From February 19th, 2017:
If I was into panning for gold, I bet that now would be an excellent time to visit some streams - a lot of the streambeds have been washed over and new gold exposed.
From California's Chico Enterprise-Record:
Floods bring fresh prospects, adventures in gold mining
Now is not the time to quit your day job in hopes of striking it rich. However, people with a new or renewed interest in gold mining may be spending more of their summer weekends near rivers and streams.
Joey Wilson owns Adventures in Prospecting in Oroville, where he says there’s been more excitement among his gold mining customers.
“There’s always been gold in the Feather River,” he said. What’s new is that the recent floods have moved things around.
A fun and sometimes profitable hobby. One of the people interviewed in the article said that prospecting had better odds than playing the lottery.
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