Gold panning, or simply panning, is one of the most basic and simplest gravity separation methods to extract gold from a placer deposit using a pan. Scoop placer gold ores in the pan, and agitate gently in water until the gold sinks to the bottom of the pan.

For amateur gold miners, gold panning is economical and efficient. But it isn't going to be enough for gold mining plants. There is specialized gold gravity separation equipment that will capture large amounts of coarse and fine gold much more quickly and efficiently. Commonly used are shaking tables, spiral chutes, and jigs.
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Shaking table
Shaking tables, also called gold shaker tables, are good at sorting fine-grained minerals. Shaking tables have different effective recovery particle sizes to adapt to ores with different particle sizes. Shaker tables with a maximum feed particle size of 2mm are for coarse ores, 0.5mm for fine ores, 0.15 for slime.
It consumes no medicine and little power.
Price: 1, 000$ / Set (lowest price)
Material: Tin, tungsten, gold, silver, lead, zinc, tantalum, niobium, titanium, manganese, iron ore, coal, etc.
Feed size: 0.15 mm–2 mm.
Capacity: 10-60 t/h.

Spiral chute
The spiral chute is suitable for processing alluvial gold ore, especially for gold ore with a high degree of monomer dissociation and flat shape. Besides, it is also good at dealing with fine gold ore with particle sizes between 0.003-0.6mm containing low mud content.
Price: 1, 200$ / Set (lowest price)
Materials: Used for the materials with a particle size of 0.3 - 0.02 mm, such as iron ore, ilmenite, chromite, pyrite, zircon, rutile, monazite, tungsten, tin, tantalum, etc.
Capacity: 2-40 t/h.

Jig
Mineral jig concentrators are good at separating coarse-grained minerals. When processing placer gold ores with high monomer dissociation degree and large difference in specific gravity of gangue minerals, it can achieve a better separation effect.