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Picks & Pans: An Arizona Miner

November 2003 by Leland Weeks

Sometimes it takes a hard head to go beneath a hardhat. Digging for gold isn’t the easiest way to make a living, yet it’s an honorable profession, dealing a lot with nature.

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