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Ha! I wish. And those would be the most useless gold-pans that I have ever seen.

What is interesting though, is that it was like this on the early Australian goldfields. I read the original reports from the 1850s, and they talk of gullies where they picked up nuggets "Like potatoes" (about 5 tons of it at that gully near Castlemaine). At Ararat there was no water so an Afro-American collected nuggets at surface using a dry-blower. At the dry "potato paddock" near Bealiba they just turned over the soil with shovels and collected the nuggets (the "potatoes").

We were born in the wrong century.....

A geo friend saw a youngster panning in China - he asked him how he was going and the kid reportedly pulled out a bag with a couple of kilos of gold in it.
 
Geez, those looked bigger than they stated. Water proof detector there and you would be raking it in. Very rich river bed. True or set up?
 

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