15 Gold Methods That Got Banned for Working Too Well — And What They Left Behind

👉 The Second Pan — what your own box is handing back to the river: https://thesecondpan.com Some of these moved more gold in a season than a man could pan in a lifetime, and every one of them is off the table now. Not because somebody wanted to keep the gold from you — because of what they did to the country they were used on. Hydraulic monitors buried farmland under sediment and were shut down by a court in eighteen eighty-four. The rest followed for reasons just as plain. In this video I go through fifteen of them: what each one was, how it actually worked, how much ground it could move, what finally stopped it, and — the part that matters to you — where the material it shifted ended up. Because every one of these methods left a trail, and the tailings, cuts, ditches and drainages they left behind are still sitting out there holding what the recovery of the day couldn't catch.