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panning † Placer Mining 
1 n. mining gold by washing gravel in a pan (def. 3).
See also: pan ((n.)) (def. 3) pan ((v.)) (def. 1)
- 1948 We drove a long pole in the bottom all ready for John to tie to after his day's panning along the sand bars.
- 1965 Stir the concentrates in the bottom . . . and take out any gold by panning.
2 n. the yield in gold from such mining.
- 1900 After the first news of preliminary "pannings" on Eldorado and Bonanza Creeks was brought to Canada by Mr. Ogilvie . . . every Western scribbler was hard at work inventing circumstantial lies.
- 1948 We drove a long pole in the bottom all ready for John to tie to after his day's panning along the sand bars.