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Picks & Pans: Eureka! We Struck It Again
April 2002 by Don Robinson
About a half-hour after everything got underway, James came back to Harley, whispering, “Harley, you’re not going to believe this, but I just detected a vein with gold, lots of gold...I mean lots of gold. You’ve got to come and see this.”
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Melman on Gold & Silver
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