Part of the good thing about this spot is that it is not that far from my home in the famous Virginia City mining district. Not everyone knows this, but the first discoveries around that area were gold placers.

This same concept is true of many of our modern-day rivers, and we have to find out where their gold originated if we can.

Day three was a copy of day two. I started real low in the long wash to see if I could prove how far down the gold had made it.

I pulled out the nuggets I had worked on previously and looked at the size of the wire basket that the items to be cleaned are placed into. It looks much like a miniature french fry deep fryer.