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"Frank J Warner" wrote


Twenty-four years ago one of my uncles had a "foolproof" method of
extracting gold from beach sand. He invested everything he had into the
scheme, and leased a portion of the Guadalupe Dunes not far from my
house to test the "equipment."


I made some hefty equipment for a friend of mine who had a claim on the
American River in California. Then, one day, he went on a trip to Catalina
Island with some hippie chick, and they went on the glass bottomed boat.
She built a viewer out of 4" PVC with a glass bottom, and walked the creek.
In the first week, she found one nugget the size of a golfball, and several
smaller ones of good weight. Hugh gave up on all the heavy stuff and just
used the underwater viewer after that. The separation part of the operation
is relatively simple. Getting all those tons of dirt into the grizzly is
where all the work is.

Steve

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