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<blockquote data-quote="Hawkear" data-source="post: 677254" data-attributes="member: 4728"><p>The word prospecting has a meaning looking for precious gems, metals or minerals. Treasure hunting is taken to mean looking for old relics or valuable lost items. The requirements for each are quite different.</p><p>So that is the first question you need to ask yourself.</p><p>If the answer is treasure hunting, an equinox, shovel and finds bag would be just about ok to start with. You do not need a panning kit for that.</p><p>If the answer is prospecting you need to ask a further question - metal detecting or panning for gold?</p><p>If panning for gold, apart from the panning kit and perhaps a thin metal scraper, you would not need a metal detector.</p><p>If metal detecting for gold, a panning kit is always handy to have but not necessary, just a decent and not oversized prospectors pick. Importantly however an Equinox will probably not do the job you want and you would better off saving you dough for to buy a proven gold machine like a second hand 2300, 5000 or at earliest 4500.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hawkear, post: 677254, member: 4728"] The word prospecting has a meaning looking for precious gems, metals or minerals. Treasure hunting is taken to mean looking for old relics or valuable lost items. The requirements for each are quite different. So that is the first question you need to ask yourself. If the answer is treasure hunting, an equinox, shovel and finds bag would be just about ok to start with. You do not need a panning kit for that. If the answer is prospecting you need to ask a further question - metal detecting or panning for gold? If panning for gold, apart from the panning kit and perhaps a thin metal scraper, you would not need a metal detector. If metal detecting for gold, a panning kit is always handy to have but not necessary, just a decent and not oversized prospectors pick. Importantly however an Equinox will probably not do the job you want and you would better off saving you dough for to buy a proven gold machine like a second hand 2300, 5000 or at earliest 4500. [/QUOTE]
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