Cold & wet at the farm today didn't feel like entering the icy water between showers so moved a few rocks from behind a larger rock on the edge of the creek and brought home half a bucket of gravel.
Might have to buy myself a new pan, the one that has been sitting in the shed has a bit more than surface rust with pitting all over. Still I ran what I carted home through it and managed to get down to dark sands. Lots of what I think is pyrite, most of it floated out of the pan but a few bigger chunks left at the end. They are the first thing to move when I swirl a bit of water across the dark sand. One tiny spec I think is gold, I can work most of the darker sands away from it with it staying planted firmly on the bottom of the pan.
Don't know if I should be happy or disappointed, one speck isn't much but then I only ran one pan of material that wasn't likely to contain much if any gold.