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Friday, August 12, 2011

It takes a Leap of Faith to Pan for Gold at Porcupine Mine

With gold sky rocketing over $1700 an ounce recently, our Gold Rush to Porcupine Creek Tour is starting to be more than mere entertainment to our tour guests.  Even small gold nuggets are worth something. Young and old, People want gold!

I have become a pretty good gold panner since I get to show tour groups how to pan for gold almost every time we visit Big Nugget Mine at Porcupine Creek.  In fact, I became a little over-confident about my gold panning technic and lost my gold in the water trough on one of my tours.  My happy tour guide persona quickly vanished and was replaced by a gold fever lunatic who just lost their fortune.  I rolled up my sleeves...