Kat Gap development, page-15

Yes, he did say he panned it. In fact he said he did it 5000 times! Now, let’s say a single time takes 20mins (see below). 20mins x 5000times = 100,000mins of panning = 1667hours of panning = 69.5days of solid panning without a break. Now this article says 42hrs to get an ounce of gold so they should be sitting on roughly 40 ounces of panned gold (1667/42). That should be higher at 600gms/tonne.