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Picks & Pans: Leon Always Finds the Most Gold
March 2001 by John Anderson
Since 1986, I have spent the summer months camped out on a river, looking for gold. The summer of 2000 was no exception.
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Picks & Pans: Highbanking on the American River
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Steve and I decided to try our luck on the North Fork doing a little highbanking, or motor sluicing as the liberals would call it.
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I set up my dry washer on the north side of the cut and sampled the bed rock and dumps around me. As I was only sampling, I ran for 20-30 minutes, shoveling from a variety of areas.
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