn

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Ticker
$PAN
Claim
Creek bed
Preferred tool
Pan
Experience
None needed
Result
Mostly rocks

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Every pan gets washed.

Most pans are gravel. Some have flakes. The gold fever bar goes up with every flake you find and, by law, never reaches a hundred.

Pans washed0On this device
Flakes found0Heavy stuff stays
RankGreenhornSubject to gravel

Gold fever: 0% (never 100)

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Rush chronicles · pinned to the board

Everyone went looking.

True stories from the gold rush, and from the people who tested what they found. Every one links to its source.

A hand picking a tiny gold flake from a creek next to a sawmill wheel
No. 1 · Smithsonian MagazineArchive

A carpenter picked it up. Then 300,000 people showed up.

On January 24, 1848, James Marshall spotted gold while building a sawmill for John Sutter in California's Sierra Nevada foothills. Within a few years about 300,000 people had come to look for more.

Between 1848 and 1855, roughly 750,000 pounds of gold came out.

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A bottle of gold dust in front of a stack of pans and shovels
No. 2 · Sausalito Historical SocietyDec 20, 2023

He didn't dig. He sold the pans.

Sam Brannan ran a store at Sutter's Fort and learned of the strike early. He walked through San Francisco waving a quinine bottle of gold dust and shouting the news, then sold supplies to the miners who rushed out.

His store reportedly sold up to $5,000 in goods a day.

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A huge gold nugget on a wooden table with a pickaxe for scale
No. 3 · Australian GeographicNov 2016

Two men tripped over 72 kilograms.

On 5 February 1869, John Deason and Richard Oates found the Welcome Stranger at Moliagul, Victoria. It was about 60 cm long and is described as the biggest alluvial gold nugget ever found.

A bank paid the finders £9,381 for it.

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A gold nugget with a pin dent next to a cracked pyrite cube
No. 4 · Geology.comArchive

Gold is heavy. That is the whole trick.

Real gold is soft and very dense, about 19.3 on specific gravity, while fool's gold (pyrite) sits near 5 and is much harder. That is why a swirling pan lets light gravel wash away and keeps the gold in the middle.

Press it with a pin: gold dents, pyrite resists.

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Claim rules

  • Do not trust fool's gold
  • Do not pan in the bathtub
  • Do not follow the map
  • Do not skip the gravel
  • Keep shaking
Claim ticketDept: gravel
Claim no.
PAN-0001
Subject
$PAN
Location
The gravel
Method
Pan
Result
Mostly rocks
Contract
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Staked byWhoever shook it