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Picks & Pans: Nuggets by the Dozen in Alaska
May 2004 by Ron Wendt
Jeff Reed may be Alaska’s top nugget hunter, or maybe he’s one of many. He doesn’t get skunked too often. In the past two years, he’s estimated he’s found about 3,000 gold nuggets primarily at the...
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