Prospecting & Detecting
Highbanking on the Feather River
December 2010 by Tom Leftwich
A number of visiting gold miners were quite impressed with our operation and the amount of gold we had recovered in only three hours. No one usually likes digging and slugging buckets all day long, but we actually began to enjoy it after a few good...
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Fells Flat Gold
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