Gold Panning Illustration - Prospector Searching for Treasure #178653 (License: Personal Use)

This colorful clipart depicts a mustachioed prospector wearing a brown hat, green shirt, red bandana, and leather waders, standing knee-deep in a blue stream while panning for gold. He holds a wire mesh pan containing water, pebbles, and two visible golden nuggets, with droplets falling from the pan’s edge. The character’s name “MARTIN” is subtly inscribed on his right wader leg.

Commonly used in educational materials about the Gold Rush era, children’s history books, museum exhibits, or websites teaching geology and mineral prospecting; targets users seeking visual aids for learning or storytelling about 19th-century mining.