Small Mining Operations
Dredging The Outside Bend
July 2011 by Jim Foley
This stringer was where it was not supposed to be, and it contained nuggets that were not supposed to be there.The “Chuck It Out” Nugget
This was no ordinary nugget. It had not traveled very far from its nearby source, and that did mean a lot, as we were searching for the source of several such nuggets found during a gold rush that occurred in 1859.
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I’d start the day by crawling out of my dome tent, cooking up some Spam and eggs, and heating water for instant coffee on the Coleman stove.
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