2>Camel Mining: Automatic Spiral Gold Panning Machines Since 1969
Camel Mining Products has built American-made automatic gold panning machines since 1969. A spiral panning machine, often called a gold wheel, does the work of hand panning mechanically. A rotating spiral face keeps your concentrates in a constant slurry, washing lighter sands away while the heavier gold climbs the spiral riffles into a catch cup. Run material from your sluice, dredge, or trommel through one and final cleanup that takes an evening by hand finishes in minutes, with recovery that doesn't depend on wrist technique. This collection carries the complete Camel Mining line: Desert Fox and Pro-Camel machines, the Mountain Goat trommel, and every pump, power supply, and replacement part to keep them running.
Desert Fox, Pro-Camel, or Mountain Goat: Selecting Your Machine
The right machine comes down to where you work and how much material you process:
- Desert Fox: Camel Mining's portable workhorse automatic panner, available in single-speed and variable-speed versions. The variable-speed drive lets you slow the spiral for ultra-fine flour gold or speed it up for coarser concentrates. It packs into the field and runs from a 12-volt source, making it the go-to choice for prospectors automating final cleanup at camp.
- Pro-Camel 18" spiral wheel: an open-wheel design with a larger spiral face for moving more concentrates per session. If you bring home buckets of cons rather than bags, the bigger wheel keeps up.
- Mountain Goat trommel: a reverse-helix trommel that handles the stage before cleanup, screening and concentrating raw material. Pair it with the trommel transfer kit in this collection and it feeds the Desert Fox directly, giving you a continuous, hands-off line from paydirt to catch cup.
Parts, Power, and Support for Every Machine
A machine you can't service is a machine you'll replace, so we stock the full Camel Mining parts catalog alongside the panners: drive units and speed-control drives, 120-volt power supplies, the 7-amp supply that runs the Desert Fox, Mountain Goat, and Pro-Camel, a DC cigarette-lighter charger for truck-battery operation, 750 GPH water pumps, Corraflex hose, spray bar flanges, tailing trays, gold catch cups, fuses, and a five-piece classifier set for prepping your material. Official Desert Fox, Mountain Goat, and Buffalo instruction manuals are available here as free digital downloads. Every Camel Mining machine is manufactured in the USA and backed by the company's no-hassle warranty.
Complete Your Prospecting Workflow
An automatic panner is the last link in the chain, so set up the stages before it and nothing gets wasted. Locate productive ground with a dedicated gold metal detector or Falcon gold probe, and break it out with rugged digging tools and picks. Process paydirt with the pans, sluices, and classifiers in our gold prospecting equipment collection, and if you prefer vortex-style final cleanup, compare the Blue Bowl concentrator line. Coin and relic hunters can browse the full range of metal detectors, and the Detecting & Prospecting Guide covers technique. Not sure which machine fits your operation? Call (844) 771-0707 and we'll talk through your setup.
