Yukon Dan s Rules for Gold Panning Competition These rules will be covered by ALL Panners. Mini Miners & Children s competition: Top twenty children with the fastest times from Saturday s competitions will move on to finals held on Sunday. All panners will use a black riffled pan provided for the competition by the organizers. All panners WILL NOT know the amount of gold put in each bucket of pay dirt he or she pans, this will be a surprise to ALL. All panners will pan out the dirt as quickly as possible to try & recover all gold placed in dirt. THREE MINUTE PENALTY added for each flake lost. ALL children panners may have the help of a professional gold panner as a coach ONLY! The coach MAY NOT TOUCH THE PAN OR THE GOLD, the panner must show the gold to the judges in the pan, if the child has left dirt in the pan the judges won t mind, all they want to see is the gold, no sand can be covering the gold, the judges will not look for the gold if hidden in the sand left in the pan. If a flake is on top of another one yes the judges will remove it to see if another flake rest underneath it. This is a timed event with a stop watch for each competitor. No dry dumping. The panner MUST COUNT the gold with the JUDGES. If needed Head Judges decision is final. Please DO NOT run to the judges table when finished ONLY the panner will walk carefully to the line up of panners waiting to see a judge for counting. PLEASE NOTE, FRASER RIVER PAYDIRT WILL BE USED WHICH POSSIBLY CONTAINS SMALL FLAKES AND FLOUR GOLD, THIS GOLD WILL NOT BE COUNTED IN THE COMPETITIONS. Samples of Fraser River gold and the competition gold will be on display. The organizers will be adding GOLD FLAKES from the YUKON to the dirt for all competitions. This gold is the only gold counted by the judges. Head judge s decision is final.
Teen competition: Rules same as above except all panners may have a coach with them if needed, all panners will be encourage to pan out dirt as fast as possible with a old fashion metal pan Top 3 rd of panners with the fastest times go to finals on Sunday. Adult competition: All rules same as above (coaches allowed) the pan will be an old fashion metal pan with no riffles added. The gold must be shown to the judges with no sand covering any of the flakes. Top 3 rd of panners with the fastest times will compete at finals on Sunday. Professional & Seasoned panners: Rules same as above except following: All panners must pan out gold as quickly as possible with an old fashion gold pan. Gold must be put in the vial with no sand, a 1 minute penalty added for sand. Top 3 rd of panners with the fastest times move on to Finals on Sunday. Competitions: Free Mini Miner (7 & under) All Winners $5 Children (8-12) $5 Teens (13-19) $10 Beginner Adults (20+) $10 Professionals & seasoned panners who have won at any recognized gold panning competition (must put gold in vial + 1 min penalty for any sand in vial) $10 Flat pan (must put gold in vial + 1 min penalty for any sand in vial) $10 Grudge (must put gold in vial + 1 min penalty for any sand in vial) $10 Iron Person (must put gold in via + 1 min penalty for any sand in vial) $5 Anything but a Gold pan $10 1 Child 1 Teen $10 2 Person Hand & Hand $10 2 Person Blindfold Free 3 Person Fun Free Gold Rushes Children Free Gold Rushes Mini Miners Free Metal Detecting Mini Miners, Children & Teens Friday night 8:00 p.m. $10 Metal Detecting Adults Saturday 8:00 p.m. Free Metal Detecting Team of 4 (1 Adult & 3 mini miners, child or teens) Sunday morning 9:30 a.m.
**Sample gold used for competition #18 mesh *** *** 2011 Fraser River Gold Panning Schedule of Events Thursday August 25 th 1-4pm Free Gold Panning Workshop @ the Fraser River Teaching the art of Gold Panning from 5:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. At Anderson Creek Campground Friday August 26 th 1-4pm Free Gold Panning Workshop @ the Fraser River 8:00 pm Children/Teen & Mini Miner Metal Detecting Teaching the art of Gold Panning from 5:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. At Anderson Creek Campground Saturday August 27 th 9:30am 10:00am 10:15am 10:30am 11:00am 11:30am 12:00noon 12:30pm 1:15pm 1:45pm 2:15pm 2:30pm 3:15pm Opening Ceremonies Professionals Children Mini Miners Children Plus Teens Adults 3 Person Fun Event FREE Lunch Break to 1:15 approx 2 Person Blind Fold Children & Adults extra heats if needed 2 Person Hand in Hand Teens Anything But a Gold Pan
3:45pm 4:15pm 4:45pm 5:15pm 7:15pm 9:30am Anything But a Gold Pan Flat Pan Fastest Male Dinner Break "Free" Demonstrations of how to use a sluice box Sunday August 29 th Team Metal Detecting 10:00am Children Finals 10:30am Final 1 Child & 1 Teen Event 11:00am Finals Adults 11:30am Finals Mini Miners 12:00am Fastest Female 12:15pm Finals Fastest Male 12:30pm Lunch Break to 1:45approx 1:45pm 2:00pm 2:15pm 2:45pm 3:15pm 3:45pm 4:00pm Finals Professionals Finals Fastest Female Finals Flat Pan Grudge Match Iron Person Event Free Gold Rush for All! What you find you keep Handing out Beautiful Prizes for all Events
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