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When Gold Moves, Placers Form
July 2010 by Chris Ralph

The Kenai Peninsula Goldfields

A Father and Son Prospecting Adventure
As I write this, I am still on a rush from taking my 9-year-old son, Jeffrey, prospecting for the first time this past weekend. It’s not that he hasn’t been along on numerous outings before: this is the first time that just the two of us went out for a day of drywashing and detecting under the desert sun.
Over the Divide: Rick Lague
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The Kennedy Gold Mine—An Impressive Piece of History

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Strategies for Detecting Heavily Pounded Areas
The problem is every other nugget hunter and drywash prospector had the same idea. As a result, you can spend days, weeks, and even months detecting these areas and not find a single nugget.
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