Prospecting & Detecting
A Father and Son Prospecting Adventure
May 2013 by Joe Chmiel
As I write this, I am still on a rush from taking my 9-year-old son, Jeffrey, prospecting for the first time this past weekend. It’s not that he hasn’t been along on numerous outings before: this is the first time that just the two of us went out for a day of drywashing and detecting under the desert sun.How to Upgrade Your Pocket Plunger
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