Remember the recent Oroville, Ca spillway disaster? There are gold miners and prospectors up in the area who thirst to dig around it. They dream of the gold that may have been washed down from hillsides and upstream. But dream is all they can do. The work is intense up there to stabilize the spillway, and the property is restricted, anyway. I dream about gold too. I often look at the mountains near my Arizona home and believe there must be gold in those hills. There is gold there, but the kind I can get at my be sparse. For 100 years, prospectors roamed the hills trying to find it. I have respect for them, because they had sharp eyes. To date my panning has produced nada where I live. The closest place I can go to pan and get anything is 45 miles. But looking at the beautiful geography gets me thinking of sugar plums and chestnuts, again. The diversion pool is where these California prospectors want to dig. Though they claim that 95% of the time quartz is just quartz, I find th...
