"gold panner" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to someone who is engaged in the activity of panning for gold. For example, "The gold panner carefully searched through the riverbed for gold nuggets."
The new quarter has pitted coastal California against the interior, grizzly bear against gold panner, the majestic sequoia against the bold letters of the Hollywood sign.
Mr. Pastukhov is a true gold panner, working the streams with a shovel, a hand rake and a v-shaped pan carved from poplar, much the way it was done in California 150 years ago.
And by the end of the decade, the age of the gold panner was over, replaced by mine companies and other corporate interests.
There are an estimated 15,000 gold panners in the country, producing 3-4 tofnes of gold annually.
A drumming sound reverberates across the bridge and over the valley: the gold panners are hard at work.
The police have arrested 16,290 people, mostly gold panners, in a three-week operation against illegal miners, the official newspaper, The Herald, said.
The tent pegs came in a tiny, moldering bag that reminded me of the pouches in which gold panners kept their meager finds.
But life here has not always been so agreeable; when Knysna was established in the early 19th Century, the town was built on a fluctuating population of gold panners, mariners, settlers, colonials and fortune seekers.
Hanging OUnfortunately's Angry Bazooka Miners.
We're all gold panners here, willing to stand in freezing water for a while in the hope of a bonanza.
Also, the gold panners diverted the river and built basins where vectors could easily multiply (7 ).
