Gold panning

[pistolchamp]

And can be profitable, first you need gold in the river and second patience.

I have an office in Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania and often go to my partner's ranch near Morogoro.

Nearby there is a river with several hundred completely naked natives standing about crotch deep in ICE cold water panning gold. Talking to them (I speak fair swahili) it appears that they average about 3 to 5 grams of gold each each, each! Figure that times the number of natives and they are taking nearly two kilos of gold a day from that river. I'm amazing someone hasn't come in with commercial equipment and run the natives off and made a fortune.

I've tried it in that river and I'm a wussie, that water is REALLY cold, but, I did find a few flecks of gold.