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To: RJA_ who wrote (54340)	9/4/2009 4:03:16 AM
From: energyplay	Respond to of 219592

Having done a little placer mining many, many years ago, it is WORK, and about as recreational as digging ditches. Many of the people who do it are collecting unemployment, welfare or disability at the same time, that pays the bills. A number of people eventually find a spot that has not been worked, and often pull up some multiple of ounces. I expect that this happens more often in the untouched areas of developing countries than in California. I remember one person who had set up his dredge to run VERY slow, and carefully collected the very fine gold, which was about a fine as talcum power and would move if you exhaled near it. He had about a cereal bowl 1/3 full of reddish gold.