Prospecting & Detecting
Pot Hole Gold
January 2012 by Tom Leftwich
It was early in the 2008 season on the Mokelumne River near Pine Grove, California. Considering the potential for high water through the month of June, my wife Fran and I set our sights on investigating some of the pot holes in...
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