I dabbled when I was a teen.
I had a pan (Dad got it for me from the mining museum in Kalgoorlie), and had him make a rock crusher (think a mortar and pestle, a foot long cylinder with one end blanked off, and a thing that could be used to crush rock into dust)
I found one tiny speck in a huge pile of dirt before school holidays expired.
A pan's easy to use, scoop up dirt/crushed rock, with some water, swirl it around, the gold is heavier than most everything else and should settle to the bottom of the pan.
Other than that, a google search should net heaps of help.
Dave
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