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[celticdragonirish]

This is the most amazing Panning equipment and a huge time saver.Im geting one.

From Redding Ca Thanks

[JUSTACHIPN]

it's a bird it's a plain NO its roto pan muhahahaha

[joshyboi6969]

cool device. I like the way your mind came up with that. I got a device going together right now yet another step ahead of this. nice product.

[SuperGrowPlants]

in the end you still panned it. you could use a noodle strainer and save cash. then pan, same thing. also the garret deluxe pan kit has a similar strainer tool. this tool is pointless.

[riditman]

I must say you have a real time saver there mate... not. 6 minutes to do a pan? Dont quit the ol day job.

[duaneafields]

Damn, clicked the video because it looked like a girl in tight jeans, bent over...it was the old man's knee. Still watched it all. Sexy knee old man!~

[KAMIKAZEMW2QC]

Hey i seen your Website. I am so interested doing this... Even if i dont find any for long time i wouldnt care i would love to do that.. But ik i would find some. I got a river behind my House .. but there is no Sand or rock its all SwamI live in Canada , Rosemary BTW. I Know 2 of my uncle that got a farm and some SWEET River That would be perfect to pan , But there at 2Hours away from here :( I need a river with and and rock to pan Near here. Any idea ? Your product looks VERRY GOOD thoo..

[scottoftherock]

there isnt much point in panning through just any creek you come by, thats taking some long odds and when your new its best to go to a known gold bearing location. do yourself a big favour and buy a prospecting manual and some geological maps of your area and look for any mines or mineral occurances that way. god luck with your prospecting

[scottoftherock]

there isnt much point in panning through just any creek you come by, thats taking some long odds and when your new its best to go to a known gold bearing location. do yourself a big favour and buy a prospecting manual and some geological maps of your area and look for any mines or mineral occurances that way. god luck with your prospecting

[scottoftherock]

there isnt much point in panning through just any creek you come by, thats taking some long odds and when your new its best to go to a known gold bearing location. do yourself a big favour and buy a prospecting manual and some geological maps of your area and look for any mines or mineral occurances that way. god luck with your prospecting.

[TheTrueJBV3737]

compare 0:27 to 8:00, which is bigger. 27.... fail.

[andrewrosso]

wow. It looks easy how he did it.

[clonedheat]

Well made video and your keeping Aussie innovation alive.

[ballygeale1]

thats a great video ,yer lucky down under,

[ndmoody123]

does a five gallon bucket work

[somethingfunnyboy]

mate you are a legend. you are the john farnham of gold panning: the absolute "voice", try and understand it, etc.. I love watching your vids and listening to your commentary. and soon I will be rattling away at a rotapan, finding more gold than Fido the Dog, the Professor, or even Ned.

[rotapan]

ANOTHER SATISFIED OWNER

I don't normally praise vendors, but your RotaPan is a great piece of equipment. I ordered a RotaPan about one week before our Labor Day Holiday here in the US with the hopes that I would use it at a claim belonging to the UPI club on the beautiful Feather River in

California. I am a "newbie" and have not yet invested in any

motorized equipment and have only a compact fold up sluice in addition to the Rotapan.

The unit arrived in plenty of time for my

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PART 2 vacation and when I arrived at the 40 acre claim, most of my fellow club members had chosen their spots to set up their motorized equipment fairly close to where their vehicles could park which in my estimation limited 

them to a small portion of the claim. I found a spot on the

opposite end of the claim near the head of a large gravel bar that had some nice deposits of black sand. The river however was about 20 yards away and the only spot with enough water velocity to run a

[rotapan]

PART 3 sluice box was over 400 yards away and it already had sluice boxes set up in the easy to reach spots.

With the RotaPan I was able to easily bring water to the spot where was I digging and with the use of a mortar tub I could also recycle

most of the water and avoid making too many trips to river. I

processed about 12 5 gallon buckets the first day, and an additional

10 buckets on my second day.

[rotapan]

PART 4 I managed to get some nice gold which

I panned out of the black sands that collected in center spindle.

Thanks for making such a compact and useful product.

M W

Redwood City, CA

I received M W's email 12th Sept 2009

[firstyute]

Thank you for such a great video ...

