Blue Marble Gold Panning Kit for Kids - Learn to Pan for Gold, Includes Pay Dirt with Real Pyrite Specimens, Reusable Panning Pan, Vial, Tweezers & More

Got this for my Grandkids. Love it and they learned a lot.

Got this and some gold pay dirt. Set up a couple buckets. One with water and one as a platform for a plastic shoe box. It took a couple tries. But I have a couple grams of gold. I’ve always wanted to pan for gold but live in the middle of the desert. So this was the next best thing.

My 6-year-old is having a brilliant time with this kit! It's Christmas Day, and we are about an hour into sitting in the back yard and panning for gold.All necessary equipment is included and works well. The pan itself is sturdy and well designed, and we have already found some decent sized chunks.Especially for the price, this is fantastic entertainment!

This review is for the Blue Marble Gold Panning Kit for Kids. I received a free taxable sample of this kit to review in my search for a way I could add a fun aspect to my child’s learning about the California Gold Rush.The kit comes in a branded and decorated cardboard box and consists of eight items: gold pan; paydirt; tweezers; pipette; magnifying glass; specimen dish; storage tube; and a sheet for instructions and additional context. The kit can be gifted as is within a gift bag with a gift tag or wrapped with gift wrap.The main draws of this kit are the gold pan and the bag of paydirt containing the pieces of pyrite. The gold pan is constructed out of a thick, black-colored plastic and weighs 134 grams with a footed circular base of 3 ⅞” that rises 2 ¾” and expands to a final top diameter of 10 ¼”. One quarter of the pan is set with large riffles and the opposite quarter of the pan is set with smaller riffles that help with separating the smaller particles from the larger particles in the paydirt. 541 grams of the paydirt are provided with this kit and appears to be a composition of large and fine particles of sand mixed in with a good amount of pyrite flecks and a mini nugget or two. Aiding in this activity are the three tools (tweezers, magnifying glass, pipette) and two containers (specimen dish, storage tube). My child found the tweezers and the storage tube to be the most useful out of the helper items, although we did get a fair amount of use out of the magnifying glass and the specimen dish when it came time to get a closer look at what we picked up.As tested, the illustrated instructions really helped my child understand the motion and technique necessary to sift through the paydirt and extract the pyrite specimens. They were able to place the paydirt in the pan, tilt and shake the pan in a circular motion, extract some specimens, and then repeat until they went through the paydirt. Along the way they used the tweezers to help pick up specimens and used the storage tube to provide additional filtering and cleansing of the pyrite. The activity was actually more physically involved than either of us expected and we spent maybe an hour in total outside sifting through the material. The end result was a decent amount of pyrite fleck and a couple of mini pyrite nuggets. The only drawback might be that the paydirt can only be used once unless you want to collect all of the sand and re-mix it together. That being said, the gold pan is quite durable, and we have plans to try our hand sifting through other material at the beach.All in all, this is a good quality kit with a good quality gold pan and paydirt that has a nice amount of pyrite in it. I recommend this as a great option to add a fun dimension to learning about the California Gold Rush, especially if your child is learning about this in school.

My grandson will absolutely love this!

This is definitely time consuming. Kept my son occupied for hours and he's only been through about ⅓ of the bag. I probably would not buy this again though because the pieces are so tiny and they just crumble with the tweezers.There is educational value to it if you have the patience for it. Worth the try for the price though. Definitely for age range 7 or 8 and up.

I sent this kit outside with my 11, 9, 8, & 5 year old kids. They had a great time. I love that it was a hands on experience and kept them occupied for a long time.

Was a great purchase that entertained the young child it was given to as a gift.