Gold panning

• With your family

Modified on July 27, 2023
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Nice discovery

I didn't know too much about gold panning? We decided to participate in this workshop. What a pleasure !

“Superb discovery that Friday's gold panning workshop in Lavaudieu. What a joy to look for small minerals or tiny garnets with your feet in the water, a bit like the pioneers of yesteryear

Gold panning technique?

The animator shared his knowledge with us as much as his enthusiasm and his techniques with good humor and humour.

A playful and cultural animation at the same time that we will certainly do again next year, hoping, this time, why not, to discover a real gold flake. »

Feet in the water, we look for semi-precious minerals hidden in the alluvial deposits of the river, using “American pans” like the real researchers. Garnet, olivine, magnetite and why not, gold nuggets can appear in the pan.

Other workshops

If you want to participate and find flakes of precious minerals, take part in the workshops offered by the host Rémy Désécure from Panpa Haut-Allier

All of this fun workshops help to know the secrets of the river, the geological history of the territory.

Each participant leaves with the small minerals found