[rotapan]

FOUND THIS ON A WEBFORUM

I and many other professional prospectors / geologists happen to love the Rotapan. I used to be a dealer and am not now, BUT, only due to time constraints. I run a mineral exploration and gold specimen sales business and use the Rotapan with GREAT success and recovery out in the field all the time. We even use them for doing assay work on smaller mill tests of ore we sample due to the high recovery rate and ease of use.

[rotapan]

Part 2 - I must say that most every professional prospector I know up here uses one, so I feel that says something about them. I know none that use a rocker box at all. I can tell you that I'll never part with mine. I also can tell you that anyone I taught how to properly use the Rotapan is still using it and they won't part with theirs either.

The Rotapan is like any other piece of equipment. You don't get proficient at it's use overnight and a lot of people can't catch on to it unless .....

[rotapan]

Part 3 - they are taught hands on. It takes time to get really good with it. I'd sure like to see you find much of anything in my tailings.GRIN I'd be interested in knowing if someone ever showed you how to operate it or if it just came in a box and you guessed at it.

I'm not trying to be sarcastic with the following questions, I'm just trying to fathom why it works so great for me and not for you. #1. Did you raise your pan up off the bottom while operating it 1/8" to 3/8"? If not, then

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Part 4 - you created too much turbulence and lost the fines.

#2. Did you operate it too fast for fine gold conditions? That's a hard one to say without seeing how you work it, but in fine gold conditions you have to use it quite a bit slower for optimum recovery.

#3. Did you raise the pan too fast up out of the water while dumping oversize? This has to be the most common mistake I see people make when learning to use this unit. It creates a vacuum and underpan turbulence and you will lose

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Part 5 - substantial fines doing this. The proper way is to very slowly agitate the pan and gradually and evenly raise it until it's clear of the water.

#4. When replacing the pan after dumping oversize, did you simply shove it down on the spindle? If so, you created much the same situation as removing it too fast except even WORSE. The proper way is to slowly and smoothly agitate the pan and gradually lower it into the base until it is all the way down. These all are some of the things

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Part 6 - that have a SEVERE impact on fine gold recovery with these units.

Regards:

Allan

THANKS ALLAN, THIS WILL BE OF GREAT BENEFIT TO OWNERS OF MY ROTAPAN - JOHN

[tonapah141]

giday John... tha plastic washer just above collection tray wore-down resulting in 40% - 50 % retention,,, so I installed 1/2" metal bushing on plastic washer,,, also installed "doughnut shape" flat put-put golf carpet material in bottom tray... needles to say ... Now have instant 93% -95% retention of gold... peace

[DPSVDV]

why spend all the money for this rotopan when you could just use a strainer lol....Thats what I do

[rotapan]

Watch the video, you can see the black collection tray where gold collects and the waste drops over the edge into the bottom of the bucket. Your strainer just sizes the material but you then have to pan all that material where as the ROTAPAN does all this in one go - 10 times faster- more wash, more gold, USE YOUR TIME EFFECIENTLY, there is masses of wash out there, RIP through it. You may lose the odd dot, but you take home the most gold. John

[joyisaware]

that is amazing mate! thanks for sharing this wonderful tool with us.

[juderoberts1of]

hes good at what he does good work , you must have found some.

[deadeye1945]

how much does all that stuff cost and how long did it take you to find all that gold

[schuur10]

wow ..now you can buy yourselfs a nailclipper...

[tonapah141]

ahha if he did that ... he wouldn't be able to pick those bloody booogers & gooobers mate

[schuur10]

Ooo, exqueese me mate, i forgot the difference between mixture(the Netherlands) and adventure (Australia/ and/ New Zealand). Your right , nails are handy tools for the outland golddigging.

Whell i better keep up with my old friend Keaton in Bridgetown .

Have a nice catch in your future days!

[odear69]

Looks bloody brilliant. So simple and effective. Loved the chooks in the background noise.

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A customer asked:

Does the Rotapan work as a dry pan. Sometimes I travel light on a Yamaha TW-200 motorcycle with racks.

Just wondered if you've tried it without water? Are you planning on designing a DRY version? Thanks, xxxxxxxxxxx My answer: NO The process depends on the difference in specific gravity water being 1 and gold being 19 and you need the water to dislodge gold particles from dry clay $ crevices in stones and rocks. SEE NEXT COMMENT FOR MORE

[rotapan]

If the gold was very coarse with size and weight, yes it would collect in the tray but you would certainly lose the small gold.

