Small Mining Operations
Reality of the Klondike
January 2012 by Gerald T. Ahnert
I saw gold this summer. The kind of gold that I haven’t seen since ‘81. The kind of gold that rattles in the pan. The kind of gold that would start a stampede—even in 1898.
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