Prospecting & Detecting
Prospecting for Gold at Green Valley
December 2012 by Don Robinson
In October, five of us decided to take an exploration trip into an area called Green Valley. This was perhaps ten miles upstream from where we had gone in September and the difficulty was access. One would think that based on the name it was an easily accessible area not far from a nearby town. This couldn’t be more wrong.Wild and Scenic River Prospecting—North Fork of the American River
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