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Picks & Pans: Dredging and Detecting in Sierra City
October 2003 by Chris Ralph
Every year for the past several years I have taken a prospecting trip to Sierra City, California, to dredge on a friend’s claim. Sierra City is a historic gold rush town of a little more than 200 persons. Known mostly for its rich lode mines, it also had...
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