Speed Pan

A good speed pan will give you approximately two to four cups of small gravel and concentrates. Keep the pan either under water, or to a certain extent full of water, and use your swirling or shaking movement to make sure that the concentrates are completely settled. Slant the pan in a downward direction (away from you) and shake it from side-to-side, with possibly a bit of forward or slight circular movement, make sure to let the light sand and the bigger pebbles wash off smoothly. The slight forward movement that you present to your side-to-side motion should be especially slight as this fore-and-aft movement will tend to roll the contents over the riffles which are at 90 degrees and thus prevent the concentrates from being trapped; on the other hand, this slight forward movement is helpful to start the lighter surface material to move off of the speed pan. Slant the pan both, upward and backward toward yourself quite repeatedly. This continues bringing the concentrates back to the bottom of the pan and tends to keep them buried on the bottom, not allowing their getting lost. 
Keep an eye on the substance as the black sand begins to show through the light-colored sand and the small pebbles. This is your instantaneous pointer that it is time to settle the contents back to the bottom of the speed pan again. Continue repeating the process at the same time as you begin using the side-to-side movement or possibly your own preferred method of movement, which might be yet undeveloped, style and allow the lighter material to slip over the edge. An additional procedure is to immerse the contents under the water and lift up the pan rapidly, allowing the water action to carry off the ma­terial which is lighter. This is the same course of action which is used with conventional pans, and it is used on the Gravity Trap pan by many professionals who have uncountable experience. In occasions you will discover that some of the small rocks which are heavier will by no means wash or slip over the edge of the pan without endangering the loss of your concentrates that are heavier. Basically hold the pan and the contents under the water with the pan at an angle downward and with your free hand with awareness rake off these rocks that are weightier. There is no danger whatsoever of raking off any gold with the rocks, as long as you maintain the contents under the water.