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CERRIONE, ITALY - 24 JUNE 2017: A gold flake found by gold panners Marlise and Willi Luedi, a Swiss couple from Bern, is seen here in her pan on the Elmo River in Cerrione, Italy, on June 24th 2017. Mr and Mrs Luedi have been gold panning for 27 years.

Gold Panners from Italy, Switzerland, France, UK, US and Slovenia gathered in Vermogno (Zubiena) for the 36th Italian Gold Panning Championship.

Gold panning is a form of placer mining and traditional mining that extracts gold from a placer deposit using a pan. The process is one of the simplest ways to extract gold, and is popular with geology enthusiasts especially because of its cheap cost and the relatively simple and easy process. Once a suitable placer deposit is located, some alluvial deposit are scooped into a pan, where it is then gently agitated in water and the gold sinks to the bottom of the pan. Materials with a low specific gravity are allowed to spill out of the pan, whereas materials with a higher specific gravity sink to the bottom of the sediment during agitation and remain within the pan for examination and collection by the prospector.

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CERRIONE, ITALY - 24 JUNE 2017: A gold flake found by gold panners Marlise and Willi Luedi, a Swiss couple from Bern, is seen here in her pan on the Elmo River in Cerrione, Italy, on June 24th 2017. Mr and Mrs Luedi have been gold panning for 27 years.<br /> <br /> Gold Panners from Italy, Switzerland, France, UK, US and Slovenia gathered in Vermogno (Zubiena) for the 36th Italian Gold Panning Championship.<br /> <br /> Gold panning is a form of placer mining and traditional mining that extracts gold from a placer deposit using a pan. The process is one of the simplest ways to extract gold, and is popular with geology enthusiasts especially because of its cheap cost and the relatively simple and easy process. Once a suitable placer deposit is located, some alluvial deposit are scooped into a pan, where it is then gently agitated in water and the gold sinks to the bottom of the pan. Materials with a low specific gravity are allowed to spill out of the pan, whereas materials with a higher specific gravity sink to the bottom of the sediment during agitation and remain within the pan for examination and collection by the prospector.