You will have to devote one of your racks to a small water tank, say 40 litres.

We normally put the ROTAPAN in a 20 litre bucket , but you could use a 10 litre bucket with the top the same as the 20 litre.This means you would need only 10 litres to fill your bucket on start up. You then sit the bucket in a high sided collection tub

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volume enough for the water overflow and the bucket in the tub. As you work the sands and gravel the water in the bucket is displaced as overflow into the tub and can be re-used. The extra 30 litres you have in your onboard tank is used as makeup water as you will have losses as you wet the sand and gravels.

By using this method, you will be able to go into dry gulch country.

Regards

John

[rotapan]

No- I ship from Australia and sending a $10 bucket is like sending air - the freight co charges by volume as well as weight. By the way, delivery of the ROTAPAN to North America is from 3 to 6 days, door to door and is insured.

That is fantastic given we are at the bottom of the world. A GREAT SERVICE.

YOU HAVE NO MORE TO PAY AT YOUR END.

[tailbluntstall]

does it come with a bucket?

[golfingrobert]

very cool, i wish i had more places to pan for gold around here and i would buy it, but maybe when i scrape together a few bucks ill go to college in dahlonega and buy one of these bad boys

[tonapah141]

Holy Cavitation Batman...It came in tha mail yesturday, and it does work Great... Thank you John, I tried it out at tha river, hardly much gold in this part of tha country,,,,But what did turn up after first bucket full was a "Diamond", a very small one, but a diamond no-less. I did Not expect to find that, small as it is, it cuts glass like butter.

[oostenrijk1]

great!

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Another Testimonial 18th April 2009

I would like to thank you for sharing your invention of the rotapan. This thing is pretty awsome. I use this in a rec. area where you are only allowed to pan and metal detect. I used this at home for the first time on a half of a 5 gallon bucket that had been classifed down with a half inch classifier before Iput the material in the rotapan I did this in under 7 minutes. Going slow because it was my first time using this great invention. (CONTINUED)

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CONTD 18TH aPRIL 2009

I re-panned all of my light material from the rotapan and only found one tiny piece of gold. So small my wife could barely see it.

This machine to the best thing I've ever used for panning gold. I even have a 3 inch highbanker dredge combo. I'm thinking about selling it. Because the richest creek where I live you can only pan and detect. Good luck. I'll be buying one soon for each of my family members. Thank you William Moore

(THIS WAS TOTALLY UNSOLICITED - thanks W M)

[rotapan]

As I wrote before, I do not remain easily impressed. At 57, I have seen a lot of inventions, but none have matched yours. You appear to be a genius at heavy minerals concentration. As a school teacher (ex) I know everyone is gifted in varied areas. You have done it again. Congrates.

Please keep experimenting, my friend. Something else will come to mind.

Australia has always been a good friend of the US. We have always thought of you guys as brothers.

Steve Jones/El Paso, TX

[rotapan]

John,

I just admire my rotapan that goes into the top of the 5 gallon bucket. I think it is the neatest 21st century heavy mineral concentrator the world has seen. It is especially useful out here in the desert.

As you say in your neat country,CHEERS, MATE. You must be one heck of a mechanical engineer. I never took physics in my university degree, but have lots of mathematics under my belt. Engineers like you make life fun. Thanks buddy.

Steve Jones/ El Paso TX

14/4/2009

[whiteowlonfire]

great video.  do you think a whites beachhunter id would perform in desert conditions in the same manner as in wet conditions?

[rotapan]

Well I took the plunge and bought one of these concentrators. I tried it in Stoney Creek where I always get the odd colour and sometimes a small nugget with my old tin pan. Well I gotta say, it amazed me, it was so easy and the gold I got paid for the concentrator that day. May have been a bit lucky, as the extra nugget in the top screen was a big help. Can't tell you which Stoney Creek I was at, there are plenty of them, but then there is always another Stoney Creek. Jock(Nugget) Cranswick

[rotapan]

AND responses from two of my first prospecting customers:-

One said: He would not tell his friends where he bought his Rotapan ??

And from another : after buying one Rotapan and using it he backed up for a spare one. We queried why - "just in case you go broke" strange but this is the absolute truth.

