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gold pan † Placer Mining 
a shallow iron pan used for washing gold from gravel.
- 1898 It is outside the range of language to picture the trials that encompass the explorer who goes forth here with pick, shovel, and gold-pan to search for gold.
- 1964 They jiggled and rolled their gold pan, sloshing the water from side to side, washing away the gravel. Soon nothing remained but black sand.
- 1898 It is outside the range of language to picture the trials that encompass the explorer who goes forth here with pick, shovel, and gold-pan to search for gold.