Prospecting & Detecting
A Trip Down the Yukon River
April 2013 by C.A. "Charlie" Cook
My girlfriend Beth and I decided to take our canoe down the Yukon and do some gold dredging...Fountain of Youth Gold
Across and downstream of our operation was a large pile of huge boulders. It was logical to think that water forces may have deposited gold in and around these boulders. We moved our dredge over and started pulling the rock pile apart.
Bedrock
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