He lives in the State of Washington, USA and goes into the mountains.

[rotapan]

From: jason [mailto:Sent: Monday, 15 December 2008 5:25 PM

Subject: RE: ROTAPAN

Hi,

The pan turned up today. Thanks

I have already found some gold with it. I had a bucket of wash from the Palmer river. (North Queensland- AUSTRALIA) Regards Jason

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From: shane [mailto:

Sent: Friday, 5 December 2008 1:09 AM

Subject: Re:

Dear John, Many thanks for the prompt delivery of the Rotopan I ordered. I received it about a week and half ago, but have been a little busy of late. Not to busy to try it out though! Just thought I'd let you know I had the chance to roadtest it recently, with excellent success. Great design, sturdy craftmanship and fantastic service. Well done! Cheers!

Kind regards, Shane

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ERIC CONT'D (3)

and as soon as I began gently rotate the classifier downward I began to see the black sands bloom up through the centre. I continued to work the materials, and when I removed the pan there was hours of work done in a few minutes, without wasting a drop of water. I then hand-panned out the fine material and found more gold in that batch of fines, having used the Rotapan just twice, than I had found in a week of sluicing and panning.

Thank You,

- Eric -

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ERIC CONT'D (2) and a whole lot of water, which is irreplaceable during the drought we are currently experiencing. As I've been panning the fine materials, with barely enough success to continue working the site, I had only dreamed of something that would save me so much work and water.

I saw the Rotapan and purchased one. When I first received it I tried the first batch, following the instructions. The results were not what I had expected. So I cleared out the pan and started second

time,

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From Eric of Arizona December 2005

I have never written to a manufacturer to praise a product, but the Rotapan is a blessing, Thank-you.

I am in and around the Superstition Mountains, in Arizona, and currently dealing with the worst kind of gold, in the worst condition. The gold is flat grain-size fine gold, like golden gunpowder, trapped in very heavy clay.

I've been working the site with a twenty-foot sluice, using a special aluminium classifying miner's moss, (CONT'D 2)

[kilodiamond]

It works verey nice

[FlickinPickin]

I can see a mechanized version of the rotapan. ( save my arms!)

[capitansurfista]

I am at Ecuador, and am ecuadorian. I think we found gold somewhere in mountains slopes of Andes. Who can help me find the right tools and ways to analize gold from fools gold etc?...

Thanks

[rotapan]

Gold always has the same colour which ever way you turn the specimen. Fools gold will change sometimes to a sheen with colour change. Fools gold will dissolve in dilute nitric acid, gold will not. Once you have this in your mind, gold will always be gold.

John ROTAPAN

[simdiggitydog]

so all this rotopan does is classify the bigger rocks? why not just get a classifier? It seems like a pain to have to use your bucket to pan the remaining gold.

[rotapan]

NOT SO, gold stops in collection tray beneath bowl.Waste drops in bucket.

Gold keeps accumulating in collection tray, bucket after bucket and if you keep going, you would fill the tray with gold.

When rotate bowl, the underside auto works the light fines from the collection tray.

Hope this clears up the point you were trying to make.

If you use just a classifier, remove say 20% of the oversize, you still have to to pan all undersize  - not a good idea!!!! You would wear out.

Thanks John

[chopppacalamari]

top stuff sign me up

[backincali]

I'm looking to get into panning....this is a great looking system....I'll be checking out the website shortly.

[lti12]

were can I find a 100 oz gold bullion? anyone know? I want to dig one up

[hondadrift]

Get a dredge and work hard with it in the right rivers and you'll pull up 100oz in two or three months.

[bigbadbrad95307]

first of all bullion cannot be dug up.

a bullion is a gold bar that is .999% pure

it has been refined by a melter

so what you want is a 100 oz nugget.

if you do find a 100 oz nugget you will be the most famous person in the world

you might be like theese aussies that find 100 gram nuggets.

and if you want to dig one up you will need a metaldetector (minelab)

try alaka or even arizona

australia has been known to have the biggest

[harryoutdoors]

Fantastic technology! You took great ideas and put together a nice compact gold machine for remote areas! Your price is right also..I have thought of building one of these ever since I saw it but I don't think I can beat your price and quality of materials...very cool!

[rotapan]

Thanks Harry, much appreciated. John