"stbenge" <UN### [at] hotmailcom> schreef in bericht 
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> Thomas de Groot wrote:
>> Is there still some gold left?  :)
>
> Yes, there is quite a bit of gold left. The current town my brother and I 
> are prospecting is said to still have 70% of its placer deposits intact. 
> When we checked it out the other day, I was seeing color in every pan I 
> tried, which is a good sign.

Interesting. I thought that most had been dug by the end of the 19th 
century, ending the gold rush. But then, I am no expert at all  ;-)
I suppose that all placers have not been exploited and erosion is uncovering 
new sites.

> When the sluice is finished we'll be able to retrieve gold at a much 
> faster rate than panning alone. With gold prices the way they are, it 
> looks like we'll be able to make up for the lack of real jobs available to 
> us!

Good luck to you two. It is not an easy job (not like romantic stories want 
to make us believe).

Thomas

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