Everyone was guaranteed some gold. I suspect the demo was salted but Mary Louise and I gathere about thirteen dollars worth between our two pans. We then spent thirty dollars for a locket and chain to hold the gold and triple that for a ring she liked. At forty bucks a head you can figure out where the real gold is to be mined. It's really there but the labor to get it out isn't economical. (Calculate fifty dollars of gold for the one hour in three of panning you do and it's more profitable to ask "Do you want fries ...?".