longknife
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Not just the 2008 economic slowdown but a group of men and women who only survive in the wilds while searching for fortunes in the shiny metal.
This story originally came from the Wired Blog @ Meet the Rugged Prospectors Still Panning for Gold in California | Raw File | WIRED with a link to The New Yorker and finally this site by a photographer @ Sarina Finkelstein | Photographer | New York, NY | 347-277-4726
One can visit just about any Army/Navy surplus store to find just about anything one needs to pan for gold.
Did you know that the Franciscan friars knew of gold in California in 1812 more than three decades before the discovery at Sutter's Mill?
