“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 (except the judges of course).
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 FraserRiver gold and the competition gold will be on display. The organizers will be adding LARGE 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 3rd 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 3rd of panners with the fastest times will compete at finals on Sunday.
Professional competitions:
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 3rd 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 Adults (20+)
$10 Professionals (must put gold in vial + 1 min penalty for any sand)
$10 Flat pan (must put gold in vial + 1 min penalty for any sand)
$10 Grudge (must put gold in vial + 1 min penalty for any sand)
$10 Iron Person (must put gold in via + 1 min penalty for any sand)
$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 Teens
Free Gold Rushes Mini Miners
Free Metal Detecting Mini Miners, Children & Teens
$10 Metal Detecting Adults
Free Metal Detecting Team of 4 (1 Adult & 3 mini miners, child or teens)
**Sample gold used for competition #16 mesh *** ***
2010 FraserRiver Gold Panning Schedule of Events
Thursday August 26th
1-4pm Free Gold Panning Workshop @ the FraserRiver
Friday August 27th
1-4pm Free Gold Panning Workshop @ the FraserRiver
6:30pm Children/Teen & Mini Miner Metal Detecting
8:00pm Adults Metal Detecting
Saturday August 28th
9:30am / Opening Ceremonies10:00am / Professionals
10:30am / Mini Miners
11:00am / Children Plus Teens
11:30am / Adults
12:-00noon / 3 Person Fun
12:30pm / Lunch Break to 1:15 approx
1:15pm / 2 Person Blind Fold
1:45pm / Children & Adults extra heats if needed
2:15pm / 2 Person Hand in Hand
3:15pm / Anything But a Gold Pan
3:45pm / Anything But a Gold Pan
4:15pm / Flat Pan
5:15pm / Dinner Break
7:15pm / "Free" Demonstrations Batea & Flat Pan
Sunday August 29th
8:00am / Adult Metal Detecting9:00am / Finals 3 Person Fun Event
9:30am / Final 1 Child & 1 Teen Event
10:00am / Finals Adults
10:30am / Finals Mini Miners
11:30am / Finals 2 Person Blind Fold
12:30pm / Lunch Break to 1:45approx
1:45pm / Finals Professionals
2:15pm / Finals Flat Pan
2:45pm / Grudge Match
3:15pm / Iron Person Event
3:45pm / Free Gold Rush for All! What you find you keep
4:00pm / Handing out Beautiful Prizes for all Events
Sponsors:
- Yukon Dan Gold Panning in the Classroom
- Canadian Placer Design
- FraserRiver Rafting
- Technic Canada Inc.
- AMEBC
- Wardrop
- Lucky Strike
- Natures Expressions
- P&H Minepro Services
- Superstore (MissionBC)